Package & Deployment Wizard not working on VS6 SP6

[PTW]

Hi Everyone,

I was asked to do some support work on a legacy app originally developed in VB with Visual Studio 6 SP4 on a NT 4.0 workstation. At the time, there was no problem creating an installation package through the package and deployment wizard.

Now I have Visual Studio 6 with SP6 on Windows XP (still SP1) and I made some minor changes to the VB app. I go through the Package and Deployment Wizard and on the last step where I hit "Finish" the wizard immediately closes without any warnings or errors. All it does is create a subfolder called "Support" and it is completely empty.

Anyone have any useful suggestions? Thanks!

 

[jebenson]

The PDW is buggy at best and not very good for deploying apps, IMHO. You should check out INNO Setup at [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php[/url]. I have used it extensively and have avoided all of the problems I used to have with the PDW.

One tip - you can use the PDW to create a dependency file which will tell you all (or most) of the dll, ocx, etc. files your app uses. You can then use this info. to build a setup file with INNO.

Let me know if you need more info.

I used to rock and roll every night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find 30 minutes a week in which to get funky. - Homer Simpson

 

[zemp]

I had the same problem with the PDW and winXP. Never resolved it, mainly because I just used a win2000 machine for the PDW.

But I would also recommend another installation package. I switched to the suggested INNO setup. Microsoft visual studio installer is also a free alternative.

zemp