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all groups > dotnet setup > january 2006

executing an msi from within another msi
Posted by vishy at 1/30/2006 10:22:26 PM
Hi, we are making a setup using VS.net 2003 for our windows application,now we want to call another setup from this setup,which is a web setup..how can i do that,i have tried to call this msi from main msi but unable to do so?...more >>

Newbie at creating installation packages. Please help
Posted by Anthony Yott at 1/30/2006 10:17:27 AM
Folks, I have a set of assemblies (that need to be installed in the GAC) and a type library will need to be registered during installation that I would like to package to an MSI. I"m using VS 2005 and in looking at the setup Wizards it doesn't appear that it gives you an option of installin...more >>

Clling InstallUtil within a custom action
Posted by segal.aviad NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 1/30/2006 7:51:32 AM
Hi all, I'm trying to create an MSI that copies project output, and calls installutil in order to install a service. When I Uninstall the Product, the service file is deleted before the custom action "uninstall" is reached. In the custom action I want to uninstall the service, but the exe f...more >>

How to install the same MSI setup over and over again on the same machine
Posted by orencs NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 1/29/2006 12:15:36 AM
Hi All, First I want to say thank you to Phil Wilson for his great book: The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer. Unfortunately I didn't found a specific issue in the book. Hope you can help. The MSI setup use the ProductCode which help us maintain versions by detecting preinstall setup. ...more >>

dotnet between IIS5 and IIS6
Posted by Eric Fan at 1/23/2006 1:04:56 AM
Dear All, I am going to setup a server for running dot.net. Dear All, any suggestion on running IIS5 or IIS6 would yours recommend to me? Thz. ...more >>

Make a setup
Posted by Silviall at 1/20/2006 10:46:19 AM
Hello, I am new in setups. I want to make a license control, and I don't know how can I ask for license key in the installation. How can I make a license control? Thank you very much Silviall ...more >>

integrating visual sourcesafe 6.x with visual studio 2005
Posted by arlene at 1/20/2006 2:40:02 AM
hi i have just installed visual studio 2005 on my pc running side by side with the 2003 version , sourcesafe 6, and sql server2000. i have a problem integrating vs2005 and vss. There is no source control option on the file menu although vss and vs2003 are working fine together.i reinstalled th...more >>

Suggestion on SQLEXPRESS installation
Posted by Mauro Sturaro at 1/18/2006 1:21:36 PM
My application need SLQ Server. But I like to let user choose to use an existing installation or to install a new named instance dedicated for my application. Any suggestion on how to do it. I'm using a setup project from Visual Studio. Thanks. Mauro Sturaro ...more >>



VS2005 "Microsoft SQL Server Mobile Edition" Data Source is missing.
Posted by ink at 1/15/2006 2:52:06 AM
Hi I have been following a step by step sample application from the microsoft web site on creating a replicated database for a mobile application. It was all going well until the step where i get asked to create a new connection to the mobile database from the server explorer with in Visua...more >>

Urgent!! Big Problem opening solution file in visual studio
Posted by Paras Sharma at 1/13/2006 4:48:39 PM
Hi all, We are facing this big problem. Scenario is as follows. We have one single solution (say EIS) under which there are 25 projects. All the files are saved at a central location under Visual Sorce Safe on a seprate machine. For a new person who is trying to setup this solution file ...more >>

What is the "proper" way to install a service written with .NET?
Posted by Bill Ward at 1/11/2006 5:54:55 PM
Installers are not my forte... I have written a windows service in C# using dev studio 2005. The service includes ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller objects and installs as a service when used with InstallUtil.exe. In the solution I also have an installer project that creates an M...more >>

Installing the .Net Framework automatically from my msi file.
Posted by Simon Williams at 1/11/2006 5:16:53 PM
Hi All, I want to create an msi package that will check for the presence of the .Net Framework v1.1 and install it if it's not there, before going ahead and installing my .Net application. I don't want the end user to have to know that .Net Framework is a prerequisite, nor do I want to hav...more >>

Pre Install steps in VS.NET setup
Posted by rb531 at 1/11/2006 3:56:02 PM
Hi, Here are the steps I want to perform using .NET Set Up project. 1. Create a backup of DLL1 (version 1.0) to a backup directory. 2. Setup the new version of DLL1 (version 2.0) I added a custom action for 1. But its always taking a backup of version 2.0. How can I accomplish the succe...more >>

Upgrade from InstallShield
Posted by Cheri Reed at 1/11/2006 11:02:03 AM
Hello, I have a product that previously used InstallShield for deployment. We want to start using the .NET setup and phase out InstallShield. In our next release of our software, I want the .NET deployment to recognize the previous version of our software (create with installshield) and...more >>

Dynamic Folder in Setup Project
Posted by segal.aviad NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 1/11/2006 12:02:31 AM
Hi, I'm building a setup project. I would like to create a dynamic folder, meaning, the name of the folder will change according to a parameter I send in the command line. Can this be done within the msi? Or do I need to perform this in a custom action? In addition, I would like to create a...more >>

Problem with text in setup
Posted by IkaykayE at 1/10/2006 12:56:50 AM
Hi everyone, I've just created a setup project for some software I was working on, and I've just ran the setup. The setup works, some details need to be adjusted (icons & stuff), but something is bothering me. In the first screen, I see the message: warning: this computer program is pr...more >>

slipstreaming .NET 2.0 framework
Posted by jcreasy at 1/9/2006 1:36:46 PM
I recently heard that it is now possible to slipstream the .NET 2.0 framework into a deployment project. Does anyone have any information on how to do this? Can it even be done or did I hear incorrect information? ...more >>

Is it possible to have Muliti language setup projects
Posted by John Keers at 1/5/2006 3:37:35 PM
Is it possible to have one application setup project that can be used for many languages? If not what can be done to get around this problem? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Installer
Posted by rb531 at 1/5/2006 1:26:02 PM
Hi, I have a couple of questions. First one, I wrote a setup project to install my application. It has some custom actions. I installed it. I found out that I have a bug in the custom action code when I tried to uninstall it. I couldnt uninstall the application. So, I went to registry setti...more >>

Error in Rollback operation of WebSetup
Posted by Abhishek at 1/4/2006 5:59:02 AM
Hi there, I am creating a web setup for ourASP.NET application. So we have to perform some additional while the setup runs like Database Settings. The dialog contains two buttons OK and Cancel. The problem arise here is when user clicks on the Cancel then we have to rollback the setup opera...more >>

How to PKG multi-proj .NET assemblies using VS.NET Setup Prj?
Posted by mravichandran NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 1/3/2006 2:25:41 PM
dear Readers, we are trying to create a .MSI to package from multiple outputs (.dll) generated from separate vb.net projects using the setup project provided by VS.NET. all the 3 projects are one on top of the other and the setup project is at the bottom with the appropriate dependencies in ...more >>

.Net Redistributable problem
Posted by stonman at 1/1/2006 6:47:40 PM
I wanted to install c# compiler. so i downloaded .NET framework distributable and .NET runtime. But the redistributable says i can only install if I first install windows installer 3.0, which i shoud install from microsoft website. But i am not able to download windows installer. what shud i...more >>

TARGETDIR in uninstall
Posted by segal.aviad NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 1/1/2006 5:14:43 AM
Hi, I'm trying to find out if I can use the TARGETDIR property when performing uninstall? What I want to do is delete a folder I created in a custom action in the installation. Thanks ...more >>


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