component designer question

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i have a question can i use component designer to create components from an exe file or does it have to be an .inf file?
 
If we are talking about drivers. Then you should extract driver before
making component.
If not you can make components from any file you want, and you can even
execute install files but you should try to avoid this if possible.

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Slobodan

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dazzle said:
i have a question can i use component designer to create components from
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an exe file or does it have to be an .inf file?
 
More generically, you can use component designer to describe any set of
files & registry settings and include some actions. I think what was
throwing people off was your use of ".inf". I'm sure Slobodan saw that and
thought the ".exe" you refered to was a program which installed a driver
(described by .inf files). I made the same assumption.

Could you elaborate on your question? You can definitely use component
designer to create a component which will be responsible for copying your
files, setting up your app's registry settings and has the flexibility to
run certain actions at some point(s) in time. What do you need for your app
to be included on top of an OS? Do you run an install program? Is that
program a necessary part? Can you just copy files and when you launch your
app it fills out it's own default registry settings? etc...

--Gordon Smith (eMVP)
 
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