Creating a Visual Studio Installer

[JoeCDaMan]

Can someone recommend a good resource for creating a Setup Wizard project with Visual Studio . net 2003. I have tried googling for it but didn't quite find what I was looking for.

Thanks

 

[MrChad]

This should explain it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau...intro7/html/vbcondeployingsolution.asp

You basically need to add a Setup Project to your .NET Solution.

 

[JoeCDaMan]

Thanks

 

[brentman]

I just did the for the first time today. It wasn't so bad. I had a few issues with naming the setup project that was added. I wanted the installer to display the name of my app not the appInst that I used to name the setup project. It caused a conflict and I eventually got everything straight. So, just watch out how you name things, fyi.

It wasn't hard though, just fill in the property page for the setup project and add shortcuts in the File Editor if you want any.

 

[JoeCDaMan]

Did you have any luck detecting the actual installation path? I read somewhere that there was a property called [TARGETDIR] that you could use in your CustomActionData. The installer was throwing exceptions at runtime complaining that the property didn't exist. Any advice?

 

[JoeCDaMan]

What I want to do is create a config file for the app that I am installing on the fly and then place it in the same directory. I just don't know how to get a handle on the path that the user finally decides on using. Any advice would be appreciated.