Package & Deployment Wizard

Included Files

The next screen lists all the files that the Package & Deployment Wizard thinks your program needs.

If there are other components needed that the Wizard has not detected, you can click Add. You can also use this to add help files or a readme.txt file for your application.

You can also uncheck some items so that they are not included in the setup program. Bear in mind, however, that if you don't include them, your application may not successfully run.

If you want to know what each item does, the most common items are explained below. You can skip this part if you aren't interested!

*.exe - Your application!

Setup.exe - The setup program that will be generated.

Setup1.exe - Another generated program. This is copied to the hard disk of the target computer and then executed, which allows your setup files to span multiple disks.

St6Unst.exe - This program will allow your application to be uninstalled.

VB6 Runtime and OLE Automation - These files (msvbvm60.dll and xxxx.dll) are required for all VB applications to run. In some cases, you might decide not to include these, if you know that you users already have this installed. If you are distributing your program over the internet, you might also ask users to download these files from http://ftp.microsoft.com/dsgsash if they need them, which would reduce your setup programs size by almost 1MB.

VB6StKit.dll - This DLL contains functions required by the generated setup program. (Required)

MSComCtl32.ocx - This is included if your application uses the Microsoft Common Controls.

RichTxt32.ocx and RichTxt32.dll - Required if your application uses the RichTextBox

Note that if you use the WebBrowser control, no files are included. This is because the control needs Internet Explorer installed to work - if it is installed, the control will work. If IE isn't installed the control won't work until it is! (This is one of the conditions for using the WebBrowser control)

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