I'm looking to have a release layout with multiple installers but with a single source for prerequisites, in the following structure: \Product1\setup.exe \Product2\setup.exe \Product3\setup.exe \Redist The goal is to launch each prerequisite from the master location instead of duplicating each prerequisite to the its product folder. I...
We have Visual Studio 2008 Team System (SP1) installed on Windows 7 on a 64-bit desktop machine. Our solutions contain setup and deployment projects (vdproj). When Visual Studio loads, it hangs trying to load the setup projects. This also happens to newly created solutions entirely in this environment so it is not something lagging f...
All I have built a windows form application using VS 2005 Standard edition which uses SQL Express as the database. I'd now like to deploy my application to another PC that has .NET framework and SQL Server already installed. The bit I am unclear about is what do I need to do to ensure that my database is also deployed with my applicat...
hi i have an windows application that i have made by visual studio 2008.this application uses some graphical files such as jpeg.i make a setup for this appreciation but i worry about such files being modified by client.would you please help me how to protect those files ? ...
Hi, I am working on VS 2008 and 3.5 framework. I had three windows services. I placed all three in a single solution, created installer individually for each of them. Then created a setup project. When I build it says build failed . But I checked on the errorlist, (i enabled the diagnostics in options menu), but there was no error at all...
In my windows application, I need to install SQLLiteAdmin database while the desktop application is getting installed. How to do this? I'm using release mode. In the installer class, I used: process.start(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\sqliteadmin.exe"); in after_install event. But, it is taking from the path C:/windows/sy...
Hello! Background: I am by no means a windows security / user permissions expert. I have an application (written in C#), that has to be able to write / delete files & folders in its root directory, write / delete files elsewhere on the disk, write/modify values in System Registry (Local Machine) and start & stop other applications and s...
So, here is the scenario: I want to create a installer which would just dump few files and folders at a location specified by user. But the problem is these files are required to be picked up from a fixed source folder and then the installer is build. Also, these files may change any time and then again a new version of t...
Another transaction by user suja.pagar14 is already in progress for this app and major version. That user can undo the transaction with appcfg.py's "rollback" command. ...
My boss just got Windows 7 and he tried running one of our installers which runs perfectly fine under XP. On Windows 7, the installer runs without giving any errors. However, it does not create registry keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE{Company}{product}. These keys get created correctly under XP. Has anyone encountered this iss...
Trying to keep it simple, but with almost no experience in version control, here is what I came up with for version and deployment workflow for a facebook application that is already live: Development: branch from trunk checkout and setup dev enviroment (automatically create database, netbeans project, facebook app, config file); St...
I would like to know how to deploy or what are the steps that are involved to deploy a classic asp website in IIS 6/7 Can we create an installer for the existing project? ...
I have a C# project that uses images for logo, and other purposes. The files are on my local system and when I create a set up project and run on a client machine, I get an errr that says "System.ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid. at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(String filename)" If I have to distribute the image along with the p...
I have been running in to an issue where a COM dll that I am distributing with my application fails to register because the atl.dll is not registered on the machine. The quick fix is to have the run regsvr32 on the dll, but I want something a little cleaner then that. I don't have much experience with deployment and I was wondering if...
Does anyone know how to programmatically access the "All Users" Startup Menu? In XP, located here: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup And in Windows 7, located here: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Specifically, I've got a Setup and Deployment project, and I'd like to put a...
Hi I need to create a setup for an ActiveX conrol we have developed. can any body let me knwo, the possible ways of packing the activeX and other depended dll's as a setup. Thanking you. ...
I added a second exe file in the Commit folder of a setup and deployment project, which has another exe in the Application Folder. I plan to run the first exe after the latter. First when I tried to run the main exe which is in the Application Folder, an error message came that it cannot run the second one since .msi file is missing. Aft...
Hi, I want to read a registry key value (key entry for the Microsoft Excel installation path) at runtime using visual studio 2008 registry, under project setup and deployment. I want to get the key value (path) to a variable so that I can copy a file to that folder. I can not hard code it. How can I do that?? Thanks & Regards, Isuru ...
Hello All I need to develop a Visual Studio Setup Project for my application. As far as i see, i can use only a handful of preconfigured dialogs which i can use. Is there any way possible to use any custom dialogs in Visual Studio SetUp Project ? For ex: Whenever i start my setup, a dialog should be shown to the user prompting him to ...
Hi , I was trying to create a setup project using VS2008. Is there anyway to detect if a particular Office 2010 application is installed or not? (as a prerequisite) .eg: i want to detect if Powerpoint 2010 is installed on client machine. I was trying to use windows installer search option in lauch condition but unable to find wha...