Deploying MSDE with VB .net

[Sebastian Santacroce]

Is it posible to package MSDE with VB .net so that its
part of the installation?
If so, is there documentation somewhere?

What about packaging the .net framework with the
application as well?

Thanks

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Is it posible to package MSDE with VB .net so that its
part of the installation?
If so, is there documentation somewhere?

MSDE 2000 Deployment Toolkit (RC)
<URL:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...03-c4ba-4d98-bb0b-2c9d6414071f&displaylang=en>

SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000):
<URL:http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/>

Choosing and Using MSDE 2000 as the Database Engine for Your Application:
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnmsde/html/msderoadmap.asp>

Integrating MSDE 2000 with Your Applications
<URL:http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/development/2000/MSDEintegration.asp>

Using SQL Server Desktop Engine Merge Modules
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_8yeq.asp>

Installing Desktop Engine

What about packaging the .net framework with the
application as well?

Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Redistribute the .NET Framework
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/vsredistdeploy1_1.asp>

Plug-In:

<URL:http://groups.google.com/[email protected]>
<URL:http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/vsboot/>

Download
<URL:http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/...f0a23-f529-4158-8e0a-d187d16f41f1&newsId=1981>

Framework 1.1:

Redistributing the .NET Framework 1.1
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/redistdeploy1_1.asp>

..NET Framework 1.1 Deployment Guide
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/dotnetframedepguid1_1.asp>

..NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable Prerequisites
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/NETFx1Redistreq1_1.asp>

..NET Framework Redistributable Package 1.1 Technical Reference
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/dotnetfxref1_1.asp>

Framework 1.0:

..NET Framework Deployment Guide
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/dotnetframedepguid.asp>

Using Visual Studio .NET to Redistribute the .NET Framework
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/vsredistdeploy.asp>

 

[Sebastian Santacroce]

Those are great but there got to be some more detailed versions that
show how to use it with visual studio .net in particular. Those you
referenced are for more general application right? Theres nothing more
direct step by step direction for VB .net?

 

[David Guyer [MS]]

Not in the current shipping versions of Visual Studio. You either have to
build your own Bootstrapper (i.e. batch file) that will first install MSDE,
then run your app's installation .MSI, or include these merge modules,
which seem to be a bit complex to work with.