Installation and Uninstallation Automation

[Jennifer]

I am new to vb and .net framework. I wonder if I can use
vb to creat an application which can install a list of
applications from other drives of the machine to my
current drive, and uninstall a list of old version of the
applications automatically. I don't know what functions I
should call in .net library or win32 api. Any suggestions
will be appreciated.

Thanks
Jennifer

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

I am new to vb and .net framework. I wonder if I can use
vb to creat an application which can install a list of
applications from other drives of the machine to my
current drive, and uninstall a list of old version of the
applications automatically. I don't know what functions I
should call in .net library or win32 api. Any suggestions
will be appreciated.

I would ask in the win32 ng where exactly the information about the
uninstallers etc. is stored (its stored in the registry).

 

[David Guyer [MS]]

You can try looking at the Windows Installer object model, and it's
documentation. If an app wasn't installed with Windows Installer, it won't
help, so it depends on the list of apps you are interested in. If they are
all Windows Installer based, it's a powerful and useful object model for
manipulating installs.