You may not know that CVI itself can be interfaced via ActiveX to perform some tasks like loading and running a project, creating an .EXE ... and building a distribution kit!
All these features are included in a sample project located in <CVI Samples Folder>\activex\cvi\cvidemo.csw
Another useful example to look at is build.csw found in the same folder: this creates a command-line application that you can use to build a project; I suppose you can start from this example to create a new one that can build distribution kits.
