slickgoonie
9th May 2007 22:03 UTC

Web Installer
Hi:

Does anyone knows how to create a web installer? that is, instead of creating a .exe that the user has to execute, create something that does the same exact things, but without an executable, do everything seemless to the user and through a web interface.

Thanks.

goldy1064
9th May 2007 22:20 UTC

We use an ActiveX control that launches a Setup.exe on the clients system for one of our products.

slickgoonie
9th May 2007 22:35 UTC

Thanks, I've never used activex before, any hints on where to start looking? That solution you hinted sounds fair.

goldy1064
9th May 2007 23:19 UTC

I'm not the ActiveX guy here. ;-) I'd say either MSDN or Visual Studio.

slickgoonie
10th May 2007 19:22 UTC

Does anyone know how hard this would be? with no experience with activeX?

thanks.

kichik
13th May 2007 19:02 UTC

There are tons of step-by-step tutorials, ATL wizards and complete examples for ActiveX creation. Creating something like that shouldn't be too hard. The problem would be all of the new security restrictions that keep popping up.

slickgoonie
14th May 2007 20:09 UTC

The pop-up restrictions are no problem. Could anyone please point me to a good tutorial? I'm a little bit lost, being searching and searching and couldn't find anything. It sounds very simple, I know, so it shouldn't be too hard but if anyone knows about a good resource please let me know.

Thanks.

kichik
14th May 2007 20:20 UTC

Here's one:

http://www.codeproject.com/com/CompleteActiveX.asp

slickgoonie
18th May 2007 19:13 UTC

thanks for the link. That link teach you how to create a .cab file, can I embed my .exe into a cab and execute it? does anyone know?

thanks