I would like to build a basic setup for a VB.NET app but include one file
that will be different per user without rebuilding the setup every time,
just place the new file on the CD and have setup install it in the same
location as the application.

Pls let me know the following.
How to access Installer properties like TARGETDIR or
INSTALLDIR in the Installer class.
How to set the TARGETDIR property programmatically in the

I did a google search on this group, and could not come up with a best
technique to exclude updating the web.config file when it already exits.  I
saw one post that implied that this is done automatically (or by default) in
a web setup project, but I am not finding that to be the ...

I starting to use Visual Studio .NET 2003 creating C# Windows application
with  SQL Server  and I get problem with method Fill()   for   which when
running ends with System Error even with the most simple cases which I
copied from a tutorial.  everything else works right  for ex ...

Building my Setup Project generates the following messages:
   Building file 'D:\My Projects\MyApp\Setup\Release\Setup.msi'...
   ERROR: Unable to build assembly named 'MyApp', HRESULT == '8007064F'
My solution contains one Windows Application Project, two Class Library

I have an application written in .Net that I am planning on distributing via
CD. The CD will also include a copy of the .Net redistributable file so that
it can be installed if it's not there already. However, I'd like to make
things easy for the end user, and was wondering if there ...

This error is making me really frustrated for last whole week.
I tried many things but failed to resolve this situation.
I developed an vb.net application and tried to distribute it into
several PCs.

I have been playing with VS VB.net recently.
Everytime I try to use the Debug Start VS just locks up.  Start Without
Debugging is fine.
This may be related to my inability to update to the 1.1 .net framework

This question is regarding the setup,
Is it possible to catch the event of the close button in the installation
complete windows form dialog control(finished) , I basically need to point
to a website(for registeration) after the user clicks the close button.

I am trying to access a text box in the .net web setup which contains
the name of the virtual directoy and put a custom text in that which is
read from the registry.
is that possible

my project implements a browser helper object, which is compiled for .NET
1.1, but in order to run it under .NET 1.0, I need to properly redirect 1.1
assemblies to their 1.0 versions. and since a browser helper object is just
a dll, i need to create iexplore.exe.config to enable the ...

   I'am currently trying to build a .Net Setup.  Everything works fine
except when I try add a custom action that calls a Native DLL.  When I try
to build by setup project, Visual Studio pops up command prompt followed by
a message that tells me to restart Visual Studio.    My ...

Hope it is correct group for this question.
I have two applications. Both of them adding some values
to the registry
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Manufacturer/App1/Value1,value

How do I build a setup application where the user runs one application, say "Setup.exe" which takes care of all requirements?
I want to allow users to do a simple install, where the install application takes care of any required upgrade to MDAC, IE and loads Dotnetfx as required, ...

I have deployed a project with Windows Installer and I am
getting the following error -- An unhandled exception of
type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in
system.dll