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An Inno installation script I wrote to install a VB6 application and optionally, MSDE and MDAC. It also executes several database scripts as well as prompts the user to install MSDE or choose an existing SQL Server database. ; MyApp Install Script ; Author: Jeff Hunsaker ; Version: 1.0.0.0 #define AppName "MyApp" #define AppNameLong "My App" #define AppPublisher "My Firm, Inc." #define Ver1 "1" #define Ver2 "0" #define Ver3 "0" #define Ver4 "0" #define MinVersion "4.1.1998,4.0.1381sp5" #define DBInstance "DBInstance" ;when MSDE installed locally/new #define DBDatabase "DBDatabase" #define DBDefaultSaPassword "sapassword" #define DBDefaultSaAccount "sa" #define DBAppUserName "AppUser" #define DBAppPassword "password" #define DBDefaultServer "(LOCAL)" #define DBDSN "MyApp" #define DBDSNDescription = "My App" [Setup] ...

Recently, while working on an Inno installer project, I grew frustrated at Google for returning many "...in no..." results while searching for the string "inno". The solution to override word breaks in Google is to add a preceeding "+" (e.g. +Inno). Not sure why but I thought it was cool I actually received a response from Google: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: [#26513876] inno search 1 message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- help@google.com Mon, May 23, 2005 at 8:02 PM To: jeff.com Hi Jeff, Thank you for your note. To help "force" a particular search term, you can include a + symbol in front of the word or words you're searching for. For example, a search for [ +inno ] returns the following search results: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=%2Binno&btnG=Search For additional tips, please see htt...

I had the darnest time establishing a MS Virtual PC instance using the MSDN copy of Windows 98 SE. The Windows XP and 2000 bootable CDs prompted me during installation while Windows 98, living in a subdirectory and not bootable, just kept throwing errors. Finally, I came up with the following: 1. Obtain a Window 98 boot disk (I ended up using Bootdisk.com ). (A little scary from a security aspect, but I needed to get this done) 2. Boot from this disk normally until arriving at a command prompt 3. fdisk the virtual C: drive 4. format the virtual C: drive 5. copy the Windows 98 installation directory and files from the CD onto the virtual C: 6. execute setup.exe from the directory where you just copied the files BTW, it would be an improvement if Virtual PC MSDN would include vanilla installations for all the MS operating systems. Windows XP and 2000 are straightforward but Windows 98 is tricky and they all consume quite a bit of time to establish. A fat DVD containing vanilla instances ...

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