We use VS2005 and SourceSafe here at work for a project. I have this Setup and Deployment project for a couple of projects which have SQL SMO dll dependencies. I do not want to deliver these DLLs, so i set them all to "exclude" from the target. However when I check the solution in, and pull it back out from VSS, four of those 8 dlls come...
Hi guys, Every time I use Setup & Deployment to create a new Web Setup, and run it (after edit all the nice things in the properties), the output is always a copy of the Web Site project... How can I output a PreCompile version of the WebSite project? What I did was, publish the Web Site (so I get the precompiled version), add this ne...
Hi guys, How can I add into Setup & Deployment project that I want to the client has more components, like: Microsoft Chart Controls Microsoft SQL 2008 Express Edition (not 2005) etc... This options are not in VS 2008, and in the window (image above) it only has a link to "Check Microsoft Update for more Redistributable components...
Let's say, for example, my application supports Epson printers and Canon printers. I would like to have an option during installation, maybe radio buttons or, better, checkboxes (to have an option to choose both) that would say 'Install Epson drivers' and 'Install Canon drivers'. Then, based on user selection, the setup package would ...
I have an application that requires .NET Framework 3. I am planning to deploy the application using a Setup Kit built by VS2005 deployment project. What is the best practice to include the last known .NET version (3.5 SP1 in my case) bootstrapper with the deployment package or include exactly what my project needs (.NET3)? Thank you f...
Hi I built a VS 2005 Setup and Deployment project and i'm able to install the setup without any problems. But, if I reboot my computer, the setup utility is being run again, asking me to install the software again (It already exists). I have not run into this problem before, any help would be greatly apperciated. Thanks! ...
Hi guys, I have an ASP.NET project that contains a Web Deployment project (to compile the website) and a Setup project (that creates the Setup and install the compiled version of the website). I always change the application version on the Setup Project and I want to be able to reference that version number into the Website itself but ...
HI, I am using visual studio for creating a msi file for my application. It checks whether .net 2.0 is present in the system or not. If it is not present the installation aborts. I need to install .net 2.0 if it is not present and continue with the application installation and not to abort the installation. How can this be achieved in ...
I'm trying to install my Windows Service app using Visual Studio 2008 Setup and Deployment project. I have created a user account that has "Run as a Service" right and have set the ServiceProcessInstaller.Account to System.ServiceProcess.ServiceAccount.User and also the username and password to the user that I have created previously. ...
I've heard the phrase "deploying applications" which sounds much better/easier/more reliable than uploading individual changed files to a server, but I don't know where to begin. I have a Zend Framework application that is under version control (in a Subversion repository). How do I go about "deploying" my application? What should I do ...
I have a setup and deployment project that, on our build server, reports the following in the summary: ========== Rebuild All: 25 succeeded, 2 failed, 0 skipped ========== I don't know what the two are that failed, though I believe one of them is the vdproj project because if I run the build without the installer there are no error...
I'm trying to create a very basic "Setup and Deployment" project using Visual Studio. What I would like is the ability to choose which components to install. Let's say that each component consists in the primary output of a single class library (i.e. each component is actually a single module or compiled assembly). I haven't seen such a...
How can I embed Sql server 2005 express edition with my Setup package as one file? Thanks. P.S:It's a Windows Application. ...
I have a solution with 3 projects: windows application, class library and setup project (Visual Studio 2008). Solution has 3 configurations: Debug, Release and Release with DLL. I want to include or exclude that DLL depending on current configuration. How can I do that? ...
I need a self-signed certificate to create a clickonce app in C++. I'm a real novice at deployment, so I'm following: How to create a self signed certificate Here's the command sequence I've used makecert -r -pe -n "CN=Watersteward" -ss CA -sr CurrentUser -sky signature -sv WaterSteward.pvk WaterSteward.cer makecert -pe -n "CN=Waters...
I have a C++ console application that I want to deploy using a vs2008 setup project. When I create the setup project and add the output from my console app, the setup project detects that it needs MSVCP90.dll and MSVCR90.dll. When I build the project, those two dlls are included in the .msi file as expected. When I download and launch t...
I have built a web setup project in Visual Studio. When it is installed on one machine it prompted the user to reboot and I don't know why. It is installing over the top of a previous version. It doesn't do it on my machine. What can cause this, and is there any way I can prevent it? I don't see any reason for it to occur, it's just a ...
Hi I have created an Windows application. I used FRONT END : C# (VISUAL STUDIO 2008) BACK END : MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2008 .NET FRAMEWORK : 3.5 Now after deployment when I am installing the application in my Clients machine is it necessary to first install .Net Framework, VisualStudio2008 and Sql Server 2008 before installing Applic...
Hi all, I'm having a problem installing a windows service using the Setup & Deployment Method listed on the msdn website. Here's what i did. I created a dummy windows service. I then created an projectInstaller for that service by right clicking on my service in design mode and choosing add an installer. After that i created a separa...
Hi all, I've been using Visual Studio's Setup & Deployment Project to create an installer for a windows service and what i need is to create a folder within the application folder when the installer is run. How would i go about doing this? I tried adding a folder to the Application Folder in the File System on Target Machine bar, but th...