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12-29-2006, 01:36 AM
Hi,
I just want to say that today, I worked on a very complicated installation
application.
This installation actually has objects for IIS, and some applications I've
done both in VB and Clarion including OCX's. In addition, the installation
could run for either a "TPS-Flat File" type of installation or an "SQL
Anywhere" type of installation. In fact, the client may install the
"TPS-Flat File" version and then months later, upgrade to the SQL version so
we'd want to automatically clean up the TPS stuff (DLL's and database
files), migrate them up to SQL, and install just the SQL components.
It's actually a distributed web application which works via a MAIN server
and an IIS server, so there are multiple objects going to different
machines. It's our roomMaster.net application that we currently have
installed at over 1000 sites around the world.
Anyway ... doing it with SetupBuilder 5.0 made it a piece of cake. An
absolute piece-of-cake.
One installation, using combo boxes & checkboxes, we can now give this one
executable to our general support staff or our resellers and know that it
will be installed properly.
SetupBuilder is the best Installation tool in the world ... period! I've
used Wise and InstallShield, and they are not even in the same class as
SetupBuilder with regards to flexibility of the Script Editor design.
If you are not using SetupBuilder - please look at it! It is the most
flexible Installation application in the world. People using InstallShield
don't have a clue what they are missing!
Robert Paresi
InnQuest Software
I just want to say that today, I worked on a very complicated installation
application.
This installation actually has objects for IIS, and some applications I've
done both in VB and Clarion including OCX's. In addition, the installation
could run for either a "TPS-Flat File" type of installation or an "SQL
Anywhere" type of installation. In fact, the client may install the
"TPS-Flat File" version and then months later, upgrade to the SQL version so
we'd want to automatically clean up the TPS stuff (DLL's and database
files), migrate them up to SQL, and install just the SQL components.
It's actually a distributed web application which works via a MAIN server
and an IIS server, so there are multiple objects going to different
machines. It's our roomMaster.net application that we currently have
installed at over 1000 sites around the world.
Anyway ... doing it with SetupBuilder 5.0 made it a piece of cake. An
absolute piece-of-cake.
One installation, using combo boxes & checkboxes, we can now give this one
executable to our general support staff or our resellers and know that it
will be installed properly.
SetupBuilder is the best Installation tool in the world ... period! I've
used Wise and InstallShield, and they are not even in the same class as
SetupBuilder with regards to flexibility of the Script Editor design.
If you are not using SetupBuilder - please look at it! It is the most
flexible Installation application in the world. People using InstallShield
don't have a clue what they are missing!
Robert Paresi
InnQuest Software