I have a windows app (app.exe) build with visual studio 2008, for which I have created a custom installer class. When I run installutil.exe on app.exe, the custom installer is executed OK. I then added a setup & deployment project to create the windows installer file app.msi - this works fine but it does not run the custom installer. ...
I'm trying to deploy an application on Windows Server 2008 (SP2 x64) and Windows 7 (x64), using VS2005 Installer Project. The MSI version (I think) it the 2.0. Everything works fine, except that some registry keys and some files are not copied on the install machine. The MSI system doesn't notify about nothing (and I don't know whether ...
I have an x86 Windows application that consists of a couple of services and a client ui. Due to various issues with persuading the various MSIs to upgrade properly, the installation process is now governed by a wizard-style program that detects what is currently installed and handles upgrades by storing the user's current settings, unin...
Hi, I'm looking for a simple and efficient Mac installer software. For Windows, there are many good installers - Inno Setup, NSIS, etc. Anything like that available for apples? Thank you! ...
As you know, Windows has a "Add/Remove Programs" system in the Control Panel. Let's say I am preparing an installer and I want to register my program to list of installed programs and want it to be uninstallable from "Add/Remove Programs"? Which protocols should I use. Any tutorials or docs about registering programs to that list? I ...
Dear All: I realize there are 10,000 answers for this on StackOverflow, but my needs are quite specific: i) install a JAR file on ii) Windows/Mac so that it iii) runs on Startup oh and iv) auto-JRE install would be great That's it. I've looked at several tools including Inno Setup: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php#features but the...
Hi.. I am using WIX tool for creating installation file for our project. I want to have the dynamic(incremental) build number. So can anyone please guide me. Please dont provide solution like 1.0.0.* as this gives any dynamic number at end. I want it incremental like 1.0.0.1, 1.0.0.2, 1.0.0.3,..... ...
I want to GAC an assembly already present on target machines, I know where this assembly is on every machine (you can assume, that path is static for all target machines and wont change and that I am the owner of this assembly) I do not want to include the assembly to be GAC'd in the MSI since it can change with each solution deployment ...
I am looking for tips on how to package my Qt-based application for Ubuntu/Debian distributions. Let's say the application (executable) is myapp. Running objdump -p myapp | grep NEEDED, I see that it has the following dependencies: libicuuc.so.44 libicui18n.so.44 libicudata.so.44 libQtGui.so.4 libQtCore.so.4 libpthread.so.0 libstdc++.so...
I want to add a hypertext (basically a link to my website) in the FinishedDialog of the Visual Studio setup/deployment project for my app. Can anyone suggest me how can I do so? I was thinking of adding the url in the UpdateText property of the Finished Dialog. But I cannot get a hyperlink just by that. Any suggestions? Kapil ...
We are upgrading our installers to MSI, and have noticed that you can not "right click and paste" into the text boxes. You can however ctrl+v. Is there a setting that you can switch on to enable context menus within the installer? ...
Hi, I just wanted to download FxCop 1.36 but I can't find it in the internet. A few days ago FxCop 10 came out for Windows 7 but I need the old Version. The file is gone on the MS server and everybody linked it. Anyone has the old install routine? thanks bembi ...
Hello StackOverflow community, Is there any way to package the installer for an Adobe AIR application using Adobe AIR 1.5 as an executable (.EXE) file? I found that this is possible for Adobe AIR 2.0, but it requires an upgrade to Adobe AIR 2.0 runtime. Are there any other options using the Adobe AIR 1.5 runtime? Thanks, Mauricio ...
Hello StackOverflow community, Is there any way to package the installer for an Adobe AIR application using Adobe AIR 1.5 as an executable (.EXE) file? I found that this is possible for Adobe AIR 2.0, but it requires an upgrade to Adobe AIR 2.0 runtime. Are there any other options using the Adobe AIR 1.5 runtime? Thanks, Mauricio ...
We have two challenges deploying our application for Ubuntu/Debian: 1. Offline installation Many (let's say 50%) of our users will need to install offline. They will have zero internet connectivity. Thus, we need to include all possible dependencies (run time / third-party libraries, etc.) on an installation CD/DVD. It looks like perha...
Hello everyone.! I am a student and on an internship currently. I was developing an Apache module, that will be available for my company's clients to download and use. I have completed the module now. Now I want to know what are the best practices regarding the deployment of module. Should I provide binaries of the module or source fi...
Hi, how can i add my self signed SSL certificate to thrusted in system? i mean programmaticaly,during the installation process of my program. How should i do that? ...
I want to check if .Net 2.0 or greater is installed on the machine. I want to check in a way that when newer versions are released the old code works. Registry check is ideal as the code is in C++. ...
I was looking at Microsoft for a setup package for .NET 1.0 that includes SP3, so I don't have to install the framework first and then the service pack. But I didn't find any. Then I looked for the newer versions of the .NET framework and noticed that service packs are always an extra download/setup. It seems there is no full setup incl...
I have created a visual studio 2010 add-in using the "Visual Studio Package" template which comes with the VS 2010 SDK. I can see the add-in operate with F5. How do I permanently deploy this as an add-in to the Add-in Manager? ...