I'm trying to maintain a Setup Project in Visual Studio 2003 (yes, it's a legacy application). The problem we have at the moment is that we need to write registry entries to HKCU for every user on the computer. They need to be in the HKCU rather than HKLM because they are the default user settings, and do change per user. My feeling is t...
I have primarily used Visual Studio 2003, and its tool for building an installer was pretty painful. Files and folders had to be added manually, one by one. I am looking at upgrading to VS 2008, and I'm not sure what its installer is like. Also I'm interested in installers for non-.net applications. Are there good, open source opti...
I think most people here understand the importance of fully automated builds. The problem is one of our project is now using an integrated Visual Studio Setup project (vdproj) and has recently been ported to Visual Studio 2008. Unfortunatly, those won't build in MSBuild and calling devenv.exe /build on 2008 just crashes, apparently it do...
I have created a custom dialog for Visual Studio Setup Project using the steps described here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/vsSetupCustomDialogs.aspx?fid=419622&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2640482&fr=26 Now I have a combobox in one of my dialogs. I want to populate the combob...
For .net 3.5 SP1, Microsoft have the new client profile which installs only a subset of .net 3.5 SP1 on to Windows XP user's machines. I'm aware of how to make my assemblies client-profile ready. And I've read the articles on how to implement an installer for ClickOnce or MSI. But I've been using Inno Setup for my project so far and I'...
I have a setup project created by Visual Studio 2005, and consists of both a C# .NET 2.0 project and C++ MFC project, and the C++ run time. It works properly when run from the main console, but when run over a Terminal Server session on a Windows XP target, the install fails in the following way - When the Setup.exe is invoked, it imm...
How do you back up your development machine so that in the event of a catastrophic hardware malfunction, you are up and running in the least amount of time possible? ...
On my Vista machine I cannot install the .Net framework 3.5 SP1. Setup ends few moments after ending the download of the required files, stating in the log that: [08/26/08,09:46:11] Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0SP1 (CBS): [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0SP1 (CBS). MSI returned error code 1 [08/26...
What is a good setup for .hgignore file when working with Visual Studio 2008? I mostly develop on my own, only occasionly I clone the repository for somebody else to work on it. I'm thinking about obj folders, .suo, .sln, .user files etc.. Can they just be included or are there file I shouldn't include? Thanks! p.s.: at the moment I ...
I'd like to have a link in my ASP.NET web site that authenticated users click to download a windows app that is already pre-configured with their client ID and some site config data. My goal is no typing required for the user during the client app install, both for the user friendliness, and to avoid config errors from mis-typed technic...
We are working on a winforms app in Visual Studio 2005 and the setup project we created output both an MSI and an EXE. We aren't sure what the EXE file is used for because we are able to install without the EXE. ...
I want to call a function from a .NET DLL (coded in C#) from an Inno Setup script. I have: marked the Register for COM interop option in the project properties, changed the ComVisible setting in the AssemblyInfo.cs file, added these lines to the ISS script: [Files] Source: c:\temp\1\MyDLL.dll; Flags: dontcopy [Code] ...
I have a solution with several projects. One of them is a setup project. If you expand the setup project in the Solution Explorer, you see a Detected Dependencies node. If you right click on it, you get a menu item called Refresh Dependencies. This refreshes any dependencies based on the files included in the setup. I am asking if I can...
I have a Visual Studio Setup Project that I use to install a fairly simple WinForms application. At the end of the install I have a custom user interface page that shows a single check box which asks the user if they want to run the application. I've seen other installers do this quite often. But I cannot find a way to get the Setup Proj...
The .NET Setup project seems to have a lot of options, but I don't see an "Uninstall" option. I'd prefer if people could "uninstall" from the standard "start menu" folder rather than send them to the control panel to uninstall my app, so can someone please tell me how to do this? Also, I am aware of non Microsoft installers that have...
Until recently we were using Inno Setup for our installations, something I would like to continue doing, unless we can get an uninstall option in the start menu (thanks Giovanni Galbo), however we now need to GAC some external libraries, something I suspect is only doable (or at least only supported) though the .NET Setup Project. Is it...
The SQL Server Express 2008 setup allow you to assign different user account for each service. For a development environment, would you use a domain user, local user, NT Authority\NETWORK SERCVICE, NT Authority\Local System or some other account and why? ...
1, Create and build a default Windows Forms project and look at the project properties. It says that the project is targetting .NET Framework 2.0. 2, Create a Setup project that installs just the single executable from the Windows Forms project. 3, Run that installer and it always says that it needs to install .NET 3.5 SP1 on the mac...
Hello, fellow anthropoids and lily pads and paddlewheels! I'm developing a Windows desktop app in C#/.NET/WPF, using VS 2008. The app is required to install and run on Vista and XP machines. I'm working on a Setup/Windows Installer Project to install the app. My app requires read/modify/write access to a SQLCE database file (.sdf) and ...
I'd like to install Gentoo. I need it to develop GUI C++ applications using wxWidgets, so I need: build tools: make, automake, autoconf, etc. C++ compiler (GCC) X Window System for testing (Fluxbox or something minimal would be enough) Now, I have two options: download the small network installer (57MB) do a network install downloa...