Web Installer

9 posts

slickgoonieMay 9, 2007 at 7:03 PM#

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.

goldy1064May 9, 2007 at 7:20 PM#

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

slickgoonieMay 9, 2007 at 7:35 PM#

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

goldy1064May 9, 2007 at 8:19 PM#

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

slickgoonieMay 10, 2007 at 4:22 PM#

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

thanks.

kichikMay 13, 2007 at 4:02 PM#

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.

slickgoonieMay 14, 2007 at 5:09 PM#

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.

kichikMay 14, 2007 at 5:20 PM#

Here's one:

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

slickgoonieMay 18, 2007 at 4:13 PM#

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