Publish exe using installshield

Question

I made my application in vb and it runs smoothly. I now have to publish it to use in others pc. How to get a working exe ? I've tried with Visual Studio - other projects - install shield but when it builds displays the following warnings:

Warning 1   -7235: InstallShield could not create the software identification tag because the Tag Creator ID setting in the General Information view is empty.  ISEXP : warning : -7235: InstallShield could not create the software identification tag because the Tag Creator ID setting in the General Information view is empty.

Warning 2   -6245: One or more of the project's components contain .NET properties that require the .NET Framework.  It is recommended that the release include the .NET Framework. ISEXP : warning : -6245: One or more of the project's components contain .NET properties that require the .NET Framework.  It is recommended that the release include the .NET Framework.

Warning 3   -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component AxInterop.AXVLC.dll ISEXP : warning : -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component AxInterop.AXVLC.dll

Warning 4   -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component AxInterop.AXVLC.dll1    ISEXP : warning : -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component AxInterop.AXVLC.dll1

Warning 5   -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component Interop.AXVLC.dll   ISEXP : warning : -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component Interop.AXVLC.dll

Warning 6   -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component Interop.AXVLC.dll1  ISEXP : warning : -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component Interop.AXVLC.dll1

Warning 7   -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component SjCam_Remote.exe    ISEXP : warning : -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component SjCam_Remote.exe

Warning 8   -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component SjCam_Remote.exe1   ISEXP : warning : -6248: Could not find dependent file axvlc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component SjCam_Remote.exe1

The app uses VLC plugin. The app works fine in the maker pc. Blocks when Vlc is requested in others pc. (net framework 4.5 is installed)

ps if i use the visual studio publish function, the result is the same.

How can i fix this ?

Answer 1

I am having the same issue with a reference that i added in a dropbox folder. now the reference remains in the dropbox (O:) path. I had to remove manually from regedit the reference for it. crossing fingers it will not damage Visual Studio references. The main issue is that VS (i am writing in C#) is using 2 dlls. Interop.AXVLC and AxInterop.AXVLC that is crappy.

This may occur if you change the Build mode, to 64bit machines. Actually this day i am using vlc 2.1.0 that did partially the trick.