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Steph - 07 May 2008 10:31 GMT

Hi,

I'm not sure I'm in the right newsgroup as it seems this may be for problems
installing Visual Studio itself rather than creating installations with it,
so please feel free to re-direct me.

I'm using VS2008 and trying to create a setup program for my application
that will deploy on Windows Vista, XP and 2000. The first two operating
systems are fine, but since compiling no longer creates instMsiA.exe and
instMsiW.exe it will not work on Windows 2000.

Is there any way to force creation of these in VS2008? If not, would it be
sufficent to take copies from an old project and use the newly compiled
setup.exe and .msi file, or do I have to go back to VS2003 and compile there?

All suggestions are welcome.

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Steven Cheng [MSFT] - 08 May 2008 11:09 GMT

Hi steph,

You're right to post the question here. This newsgroup is for developing
setup project through Visual Studio setup project type.

From your description, your current question is how to let VS 2008 setup
project generate the outputMSIa.EXE AND outputMSIw.exe that can be used on
windows 2000 platform(which differenitate unicode and non-unicode on the
different name), correct?

I've tested the VS 2008 setup project and it does only output the single
setup.exe. Currently, I'll do some further research on this and I'll update
you as soon as I get any new information.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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>From: =?Utf-8?B?U3RlcGg=?= <steph@newsgroups.nospam>
>Subject: Creating setup program for Windows 2000
>Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 02:31:02 -0700

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Steven Cheng [MSFT] - 09 May 2008 03:42 GMT

Hi Steph,

As Phil suggested, for windows 2000 system, the reasonable approach to use
new installer package is upgrading the windows installer runtime. In
addition to the windows installer 2.0 he mentioned, windows installer 3.0
runtime is also available for windows 2000(with sp3 or sp4):

#Windows Installer 3.0 Redistributable
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5FBC5470-B259-4733-
A914-A956122E08E8&displaylang=en

3.0 provide new msiexec /? install options that provide more advanced
install features:

#Windows Installer 3.0 is available
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=884016

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Steven Cheng [MSFT] - 09 May 2008 03:42 GMT

>Hi steph,
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Phil Wilson - 09 May 2008 00:32 GMT

You don't need InstMsiA for Windows 2000.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b6140f9-2d36-4977-8fa1
-6f8a0f5dca8f&displaylang=en&Hash=VCd%2f%2bODr0uUVPSA9AGG4GLTu8C7QaquxdDcFvbj1BY
502OYnyTFN2UBYKrVO5Adk4Z5ZUXkOVP4XYpMoQy89bg%3d%3d

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Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590592972

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Steph - 12 May 2008 08:53 GMT

Thank you both for your help. It is much appreciated.

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