I have a .exe  file which is generated by dotfuscator.
How can I use it in deployment project?
Please provide instruction as details as possible.
Thanks in advance

I have a setup project with a shortcut on the start menu pointing to the
program executable. However the icon is never displayed for the shortcut.
I've tried placing an icon file in the program folder and then using that as
the source of the shortcut's icon. But that works only ...

We are getting ready to deploy our first dot net app to end users and need
to know how to detect if a user already has the 1.1 framework on their
machine...  If they don't we want to send them to windowsupdate to get it
and install it before we will continue.  Is that the correct ...

I like to create subfolders in my app's bin directory to
hold application settings and such.  
1) How come these do not appear when I create a
deployment project?  Do I have to manually create these

Phil thanks for suggestions
First i checked that .msi file is generated - it is
Even if it produced error on Content Files group
it did create setup files fine.

My usual VC 6 Setup fails on a XP Pro SP1 Computer with dotnet
framework 1.1 installed. Upcoming error messages are from bizarre to
useless, eg "the windows path MUST NOT contain spaces" (it does not !)
or an ODBC error ....

My .net framework 1.1 is corrupt or something is wrong.  
None of my 1.1 programs can run nor can any of the
configuration wizards of 1.1.  I've put 1.0 on and it
runs 1.0 programs but I can't install 1.1 again because

Hi I am trying to do some cleaning up of references to Assemblies that have
been deleted
is there a way to clean up the deleted assemblies?
I have tried using gacutil -u but I can still see the non existent assembly

I created deployment project for my web application
(to install on the same computer so I dont need to add runtime)
Added project output AND content files
would not build content files!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I try to install framework 1.1 on win XP SP 1.
Framework 1.0 is already installed, but
the setup of framework 1.1 stopped with error code 1603.
What's wrong ? What can I do ?

When attempting to install 1.1 of the framework on a windows 98 machine I
get the error:
Windows Installer is unavailable.
What do I do?

Is it possible to install a file into a directory specified by the value of
a registry key ? ie, i want to install a sql server backup file into the
directory specified by the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\Setup\SqlDataRoot

My setup and deployment project for a winforms app adds shortcut icons to
the desktop and programs menu.
But then you click on them, instead of launching the exe, it tries to launch
an Installer and then shows a dialog:

  I have a setup that installs a web application . I want to create a event
log from the application. I' m a bit confused why do i have to add the
installer class to the application itself. I want to keep the setup seperate
from the application. So can i have my custom actions as a ...

I've built a system for a client and have created a Setup
project. What I'm trying to do is to create shortcuts on
the user's desktop and program menu.
I'm using .NET Framework 1.0