Debug .NET Setup Project
How can I debug a .NET setup project? ...
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How to Forcefully Rollback a Setup from Custom Actions?
I am creating a installer in .NET and using custom actions for controlling installation. Now there is certain conditions which I need to check and based on those I have to continue install OR rollback the installation. How can I forcefully rollback the Setup from custom actions? ...
Visual Studio 2008 Setup Project is not generating Setup.exe anymore.
I have a Visual Studio 2008 Setup Project that when compiled in the past would generate a Setup.exe in the output directory along with the .msi output file. Now it no longer generates the Setup.exe which I actually do need. Did I change a project setting without realizing? How do I get it to generate it again? ...
VS 2005 Setup Projects: Deploy Many Projects With One MSI
I have 3 projects in my solution that I want to deploy. Is there a nice and quick way of using Visual Studio's setup projects to deploy all three apps using one MSI and letting the user decide which apps he wants to install during the install process? I have setup projects for the 3 individual apps, I also have an overarching setup ...
.net 3.5 SP1 Bootstrapper not found for Setup
I am getting a warning when trying to include the .net 3.5 sp1 prerequisite for my setup project. The warning states Prerequisite could not found for bootstrapping. Any suggestions? Thanks ...
How to register a .NET CCW with regasm from a Visual Studio 2008 Setup project
I have a setup project for a .NET Service Application which uses a .NET component wich exposes a COM interface (COM callable wrapper / CCW). To get the component working on a target machine, it has to be registered with regasm.exe /tlb /codebase component.dll The /tlb switch to generate the typelib is mandatory in this case, other...
DLLs that require registration, used in different programs
How do you organize installing different programs if these programs use the same DLLs which require registration. The problem: if the user uninstalls the program that is installed later the other program will stop working as the registry entries now point to the missing DLLs. One possible solution is placing the common DLLs in a comm...
Update a program setup
Hello, I haven´t experience in making setup, but i all ready make mine but now i need help because when i made a new version i want that the user double click the short cut and it do teh update if there are any. The application is in c#. Could you help?? Thanks in advance Maria João ...
How do I launch an application after install in a Visual Studio Setup Project
I have created a setup project using Visual Studio 2008. After the application is finished installing, I would like to have it start up immediately. Any thoughts on how this can be done? ...
How to use IlMerge in a Setup Project?
I have use IlMerge to merge all the dlls of my projects in one exe. I use a targets file which is referenced in the "import" of the main csproj. The ExecCommand in the targets is: <Exec Command=""$(ProgramFiles)\Microsoft\Ilmerge\Ilmerge.exe" /out:@(MainAssembly) "@(IntermediateAssembly)" @(IlmergeAssemblies->'&qu...
How can I change the location of an .InstallState file in a Visual Studio generated MSI
I have an MSI file that I have created using a Visual Studio Setup Project. The installed generates an .InstallState file in the application directory. Is there a way to have this file generated in a different location rather than the default location? ...
C# in linux environment
Hi all, I am curerntly working in C/C++ in unix environment and new to linux environment. I would like to learn about linux OS and learn next level of programming language as C# for my career. I decided to put linux on my laptop. I coose ubundu for linux. But i am not sure we can write, compile and run c# programing in linux environ...
Setting the manufacturer in a VS 2008 Setup Project
I have a windows setup project that installs a service. All works well except for one thing: The default directory offered to the user during install is of the form "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\ProgramName". I am trying to modify this so that instead of "Microsoft" we would have our company's name. I found the application folder property...
Why do various Linux distros use different package managers?
Why do Linux distros have different package managers? I find this very strange because other software such as text editors, desktop environments and graphics software (Inkscape, Blender, GIMP) are shared among distributions. Why not have a common setup tool? ...
Include another msi file in my setup project
Hi all, I'm trying to make a setup program for a asp.net web site. I need to make sure the target machine has sqlxml installed. I must verify the target machine has the software installed, and if not, launch a .msi file either before or after the main installation. I'm a complete newbie with setup projects so maybe this is obvious bu...
Running unit tests on Team Foundation Server (TFS) builds
What are the steps to get Team Foundation Server running unit tests when a given build runs? What are the caveats / pitfalls / workarounds a dev or sysadmin should be aware of when setting up a TFS server to do this for the first time? What are common troubleshooting steps for unit test problems during builds? ...
Setting up a Vista laptop for development
ok, after some research here and there, it seems that the Dell XPS 1530 is a good laptop for .NET development. I had some questions, mainly about Vista and setting up a dev environment. Currently am working with XP, VS2008, SqlServer2005. This laptop comes with Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit. I have a copy of Vista Ultimate that I wou...
From where I can download Turbo C++ setup
From where I can download Turbo C++ setup, the one with blue srceen which we used in our academics.. ...
what is the diff between dependencies and manually add a dll/ocx in vs installer 6?
i'm using vs installer to build a setup package for my vb6 app. and the problem is i can see that under the project explorer there's a list of dependencies attached to my exe file. and under the file system on target machine treeview, i can actually store the dll/ocx on a folder or in the windows system folder itself[the left window]....
Embedding SMO dlls in Setup and deployment.
I have a .NET Set and Deployment project which has to execute a set of really long SQL Scripts as a part of the installation process. I have used SMO dlls to make calls to the .sql script files.These SMO dlls are however not a part of the .NET framework but they come bundled with SQL Server 2005 or 2008. Now, if the setup is run on a mac...