Prerequisities in Visual Studio Projects In Configuration at the top of the dialog, did you try to select either Release or Debug? That should enable the Prerequisites… button. Unecessary, outdated prerequisites? One pet-peeve of mine: is it really necessary to include the .NET runtime as a prerequisite when most users have it installed by their … Read more
Web Deployment Projects will NOT be available in VS2012. Instead we will focus on bringing first class publishing support for Website projects. You can read more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/08/06/plans-regarding-website-projects-and-web-deployment-projects.aspx. In a nutshell, you will have all the same features that WDP has, but a lot more as well. Also another good thing about this is … Read more
Gacutil.exe won’t be available on the target machine. Not a problem, MSI can get the job done. Right-click “File System on Target Machine”, Add, GAC. Right-click that added folder, Add, Project Output. That ensures the assembly is gac-ed. It can also register the assembly like Regasm.exe does. Set the Register property of the project output … Read more
Warning: The application will end up running as a high privilege account, which has security and user experience implications. To run any application after the installation is complete, Right-click on your setup project, click on Custom Actions. Then right-click on Commit, Add Custom Action, and choose the file you would like to run. (Note that … Read more
Well, after much searching and trial and error I have solved this. I’m not sure if this is the best way, but it works. Here’s the scenario: I have an application I would like to deploy via a Visual Studio Setup project. In addition to my application files, I would like to create a subdirectory … Read more
I found several errors in the code that you reused and have fixed these and also cleaned it up a little. Again, the original code is taken from here. public static class ServiceInstaller { private const int STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED = 0xF0000; private const int SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS = 0x00000010; [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] private class SERVICE_STATUS { public int dwServiceType = … Read more
This is a common question. I don’t do it with just a custom action. The only way I know, is to modify the .msi after it has been generated. I run a Javascript script as a post-build event to do exactly that. It inserts a new dialog in the installer wizard, with a checkbox that … Read more