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Coward 9 - 13 Feb 2007 00:53 GMT

HI,

I have an application which was developed by using visual studio
2005. However, my customers can NOT run my application probably
because they do NOT have VS2005 installed. They do have
Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed.

What really should I do so that my customer can run my application
without installing VS2005? Where can I download something like
DirectX runtime redistributable for VS2005? Sorry for asking a stupid
question.

Thanks,

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Coward 9 - 13 Feb 2007 14:05 GMT

Never mind, I believe I need

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper
\Packages\vcredist_x86\vcredist_x86.exe

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pvdg42 - 13 Feb 2007 14:07 GMT

> HI,
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> Thanks,

What method are you using for product deployment?
Setup and deployment using a traditional Windows install package?
Click Once?
XCopy?

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Coward 9 - 13 Feb 2007 15:57 GMT

HI,

Thanks for your reply. vcredist_x86.exe did NOT work as I expected.

To be honest, I don't know how I should deploy the product. In the
past, I used to copy all the stuffs in output directory to users(this
is an internal application so we don't have to package it very well).
For VS2005, obviously, I need the redistributable package similar with
DirectX.

What should I do to solve the problem?

> What method are you using for product deployment?
> Setup and deployment using a traditional Windows install package?
> Click Once?
> XCopy?

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Phil Wilson - 15 Feb 2007 21:09 GMT

There is no single "Visual Studio 2005 redistributable" - it's going to
depend on the app and the language. The 2.0 framework doesn't matter if
you're straight C++, but it does if you're managed code, C++ or whatever.
The prerequisites choices in a 2005 setup project include the vcredist,
MDAC, SQL etc. Are you using a setup&deployment project?

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> HI,
>
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>> Click Once?
>> XCopy?

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