Show All

  • Article

Show All

Create an installation disc for an application created by using the MapPoint Control

Note  Each computer on which your application is installed must have either a full Microsoft MapPoint license or an embedded license through the Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Royalty Licensing program; otherwise, your application's calls to MapPoint will fail.

The following instructions are in three parts:

  • Licensing
  • Modifying the Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Package & Deployment Wizard to start the MapPoint Control Setup
  • Creating an installation disc

To license your users

  1. Purchase full licenses or an embedded license through the ISV Royalty program for MapPoint for recipients of your application.
  2. Create your application and compile it.
  3. Create the Setup file for your compiled application, making sure that it calls the MapPoint setup.exe.

To modify the Visual Basic 6.0 Package & Deployment Wizard to start the MapPoint Control Setup

To use the Visual Basic Package & Deployment Wizard to have your Setup file call the MapPoint setup.exe (these steps assume that you are using Visual Basic 6.0 with Service Pack 5):

  1. Create a backup of the PDWizard folder before making any changes.

  2. Open setup1.vbp that was installed with Visual Basic from the Wizards\PDWizard\Setup1 folder.

  3. Add the following code to the Form_Load event of setup1.frm after the code that installs data access:

'=======Beginning of call to MapPoint setup.
Dim zSetupOptions As String

'Note: Chr(34) represents a quotation mark (").
zSetupOptions = " USERNAME=" & Chr(34) & "User Name" & Chr(34)
zSetupOptions = zSetupOptions & " COMPANYNAME=" & Chr(34) & "User Company" & Chr(34)

'NOTE: Set INSTALLLEVEL=500 for a full installation (~1.1 GB); set INSTALLLEVEL=100 for a typical installation (~500 MB).
zSetupOptions = zSetupOptions & " INSTALLLEVEL=500"

'Set the installation location.
zSetupOptions = zSetupOptions & " INSTALLDIR=" & Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\Microsoft MapPoint" & Chr(34)

'The /qb flag runs a silent installation.
zSetupOptions = zSetupOptions & " /qb"

ShowStaticMessageDialog "Installing MapPoint Control Run-time"
SyncShell gstrSrcPath & "mpcsetup.exe" & zSetupOptions
HideStaticMessageDialog

'=======End of call to MapPoint setup

Note  Your code can also prompt the user to enter setup information such as name, installation location, or the level of installation. You can also include the MapPoint disk space requirements in your calculation of the disk space needed for your application. For more information about how to modify setup1.vbp, see the Visual Basic online Help or the MSDN Library.

  1. Save the project and compile it to create setup1.exe, replacing the existing setup1.exe , and then close the project.

  2. Start the Package & Deployment Wizard for your MapPoint Control–based application.

    Note   The Package & Deployment Wizard does not recognize the MapPoint Control and prompts you for a dependency (.dep) file, which doesn't exist. Select the check box to ignore the dependencies for the Control, and then on the next page, clear the check box to install the Control.

    The Package & Deployment Wizard uses the setup1.exe you just compiled and creates the following three files: setup.exe, setup.lst, and a CAB file with the name of your project.

To create an installation disc

  1. Copy all files, including subfolders, from your original MapPoint Setup disc to a folder (<New Folder>) on your computer.

  2. Delete the following files from <New Folder>:

    autorun.inf
    cd1run.exe
    setup.ini

  3. Rename the following file in <New Folder>:

    setup.exe to mpcsetup.exe

  4. Copy setup.ini from the MapPoint\Runtime folder to <New Folder >, and rename it mpcsetup.ini.

  5. Replace <New Folder>\MapPoint\MSMap\data.msi with the file of the same name from the Runtime folder.

  6. Remove the following folders, along with the files and subfolders within them:

    Runtime from the MapPoint folder
    PStreets

  7. Copy your application Setup files to <New Folder>, including at least setup.exe, setup.lst, and your project's CAB file created by the Package & Deployment Wizard.

  8. Copy any other application files, such as autorun.inf, icons, executable, data, or other utilities or files that you want to include.

  9. Create your application installation disc (such as a CD or DVD) with <New Folder\as the root folder of the disc.

    Note   The root folder must include your application setup.exe and the MapPoint mpcsetup.exe.

  10. Distribute a copy of the MapPoint Run disc (Disc 2) along with your installation disc, keeping the same volume name and file structure.

    Note   The MapPoint Run disc (Disc 2) contains data that is necessary either for installation or at run time, depending on the installation option selected.

   You can also deploy your application over a network.

About distributing an application created with the MapPoint Control

Deploy MapPoint over a network