hi, I have an application that does some role-based security. When I deploy this application on the production server, I want to create the new roles in the installer. How can I do this? I am using Installer component to write Custom Actions. But I couldnt find any namespace to do this ...more >>

Hi, I need to be able to create a user account and a user group on a target machine. Could anyone please explain how to do that or refer me to an example or reference on the web. I found a "Using a custom action to create user accounts on loacl computer" on MSDN but could't understand m...more >>

hi! How can I uninstall .net framework on windows 2003 server? is it possible? regards LUK ...more >>

Hi, Anybody know how to modify the setup project's .NET Framework Launch Condition to detect Framework 1.1 SP1 instead of 1.1? Cheers! Wencheng ...more >>

Hi. I need to access, from inside a custom action, the values of the two radio button called "just me" and "everyone" visible on the "Installation Folder User Interface Dialog Box" (the form visible here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxconIns...more >>

I install visual studio.net. In vb.net under the addin's I have nothing. No addin's show up at all. What did I do wrong? Dave ...more >>

Hi, InstallShield has this useful pair of functions UseDll UnUseDll which allow calling external dlls. Is there anything similar to this in Windows Installer? I don't want to add an installer class to my dll and define it as a custom action in my setup project. I just want to call one fu...more >>

Hello, I have created a setup project which a) Calls an Install Custom action(InstallerClass=false,Condition=,CustomActionData=). This custom action is a console application which adds entries to certain config files. b)Calls an Uninstall Custom action(InstallerClass=false,Condition=...more >>

I am trying to remove Microsoft Visual Basic .Net from my computer, however I cannot do it. From Control Panel, I select Add/Remove programs, I them select Microsoft Visual Basic .Net Standard - English and click Change/Remove. I am then presented with three options 1 Windows Component ...more >>

I got such a lengthly compilation error whenever i build the setup project. My setup project is simply follow the setup wizard with primary output selected. Should there be anything to setup beside following the wizard?? sometimes the error message refer to a different file but still about er...more >>

My problem is after creating a Setup and Deployment project for an application I then install the application on a system. I remove a file from the Application directory that has been created. Then If I attempt to run the application by clicking the shortcut I created or the executable itself,...more >>

Hi, I've got a custom action dll (all in C#) that is used by my Project Installer. Everything works fine. Now, I want the installer to perform one other thing which can be easily performed by a function in one of my class libraries, say MyUtil.dll. Since this additional thing should logi...more >>

Hello, I am using a checkbox in my setup user interface. I use the checkbox result to install or not part of my applications. I triggered some custom actions on this checkbox result (with condition property), it works fine for actions on Install, but the checkbox result seems not to be taken ...more >>

Hi, I built a setup package with VS.Net 2003 using the "Setup Project" template. I added a dll to perform a custom action during the setup process. After the setup process has finished I looked in the app folder and saw that the CustomAction dll was placed there. Is this a normal behavi...more >>

Hi, I'm using Visual Studio Installer to create my setup. The location to which I install my files needs to be based on a registry entry that is created by another product. Basically I would read the registry value, parse only information that I need from this value, and use this newly crea...more >>

> Because of other issues with my laptop it is having to be rebuilt from > scratch. Previously when I loaded various applications It took ages to > sort > out issues because apparently these were not loaded in the ideal order. > > Now I have the chance to load things in the best order ...more >>

Hi, I've created a Setup-File for my application with Visual Studio 2003. My application needs some other software to run, so it is necessary to install these required software together with my application. Maybe it is a good idea to use a custom action of type 34 in my msi-file to start th...more >>

I have a setup project that correctly bootstraps the .net framework 1.1 and MDAC in english - followed instructions from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/vsredistdeploy.asp. And I have included an autorun.inf in the setup project so that i can bu...more >>

I have a fairly generic Setup project to a VB.NET windows application. I use an Icon as an embedded resource for the executable and for the main form. I do not want to deploy a separate icon file. I create a shortcut to the primary output from the windows application project which starts ...more >>

Hi I guess the answer to this question is well known, but I can't find it. Using Visual Studio .net C# in an Add-in Setup project, I add Help.chm file as a File to the Application Folder. In the project, I invoke Help from the menu by: Help.ShowHelp(Form1, Form1.helpProvider1.HelpNamespac...more >>

Hi, After I install .NET 1.1 (SP1) on win2k or XP I see the following folder under \C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\SHADOW756\ It appears to have some duplicate dlls from standard install. Why/When is this directory created? I don't see it on all installs. Thanks a lot! ...more >>