Where can I find a redistributable for VB Power Packs 10.0?

Question

We have released a 64-bit application built with VS2010, which has VBPP 10.0 as a prerequisite. Our setup program downloads and installs VBPP using the bootstrapper, but we have several customer PCs, which are not permitted to be on the internet, so they can't download it.

So where do I find a redistributable, which can install without web access?

Thanks in advance

Mads Nygaard

7-Technologies A/S

Denmark

Answer 1

Hi Denmark,

Welcome to MSDN Forum.

The VB Power Packs 10.0 redistributable package is just the the VisualBasicPowerPacks3Setup.exe file, and you can download it from this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb735936.aspx

How to add the bootstrapper package as a prerequisite to your Setup project or ClickOnce project?

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Please check this tutorial for detailed instruction.
Deploying Applications That Reference Visual Basic Power Packs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc425002(VS.80).aspx

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Answer 2

Sadly that's not the case.

If I install the VisualBasicPowerPacks3Setup.exe file manually before installing my product, the VBPP10 bootstrapper in my setup.exe will see it as an obsolete installation and try to download VBPP10, and in turn make my setup fail, if there's no net connection.

I still hope you can help with an solution for this.

Mads Nygaard

Answer 3

Martin:

VisualBasicPowerPacks3Setup.exe  installs Power Packs v9.0.0.0, not v10.0.0.0.

I cannot find a standalone installer for v10.0.0.0, and in my application the VS generated installer is not used, so I'm hosed.  WTF aren't the Power Packs installed as part of the framework?  The first reference to this discussion I can find is in May of 2010, and here we are at the end of December 2010, and still no response from MS??!

Answer 4

Thank you georgeATlinear for your friendly assistance.

The discussion is here: Visual Basic PowerPacks is released in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsdata/archive/2009/12/29/visual-basic-powerpacks-is-released-in-visual-studio-2010-beta2.aspx 

We are waiting for Microsoft official release of Visual Basic PowerPacks 10.0.

Similar case http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/vbpowerpacks/thread/3055df75-9482-4f1b-9399-0d41132b3ac5

 

Thank you Denmark for your understanding and active participation in MSDN Forum.

If you have any difficulty in future, welcome back.

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Answer 5

Martin: I'm sorry that my comment wasn't friendly (enough), but my friendliness is inversely proportional to my frustration level. The directory path that is referenced on your link to find the Powerpowerpacks installer is incorrect (at least for WinXPSP3), the correct path is 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Visual Basic Power Packs\1.1'. Unfortunately, the powerpack at this location is also 9.0.0.0. I have a licensed copy of VS2010 Pro, which, when I tell it that PowerPacks10.0 is a prerequisite, adds the Powerpacks10.0 installer to the install package. Therefore, it *follows* that the installer is on my harddrive somewhere. Any clues as to where? Yes I can copy 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Vs.dll' v10.0.0.0 to the %system%/Assembly and solve the "Can't find ....in the GAC" message. But this requires me to redistribute 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Vs.dll' and I don't think that's what MS wants me to do. So, it is incumbent on MS to provide an official installer for PowerPacks10.0 *concurrently* with Framework 4, or even better as part of the Framework 4.0 installer (much, much, better). By-the-bye, the same can be said of the DirectX components to support Framework 4.0, they should also be part of the Framework 4.0 installer, so they don't generate absurd (from the user's point of view) error messages. This question about Powerpacks10.0 was asked on Wednesday, May 05, 2010, in this very forum. Ji Zhou gave the same answer then, that you gave in December. They were both wrong, so please can we have the PowerPacks 10.0 installer already?

Answer 6

Hello I found it on my won computer: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\VBPowerPacks\en