Visual Studio Installer

Getting Started

You will now see a familiar Project Explorer, just with rather different items contained within them:

It is from this that you can customize your installation. The VSI should have automatically added all the files your test project needs to successfully install under the Files folder. This will be split up into the VB project EXE file, and some Dependencies:

The three files with .msm extensions are Merge Modules which contain all the required files for certain components. For example, COMCTL.MSM contains the files for the Microsoft Common Controls, MSVBVM60.MSM contains the VB6 runtime files, and OLEAUT32.MSM contains the OLE Automation files.

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