AuthorMessage
Exile
n00b
Posts: 30

just wondering if anyone's ever made a custom installer? I've never bothered but i hate the Deployment Wizard, i think its shit, anyway please help, any source for a VB installer would b kool
Corayzon
Regular
Posts: 67

hey Exile,
its quiet easy to make a custom installer for a vb app, simple follow these steps...
make a package from the wizard so u can get all the system components your app uses...
next compile your app...
now...put them all in one dir somewhere and start a new standard.exe ...
using the api veiwer, get commands like GetWindowsDirectory...
now with your appication...just program it to install to a dir with all ur needed files...and make it copy all the system files into windows\system32\
and this is it, u have ur own installer...
now sometimes ur installer might need some system files to run itself...so what u do is zip the exe installer with the needed system files in the same dir.
so when the ,exe runs, and cant find the system files it will check the app path =]
hope it helps
Exile
n00b
Posts: 30

Cheers m8, thanks a lot helped a great deal, didnt think of doing it like that meself.