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[paracha3]

hi all,

I'm good in VB and VB Script and so i wanted to write my custom actions in either of those. The dilemma i'm into right now is that which language should i use for custom action so that it excutes reliably on the target machines.
I know CA written in VC are best option because you don't need any run time stuff with that and chance are more that it will run without any problem. But VB will require RunTime DLL (msvbvm60.dll) to be present on the target machine, therwise the CA will fail to execute. Same is the case with vbs.

Questions:
1-Is vbs present on any machine running IE?
2-Can't i include msvbvm60.dll on the CD, so that the CA uses that one to run and not dependent on the target machine?

Comments?
Thanks
paracha3

[Irina]

Hi,
You can find information about a microsoft dll on this site:
http://support.micro...vice....sd=MSDN

You can include in your project this dll as a merge module. The Windows Installer has it, it's name is Visual Basic Virtual Machine. This dll will be installed on a system if this system doesn' t have any version of this file or it has older version.