I want my installer to set environment varaibles

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PIEBALD - 21 Sep 2005 23:42 GMT

I want my installer to set environment varaibles, but I don't see how to do
so in a VS.net 2003 setup project.

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Kevin Spencer - 22 Sep 2005 14:45 GMT

Why would you want or need to? This was necessary in Visual Studio 6 and
previous versions if you wanted certain functionality from them. It is not
necessary with Visual Studio.Net. And that is why it isn't available.

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>I want my installer to set environment varaibles, but I don't see how to do
> so in a VS.net 2003 setup project.

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PIEBALD - 23 Sep 2005 01:19 GMT

> Why would you want or need to? This was necessary in Visual Studio 6 and
> previous versions if you wanted certain functionality from them. It is not
> necessary with Visual Studio.Net. And that is why it isn't available.

I write mostly console applications and therefore need (for instance) to add
directories to the path. And other things that the apps need to run.

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Phil Wilson - 22 Sep 2005 16:00 GMT

There are tools that do this when they build an MSI file (Windows Installer
has an Environment table for exactly this reason) but Visual Studio isn't
one of them.

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>I want my installer to set environment varaibles, but I don't see how to do
> so in a VS.net 2003 setup project.

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PIEBALD - 23 Sep 2005 01:20 GMT

So it specifically does not support the entire MSI feature set?

> There are tools that do this when they build an MSI file (Windows Installer
> has an Environment table for exactly this reason) but Visual Studio isn't
> one of them.

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