I am trying to use Inno Setup to bootstrap a number of prerequisites to my windows installer installation package, and am having pretty good luck with this. Now I am wondering if the Inno Setup package can be made so that it doesn't appear in the Add/Remove Programs (ARP) windows option? I would like the separate installations to be ...
Hi I'm creating the installer for a Silverlight app of ours. The app will run on the local machine, in internet explorer in kiosk mode and will be started from a desktop shortcut. I'm having trouble creating the shortcut with my Setup Project in VS 2008. What I need to end up with is a shortcut on the desktop with this "C:\Program Fi...
I have a number of different projects, about 5, and a number of different developers, around 15, and some of the projects are in subversion and some are not. All of the developers are working on windows-based machines with TortoiseSVN, and the code of the projects is a mish-mash of classic asp, and asp.net. What is the best, as in most r...
I'm confused. I have TFS installed on my development server, which also doubles as the build machine. The builds work fine when I check-in code, but when the build attempts to run the tests I get an error: MSBUILD : warning MSB6004: The specified task executable location "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest....
I have a customer using the Access 97 runtime to support part of their product. Ideally, given the budget to do so, I would have replaced that dinosaur by this point, but that isn't an option today. I am not the system's original author, but am attempting to provide ongoing support. To distribute this to their customers, they bought the...
I have an Office add-in project with a setup project for deployment (using VS 2008), and I need to build the same product in a few different flavours. I'm looking for a good way to make the installer resources dependent on the build configuration. The product name, manufacturer, manufacturer url, author, etc., etc. properties should b...
I've bee tearing my hair out trying to get MySQL 5 running on CentOS 5 but I've had hardly any luck. If I leave everything as default, and launch the initial install it works a charm, but if I tell the my.cnf to use a different drive to store the data, I continuously get the "Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon." error. ...
I am working on an ASP.NET MVC web application, and am working on the Web Setup portion. We are using SVN for version control. One of the issues is that the we are currently having is that the web designers modify and add a lot of html, css and js files that end up in the Content folders, but they don't add them to the VS project, so the...
I am trying to write an installer for a website I created. In the WiX tutorial it says "Again, a component should only contain items that belong together so strongly that they always need to be installed or removed together.". I believe an entire website fits this description. I have 2 issues regarding components. The first is that obvio...
I am setting up a VM to try to duplicate our production environment so I can do deployment tests. The VM is VMWare Server running Windows Server 2003 with Oracle 10g. I am connecting to oracle through a tnsnames connection identifier. I got it up and running once, copied the VM files and thought everything was peachy. But now am enco...
In VS2008 I have a setup project which installs the Primary Output of one app to the application folder, and the Primary Output of class library project into a subfolder of the application directory. Both projects reference several third-party assemblies (some DevExpress UI controls). When I install the application, the subfolder is su...
I'm using Wix v3.0 (which boils down to an MSI installer) and I'm trying to author a condition to ensure that Excel 2003 is installed. What is the best (most robust) way to detect the presence of Excel 2003 on a machine? I've seen lots of different suggestions, but no definitive or authoritative answer. ...
I have the following directory structure: --var ----trac ------company1 --------project1 --------project2 ------company2 --------project3 --------project4 and i was wondering if theres a way to specify in httpd.conf to list the directories when i go to domain.com/trac. Currently i wrote: <Location /trac> Options Indexes </Locatio...
I have the following VM with CentOS 5 running on vista 64. I have my DNS set in my resolv.conf (servers resolve on my windows machine and I have tried various servers). I can ping the DNS but it wont resolve any names for me. I have put some names in my vhost and those domain work fine. Is anyone else having this issue? Is DNS busted...
When I start debugging the project we are currently working on, the program window is not given proper focus in windows but is stacked behind the Visual Studio window. I don't think this problem occurs on any of my team members computers, so it looks like it's a problem on my system. Is there a setting in VS2008 for always on top or som...
I have made a setup and deployment project in C#, Now i have another windows update exe which i want to run and install successfully before it installs my project. I've packaged the exe with my project. How may i run that exe before? ...
When you create a Setup project for a Windows/Console application, you find that there are two outputs. Setup.exe .msi What does setup.exe and .MSI do? Which one should be used for installation? I have seen that I can install the application using both. But Setup.exe is fairly small file compared to the .MSI file. Questions If I...
I wondered if it's possible to set the editor windows tab width in eclipse. I hate it when I want to close several windows in a row and I always have to move the mouse. Can I set eclipse to use only ONE width for every window tab? ...
How can I configure my virtual directory to have Windows Integrated Security checked and Anonymous checked through installer. How can I assign my newly created Virtual directory to an specied appPool which is already created on IIS6.0? Any code snippets and how to perform these action thru maybe a Custom Actions Editor/ any web sites ...
Does anyone know how to convert a .sql (scripts file) VS2008 to an embedded resource at runtime to be used in the Customs actions editor for install of database. ...