KiranVSutar

QUOTE (rolfk @ Feb 24 2009, 05:30 PM) Thanks Rolf (your Avataar does really reflect the amount of knowledge..keep it up), Many thanks for your reply. I have already created and new installer using VB6-MSI that has only the Crystal Reports MSM Files. And it has worked. The only problem is, the end-user will have to run 2 Setup Files: 1.MyLabviewApplicationSetup, and 2.Reporting.MSI. I was just wondering if there is a way by which I can generate one single MSI File out of these 2 MSI Files. Of course, I am going to give the BatchFile as an immediate solution, but, is there something better than this? Bye, Thanks, With best regards from, Kiran V Sutar, Mumbai, INDIA.

QUOTE (ejensen @ Feb 23 2009, 10:51 PM) Thanks ejensen, When you make an installation setup, you have to include the dll, ocx, etc. files in your setup (MSI File). The number of dll(ocx,etc) files to be included depends upon the software, and the functions in that software that you have used. This is a very time consuming process and a tedious one, hence software manufacturers such as Business Objects (Makers of Crystal Reports), gives the MSM Files that includes all the necessary information for including the dll files. So the MSM Files must not be included in the setup, nor they are to be executed. But they provide the information to the InstallerMaker software about the dll,ocx, files. The installer software must be able to interpret this information from the MSM file and include all the necessary files without the manual intervention of the developer to include those files. Thanks, with best regards from, Kiran V Sutar

Hi Members, We have an application developed in Visual Basic6, MSAccess(Datastorage) and Crystal Reports11 (for reporting), and working fine since years. Now, we have developed the same application using Labview 7.1. We are using Crystal Reports Ver.11 for report generation, and working fine. (Had to do this because we have invested a lot of $ for Crystal Reports.) Now we want to distribute the software to our customers by giving them the setup. We are sucessfully able to generate the setup of Labview application and working fine on the customer PC, but it gives problems when generting reports on the customer's PC. We studied the documentation of Crystal reports, and found that they have Merge modules that needs to be included in the Setup. We have done it sucessfully in VB6, using MS-Installer, because they support including .MSM files directly. We would like to know, how we can include those .MSM files of crystal reports in Labview Application builder, or how to include these .MSM files into our setup cd that is to be given to our customer. Thanking you, with best regards from, Kiran V Sutar Mumbai, INDIA.