Visual Basic

12-Apr-07 21:04

Hi all,
My Question is concerned with the setup and deployment project in vb.net2005.
I wanted to know.... , Is there any way that I may place my exe - into the system tray after complition of the installation of my program - programatically in vb.net 2005
Thanks and regards
Pankaj Garg

Christian Graus12-Apr-07 21:56

12-Apr-07 21:56

amaneet wrote:
Is there any way that I may place my exe - into the system tray after complition of the installation of my program - programatically in vb.net 2005

No, you should write your app to behave this way, not try to make it work this way, after it is written.

Did you try google ?

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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lucjon12-Apr-07 22:38

lucjon

12-Apr-07 22:38

You could tell the installer to execute your program after the installation has finished.

amaneet12-Apr-07 23:29

12-Apr-07 23:29

HI there,
so what's the logic to tell the Installer.... , to do a particular thing, before the complition of the installation.
I mean can i put my poject exe into the System Configuation Utility/StartUp
programatically , before the complition of the installation.
Thanks You.

Christian Graus12-Apr-07 23:52

12-Apr-07 23:52

amaneet wrote:
I mean can i put my poject exe into the System Configuation Utility/StartUp
programatically , before the complition of the installation

You can make your installer put it in the startup, that's competely unrelated to putting it in the system tray. To do this, just add a shortcut in the Programs/Startup folder.

amaneet13-Apr-07 0:11

13-Apr-07 0:11

System Configuation Utility/StartUp(System tray)
can I make my installer put it in the System tray

Thank You Christian Graus

Christian Graus13-Apr-07 0:19

13-Apr-07 0:19

I already answered that. you were talking about startup, so I answered that, too. To put your app in the startup tray, you need to write it to be there, your installer can't do that ( like I said ).

amaneet13-Apr-07 0:43

13-Apr-07 0:43

Hi Christian,
I am not getting ur point.
My question was based on , how to pogramically put the application in the sys tray before the complition of the installation.I know the diffeence between startup and systray.Can u provide some steps to accomplish this task.
Thanks and Regards
Pankaj Garg

Christian Graus13-Apr-07 0:55

13-Apr-07 0:55

I'm sorry, I'm afraid if you can't understand English, there's not much I can do to help.

You cannot write an installer which pushes your app onto the system tray. You need to write your app to do this. And, if you google it, you'll see how to do that. Installation has nothing to do with it.

amaneet13-Apr-07 0:59

13-Apr-07 0:59

I am not afraid too , that how somebody select u as a Microsoft MVP C++

Christian Graus13-Apr-07 1:20

13-Apr-07 1:20

I assume they did that because I answer people's questions, as I answered yours some time ago. The fact that you couldn't understand the answer, says nothing about me.

jhoga13-Apr-07 7:30

jhoga

13-Apr-07 7:30

check this out.
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/10/54831.aspx[^]

Maybe we are all wrong. Smile | :)

Dave Kreskowiak13-Apr-07 1:43

13-Apr-07 1:43

There is no such thing as "putting an .EXE in the System Tray". An ICON can show up in the System Tray. This icon has to be supplied by your application (look up the NotifyIcon class). Your application must be specifically written to do this itself.

The installer has absolutely NOTHING to do with the System Tray, what-so-ever.

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007

amaneet13-Apr-07 1:58

13-Apr-07 1:58

Hi Dave,
I wanted my application icon to come into the sys tray.
I am installing my program after then...,I am able to do it on double clicking my exe .
But this is not required.
I wanted to invoke the icon into the sys tray during the installation process.I meant into the System Configuration Utility (msconfig)
Can U help me.
Thank You.

Dave Kreskowiak13-Apr-07 3:07

13-Apr-07 3:07

amaneet wrote:
wanted to invoke the icon into the sys tray during the installation process

There is no such thing!

amaneet wrote:
I meant into the System Configuration Utility (msconfig

Do you even know what MsConfig is?

The problem is that you don't understand the process why an icon is in the tray. OK, so you want an icon in the tray. What do you want it to do when it's there?

The only way you can get an icon in the system tray is if your APPLICATION is written to put one there. It's not the job of the installation to do that! All the installation can do is launch your application after it's installed into Program Files. After that, it can launch your application and your application puts the icon (again, the NotifyIcon class) in the system tray. That icon will only appear when your application runs!

Like I, and Christian, have already said, repeatedly, the installation has absolutely nothing to do with putting an icon in the system tray and never will.

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007

Christian Graus13-Apr-07 11:05

13-Apr-07 11:05

You're a brave man, Dave, stepping into this mess. I see it didn't really help, tho.

Dave Kreskowiak13-Apr-07 15:00

13-Apr-07 15:00

Yeah, I thought maybe, just maybe, if he heard it from another person, it would sink in. Unsure | :~

Guess not...

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007

Christian Graus13-Apr-07 19:45

13-Apr-07 19:45

Maybe if you were not also an MVP....

Dave Kreskowiak14-Apr-07 3:10

Restiction to certain applications

14-Apr-07 3:10

Christian Graus wrote:
Maybe if you were not also an MVP....

This could be one of those cases where I think we should change those lines to "Village Idiot". Maybe they'll listen then?

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007

Installshield

Werries12-Apr-07 19:37

Werries

12-Apr-07 19:37

Hi there,

How in the world do you update a ComPlus application with InstallShield? I use VB6 dll's in my .Net application and course of that Interop dll's is created. How do I increase the version number of those interop dll's so that an upgrade via InstallShield will copy in the new interop dll's?

Thanks for your time,

Regards, Werries

A programmer's life is good... or is it?? Ek dink nie so nie!

Re: Installshield

Werries13-Apr-07 1:26

Werries

13-Apr-07 1:26

Hi there,

Thanks for all those who have take time to help me on this post. I’ve solved my issues. I’ve tried to update Interop dll’s via InstallShield, but was not successful because the version numbers of the Interop dll’s did not change. On the end I used the QuickPatch option of InstallShield to remove the original Interop dll and copy in a new Interop dll. This worked fine.

Regards, Werries

A programmer's life is good... or is it?? Ek dink nie so nie!

amaneet12-Apr-07 19:34