Sunday, January 16, 2011

Extending Visual Studio Setup Project - CodeProject

Introduction to Article

One of the things I hear all the time when companies talks for building reliable Windows Installer (MSI) for their product is –> Visual Studio Setup Project is not enough and we need much much more, my first response is – Wait, VS Setup project is not like Advanced Installer, InstallShield but still can do a lot more outside the box.
Setup projects are used to create Windows Installer (.msi) files, which are used to distribute your application for installation on another computer or Web server. There are two types of setup projects.
In this article I’ll show how to extend your VS Setup Project and help to understand how VS Setup makes it easy for developers to build reliable Windows Installer (MSI) in Visual Studio. (All my screenshots will take from Visual Studio 2010.)
  1. Getting Started With VS Setup Project
  2. Adding New User Dialog and Deployments Conditions
  3. Run External Application during Setup

Extending Visual Studio Setup Project - CodeProject
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