Dear Listers, my question is rather VisualBasic question than MapInfo, but I hope here are guys in this list who can help me.
Well, I develeoped a pretty nice application in VB which uses MI resources. Application is working well I only have problem with its distribution. To distribute my app to endusers I created an install pack with Visual Studio's Package & Deployment Wizard. As you know it is a standard. It is working fine on developer's machine to install the application. But If I want to use the created installation kitt to install the app on a W2K or XP machine other than the development machine, during installation sometimes I got message: "Some of the system files are out-of-date, installation cannot continue. Do you want to update system files?" If I push the "YES" button unfortunately happen not too much, because W2K and XP has a quite strong self-defence system which makes unpossible to overwrite system files in Windows' System32 library. In install pack there is INSTALL.LST file which includes information about system files what needed for running of application. If the date/version of these files newer than same files in Windows' system32 directory on destination machine then install program says above mentioned message. But the sel-defense of windows does not allowe to overwrite files with the new ones, so installation cannot continue. As a result I cannot install my application on user's machine. My question is, how is possible to prevent this stupid situation, how can I distribute my application to machines where system files are older than they are on developer's machine. Any help would appreciated very much. Thank you. George --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10184
