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Great, I thought it would be of some benefit to you. Free is always good...

I asked on VBForums what VB2008 Express lacks in comparison to the Standard version. RobDog888 who is a VBForums super moderator said:
 
The Express editions can produce the same code that you can with the standard or above but you wont get mobile device support or other supported functions and wizards etc. Unless you are doing medium to large sized apps for business, the express editions are just fine. Plus they are free
 
I was looking into pricing but as far as I can tell there isn't any out for VS2008 because VS2008 isn't out ( except for the express version ) but I noticed that the prices have come way down for VS2005. On ebay I found a price of $ 137 for Visual Studio Pro Full new in the box. Some places are still selling the same for $ 724. I can get the Standard full version of VS2005 for under $ 100 so I decided I'm going to upgrade. VB.NET 2003 doesn't support ClickOnce like Visual Basic 2005 does and ClickOnce makes doing upgrades on your apps very easy. I was pricing a hand full of months back and it was a much different story.  
 
I may still try Visual Basic 2008 Express. If that does everything that I need it to then I don't need to spend the money but I'll upgrade one way or another before I release my app.

Yes, you are correct. Not something new, just a little different with a different feel. You should run both at the sane time to validate how the changes affect your script.

InnoScript is opening like it should. I tested the theory about being logged on and don't see it confirmed. It was opening ok before I logged on just now and it still is so I don't know what was going on before but it appeared that there was a connection because it wasn't opening when I was logged on, I logged off and then it opened like it should and now it's always opening like it should. This is one of those seemingly mysterious things that has some simple explanation that we're not aware of.  
 
I've been thinking about it and I'll probably go ahead and download the Beta. When Microsoft comes out with a new version of VB or a new version of Windows they're building something comepletely new but your Betas of InnoScript are more like an improvement of something that already works so I think it's a safer type of upgrade.

I don't see what logging onto the site would have to do with it I am logged in and using InnoScript.
 
While learning InnoScript you should at least look at the Beta to get some ideas on how the next release will operate.

When I was trying to open InnoScript I had already logged onto this site and as long as I was I didn't have any success in getting the normal screen with the buttons at the top. I logged off this site after posting a few minutes ago, closed InnoScript and then I opened it and I got the good screen with the buttons at the top. It appears that being logged onto this site may have had something to do with the problem but anyway I'm good to go again. I didn't log off the internet but I left this site.  
 
I'm using InnoScript 7.3 build 2. When I purchased InnoScript I had build 1 but upgraded to 2 a few days ago.

As a home user you are automatically in an administrator account. A big mistake if I might add but that is the default. So when you installed InnoScript you are fine in that aspect.
 
In order to do set the appname etc... You will have to use the latest Beta version Build 9 which I haven't uploaded yet. I will let you know when I upload it.
 
What version are you using?

Why is it that sometimes when I open InnoScript I get all the buttons at the top like .NET etc. and other times there are no buttons. Right now I can't seem to get the normal screen just the one that has File, Colors, etc at the top. I tried opening a project previously created and that didn't work and I tried creating a new project and entered some values into parameters and that didn't work. I remember one time in the past I opened Inno Setup and minimized the screen then I opened InnoScript and I got the screen I wanted but that isn't working right now.  
 
I see it says in the instructions:
1. Install InnoScript in the Administrative Account. InnoScript must be run once from this account
after installation for proper operation in a limited users account. Any License information update
must also be done from the administrative account.
 
This is not clear to me the reference to Administrative Account. Maybe you can enlighten my limited intelligence. I just have Windows XP Home edition. When installing software I don't see any questions about Administrative Account or otherwise. I installed InnoScript and have gotten results but I'm not sure what's going on now. I know that I've entered all the registration info before and it was working.  
 
Another question that I was about to attempt to solve before I ran into this problem is what exactly would I put in the template to set AppName, AppPublisher and AppVersion to what I want. I tried just putting :
AppName=Ray Rover Computer Art Program
and the rest but I saw some kind of message when I did that. I'm not remembering what it was right now but I can't duplicate it because I can't get the normal screen.

In the next version of the Beta you will be able to update the AppName, AppVersion and Company name from the Parameter Screen if those fields are not picked up from the project files.

That's good to know. I'll try to stop being so lazy and figure some things out for myself. Sometimes my progress is just at a snails pace but snails can get where they want to go if they keep going.

They were only downloaded by me. I have removed them.
 
Yes, you can use a template to add to or change any part of the script.

Could you do me a favor and unpost the zip file Ray Rover Zipped. The others you can leave. I don't know if you have a download counter for the files but if you do it would interest me to know if Ray Rover Zipped was downloaded more than once.  
 
Can I use a template to make an entry for AppName and AppVersion and AppPublisher or no. If I could you probably would have told me. That's why you suggested I upgrade to VB2005. You might want to make this a possibility for future versions of InnoScript in case someone is using VB03 like me or VB02.  
 
I'm spending more time with Ray Rover now but I'll eventually get back to working with InnoScript and Inno Setup. I just keep going at my own tortoise pace.

There should not be a reason it would not work unless they have broken their direction which I don't believe they have. I would believe the changes to VB2008 would have mainly been in the framework and the calls to it and that would have no effect on InnoScript.

Thanks to your input I've modified Ray Rover so that the message about instructions and keyboard and mouse controls runs longer and also periodically in case someone misses it at the beginning.  
 
You said you haven't tested VB2008 yet. Do you think that there would be any reason it wouldn't work ok with InnoScript?
 
I guess I can just go ahead and download it and test it myself.  
 
I had certain difficulties when I had both Visual Studio 2005( academic version ) and Visual Basic 2003 on my computer when I was working with my VB2003 project. I uninstalled Visual Studio 2005 which entailed some problems and afterward the icons for the different modules in the application folder appeared different as they do now but everything still works the same.

I haven't tested VB2008 yet but there's something to do to keep me awake...