How do you bundle ActivSync with your C#.NET application? I have an installer and it works fine for the SQL Server 2005 Express and .NET 2.0 Framework when I selected them as prerequisites. I'd also like to setup ActivSync as a pre-requisite as well. ...
Hi guys I need to implement a web site installer for my asp.net application. The installer will be handling following features - Deploy the .net web application on to the IIS server Setting up the Sql database connection to run the DB scripts. Execute all the DB scripts. Run another exe for the license management. If some thing goes ...
I am separating out logical sections into fragment *.wxs files, but how do I include them in my main Product.wxs using Votive and Visual Studio? I am referencing the component in the main wxs file but receive and error that the component is not found. I'm assuming I'm not linking these correctly. Error 13 Unresolved reference to symbo...
I've got a .NET 3.5 Application that was working well. The installation was also working and the application functioned properly after installation. I've fixed a few bugs and rebuilt the setup but now I can't get the installed application to run. I'm completely removing the old install, re-installing and when I run it I get the: Data ...
I added a few custom pages to my setup. In one of this custom pages I do some checks. If this checks failed, I want switch to finish page. How can I do this? I can not do this with ShouldSkipPage event function because: function ShouldSkipPage(PageID: Integer): Boolean; begin // this will NEVER happened - see documentation below if...
Programmers that actually promote their products to production need an installer. (pre-emptive "programming related" justificaton.) For deploying a new suite of internal corporate apps and services, I'm trying to decide between using WIX and the InstallSheild express edition that comes with Visual Studio 2010. I've looked, but haven'...
I just downloaded the Java SDK/JDK versions 5 and 6, and I just need the development tools (and some libraries) contained in the installation packages, I don't need to perform an installation and that's why I was only looking for a zip package at first (for Windows there is only an exe installation file), I only need to extract the conte...
I want to create a progress bar for my installer which will show the progress of my installation process.I know a command as ${NSD_CreateProgressBar} in nsDialogs to create a progress bar in nsis script. But I am unaware of how to use it and how to invoke the same in my script. Any kind of help in respective subject will be appreciated.....
Hello, I am developping a MSI installer by using WIX, I can create shortcut on desktop for only one user. Now what shall I do to make a shortcut for all users on the machine? Please advise. Thank you. <Shortcut Id="desktopshortcut" Directory="DesktopFolder" Name="test" WorkingDirectory='INSTALLDIR' Advertise="yes" /> ...
I'm currently in the process of writing a Mac PackageMaker-based installer for an application that I had previously distributed for Windows using an NSIS installer. In NSIS, I was able to create a customized dialog that allowed the user to enter their serial number and license key before being allowed to install the program. In Package...
Hi all, after having my first look into the Visual Studio (2008) installation/setup project template for Smart Devices and wondering how unintuitive this is, and after searching the net for about an hour and paging through my CF books, I still have not been able to find out how I can create a setup package (.cab file, Setup.exe, whateve...
Is there any way to disable <Next> button in Inno Setup? ...
I'm writing a piece of c# code that launches an installer and waits for it to return before continuing with other stuff. I'm having trouble with certain installers that spawn other processes with the original process returning before the install has actual finished. Is there some way that I can wait until all the processes have finished...
Is it possible to build an installer in Visual Studio that will not require the application to be uninstalled prior to installation? (Assuming the application was already installed.) I use a Setup project in Visual Studio to create an installer for my Windows Forms (.NET) application. If the application has already been installed then t...
I have an install that uses the bootstrapper that requires a few different packages. One is the .Net 3.5 installer, and the others are important but not as large. I'd like the .Net 3.5 installer to be downloaded when needed, but I want the other packages to be included. Is there a way to do this? I want some to download from the vend...
I released a beta version of a dll driver a while ago that used a script based installer called Inno Setup, which did three things. 1) copied the dll file to a specific directory on the target file system 2) performed COM registration 3) executed a custom registration method that is contained in the dll For the next release of this s...
I just created a simple .NET Windows service. My users are supposed to download it from my site and install it on their computers. So, from various forum posts (including this site) I know that in order to do this I need an installer. Or I can just give them service files and instruct how to install it. I begun with creating a setup proj...
I need to install a USB driver with an application, and I'm using a Visual Studio 2005 Setup Project to create the installer. The driver only needs to be installed sufficient enough so that when the USB device is plugged in, Windows will go off doing it's "installing device" routine and do the rest of the job. It would be okay also to h...
I have a Windows service and an MSI installer (setup project) for it. The setup project has custom actions for install and uninstall with args of /install and /uninstall respectively. I would like the service to start immediately after the install. All my service does is starts a process. When the service is stopped, it does process.Clo...
I have created an application ,( c#,winforms) on VS 2008, i want to make installer of this application... how is this done. I want my installer to copy all the files that my application is using to a user choosed path (copy the files on chocice, some for server-side app and some for client side) also install .Net 3.5 check for SQL ...