Pretty much of a newbie here - please bear with me. I've done some .NET development before, but this is my first time out with a Setup Project. I've written a .NET component with a COM interface, and need to install it in an unattended mode. I've created a SetupProject as part of my .NE...more >>

Hello there, I'm developing a web setup for a web application using Visual Studio 2005, and I sometimes I need to do my setup partial, that is, I need to select which aspx files I want to send in the setup. The reason for this is that the first setup of my application needs to have all the fi...more >>

An ATL COM Dll "Utility.dll" developed in Visual studio 2005, it can be registered on same machine successfully. But this dll registration is giving an error on other machine where Visual Studio 2003 installed. What could be the problem. Is there any KB available to update "regsvr32.exe" to...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create a setup for an application I wrote that targets the 2.0 framework but built using VS 2008. The application correctly utilizes ..NET 2.0 as I can manually copy the file onto a target XP Box that already has the 2.0 Framework installed. When I create a setup program u...more >>

Hello, I have an install package that has a custom action for the Install and Uninstall methods. Our application uses an Excel Add-in. During an uninstall, if Excel is open, I hit error 1306 as that application has my Add-in file locked. Instead of closing Excel, I choose to cancel the uninst...more >>

Hello there, I am writing a custom action component to perform some actions after the installation of a package. The deployment of this package will have to run attended or unattended but I need to do some different stuff if it runs unattended (display different messages to the user, write to...more >>

Hi there, I am currently developing a web setup project using .net framework 2.0. I am using custom actions, and overriding the Install and Uninstall methods, yet there's one thing I don't get and maybe you can give me a hand: what exactly is the flow of the setup project ? At what time are t...more >>

Hi, My previous version of application was built using Install shield and the current version, i am developing throuhg setup and deployment VS2005 project. 1) I wanted to check, if my old application exists, remove the application first and prompt for restart the PC before installing the n...more >>

i develope managed C++ application which uses crystal report engine. When I press button crystal report engine need to prepare report on hard drive in pdf format. Everything works on original PC. However uing visual studio 2005 I prepared setup for second PC. However when it is time to prepar...more >>

Can anybody help me? I tried their fixes but nothing works....more >>