Deployment more than one Assemply

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James - 30 Nov 2005 11:23 GMT

I developed VB.Net(2003) windows application. The application have more than
one modules(call it as different assemply). I want to list all the modules
during the installation then the user can able to choose modules by own
instead of installing all the modules. (Like MSOffice installation we can
able to choose Word or excel or Access)

Any one can help me on this issue.

Thanks in advance.
James.

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Phil Wilson - 30 Nov 2005 17:12 GMT

When you install Office, the pieces like Word, Excel etc are features in the
setup. Visual Studio setups do not have the capability of creating
features - they have just a single feature called DefaultFeature. You can
approximate that behavior with conditions on files that are based on a
checkboxes dialog, but it doesn't work like features do. For example, with
features you can go to Add/Remove Programs and modify the product to add and
remove features - you can't do that that with VS setups. There are about 20
tools to build MSI files, VS just being one of them.
http://installsite.org/pages/en/msi/authoring.htm

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>I developed VB.Net(2003) windows application. The application have more
>than
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> Thanks in advance.
> James.

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