setup-project

I have a Visual Studio 2010 Deployment Project with the following settings: DetectNewerInstalledVersion = True InstallAllUsers = True RemovePreviousVersions = True The project I am building has several DLLs that due to the legacy way that serialization was implemented the file versions for this project can not be incremented (which we are in the process of changing). How can I get the setup project to remove the existing files entirely (or at least overwrite with all the new files)? Maybe I need to script an uninstall in the installer (can someone link me to do this, I can't find) I have

I'm using a VS 2008 setup project to deploy my application to client computer. Now I need to add custom UI Window to get some information form user for set up process. As example, there should be a form to enter user information after click next button of the destination folder search window. How can I do this? If you want to get user input using custom UI during the MSI deployment best approach is to create the .wid extension files. this is the type of UI files that you see during the MSI installation( where you select the installation path etc ). Even though visual studio doesn't have

I have a .NET Console app with a setup project I am trying to port to VSTS Online (visualstudio.com) to make use of the source control and well as adding automated build/deploy. I've got the code uploaded just fine and it builds great, but am struggling with getting it to produce a MSI. I've tried introducing a command line task after the solution build to run devenv.com but I can't quite get that to work. Any thoughts on getting a setup project to build its MSI? Thanks! EDIT: Here's the command line task I tried: Tool: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv

I am creating a Visual Studio 2008 Setup Wizard for my program http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307353 I see that it is possible to add registry entries, etc.. Is there a possibility to register windows environment variable without writing a custom action? And if I must write a custom action, what is the least painful way to do so? michaelmoo Warning : Please do not use this approach . It is dangerous. Use built-in MSI features for environment variable update. Example : Writing straight to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment - Path will wipe out whatever is already

while doing the build of my dontnet 4.0 project setup i'm getting following errors An error occurred generating a bootstrapper: Unable to finish updating resource for E:\project\Setup\Debug\setup.exe with error 8007006E E:project\Setup\Setup.vdproj Setup General failure building bootstrapper E:\project\Setup\Setup.vdproj Setup Unrecoverable build error E:\project\\Setup\Setup.vdproj Setup I am using dotnet framework 4 and MSVS 2010. sha This happens because The .NET framework version required by the setup project is different than the .NET framework version targeted by the application. To

I have a Visual Studio setup project that has an Installer class. In the installer class I set a setting as follows: MessageBox.Show(Properties.Settings.Default.MySetting); Properties.Settings.Default.MySetting = "Foo"; Properties.Settings.Default.Save(); MessageBox.Show(Properties.Settings.Default.MySetting); The problem is that even though I know that this code is being executed (I am doing other stuff), the setting is never set!! The message boxes do suggest that the value is being set, but when I go to the .config file the value is still blank! Anyone have any ideas why and/or a possible

In a .net "Setup Project", it is possible to add one or more custom screens in the setup wizard, with fields (e.g. text boxes) where the user can enter additional installation parameters. A custom field can then be passed to a "Custom Action" class library project, to handle the user field. The image below shows how the property "ServerName" gets mapped to the EDITB1 text field: Within the Custom Action class, the property is accessed as follows: string serverName = Context.Parameters["ServerName"]; Question: how can one specify multiple properties (for multiple text boxes) to the Custom