How can i install a Asp.Net MVC application as a non-default website under IIS 6.0. I want the users to specify the path for drive for web app. They install in any drive and create a virtual directory pointing to that drive. Can these be done in Set up project i have for the web app. How can in configure this? ...
I've been messing around with Python over the weekend and find myself pretty much back at where I started. I've specifically been having issues with easy_install and nltk giving me errors about not finding packages, etc. I've tried both Python 2.6 and Python 3.1. I think part of the problem may be that I'm running windows 7 in 64bi...
I have an application with complex setup requirements. I'm well familiar with some of the tools out there for creating setup programs such as Wix, Visual Studio Setup project, Inno-setup and 3rd party tools. For this particular app however, I've determined that I need to write the setup program from scratch in C#, not using any of those...
I need a help on packaging my web application. I have made a setup project, while deploying I am using following command. msiexec /i ABCSetup.msi /log D:\logfiles\ABC\ABC_Setuplog.txt TARGETAPPPOOL=XYZ TARGETSITE=/LM/W3SVC/7680 TARGETDIR=D:\WWW\ABC TARGETVDIR=ABC TARGETSITE is identified, creating a virtual directory under the site 7...
Hello, I have a setup project that install a couple of projects and a couple of external files (one of which is a SQLite Database) - everything worked fine until i've recently modified the base database file included in the setup project. Now, everytime i try to reinstall the project the new database file does not replace the previous...
I have an application that I'm trying to deploy using a Setup project. It deploys just fine but it always puts it in the DefaultLocation, even if the user changes the file path in the Installation folder dialog box. Why is this and what can I do to actually give the user control of where they install the software? ...
I want to include some dynamic part in the filename of the msi file my wix projects produce. This dynamic part should be controlled by variables which are part of my wix project and are declared like this: <?define ProductVersion="7.1.0.1" ?> Does anybody know about a way of sending that value of that wix variable to the linker to use...
Hi, I've got a setup project for a Windows Service (.net 3.5, visual studio 2008). The Windows Service needs to be run under the Administrator account, does anyone know how I can get the Setup Project to set the "user to log on as" setting for the windows service as part of the setup process? At the moment I have to manually right cli...
I wrote a little (like 40 lines little) Winforms application with VB.net in Visual Studio 2010. Now I've released the code as a Google Code project. It's easy for a developer to get the source but I'd like to make it easy to install too. What I did was make a release build then zip up what it created, this included a setup.exe. There wa...
We test the setup of our software on "clean install" images of windows XP, Vista and windows 7 before release. Some old code in the software still relies on MSXML4. Until now, I had assumed that it is not necessary to install MSXML4 because apparently it is already present on clean installs of windows. However, now I have a strange repo...
Hello, I have a C# Winforms application I'm looking to deploy on an XP Laptop with the .NET Framework 1.1 installed. The solution contains three projects, all with a target framework of .NET Framework 2.0 The setup project has the preqrequisite of .NET Framework 2.0 checked. No other prerequisites are checked. Why, when I try to run ...
Hi everyone, for some reason my serach in the sharepoint site does not work, I have set up the SSP, the scopes, the crawls, everything but it still does not work, can someone explai nto me how to setup the search, maybe I did something wrong in the process. ...
I am trying to fix an existing application that uses a Visual Studio 2005 setup project. We are requiring it to work on limited user accounts for XP, our app is written in C# for .Net 2.0. It writes keys into HKCU during the setup, but skips the UI step for choosing 'Install for Everyone' versus 'Just me'. So it defaults to installing...
I use a Visual Studio Setup project to create an installer for some assemblies. However, the fonts the installer uses are always aliased, and don't appear to be the Windows standard. (Note that the installer text uses aliased text rendering, but the window title uses ClearType) Is there any way to update the MSI to use ClearType? ...
I can't get a setup package to update the following default value: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\tel\shell\open\command It will create the value on install, but won't update it. Any clues if this is possible? Thanks Ross ...
Hello, can you tell me how to create setup file dynamically in c#.net or VB.Net. Please reply me soon Samir ...
I need to add my application to the startup and hence, need to set the Registry Key with the Installation path. I have got this working through the Visual Studio Setup project but can't figure out how to do it through a ClickOnce deployment. Anyone know how to set registry keys when using ClickOnce for installation? ...
I've built a web page using HTML and Javascript that acts like a desktop app. I'd like to distribute it to users in the methods they are most familiar with. For Windows users, I think this is an installable application or a "setup.exe" file. My app, however, works perfectly in the browser. Specifically it can be opened in a javascrip...
I'm working in C#. I have a small VS Solution with 4 projects: a DLL an EXE that references the DLL a merge project, that does nothing more than ILMerge on the assemblies from the prior two steps a setup project, that packages the .EXE output of the Merge project. (I've added the "Primary Output of a Project" to the setup, specify...
Just installed Django (with easy_install) and created a project, but can't get mysql to work. python manage.py syncdb throws this error: ..... File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 13, in <module> raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)...