I need to install a USB driver with an application, and I'm using a Visual Studio 2005 Setup Project to create the installer. The driver only needs to be installed sufficient enough so that when the USB device is plugged in, Windows will go off doing it's "installing device" routine and do the rest of the job. It would be okay also to h...
Hi, I'm trying to update my existing SQL server 2008 SP1 installation with SQL Server 2008 R2 (November CTP). I started the setup and chose the upgrade option and after some time the installer told me to reboot. As soon as I confirmed with OK, it crashed. After rebooting I can't even run the setup file anymore. it crashes instantly ...
Hey guys, i m new to SVN.. have downloaded visualsvn server and client with tortoiseSVN.. the problem is.. we are group of 4 ppl..we are developin a website on asp.net.. i want the solution file to be in a repository on a machine which can be a server(desktop). and rest are all laptops tryin to gather the updated data.. we are working f...
A default setup project in visual studio 2008 gives you dialogs with a logo-type image in the upper right of a monitor. All I want to do is change this image to new logo. Don't want to deal with custom dialogs. Any way to just change the image? ...
Hi I have a c# wpf application that requires SQL Express 2005 database and I want to deploy Sql Express with my application. So I googled but didn't find any valuable information how to create an installer that will 1. install Sql Express 2005 and 2. restore my backup database before my project installetion? I have tried to inst...
OK, I can see when I open it that it's a list of dependencies (for an old COM DLL). But how do I use that information in .NET world? We're working on a VS2008 setup and deploy project to deploy some Winforms software. We're including in the project an old COM DLL (which comes with a .DEP file). The documentation which comes with the D...
I developed addin for VS 2008 which is used by many users. I have to deploy it this address "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins". Although I changed parameters for setup properties, wizard deploy binaries to Program Files[Manufacturer][Product Name]. How can I do it? ...
I am very new to JS so, please be easy on me... So i am using YensDesign popup, that i figured out how to attach to a image map. <img src="/_images/bhm-circle-chart-members.jpg" width="504" height="504" border="0" usemap="#Map" /> <map name="Map" id="Map"> <area shape="poly" coords="90,63,128,110,150,95,177,80,202,71,229,65,250,65,249,...
is it possible to create a multilanguage installer using WIX ? ...
Can anyone point me to a guide for creating inf files? In particular, I'm looking for a parameter reference for the SetupInfObjectInstallAction command that you use to set up an uninstall. ...
I recently bought Visual Studio 2008 Professional [Upgrade] to upgrade from my current Visual Studio 2005 Standard. Now that I have installed VS 2008, is it 'safe' to uninstall VS 2005 using the Add/Remove control panel? I don't see any benefit of running 2005 and 2008 side-by-side. I have upgraded my projects into 2008 and have everyt...
Web developing isn't what it used to be. It used to consist of hacking together a few PHP scripts (I have nothing against PHP, actually it's currently my main programming language), uploading them via FTP to some webhost and that was that. Today, things are more complicated. As I can see by looking at a number of professional and modern ...
My problem is: ruby script/plugin is not working (I don't see any HTTP traffic, nor an error message or something) What can be failing? Did I forget to setup something? My progress so far (using Windows XP): Unpacked hxxp://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rubyinstaller/ruby-1.9.1-p378-i386-mingw32.7z (to d:\prog\Ruby) Unpacked hxxp:...
Hello everybody. I've got win service, which I want introduce in all my products. So how can I add setup service to all my projects setups. I try add service files to setup(exe,config ref dll) but it dosn't setup automatically and I should use installutil.exe. How can I install it with my products without usage installutil.exe. Can I use...
Hi I have an exe that is built and placed into a Setup project for deployment. I want to rename the exe that is produced (to a .scr file - it is a screensaver) before inclusion in the setup project. How do I do this? I know I could rename the file in a post install process but I don't want to do it this way, I want the file to be rena...
My company produces a cross-platform server application which loads its configuration from user-editable configuration files. On Windows, config file ACLs are locked down by our Setup program to allow reading by all users but restrict editing to Administrators and Local System only. Unfortunately, on Windows Server 2008, even local adm...
I've created a basic windows service installation using Inno Setup. both install and uninstall works properly. However, I'm having issues with the upgrade procedure. In order to upgrade the service executable it is necessary to stop the service, and only after the service is completely stopped can the updated executables be placed in ...
Hi everyone, Due to user confusion, our app requires separate installers for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. While the 32-bit installer runs fine on win64, it has the potential to create support headaches and we would like to prevent this from happening. I want to prevent the 32-bit MSI installer from running on 64-bit Windows m...
Hi, I have a project that is a WinCe project so I created a cab file that I put on the device and then run it from there. However, I would like to know if it is possible to add my cab to the list of ActiveSync installabled programs so that I could install the cab from there. It's more user-friendly and since I'm not the one who will do ...
I'm brand new to Moq (using v 4) and am struggling a little with the documentation. What I'm trying to do is to Moq a method that takes a byte array and returns an object. Something like: decoderMock.Setup(d => d.Decode(????).Returns(() => tagMock.Object); The ???? is where the byte[] should be, but I can't work out how to make it so...