I would like to create a windows form application, launching MSIs
created by setup projects. I have a few questions regarding the issue:
1)  How can I pass command line parameters to an msi?
2)  Where can I accept these arguments in the setup project?

I am new to .NET but I am trying to develop a C#.NET WEB Service. I can do
this on my laptop without any problems but when I try it on my desktop I
get an error
"The Web server reported the following error when attempting to create or

I have created a Setup project in .Net 1.1 for a VB6 project.
Wvwrything works fine except that on the new PC when the VB6
application is installed soome runtimes (as follows) are missing:
- vbrun60sp5.exe

I imagine there is a fairly straight forward answer to this problem, I
just don't have any real experience with setup and deployment projects.
I want to get some information from the user during install. In this
case all I want to get is an integer. I know how to create a form using

I had VS 2003 running fine, then downloaded and instaled SQL server 2005
Express (which did not run well) , and wanted to play with Visual Web Devel.
2005 - ran the MS uninstall script from their site to remove SS2005 - it
failed - VS 2003 does now not function -

Have a small project done in Visual Web Developer 2005  Q: will it run on a
commercially hosted site that supports ASP.net 2.0 ?  I suppose another way
of asking this is to ask  if  a Visual Web project  will run on any computer
with .net 2.0 -

I received a copy of the standard addition to Visual Studio .net 2005 and
it fails.  
ERROR:Error 1311.Source file not found: \\itl039\d\_2_RTL_x86_enu_Visual_Database_Tools_Core.cab.
Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.

         How do i enable logging while running the set up(msi)?  I want to
get detail listing of all the actions performed during installation and
figure out cause for errors during installation.
Thanks

Hi guys  =)
I needed to check for existance of a MDB file in the target directory of my
setup project & then install the file if it's not already there.
The problem is that setup FIRST removes my already installed folder (it

Hi, I'm developing a auto-update routine in my application.
All the process get's fired by a Windows Service that checks for updates in
certain times. If I use the XCopy style deployment to update my application
everything goes fine, the app is replaced and the update gets to the ...