I'm creating a windows app using VS 2005 in Visual Basic.I've created a
deployment package that does everything right but creating a working
shortcut in the Users Program Directory.
The package creates a shortcut that opens the Program Directory but does not

How is it possible to add a file to all existing users
application data\myApp\someFile.zzz.
I am using an ordinary setup project.
I can add to the "User's Application Data Folder",

I want to be able to install a registry key from the setup project at
the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run/
I do this today in my source code. This registry key does not (of

I created a setup project in VS2005. When build it outputs product.msi and
setup.exe
Is it possible to force everything to be in just msi file? Is creation of
setup.exe caused by listing of Framework 2.0 as a prerequisite?

Trying to implemnet a password with custom c-style dll.
as mentioned in :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253683
and

I'm having a problem with a project we're working on with Visual Studio 03.
It appears to ignore the setting in the properties of the setup project
'RemovePreviousVersions' and requires the user to uninstall the previous
version with add/remove programs before it will install.

I would like the setup to install for 'Everyone' instead of 'Just Me' by
default.
How can I do this?

Sorry for a stupid question... hoping somebody can help me out -
Where is the GUI for .NET 2.0 configuration?
After installing 2.0 runtime on XP SP2 that already has  1.1 framework, I
can not find the 2.0 versions of mscorcfg.msc or other GUI config tools.

When Norton Utilities does it's periodic system checkup, it finds 10
"missing" files:
AppLaunch.exe
aspnet_regiis.exe

In my setup project I want to create an event log on and set it to Overwrite
as needed.
I'm using this custom action :
[RunInstaller(true)]

i have a setup project and have a custom install class where i have this
method wich tries to find a file named X.txt which is in the same folder as
the current msi (wich i double clicked).
now i want to copy this X.txt to a location in C:\. For that i created the

I have added a dialog bog to a setup project with some checkboxes. How do I
pick up the result from how these checkboxes were populated in my installer
class ?
Niclas

I'm not using click-once to deploy my app, I'm using a standard MSI created
via a setup and deployment project in visual studio.net 2005.
Can I specify windows installer 3.1 as a prerequisite or launch condition,
and package it with my msi.

Is it possible to put an wildcard in the SupportedRuntime property to
support all current and future releases of the CLR?
Or is it atleast possible to put like 1;2 in it to support all
subversions of version 1 and version 2?

We have a build process which builds our projects (VS 6 and VS.Net) while
setting the build numbering same and as a result, we get the compiled
binaries with same bulid number schemes.
However, the Interop dll  files generated by .Net projects for our COM