we are making a setup using VS.net 2003 for our windows application,now we
want to call another setup from this setup,which is a web setup..how can i do
that,i have tried to call this msi from main msi but unable to do so?

I'm building a setup project. I would like to create a dynamic folder,
meaning, the name of the folder will change according to a parameter I
send in the command line. Can this be done within the msi? Or do I need
to perform this in a custom action?

I am new in setups. I want to make a license control, and I don't know how
can I ask for license key in the installation. How can I make a license
control?
Thank you very much

I am going to setup a server for running dot.net. Dear All, any suggestion
on running IIS5 or IIS6 would yours recommend to me?
Thz.

I have been trying to install VS 2005 Standard (the current production
release). No matter what I do, I can't get it to install. It begins
installing the .NET Framework 2.0 and then zips right thru all the
remaining options (like in 15 seconds). Then it presents an error

My application need SLQ Server.
But I like to let user choose to use an existing installation or to install
a new named instance dedicated for my application.
Any suggestion on how to do it.

I have been following a step by step sample application from the microsoft
web site on creating a replicated database for a mobile application.
It was all going well until the step where i get asked to create a new
connection to the mobile database from the server explorer with in ...

Installers are not my forte...
I have written a windows service in C# using dev studio 2005. The service
includes ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller objects and installs
as a service when used with InstallUtil.exe. In the solution I also have an

I Have Windows 2000 SP4, which I have kept up to date using automatic
updates. The PC is a stand-alone home PC, which is not connected to any
domain. It is connected to the Internet only occasionally using a WLAN
card. It has an Ethernet card too, but the cable is not connected.

I want to create an msi package that will check for the presence of the .Net
Framework v1.1 and install it if it's not there, before going ahead and
installing my .Net application.  I don't want the end user to have to know
that .Net Framework is a prerequisite, nor do I want to ...

Here are the steps I want to perform using .NET Set Up project.
1. Create a backup of DLL1 (version 1.0) to a backup directory.
2. Setup the new version of DLL1 (version 2.0)
I added a custom action for 1. But its always taking a backup of version 2.0.

I have a product that previously used InstallShield for deployment.  We want
to start using the .NET setup and phase out InstallShield.  In our next
release of our software, I want the .NET deployment to recognize the previous
version of our software (create with installshield) ...

I've just created a setup project for some software I was working on, and
I've just ran the setup.
The setup works, some details need to be adjusted (icons & stuff), but
something is bothering me.

Is it possible to have one application setup project that can be used for
many languages? If not what can be done to get around this problem?
Thanks in advance

I have a couple of questions. First one, I wrote a setup project to install
my application. It has some custom actions. I installed it. I found out that
I have a bug in the custom action code when I tried to uninstall it. I
couldnt uninstall the application. So, I went to ...