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what is the diff between dependencies and manually add a dll/ocx in vs installer 6?

i'm using vs installer to build a setup package for my vb6 app. and the problem is i can see that under the project explorer there's a list of dependencies attached to my exe file. and under the file system on target machine treeview, i can actually store the dll/ocx on a folder or in the windows system folder itself[the left window]....

How should I ensure that my Visual Studio installer updates DLLs when installing an older version?

I recently noticed that my installer (VS 2008) does not remove the DLLs during uninstall. This is not too much of a concern to me but the following is a concern: when I install an older version of my software, it does not overwrite the DLLs -- it keeps the newer version. When I am rolling back my system to an older version, I would li...