setups for win7 32 bit and 64bit

Question

Hi all 

            Recently i migrated the project from vb6 to vb.net using visual studio 2008 and with frameworks 2.0 and 3.5 in windows XP system(all my development is done in this Xp system only and this is completely windows application in vb.net). Here i tried to open this solution in vs2010 in this XP system it is working fine. But when i changed to windows 7 the i got the error class not registered.

          Now i want to create the Setup for this project to run in all 32-bit and 64.bit machines. can any one suggest me to run on win7 32-bit and 64 bit machines. Can i create the single setup for win7 32-bit and 64-bit in windows xp  using Vs2008 or vs2010.

Thanks in advance.

N. kotesh

 

Answer 1

Your issue is unrelated to .NET Framework setup (this forum's topic).

However, the error you are getting indicates that one or more COM objects your app uses are not registered on the Win 7 system.

If this does not help, please post in the Visual Basic forum for best help:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/threads

Answer 2

You can use a setup & deployment package or ClickOnce deployment (the publish page in the project properties) to deploy your application. Here are some links that may help you.

how to set up a
setup & deployment package

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307353

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tw8kdk75.aspx

Here is the document of MSI deployment steps.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k3bb4tfd.aspx

ClickOnce:

ClickOnce Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/142dbbz4(VS.90).aspx

HowTo publish a clickonce app   

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/31kztyey.aspx  (vs2010)

Comparison of
ClickOnce and MSI

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973805.aspx

RobinDotNet

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Answer 3

Hi N.kotesh,

If you are using Windows Installer, you need to create two .msi for 32-bit and 64-bit machine respectively.

Change the TargetPlatform property of your setup project to target to x86 or x64.

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