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Visual Basic Wizard Tutorial

InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition

Visual Basic is a development tool designed for quickly creating high-performance components and applications. These applications need to be packaged into installations with similar speed. InstallShield offers you the ability to scan your Visual Basic project and have a nearly complete installation project created with minimal work on your part.

The Visual Basic Wizard allows you to import Visual Basic projects into your InstallShield installation. The wizard scans your project to determine any file dependencies and displays the results of the scan, showing the files that can be added to your installation. You then have the option of adding that Visual Basic project and its dependencies to your installation.

This tutorial uses a sample Visual Basic project that was installed to the InstallShield Program Files Folder\Samples\WindowsInstaller\AlarmClock subfolder.

Note: This tutorial assists you in understanding how the Visual Basic Wizard works. The application installed may not work depending on the versions of required files on your system. However, the process described is the same when using the Visual Basic Wizard for your own projects.

The tutorial consists of the following steps: