Setup Program

Question

Hello I have created a vb.net program... and now wish to do a setup program so that i can open the .exe in another computer which do not have vb.net. Can someone show me the simplest way to do this because I've been looking for guides for a few days now and havent found one.. Thanks

blackdevil1979 · Answer

It seem that the second error is about the missing DEBUGGER so I have fixed that. And it shows this error message: Microsoft Common Language Runtime Test Debugger Shell Version 1.1.4322.573 Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998-2002. All Rights reserved. a 0x8d0 Process 2256/0x8d0 created Warning: couldn’t load symbols for c:\winnt\Microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\mscorli b.dll Warning: couldn’t load symbols for c:\program Files\Project\ABC\ABC.exe : : : [thread 0xaa8] thread created [thread 0x63c] unhandled exception generated: _className= _exceptionMethod= _exceptionMethodString= _message= “Cannot find KeycodeV2.dll or invalid keycode.” _innerException= _helpURL= _stackTrace= array with dims=[108] _stackTraceString= _remoteStackTraceString= _remoteStackIndex=0x00000000 _Hresult=0x8003ff00 _source= _xptrs=0x00000000 _xcode=0xe0434f4d [0283] mov exc. 7048754h What this means actually? If you dont get what I am trying to say by pasting the error message here.. i actually would like to know Why my program cannot run after it has been install. It already has .Net Framework installed (in the other PC)

blackdevil1979 · Answer

Hello so Peter do I HAVE to have 2 projects in one to make the setup program work (the window application project and the setup project)? Well.. I have tried the MSDN help. I even downloaded the VB.NET 2003 Bootstrapper plug in a. managed to built the setup program. b. It manged to install the .Net Framework and it seem the program as well. c. BUt when I want to run the program it just doesnt work...and the error messages that i mentioned earlier popped out. :(

p.jones · Answer

A solution in Visual Studio can contain more than one project. In the solution for your project add another project of type setup. That provides you with a skeleton you specify within it the directory structure and files that you want on the target machine specify dependencies such as presence of .NET framework to check for and a few other things. Then hit the build button and it will build the setup program for you. You use Visual Studio -> Help -> Search -> setup projects to get into the documentation for it. I've done my first such project using the help system to guide me an dit works fine. Its actually quite straightforward. Good luck!

blackdevil1979 · Answer

Hi Since I am not 100% sure of what I am doing (I never done a setup program and there's not much easy guides you can find online most of them are rather confusing to me ) I have created a couple of setup program Setup1 & Setup 2. Setup1 From bin select .exe and crystal report. Setup2 From bin select .exe and crystal report. and add the existing project. Both can be installed (well maybe looks like installing) perfectly. However when i tried to run it but both is showing the same error message (the setup program also install the .net framework into the other computer. When i double click on the .exe file it opens the .net framework installation after the installation complete installation for program begins both looks successful) 1. Common Language Runtime Debugging Services : Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process id=0x95c(2396) Thread id=0xa9c(2716) Click OK to termiate the application. Click CANCEL to debug the application. When I press OK application is terminated but when I press CANCEL another error message popped out. 2. No debugger found: Registered JIT debugger is not available. An attempt to launch a JIT debugger with the following command resulted in an error code of 0x2(2). Please check computer Settings. cordbg.exe !a 0x95c Click Retry to have the process wait while attaching a debugger manually. Click Cancel to abort the JIT debug request. obviously I pressed Cancel here. And now obviously I need help. HELP! Thanks