Microsoft Office 2000 Developer

Solution Distribution

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The Package and Deployment Wizard makes it easy for you to build and deploy setup programs for your Office 2000 solutions. The wizard guides you through the steps of creating .cab files for your solution, grouping them into a unit, or package, that contains all of the information needed for installation, and delivering those packages to end users. You can deliver the components over the Internet or via a traditional file-based setup. The Package and Deployment Wizard automates much of the work involved in creating and deploying these files, while giving you complete control over the changes to be made to end-user computers, and some control over the interface of the installer program.

Note   The VBA Package and Deployment Wizard targets applications that create redistributable solutions. Because FrontPage and Outlook only support projects that are based on user profiles, the Package and Deployment Wizard cannot package or deploy solutions using these products. You can, however, package and deploy stand-alone projects, such as Add-in projects, created in the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) environment from within these applications.

The Package and Deployment Wizard offers three options:

• The Package option helps you package a solution's files into a .cab file that can be deployed and creates a setup program that installs the .cab files. The wizard determines the files you need to package and leads you through all the choices that must be made for your project.
  
  
• The Deploy option helps you deliver your packaged solutions to the appropriate distribution media, such as floppies, a network share, or a Web site.
  
  
• The Manage Scripts option lets you view and manipulate the scripts you have saved from previous packaging and deployment sessions in the wizard. Each time you use the wizard, you have the option to save a script that contains all the choices you made. You can reuse these scripts in later sessions if you want to use similar settings and make the same choices as you did previously.

For more information about deploying Office solutions, see Chapter 2, "Designing and Deploying Office Solutions" in the Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide.

For information about using the Microsoft^® Access Run-Time in your applications, see Targeting the Access Run-Time.

Reference information is also available for the Package and Deployment Wizard in Office 2000 Developer by pressing F1 on any wizard screen.