It is easy enough to add an alias to the Applications folder inside a DMG as it is at /Applications on every Mac. But is it possible to add an alias to a user's Documents folder, where the Documents folder has a different path for each user? I tried adding an alias to ~/Documents, but it became an alias to /Users/andyb/Documents, which o...
My primary OS is Linux, but now I'm forced to write some C++ applications for Windows. I was thinking about developing on the Linux box with cross platform libraries like WxWidgets (and some care about other platform dependencies) and then cross compiling the result to mingw target. So the tools I'm thinking of using are g++ for compi...
Say I have a component which is made up of a bunch of DLLs. And the component was released using a .msi installer for several versions. Now, we need it to be a .msm so that it can be included in other msi installers. So we need to build a merge module that can upgrade from .msi installations. How to do that? Or it cannot be done? We ...
I wrote an ASP.NET web application with an installer. For the installer, I'm using the Web Setup Project under the Setup and Deployment project types in Visual Studio 2008. How do I set the IIS File Security to Integrated Windows Authentication on only one .aspx page or directory during the installation process using a Web Setup Proj...
I have an MSI that I created using a Windows Installer project in Visual Studio 2008. It installs COM dlls, that were built using VB6 and just packages them up on the build server. We install it on several servers using an admin account. When other administrators log onto the server and launch a program from the package, we get a dialo...
I have a small program that I would like to turn into an installable windows.form. It needs to automatically be run as a cron job/scheduled task. How can I do this? C# ...
hi, due to some constraints i want to write a custom action in c++ and add its assembly in Visual Sutdio installer... is it possible? as i know about c# or vb in those one can create classes inherited from Installer and it worked but now i want the same with C++.... ...
I have just finished the development of a web service application in visual studio. Is there an easy way to wrap it in an installer, so that I can just ship it off to technical support, and they can have a wizard based installer that will fully setup an IIS site for them, either in 6 or 7? ...
Hi All, I like to create a custom installer to install web application, windows application by let the user to use check box, execute db script and let the user do coniguration settings, in .net. Is it possible? Thanks, P.Gopalakrishnan. ...
I am trying to create a website installer and am using wix. i am using this tutorial http://www.dalun.com/wix/01.05.2007.htm i had to change my script to use <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"> because it was complaining about <Wix xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi'> so my script looks...
I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution that contains several projects. Most projects in this solution write a .dll when built. My installer project in this solution copies these .dlls to a target application directory. My uninstaller for this solution does not remove these .dlls, even though it should. My installer doesn't overwrite old ...
I'm looking for a free cross-platform installer generator that is fully Java-driven (meaning workflow and plugins are written in Java). Ideally the installer should download the JRE on-demand instead of bundling it directly into the installer. Does something like this already exist? Please note that InstallAnywhere no longer offers a fr...
Is it acceptable to package a web service application in an installer that can only install to a virtual directory of an existing website? And not to its own website from the installer? ...
Possible Duplicate: What is the best choice for building Windows installers? Being domain agnostic on the application type, which installer software do you suggest to use to provide an application to users? Why? I heard a lot about Nullsoft, InstallShield etc. Even just a zip (but that don't make you look serious from the clien...
I'm working on an application that I will soon be publicly distributing. I would like to do anything in my power to make sure those who download my program do not reverse engineer it. I understand that distributing a .jar file is highly insecure. Can anyone recommend a platform independent way to distribute my Java application? Also, I ...
Hi, I'm fairly new to WIX. Bare with me. I wish to install Microsoft POS (Point of service) with my installer, after installing .net fx, sql server compact edition, etc. I am willing to supply the downloaded exe with installer (no need to get it from the web). I've found this link. The article in the link indicate that you need to ca...
It's always seemed strange to me that downloadable applications would offer multiple types of installers. For example, sometimes you can choose either a .exe or a .msi Do certain types of installers have advantages over others? Does it matter which one you choose? As a developer, why would I want to offer different installers to my user...
I would like to create a nice installer for a project I am working on to give the install process a little more "professionalism." (Currently, there are a number of steps a person would need to do to get the application to install.) Can anybody make any recommendations for what tool set I should use to build my installer? I have seen ...
I am planning to create a screen saver. Thinking of trying out some WPF as well. Anyways, I am not quite sure how I would organize the screen saver on disk in the file system. I have mainly two related issues that I am very uncertain on how to solve: Normally an application lives, with all its 3rd party assemblies, static resources, im...
I am using InstallShield 2010 and was wondering if anyone knows how to do the following: I want to get the version of my main exe within my installer and make it the name of my setup.exe InstallShield is generating. Any idea how to do that? ...