Hi Informixers,

I have a couple of inhouse VB6 applications that access
our Informix databases via OLEDB. I'd like to create an
install package that contains just the minimum requirements
for a successful database connection, and to reduce
possible user foulups with "setnet32" etc., I'd rather
omit that altogether and just distribute the necessary
registry settings and dll files.

Which files are absolutely necessary? Which registry
settings do I need?

Regards, Richard

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From the keyboard of Richard Spitz:

> I have a couple of inhouse VB6 applications that access
> our Informix databases via OLEDB. I'd like to create an
> install package that contains just the minimum requirements
> for a successful database connection, and to reduce
> possible user foulups with "setnet32" etc., I'd rather
> omit that altogether and just distribute the necessary
> registry settings and dll files.
>
> Which files are absolutely necessary? Which registry
> settings do I need?

You might consider to watch with regmon (www.sysinternals.com)
what a standard installation does to the registry. The Dependency
Walker out of the windows resource kit tells you which DLLs are
loaded by your program.

HTH

Christian
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