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Greg
Hello,
I am using Visual Basic .Net 2003 to build and distribute my first
application over the internet. The application will add one button to
Microsoft Outlook. I interface with the user with some forms so they can
customize the installation to their own desire. I am designing one
application for each version of Microsoft Outlook that I will be supporting.
I have taught myself Visual Basic using a book called "Microsoft Visual
Basic .Net Step by Step" written by Michael Halvorson. It is an excellent
book for beginners like me, but maybe I need an advanced book for what I am
trying to do?
I have a few problems that I am running into.
1. The application is a simple one that will only be used by the user one
time to add the button in Outlook. It seems kind of silly to install this
as a program that is registered in the registry with a button on the start
menu to launch the application. That would be fine for a game or something
that a user would use more than one. But for my simple application, is
there a better way to distribute this application?
2. I have successfully built my project, but it contains 3 files (setup.exe,
myApp.msi, and setup.ini). Which of these should I distribute on the
internet? If all 3 (which I assume), how do I do that? I know I have
downloaded simple little one-file programs myself in the past. I would like
my project to be that simple.
3. When writing the code, I referenced a text file for the help form. In
the code, I referenced the file on my hard drive at
E:\myApps\Project1\.help.txt. When I wrote the code, I wondered how the
program would work on a different computer. After building the release
version, which works great on my computer, I tried it on another computer.
Sure enough, the code looked for the file on the E: drive and crashed! How
do I get this to work on other computers?
Thanks for any help.
Greg
I am using Visual Basic .Net 2003 to build and distribute my first
application over the internet. The application will add one button to
Microsoft Outlook. I interface with the user with some forms so they can
customize the installation to their own desire. I am designing one
application for each version of Microsoft Outlook that I will be supporting.
I have taught myself Visual Basic using a book called "Microsoft Visual
Basic .Net Step by Step" written by Michael Halvorson. It is an excellent
book for beginners like me, but maybe I need an advanced book for what I am
trying to do?
I have a few problems that I am running into.
1. The application is a simple one that will only be used by the user one
time to add the button in Outlook. It seems kind of silly to install this
as a program that is registered in the registry with a button on the start
menu to launch the application. That would be fine for a game or something
that a user would use more than one. But for my simple application, is
there a better way to distribute this application?
2. I have successfully built my project, but it contains 3 files (setup.exe,
myApp.msi, and setup.ini). Which of these should I distribute on the
internet? If all 3 (which I assume), how do I do that? I know I have
downloaded simple little one-file programs myself in the past. I would like
my project to be that simple.
3. When writing the code, I referenced a text file for the help form. In
the code, I referenced the file on my hard drive at
E:\myApps\Project1\.help.txt. When I wrote the code, I wondered how the
program would work on a different computer. After building the release
version, which works great on my computer, I tried it on another computer.
Sure enough, the code looked for the file on the E: drive and crashed! How
do I get this to work on other computers?
Thanks for any help.
Greg