[LIP] MSDE PACKAGING

Hello All,

I am having a few problems in packaging this application that I would
like to release under the ISV program and no one seems to be able to
assist me. I have been in touch with the Microsoft support but they all
refer me to a link on the site that is of a beta version release. I know
there is already a solution out there but no one is pointing me in the
right direction. 

 

The details are below:

 

We are using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to develop a VB.NET desktop
application that uses MSDE database. The VB.NET application with the
MSDE database is fully developed and ready to launch.

 

The objective is to create an Application Setup Package (Deployment
program) which will install the VB.NET application on the client machine
with the MSDE database used by the application.

 

The single setup package will first check for the available
prerequisites on the client's machine, and then if the required resource
is not available, it will continue with the installation of the same.
This will include the following:

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 
MSDE 2000 
 

Once these prerequisites are installed on the machine, the setup program
will install the custom application on the machine. As a part of this,
the MSDE database files (Which are typically a set of .MDF and .LDF
files) will be copied to the predefined location and the same will be
attached to the MSDE database instance.

 

At the end of the setup process, the application should be able to
connect to the installed database.

 

Also, obviously this application should be able to uninstall properly.
This means the Uninstall process should be able to detach and then
remove the database files along with the custom application. The setup
process should run unattended, without requiring any user intervention.

 

Your assistance will be greatly appreciated and allow me to submit the
application to VeriTest. 

Regards
 
Mitesh Patel
Managing Director
 

 
Fifosys Limited
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shridhar Daithankar [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 17 February 2004 13:10
To: Linux india programmers
Subject: [LIP] Who provides strrev?

Hi all,

Following is an interesting thread on PLUG mailing list. I wonder which
standard 
provides function strrev. A guy moving from turbo C to linux is
complaining..

-------------------
Kaustubh Gadkari wrote:

 > Dev wrote:
 >
 >> 1. I am using Xemacs and emacs as of now, will havent tried gdb.....
 >> 2. Problem is not of writing strrev() function, problem is of
portablity.
 >> Cannot keep on writing code everytime a function is not available...
 >>
 >>
 > Huh? TCC programs are not portable because they use functions that
are
 > not part of the standard c library. If you set the compiler options
in
 > TCC to ANSi, you won't get strrerv either, neither will you get
 > graphics.h,conio.h etc. It's just a question of what you want. GCC is
an
 > ANSI compliant compiler i.e write once, compile anywhere.

I searched around and came up with some interesting URLs.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html

GLibc claims it supports ISO and POSIX. Couldn't find anything for those
two 
standards and strrev..

Watcom and Visual C++ seems to be bigger provider of that function..
Check

http://www.oe.fau.edu/~lyann/watcom/clibref/clibover.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1997-11/msg00370.html

So far, I haven't seen anything which says strrev is either ISO/POSIX or
ANSI. 
Any idea what standard supports it?

For starters, I checked on a linux and a freeBSD system. None of them
supports it..

[user-pF/[email protected] user]$ uname -a
Linux machine.intranet.pspl.co.in 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT
2001 i686 
unknown

-bash-2.05b$ uname -a
FreeBSD machine 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Fri Dec  5 05:29:37
IST 2003 
    root-pF/[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/config  i386

  Shridhar
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