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I'm developing an application and I'm going to deploy it with the help of a deployment project (which is gonna create an installer). At one step in the installer, it will allow the user to change the installation folder for the application. I need to know what this folder is because there will be some files saved there that I need to use from another DLL file. How can I programmatically get this installation folder? Thank you! Take a look at the Installer class. Add a new class derived from this class to your application's project. Don't forget to apply the RunInstaller attribute. In your

I have set up a Deployment Project for my application. The problem is that I want to show application version (eg. MyApplication 1.2.3.1) during installation so the user can see the version before installing. The only way I can think of is to modify the WelcomeText in Welcome dialog. Is there an easier or more elegant way to achieve this? You should be able to use the Windows Installer ProductVersion property for this. If you change the Welcome dialog's WelcomeText property to: The installer will guide you through the steps required to install [ProductName] [ProductVersion] on your computer.

I am learning VS 2008 setup project to create install for our C# application. I made a mistake trying to delete the exe itself during the uninstall. Now I manually deleted the exe file but the entry still in Add Remove Program list. I try to install a fixed newer version but msi doesn't allow me to do so. How can I remove the old version manually (i can use regedit, no problem)? I am using XP machine. thanks EDIT: After I removed its subkey in that uninstall registry entry, I still cannot install my newer version. Use msiexec /x {guid product code} . If your MSI database got screwed up and

I have a deployment project which will not let me install over an older version. The msi file says to uninstall the program first from Add/Remove programs. This is not a good user experience. How can I do it so that the installer will simply remove the software first and then install the new version? Akash Kava This is tricky, you have to do following steps, Set Remove Previous Installation as True Set Detect new version as True Your C# program's version must increase with every deployment You should change version of your installer to one higher version and it will ask you to change product