I'm trying to create an installer that will deploy a .NET Managed data provider. In order for the data provider to appear as a provider in application drop-downs, I have to add the provider in the machine.config's section: <system.data> <DbProviderFactories> <add name="My Data Provider" invariant="Sample.MyDataPro...
hi guys, i was wondering how could i deploy/make it into an installer for an app which is created using vs 2008 express. i know that the setup and deployment feature is only available via the full version of visual studio right? So are there any add ons or perhaps additional free/or non-free if it has to come to that which i can use to ...
My msi installer cannot be installed on a Vista machine without turning UAC off. As my application is going to be distributed to my clients, around 20 machines, and they do not want to turn UAC off, is there a way that I can set some property which would allow my installer to run silent without any user interaction when UAC, which is ena...
I am writing an application that needs to be installed on a large number of desktops and also needs to update itself. We are looking at WIX for creating the installation. I have used ClickOnce and it is not a good solution for this install. WIX seems to fit, but there is no good process for auto update that I have found. I have looke...
I have a plain old Windows Forms application with a WiX installer, and it is installed for all users to the Program Files folder as you would expect. The application hosts add-ins using the System.AddIn framework. Because the System.AddIn framework needs to write to some of the add-in pipeline folders (AddIns, AddInSideAdapters, AddInVi...
Hi all, In short I'm after a setting in a .net installer project that turns off automatic reinstall if the installed files are deleted. I've built a c#.net application using VS2005. After install on the client machine the user has complained that if they delete a file contained within the installation the reinstaller kicks in. The rei...
One of the files in my installation needs to get copied into a location pointed to by a registry key/value pair on the user's destination machine. Right now, I have a kind of kludgy solution where I have the files set to copy to [TempFolder] in the Components view, and then some custom InstallScript code in my OnFirstUIBefore() function...
Hi All, My environment is VS2005 C# targetting Excel 2003. I gave myself a small dose of over confidence with the installer of this add-in when I saw that an .msi project was created just for me :) within the solution. Needless to say, this has been the trickiest part of the whole project and I am completely stuck on how to deploy and...
I have developed a PHP web application, now I am thinking about deploying it on Windows. To ease my deployment, I plan to create an installer for it. This installer should do the following: Check for Pre-requisites such as Apache, MySQL etc, install them if they are not available Put the PHP application on Application folder, and in t...
I have created an standard MSI installer for P&D of my application which is using following components: A WCF Service hosted as Windows service. A GUI application that communicates with that service. A Shell extension Dll. Installer is working very good and without any issue. The issue occurs when user try to install application again ...
I downloaded the AIR_Win_installer_files.zip file in order to do a side-car AIR installation. I created a directory (AIR_bundle) and unzipped the downloaded file into that. In that directory, I end up with: Adobe AIR Installer.exe Adobe AIR/ where the latter is a sub-folder containing lots of other files. On the command-line, I exe...
I made the installer for certificates but it couldn't execute because it was returning error number 26352. I discovered it is because I am installing same certificate twice but on different store locations (current user and local machine). ...
We recently moved from a Visual Studio setup msi-based installer to Inno Setup but we're having issues with upgrading existing installs using this new installer. I know that the upgrade code remains static even as the product code changes every update, so I initially tried to set that as the AppId in the Inno Setup project, but that doe...
I want to make a mock installer using NSIS so we can demo what our final install process will look like when it's done. I've gone through the wizard using the Eclipse plugin to create a classic installer. I want to add additional screens that have no back-end functionality but that would display a description of the data the user nee...
I am not sure to be enough be by my question... Well i'm developping a CMS in PHP with Zend Framework. I would like to have a nice web gui to install and set up the application after unpacked it somewhere... Some CMS or whatever the application is, offer this way to do by simply entering an 'install url' like 'http://localhost/app/instal...
Hello everyone, I want to create a Windows Installer, the 1st step I want it to call another installer (will install dependent components of my application), and the 2nd step I want to install my own application. I want to do all tasks in one installation process, and I have the dependent component installation package at hand (an exe f...
Hi All, How to create a installer using Java that combine tomcat, mysql and war file and come out a final exe? ...
I have a property for whether to install shortcuts that need to be passed via command line arguments. The conditions seem to work when I set the properties within the wxs file, but they seem to be ignored when setting them through the command line. From the log I see that they are being set: MSI (s) (24:C8) [11:01:32:234]: PROPERTY CH...
What's the easiest way to save the install log that is displayed in NSIS? I seem to remember reading somewhere that you can recompile the NSIS code with a special flag to enable it to save the log. Is there an easier way? ...
I have a very simple application installer that needs to add an action to the shell menu of all files (HKCR*\shell), and I've run into a brick wall: how do I insert the installed path of the application into a registry value? I've tried everything I can think of: [Path] [ApplicationFolder] [ApplicationPath] [InstallPath] [InstallRoot]...