DevKit Installer features

[Andras Babos]

Hi All,

I'm just about to rewrite the API DevKit Installer. I'd be interested in how many of you have ever used the
a) repair functionality
b) modify functionality
of the current installer. (You know, if you start the uninstaller it starts with a page offering 3 possibilities: repair/modify/remove.)
I'm asking because the new installer I'm planning to use doesn't offer this functionality out-of-the-box, so if there's no demand for the repair/modify functionality, I'm willing to let it go. Also modify is easier to implement than repair, so if there's demand for modify, but repair seems unnecessary, then so be it.

Regards:
Andras.

[Ralph Wessel]

Andras wrote:
Hi All,
I'm just about to rewrite the API DevKit Installer. I'd be interested in how many of you have ever used the
a) repair functionality
b) modify functionality
of the current installer.

Andras,

I've only ever installed the DevKit. A situation where I needed repair or modify has never arisen.

Regards,

Ralph.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Ralph wrote:
I've only ever installed the DevKit. A situation where I needed repair or modify has never arisen.

Same here. Thanks for asking, Andras.

Karl

[TomWaltz]

Same here. I just install it.

[Akos Somorjai]

Same situation here )

Akos

[TomWaltz]

Maybe it's because I'm on Apple and don't have to deal witg VS.NET or the WinRegistry, but I'd be just as happy with a big ZIP file as a real installer.

[Andras Babos]

Umm... Of course I'm only talking about the Windows installer. The Mac version stays the same bundle-type installer.

Andras.

[TomWaltz]

Oh, sure, favor the WINDOWS people! 😉

[Anonymous]

It is nice to be able to integrate the docs with msdn help, but a stand alone program or instructions on how to do it would be more than enough.

I don't suppose anyone knows how/if I can integrate 6.1 docs into the visual studio .net help functionality? Since upgrading visual studio I can't press F1 on api functions/types to get help about them.

I tried re-running the installer with the repair option after reading this, but it didn't help and also broke my 2001 msdn collection file.

[Andras Babos]

adambutler wrote:
I don't suppose anyone knows how/if I can integrate 6.1 docs into the visual studio .net help functionality? Since upgrading visual studio I can't press F1 on api functions/types to get help about them.

I tried re-running the installer with the repair option after reading this, but it didn't help and also broke my 2001 msdn collection file.

Seems like your MS Help architecture was not updated along with your Visual Studio. (BTW, I do hope you're using VS .NET 2003, and not VS .NET!) Between Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET MS also changed their HTML Help architecture, and the two are incompatible with each other. Please check the following registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\2.0. If the key does not exist, then you're out of luck as you cannot integrate the GS help files into a help architecture you do not have. Please clarify this before I go into further details.

Andras.