Hi Techies, I have requirement of finding out the location of where my setup file exist(not installed application location - not target directory) when i run the setup Details : I have setup file which is created using setup & dep. project of .net, when user run my se...more >>

Hi There Just wondering is there is a way of sharing the destination install folder from within the setup.msi The share needs to be read/write to the local network Thanks in advance -- Nevikski www.kevsbox.com ...more >>

Hi All, I am creating a setup for a windows application in VS 2005. Now I want to customise look and feel of all the installation steps screens. But VS 2005 seems not to provide this feature. This only allows to change the baaner bitmap and some selected text strings. How can this be achieved....more >>

Hi All I want to install sql server express after checking if the user needs it and it is not already installed I have written a small vb.net program to do this but I want it to run the sql server installation from the application setup CD How can I get a custom action to run from the in...more >>

I have a .NET 2.0 VB app (windows form app). If the only visible interface is a notification icon and the main form is not visible, if you run Add/Remove programs MSIEXEC will not detect the process is running in memory and proceed to uninstall the application. However, if you run Task Manag...more >>

Is there a method to create a Run at StartUp via the VS 2005 IDE for a Windows Setup project? ...more >>

There doesn't appear to be any "Launch Appliation" dialog box that I can add to the User Interface End section -- is there some way I can get this to happen via VS 2005 Windows Setup project? ...more >>

Hi, after my setup project copies all necessary files to the target directory selected by the user, I'm launching a little Console application that moves some files to %USERPROFILE% directory. Besides, I write application's configuration file (application.exe.config) with the new path of these m...more >>

Hi techies I have a registration form to download my application. During this registration i generate serial no for that user and i am sending to user by e-mail The download contains my application deployed in .net setup & deployment project. During installation the user has to give the...more >>

Hi All: My win2K advanced server (also Domain Controller, and running latest SPs/updates) downloaded the latest security update for .NET Framework v. 2. It installed and the server rebooted automatically, but IIS hung on restart. In my app log there's: Installation Failure: Windows failed t...more >>

Hi! I have a problem that I hope you can help me with!! I had VS2003, and had built a setup project that used the bootstrapper to install .NET Framework 1.1 if necessary on the target machine. This all worked fine. I have just purchased VS2005 Pro. I wanted to use VS2005 from now on f...more >>

I'm using Visual C# Standard 2003 for this. I've got a component that uses interop to call Shell32.dll. The setup project that I've created wants to include a copy of Shell32.dll in the project. Shell32.dll is over 8MB and I do not wish to include it. I've told Visual Studio to exclude ...more >>

Hello: I'm planning to use "Satup project" for appl developed in VS 2005. This appl will be installed on PCs that don't have .Net Framework 2.0. Q1. Is there way to include .Net Framework 2.0 using "Setup project" ? Q2. If no what is the best way to do it ? thank you, ...more >>

Hopefully I'm posting this in the correct forum! I have a solution containing a Windows Service project and a Setup project. This was originally written in Visual Studio .NET 2003 (.NET 1.1 - VB.NET) and the installer worked correctly except that I had to manually start the service after i...more >>

I downloaded and installed the .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86) on an xp sp2 machine. Setup ran without any errors reported. However the .Net Framework 2.0 Configuration control panel applet is not there? Was it supposed to be installed with the redistributable package?...more >>

Hi all, Could any one help me out that how can I ship additional components with my .net 1.1 windows application. The components will only be installed if they are not installed already. The setup MSI has to be initiated only once and all prerequisite should be installed. I want to ship .Ne...more >>

Hello All, We hope this is the right group for our queries. We are implementing an MSI Installer using Visual studio .Net 2003. We have the following requirements. The MSI installer should support 14 different languages. Based on the current OS language, the installer should display its UI ...more >>

Any hints on how to accomplish this? I no MSI supports ForceReboot but I'll be damn if I can find this option in VS 2005 deployment project? Thanks, Rob. ...more >>

Dear all, I'm currently developing ASP applications in a w2000 SP4 server, IIS 5.5 and SQL 2000, and we would like to start working with ASP .NET. We want to do a step by step approach by installing the .net framework in the w2000 server and so still working with ASP and ASP .NET for new d...more >>

The first thing the installation process tells me is that I must uninstall 2.0 Beta framework. Ok, that's fine. But how? The Beta is not in the Add/Remove program list, there are no Beta files (or any .NET files) on my disk, there is no mention of anything in the registry, ... so just how doe...more >>

Hello, I just installed the .net framework 2.0 successfully on our W2K Professional Server. I just realized that 1.1 and 2.0 are different and that 2.0 doesn't include 1.1 things. Is it ok for me to go ahead and install 1.1 after I've already installed 2.0? Thanks in advance, J ...more >>

Hello I have a C# Outlook Add-in (.NET 1.1, VS 2003) and I have added a Installer class in which I want to copy one file from one media directory (SOURCEDIR) to installation directory (TARGETDIR). For this I have added the CustomActionData with /src=[SOURCEDIR] /dst=[TARGETDIR]. But when I ru...more >>

I'm yet another developer with the useless Installation error message, event viewer is just as useless MsiInstaller error 1001 and shows InstallUtilLib.DLL: Unknown Error, (NULL), (NULL), (NULL) -- oh that is so helpful M$, how could I not know what this means...(yes, google searches has not...more >>

Hi all, I have a regular (non-web) setup package authored in VS 2005, and it used to work fine. All of the sudden I noticed Uninstall custom action steps stopped executing. (They seem to be executed sometimes - when installing on some machines, but not on others.) I though Uninstall action is...more >>

Can someone tell me if there is a way to install manually the required .NET frameword files in order to work a .NET application. Aristotelis ...more >>