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VS 2005 Setup Projects

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Greg - 21 May 2007 02:46 GMT
Hi,

I am trying to create an Installer from the Setup Project in VS2005.

Right now I am having it do some pretty tame stuff;

- Create some directories
- Create some reg keys

Unfortunately I am having a hard time find documentation on this type
of project.  I.e., what if I want to change the name of the title bars
in the User Interface?  Can that even be done.

How do I use the Conditions?  Is this an Expression style syntax or
straight-up C#/VB?

Really, I am trying to determine if this is the best route for me to
go, out of the box it looks like the Setup project can do a lot.. for
some reason when I look at some of the older documentation for VS
2003, it looks like there was more flexibility in that package?

Any links, references to documentation, blogs, books, etc would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Greg
Kevin Spencer - 21 May 2007 11:50 GMT
Hi Greg,

I have a few references for you. The Visual Studio Setup and Deployment
Projects provide interfaces for creating Windows Installer modules and MSI
files (among a few other things). These present a high-level, simplified
interface for working with Windows Installer. Of course, Windows Installer
has quite a few more capabilities, but you have to get more deeply into it
than the Visual Studio tools are designed for if you really want to get
detailed with it. Fortunately, there is a Windows Installer SDK that you can
download if you want to. So, here are a few references for you:

Visual Studio Setup and Deployment:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wtzawcsz(VS.71).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ha7h54s4(VS.71).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k2he6h0w(VS.71).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h2zwd6bw(VS.71).aspx

Windows Installer SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e96f8abc-62c3-4cc3-93ad
-bfc98e3ae4a3&displaylang=en


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