BUG: VB6 Package Deployment Wizard failure

[Alex Zatvornitskiy]

Installation programs, generated by VB6 Package Deployment Wizard for Visual Basic Projects fail during startup with message, like this:


"Invalid line in setup information file!


Section: Setup1 Files

@ODKOB32.DLL,$(WinSysPath),,$(Shared),6.18.98 12:00:00AM,16896,4.0.81.69"


I have VisualStudio'98 Service Pack 2 installed on my machine.


Somebody know anything about this "feature" and how to overrun it?

[chris]

Hello Alex,


this is not bug of the developement tool. I assume that you're using

an english/american relase of VB on a German windows system. The problem

is, that the packager uses the english time code DD/MM/YY or and your system

is configured for the german one DD.MM.YY .

U can easily get rid of the problem by setting the Date separator from '.' to forward slashes ( / ).

[Chris]

Hello Alex,


this is not bug of the developement tool. I assume that you're using

an english/american relase of VB on a German windows system. The problem

is, that the packager uses the english time code DD/MM/YY or and your system

is configured for the german one DD.MM.YY .

U can easily get rid of the problem by setting the Date separator from '.' to forward slashes ( / ).

[Alex Zatvornitskiy]

Thank you great! Your solution works!

The "feature" is next:


-when Deployment Wizard making new package, it write file dates to SETUP.LST file in _current_ regional setting format


,but


-when Setup is being started, it able to recognize dates in English/US (or like this) formats only!


It seems to be strange, why international settings affects so critical on Visual Studio (Enterprise Edition) Components! :(