Hey everybody
We've got new machines here for doing development on running Server 2008.
With Visual Studio 2008 we're having problems building a Setup Project which installs the Windows Service - Under Custom Actions then Uninstall, "InstallerClass property is only valid for assemblies".
This builds and installs fine on XP SP3.
Has anybody else had any similar problems?
Workstation OS: Server 2008
Software: Visual Studio 2008
Make sure you add the service in the custom actions otherwise the service will not be registered. Other than that, are you having any compilation errors?
I recommend against using the VS install project. Use Wix instead, it's easier than you think.
I did find this - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/447a3y7x(VS.71).aspx
Ive made the changes to the Solution and now waiting for it to be tested on a Server 2008 machine - Im still on XP SP3.
I was getting this error when running commandline devenv.exe to build a .vdproj file (in Nant scripts). The problem was I was not also building the dependant project first, so once that was done it worked fine.
It had nothing to do with the configuration of the InstallerClass property after all.