How can i write code to connect to MSDE when i build file setup with Install Shield?
My software is developed  in VB6.
I have problem when i take my software to install on other computers without SQL server.
Thank for your reply!

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ly buntha

I'm thinking it's the same was as connecting to a MS SQL server... but I've never had it nor tried, so can't say for certain.

If you do have it, I'd say to try it and see.

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I can say it for certain: it's the same of SQL Server.
But I didn't understand what are you attempting to do. In the setup packet you have to put your executable, not any database.

Perhaps you might want to create a database into the MSDE server: that case you got to provide an sql script to run.
Perhaps you might want to provide some data to an existing MSDE database: so you got to provide a backup file to restore, and an sql script to execute restoring.
But running sql scripts is not expected to be done by the setup packet, as it is a separated operation than the bare setup process, or at least I don't know how could we make InstallShield automately do it.

I can tell you how to write a small VB application that launches the sql scripts, and that's what I do: I create a setup pack with all the files, but I don't launch it directly. Instead, I run a small app that first launches the setup pack and then run the scripts. Alternately, you can run the scripts at the first execution of your main app, but that's it. I have not the skill to program InstallShield (nor VSI, that's what I use) to do it automatically, and I think few have it.

Hope it helps, ask if you need to know more on what I said.

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