DLL Hell

Aug 18, 2006

Hi,

I'm slowly being driven insane by dll's. I have included a number of references in my app that i am trying to distribute to another test machine. A few of these are SQLServer dll's that allow access to use DTS packages stored on the server. These are found in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server80ToolsBinn. I believe they are put there when you install Enterprise Manager. There are a few more that sit in C:windowssystem32. Currently there's 4 dll's not normally found on a vanilla machine with just office installed on it.

This db will end up on 100+ pc when it's finished and i don't have the time or patience to manually register them all on each machine + there's likely to be a few more before it's finished.

Ideally i'm looking for a simple package wizard to do the job but i can't find anything suitable. The package wizard in office developer extensions for 2003 doesn't seem to support registration of dll's within specific folders i.e. they are all unpackaged in the same folder as the db, not where the db will expect to find them. Other alternatives such as Inno setup use scripting in what i think is Pascal that goes beyond my understanding of the language and what it's trying to do.

Does anyone know of an installer that would do this job. Ideally it would simply ask for the path of the current dll, bundle it with the installation and then unpackage it and register it at the other end :(

Thanks

K.

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