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

2007-01-17 Thread Vlad Orlovsky
of the Firebird .NET providers firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net 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

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

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

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

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

2007-01-15 Thread Mercea Paul
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 your feedback everyone

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 distribute.

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

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 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 for

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. XCopy is

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/ |

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 Novell SOE.

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