VB6 Application running from CD with Media Player

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January 29th, 2004, 12:57 PM

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VB6 Application running from CD with Media Player

Hi,

I am creating a VB6 Application which uses the wmp.dll components (Windows Media Player 9). I included the component in the project and the entire program runs fine in my development environment.

However, the requirement is that it needs to run from CD, and we cannot be sure that all the clients have windows media player installed.

I know for sure the app bombs (wmp.dll not correctly registered; file is missing) on machines without media player.

Will it work if I include wmp.dll on the CD and at runtime source the component from the CD? if so, could someone give me some pointers on how to accomplish that?

Thanks,

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Although I haven't tried personally, thinking about how Windows works, I would assume so. Otherwise, how would any 3rd party apps run off a CD?

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