Hi guys. How do I create sub folders (several levels deep) in the Windows Start menu, using Wix? Currently I am able to put my shortcut in the Start menu, but only in a folder immediately under Programs (Start / Programs / MyFolder), but I want to nest my shortcut deeper (Start / Programs / MyPlatform / MyProduct / etc). I tried differen...
When using the generic bootstrapper with MSBuild how is the order of installation of prerequisite items determined? For example, given: <Project ToolsVersion="3.5" xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003'> <ItemGroup> <BootstrapperFile Include='A' /> <BootstrapperFile Include='B' /> <BootstrapperFile...
I have written an application in C# and I have setup a separate Setup project to create the MSI installer for the app. I was wondering if it was possible to retrieve the version of the installer and display it in the About dialog in my application. ...
I'd just like to play a little bit with groovy I was thinking about developing my own-tiny web framework, something very simple and manageable... So i'd like tou use GSP pages whtout having to install the whole grails stuff, with all its dependencies and behind-the-scenes frameworks... can anyone provide me detailed instructions on wh...
Hey there! I need to setup a simple IVR system for a friend's company that will let the caller navigate through the menue by pressing phone keys (kind of like a bus schedule....."for today's schedule press '1', for tomorrow's schedule press '2' and so on). It is solely an information system, i.e. no navigation route will end up with a r...
Is there a way through code, or through the creation of a setup project (via VS), to create a desktop shortcut with a keyboard shortcut pre-defined? ...
I added a simple dialog window to the install's UI with textboxes. How do I find out what the user entered? @Mitch Wheat: Thank you. I managed to solve the problem with your help. But I think you failed to mention that I need to use the CustomActionData property of the Custom Action. ...
I am developing a chained installer including the .msi installation of Crystal Reports Basic (10.5) using Inno Setup. I cannot find any deployment guidance to determine if this is already installed on the target PC, though it appears I can call the .msi multiple times and it always attempts to install (never goes to the typical repair/r...
I am trying to make an installer for a project I did not write, and I use the wizard to create the setup. Program Files Folder contains a favicon.ico, a custom dll, and Primary output from the project. Whenever I build the installer and try to run it I get a, "The folder path '.' contains an invalid character." and the installer aborts....
Right now, I am creating an msi and a setup.exe using the Visual Studio. It works quite well... till recently. I recently added a new dialog box with a Combo Box Control to the msi. Now when I install the app directly using the msi, everything is works just fine. But when I run the Setup.exe, the ComboBox is not displayed correctly. It o...
Can anyone offer tips on how to setup the ideal windows development environment? Contemplating on moving to vmware or virtual box setup for development and keeping the development tools off of my main system but then think that would cause a headaches if I want to just try something really quick. Just looking for suggestions from other...
Hi, I want to make my build process for producing a setup project to be a single click. However, I also want to add {smartassembly} to the build step to obfuscate the build, but only on our build machine. How can I add a pre-build step to a visual studio 2008 vdproj? Basically, I want to move the command line argument to obfuscate th...
I used to be a java developer and we used tools like ant or maven to manage our development/testing/UAT environments in a standardized way. This allowed us to handle library dependencies, setting OS variables, compiling, deploying, running unit tests, and all the required tasks. Also, the scripts generated guaranteed that all the environ...
I've been facing a problem that can only be described as weird for the past couple of days, while trying to install .NET 3.5 SP1 on my x64 Vista Ultimate. The problem first started while trying to install Visual Studio SP1, which I had installed before on the same machine without any issue, giving me a scrambled screen followed by a Blu...
I'm in the situation where I've installed the JDK, but I can't run applets in browsers (I may not have installed the JRE). However, when I install the JRE, it clobbers my JDK as the default runtime. This breaks pretty much everything (eclipse, ant) - as they require a server JVM. There's no JAVA_HOME system property these days - it ju...
I have a .NET Setup Project to which I've added a custom installer action. During the setup process, the user has to provide a path (which often is a UNC path) to a share on their file server. I attempt to do some validation before proceeding to make sure the directory exists, as such: if (!Directory.Exists(serverDirectory)) { th...
I want to get the installed path of a C# project setup. In C#.net. How can I use this path in Installer Class for checking that the setup is installed or not? Actually I want to check if the setup is installed in the system or not . If it is, I want to repair this. ...
How do I create a Setup And Deployment project that can run any number of times on a machine without requiring an uninstall? I've created an installer to install a WCF service to an IIS directory. It does more than just xcopy, it asks the users questions to correctly setup web.config. The problem is when it can only be installed once ...
This thing is so confusing compared to the old IIS, I haven't even found where to pick the version of .NET still. I had to comment out the and from my web.config because I kept getting: This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by defa...
I'm using visual studio 2005 Setup project to create an installer for my application. The outputs of the setup projects are: - Setup.exe (a bootstrapper which makes installed .Net framework if it doesn't exist) - .Net framework folder (for installation by the .exe above) - .msi installation for my project (called by the setup.exe) My qu...