Creating setup project with single output file (Visual Studio 2005)

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Creating setup project with single output file (Visual Studio 2005)

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 question is:

Is there any way I can have a single .exe (or msi) installation which makes the entire installation (and encapsulates all the functionallity menationed above) ?

+3 A:

It seams that the Visual Studio installer doen't let you create a single installation file.

I finally decided to use Win-Zip self extractor to create a single installation file which extract all of the above files and run the setup.exe

2009-02-25 09:18:37

this is what I did as well.

Neil N 2009-03-24 18:41:31

SFX Compiler is a free program that will create self extracting .exe files for you.

Spidey 2009-12-14 17:25:53

That link leads to an advertising page..

sascha 2010-06-18 04:06:21

I think the domain's expired. Try http://www.softpedia.com/get/Compression-tools/SFX-Compiler.shtml

Spidey 2010-06-19 12:26:12

Use Wix

Nick 2010-06-18 01:42:58

WiX doesn't help with this problem, this is a bootstrapper/SFX issue.

sascha 2010-06-18 04:05:24

You are right I did not notice that he had a .Net deployment thing going on. I had the same issue. I plan to write a blog post on a clean way to do it. Let me know if you still need an answer

Nick 2010-06-21 01:26:44

+1 A:

I'm currently using visual studio standard setup and then combining the exe and msi with Make SFX since it supports command line (for automatic builds) and is free.

loraderon 2010-10-20 06:31:25

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