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Capture the progress within VB


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mjb750q

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Posted 19 September 2005 - 20:26

Hey there.

I'm programming with the msi.dll in VB6 and it would be ideal if I could actually capture the progress of the installation within my VB6 form, rather than having the output going to the msiexec's popup. i.e. I want my form to show the progress bar!

The reasoning is that I want to update ms office to o2k3 on 500+ clients, using a self-developed EXE whcih is more informative that the normal msi window. Also, with the vb modal on the form the users can't be going and click .doc or etc etc.

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If anyone can help at all, or point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated!

Thanks, Johno.

Edited by mjb750q, 19 September 2005 - 20:27.


Stefan Krueger

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 07:31

In general, you can use an external UI handler for your setup, which then would receive progress messages. However I don't know if that's reasonably possible with a third party msi.

mjb750q

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 11:08

Stefan,

thanks for the quick reply...I understand the concept of that now.

However, do you know the code to connect to the API in VB6?

Edited by mjb750q, 20 September 2005 - 11:38.


Stefan Krueger

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 13:27

No