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7/31/2006 6:37:14 AM    Package Wizard does not include Service Pack 2
I developer an ADP with Access 2003 and distributed it with a package created 
 
wih Package Wizard from VSTO 2005. 
 
When I tried to install the package onto my customer computer I noticed that 
 
the installed Access 2003 runtime didn't include Service Pack 2003 for Office 
 
2003. 
 
I searched a lot and asked in an italian newsgroup and finally Giorgio Rancati 
 
told me to visi this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916176/en-us 
 
I red that SP2 files are not included in the package and that I have to run 
 
a chained installation. This means I have to deploy a package increased by 
 
100 MB for each one of my applications. 
 
Do you know any other solutions? 
 
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PBsoft di Gabriele Bertolucci 
 
www.pbsoft.it 
 
skype: pbsoftsolution



8/3/2006 8:03:00 PM    Re: Package Wizard does not include Service Pack 2
The "term" used to include updates into a product is called 
 
slip-streaming... 
 
So, for example, when windows SP2 came out, you could take a existing 
 
windows install...and slip-stream into this install the SP2 updates. This 
 
new resulting install would then have sp2 included..and you would not need a 
 
separate install. (and the resulting install was not really much different 
 
in size then the original). 
 
It is perhaps possible that the sp2 can be slipstreamed into the runtime 
 
install. I would also like to do this, and have been simply too busy to 
 
research further on how to do this. Anther way around this is to not include 
 
the sp2 update..and let windows update do this for you (I *think* this 
 
works - but, that is not your question). as it stands now, I simply don't 
 
include sp2 with my runtime... 
 
I not seen the instructions around on how to do this, but there is likely a 
 
way.... 
 
http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/msoftapptips/6.3+Additional+Tips+and+Tricks#3867 
 
The above for example gives instructions on how to slip stream sp2 into a 
 
office xp install 
 
the result is a sp2 office xp install (but, again, we are talking about 
 
office 2003) -- it also not clear if this would work for the runtime. 
 
It seems to me, that simply un-packing all of the runtime files into a 
 
directory...running the sp update (as above)..and re-building the cab file 
 
with the updated files would do the trick....  I not done this, nor looked 
 
into even attempting this. 
 
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Albert D. Kallal 
 
Edmonton, Alberta Canada 
 
pleaseNOOSpamKallal@msn.com