Buggy package and deployement wizard?

[Jean David]

Hi all,

I have created a COM addin for Outlook and distributed it using the VB6
package and deployement wizard but the setup program doest not work properly
on most of the machine.

When the user executes it, it starts by copying some dll and then prompts
the user for rebooting.
At this point, everything is ok. But (once Windows as rebooted) when the
user executes the setup program again to resume the installation process, it
copies again the dll and prompts again the user for rebooting. And again and
again...
It sounds like the setup is unable to update some dll.
Does anybody has an idea of the problem and a fix to suggest?

I would be very grateful for any help.
Thanks in advance,
JD

[TH1]

Get the latest service pack from Microsoft for Visual Studio it fixes this problem.

[softweng]

Are you running Win2k? If so if a system DLL or OCX gets replaced it will delete it and put the
old one back on the system.

Kris
Software Engineer
Phoenix,AZ

[TH1]

Sorry no.
I had this problem when I used to create packages ona windows 2000 machine but service pack 4 ixed it for me.

[Jean David]

Many thanks to Kevin Williamson for his post in the MS vb.bugs newsgroup!

The solution to my problem can be found in:

KB article Q191096: "PRB: Multiple "System Files Are Out of Date" Errors"
should give you everything you need.

JD