Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-17 Thread Vlad Orlovsky
of the Firebird .NET providers Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:09:38 PM Subject: Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies" For the FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll you could take a look at IL Merge to include the assembly inside your

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-16 Thread Julio César Carrascal Urquijo
For the FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll you could take a look at IL Merge to include the assembly inside your .exe file. The other files seem to be native DLLs so IL Merge won't help you here. I think you could store those DLLs as resources of the .EXE and save them to disk once the program ha

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-15 Thread Mercea Paul
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vlad Orlovsky Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:10 AM To: For users and developers of the Firebird .NET providers Subject: Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies" Thank you for yo

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-15 Thread Vlad Orlovsky
Sincerely, Vlad - Original Message From: Jiri Cincura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: For users and developers of the Firebird .NET providers Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 4:04:50 AM Subject: Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies" Scott

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Jiri Cincura
Scott Price wrote: > often many large corporates that do not have a single network OS type, But I was talking about MS based networks. -- Jiri {x2} Cincura http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com - Take S

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Scott Price
Jiri Cincura wrote: Scott Price wrote: It is often very handy for sys admins to have an XCopy deployable type application, as it makes copying to client machines logging in much simpler then running installers, when the users don't have the rights to, etc. This is probably OT, but th

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Alan McDonald
> Alan McDonald wrote: > > you've obviously never tried to distribute an application in an > environment > > like Novell Zenworks. The msi is only relucantly received by sys admins. > > Yea, Novell something another. ;) > > BTW you're using Novell? > > -- > Jiri {x2} Cincura I'm distributing to a

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Carlos Guzmán Álvarez
Hello: > This is probably OT, but this isn't true. XCopy is good for already running > applications. But for sys admins and distributing apps. to user is MSI > package probably the best way. Especially if you have windows network. Well that could be true, but anyway there are several ways of doin

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Jiri Cincura
Alan McDonald wrote: > you've obviously never tried to distribute an application in an environment > like Novell Zenworks. The msi is only relucantly received by sys admins. Yea, Novell something another. ;) BTW you're using Novell? -- Jiri {x2} Cincura http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/ | http://ww

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Alan McDonald
> Scott Price wrote: > > It is often very handy for sys admins to have an XCopy deployable type > > application, as it makes copying to client machines logging in much > > simpler then running installers, when the users don't have the rights > > to, etc. > > This is probably OT, but this isn't true

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Jiri Cincura
Vlad Orlovsky wrote: > What I'd like is to distribute to my end users only MyProgram.exe Most > end-users are not technical people, so even having an installer may be > overwhelming. I have two ideas how to do this. First is distr. app. as a self extracting package. This could be acceptable f

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Jiri Cincura
Scott Price wrote: > It is often very handy for sys admins to have an XCopy deployable type > application, as it makes copying to client machines logging in much > simpler then running installers, when the users don't have the rights > to, etc. This is probably OT, but this isn't true. XCopy is

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Scott Price
Installers aren't always helpful in locked down environments. It is often very handy for sys admins to have an XCopy deployable type application, as it makes copying to client machines logging in much simpler then running installers, when the users don't have the rights to, etc. We had appli

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-13 Thread Carlos Guzmán Álvarez
Hello: > Is there a way I can put all these into MyProgram.exe and load/unload > them from there? I'd prefer not to use MyProgram.exe as a storage > medium(once the program is running copy all the DLLs out of it into > the current dir) I would like to make the program very easy to > distribut

[Firebird-net-provider] Distributing app with embedded Firebird 2.0 for "dummies"

2007-01-12 Thread Vlad Orlovsky
Hi Everyone, I'm currently writing a small C# Windows app that uses Firebird 2.0 embedded. Currently there are all these DLLs that have to be shipped with the product: fbembed.dll FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll icudt30.dll icuin30.dll icuuc30.dll msvcp71.dll msvcr71.dll What I'd like is t