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Tobias Salenger
12/7/2003 3:33:31 PM
Hi, I'm relatively new to .net and the setup project. But I've got a
solution with 2 projects. These projects are similar and currently my setup
project (3rd project in the solution) - installs both of them.

I tried splitting this into multiple solutions (each with its own setup
project). But then only one of these projects can be installed. So when I
try to install the second project - it removes the first one.

Any suggestions or directions on where to start looking would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

tderksen NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com
12/9/2003 6:47:07 PM
My guess is what happened here is that you copied the project and removed one project from one and the other project from the other one leaving the
same setup project with both of them. This caused you to have 2 setup projects with identical identifying Guids. When windows installer sees the same
Guids it recognizes it as the same project.
To fix delete one of your setup projects and recreate it or go and edit all of the Guids yourself.
Also be careful of naming and install directories this may cause you to copy over files that cotnianed the same name in both projects.

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| From: "Tobias Salenger" <tsalenger@excite.com>
| Subject: Deploying Multiple Projects in One Solution

| Hi, I'm relatively new to .net and the setup project. But I've got a
| solution with 2 projects. These projects are similar and currently my setup
| project (3rd project in the solution) - installs both of them.
|
| I tried splitting this into multiple solutions (each with its own setup
| project). But then only one of these projects can be installed. So when I
| try to install the second project - it removes the first one.
|
| Any suggestions or directions on where to start looking would be
| appreciated.
|
| Thanks,
|
|
|


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