1 . In wrote a game in Visual basic Express 2008 - and it works perfectly - all of the time. (Window Xp was on that machine)
2. I "Published" the game to a Zip Drive.
3. I then moved the zip drive to another machine running windows XP (which had a copy of visual basic 2003.net installed). Everything worked. that was about 2 months ago.
4. I then moved the zip drive to a machine running windows Vista.
The program didn't install.. It directed me to an install.log which was never created.
Why did the installation fail?
a) difference between Vista and Windows XP
b) needs a component that is in Visual Basic (either version)
c) Some new Security fix - The 3rd computer was not connected to the internet
for code Verification - but should have installed with a warning
d) Some other Reason
I can make a few modifications to the code and compile it in Visual Basic 2003.net
- if that is the answer - but why fix it it's it's not broken
Or I can install visual basic 2010 on the 3rd machine - but I'm running out of machines.
I also have another machine running windows 7 - whihc I haven't tested yet