Hi All,
There has been another thread on this subject that has somehow lost its way and given the subject a bad name so I would like to start this new thread that focuses on the core subject of automatically installing V11 Runtime apps from a CD or download using a third party installer
We are not looking at a manual install this is not the problem, our aim is to prepare an install.exe that can be shipped on a CD or as a download that does not require any user PC knowledge or input. This has been pretty straight forward in the past but now we must introduce the .net4 and c++ stuff so until I can automate this I must hold back on shipping the later Runtime versions of V10.5 and V11.( DaveM seems to have a solution but has not yet applied it successfully)
I am presently considering a method to install both a dummy app with the older V10 engine that will run with or without .net4 together with the real app and V11 engine, then use xbasic within the dummy V10 app to check if .net4 and c++ exists and force the user to load if necessary then overwrite the shortcut .startup so that future starts will apply the V11 engine and make the V10 engine redundant. Hopefully the user then will only need a 'yes or no' dialog decision to install .net and c++ if indeed it is required. To achieve this I would need to know the xbasic to detect .net 4 or c++ existance, can any one help.
Michael
www.instantnurserymanager.co.uk
There has been another thread on this subject that has somehow lost its way and given the subject a bad name so I would like to start this new thread that focuses on the core subject of automatically installing V11 Runtime apps from a CD or download using a third party installer
We are not looking at a manual install this is not the problem, our aim is to prepare an install.exe that can be shipped on a CD or as a download that does not require any user PC knowledge or input. This has been pretty straight forward in the past but now we must introduce the .net4 and c++ stuff so until I can automate this I must hold back on shipping the later Runtime versions of V10.5 and V11.( DaveM seems to have a solution but has not yet applied it successfully)
I am presently considering a method to install both a dummy app with the older V10 engine that will run with or without .net4 together with the real app and V11 engine, then use xbasic within the dummy V10 app to check if .net4 and c++ exists and force the user to load if necessary then overwrite the shortcut .startup so that future starts will apply the V11 engine and make the V10 engine redundant. Hopefully the user then will only need a 'yes or no' dialog decision to install .net and c++ if indeed it is required. To achieve this I would need to know the xbasic to detect .net 4 or c++ existance, can any one help.
Michael
www.instantnurserymanager.co.uk
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