I am creating a Setup Project in VS 2008. The application needs to be supported on Windows 7 running UAC. I have to install the app in the User's area of the machine. What do I set the DefaultLocation property of the Application Folder to in the Setup Project? It can't be set to ProgramFilesFolder. ...
I have a VS 2008 Setup Project created. I am trying to install this on a Windows 7 machine as a Standard User. I am getting a warning during install about an unknown publisher. I have used makecert to create a certificate, then converted it to a password pfx file. I have digitally signed the msi and setup.exe with the pfx file. When...
On Tiger, I used a custom python installation to evaluate newer versions and I did not have any problems with that*. Now Snow Leopard is a little more up-to-date and by default ships with $ ls /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ 2.3 2.5 2.6 @Current What could be considered best practice? Using the pytho...
I have a VS 2008 Setup Project that is installing a very simple application in the local user's App Folder. When the Setup Project runs, it is requiring the Admin to login to run it. How can I allow a Standard User to run the installation. There are no Prerequisites. The MSI file is the only file to be run (no Setup.exe). I have sig...
I am trying to get Subsonic(3.0.0.4) to work(.Net 3.5 - VS2010), simple install that looks at the Northwind database using ActiveRecord. I used the 5 minute demo from http://subsonicproject.com/docs/The_5_Minute_Demo. I added the reference to the dll, un-blocked the T4 templates that I downloaded, changed the Settings.ttinclude to point ...
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 ...
A coworker just installed Visual-Studio-2010 Premium from MSDN. The install acted like it worked fine, but when he clicks the "File" menu, he only has "new file". On my installation, I see a "New" menu with a sub-menu that contains Projects, Files, Team Projects. Any ideas of things to check or how to fix his installation. I think ...
I have a solution with several projects: MyLibrary (a VB.NET dll) .dll app.config MyService (C# Windows Service with ProjectInstaller) .exe app.config MyGui (C# WinForms app) .exe I've added a setup project and added primary outputs of all three projects. I've added all three project outputs to custom action section. The thi...
I'm following this tutorial to set up an existing set of files for a web application, run on Tomcat6, packaged through NetBeans on Ubuntu 10: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/quickstart-webapps.html#setting And I'm stopped at the first step because it says to create a new project, and under categories select Java Web. This isn't a cate...
I'd like to set up Android SDK with Netbeans or Visual Studio 2010. I am coming back to Windows programming after 3 months on Apple iMac (for iPhone programming). Would somebody be able to explain how to set up the NetBeans environment so I can compile and test Android Apps directly form NetBeans. I will be testing on a simulator, not...
Hi, I need to customize the Portable Apps launcher executable. I understand it is an open source project. Can anyone who has done this in the past, please tell me the development environment needed (what compilers, libraries etc), and the link to the source code for the launcher itself? I downloaded the source code from SourceForge p...
I am developing a WPF based application using .NET 3.5 SP1, which required windows media player 11 to be installed on end user machine. For pain free installation I want that the setup should handle everything. Is there any redistributable package of WMP 11 is available? In other words, What is the best option to solve this problem? ...
Other forum posts suggest that you put a Debugger.Break call or a MessageBox.Show call into the custom action code, then attach the VS debugger to the process when the interrupt occurs in the Setup execution. Neither of these has worked for me. Setup runs to completion without the interrupt. (Using VS2010). I'm at a loss. Thanks for...
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...
Hi, Recently when I compile my setup project, I receive the following error: Unable to find source file 'SomeDll.dll' for assembly 'SomeDll.dll', located in... When I create a new setup project with the same output it works, until I reopen VS, than it gives me the same error again. The problematic dll is one for which I have a config...
Hello, can anyone tell me how to make Setup Project for CLR, which will take Connection String Parameters. I want my Clr to run under any SQL server, can anyone advice how to pass parameters to Setup project and how to make my clr get where to connect. Or is there any other way to deploy CLR dll without source to another Server? ...
I'm trying to convert a solution from VS.NET 2008 to 2010. The solution includes a Windows Service project and a Setup project that installs the Windows Service. I'm having trouble compiling the Setup project. I've tried starting this over from scratch a few times, following the tutorial here under the section titled To create a setup pr...
We have a wonderful ASP.NET MVC 2 web application using MS SQL 2008 and VS 2010. The customer wants to use Oracle 10g as a back end database. I want to point our MVC2 app to it and run our tests. I have no clue where to start with Oracle 10g. Anyone have a how-to link on how to setup an Oracle 10g database and use it in place of SQL ...
I have a Windows service with an Installer. In the constructor of the Installer, I am setting the ServiceName and DisplayName dynamically using the version number of another assembly that the service references. I also set the ServiceName property of the ServiceBase to the same value in its constructor. When I use Installutil from the...
Hi all I have a resources file as dll of which CopyToOutput Directory is set to "Copy Always" & Build Action is "Content".. When making setup for an application that uses Resources.dll setup do not deploy Resources dll output files.... How to deploy Resources file output with this setup ?? Thanks ...