Setup projects in VS.NET (Customizing)

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RBisch - 19 Oct 2004 19:53 GMT

How do you customize the setup project to replace the standard templated text
in the upper left corner of all the installation wizard steps ?

For example, create and run a bare setup project (.msi) , you'll notice big
text in the top-left corner of the screens, the first screen reads, "Welcome
to the [product_name] setup wizard". I can not figure out how to change
this, can anyone help?
Thanks.

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Gary Chang[MSFT] - 20 Oct 2004 08:13 GMT

Hi Rbisch,

> How do you customize the setup project to replace the standard templated text
> in the upper left corner of all the installation wizard steps ?

That banner text is not a custom property of the VS.NET setup project, so
you could not modify it inside the VS.NET IDE.

However, you can achieve what you want bu manually edit the target .msi
file resource.
To edit a .msi file resource, you can use the Microsoft's Orca.exe tool,
which is shipped with the latest Platform SDK/Windows Installer SDK V2.0:
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

After you installed than Orca tool and ran it, you can open the targeting
.msi file, select the "Control" item in the left "Tables" panel, then in
the right listview sub-window, look for the "WelcomeForm"(Dialog)
/"BannerText"(Control) row, then in that row double click the Text cell,
and edit its value to your needs, finally save it and quit...

Wish it helps!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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