Hello,
    I am working with .net 2003 and setting up a 'setup project' for my
solution. I can build a setup package fine. My problem is that I do not want
the installer to re-evaluate the installation each time the installed

Hi Experts:
I'm using the VC7.0 for an MSI Setup Project.
I have a CustomAction (an exe) set for the "Commit" phase. And I want the
exe to start after the installation without user intervention. Is there a

On my XP Pro SP2 development box , I need to install the .NET Framework 1.1
plus any SPs.  I can't seem to find these downloads on Microsoft.  Any ideas
?  Should I be using the redistributables ?

When I go to install a web setup/deployment project either through the
vs2003 IDE or using the msi file on my machine or any machine, I get
the following error immediately before clicking any buttons:
The installer was interrupted before [project] could be installed. You

I managed to deploy an application by mageUI.exe. However, I would like to
have a command-line script to publish it automatically. But if I used
mage.exe command-line tool to create the manifest, I got the error as
following:

Greetings. I've been spinning on this for a while. Hopefully someone has some
ideas.
I have a working web setup project that installs a web app plus 4 VDs of web
services. Problem happens when I want to install to something other than

I need to put a checkbox on the 'Finished' UI dialog asking the user whether
he/she wants to launch the application on the completion of installation. The
'Finished' dialog does not appear to provide any property using which I could
achieve this. Please let me know if this is ...

When we developed in VB6 we placed the exe on our customers server and
simply created links on each workstation to the exe. This has always worked
fine.
We are now nearing completion of our first .Net product and we wonder what

I have created some aspx pages with visual studio 2005 (proffessional
edition) . Everything is working well inside the vs2005 but when I'm trying
to browse any of them outside the vs, this error message appear :
"XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location:

This is definately a noob question but I can't find this anywhere:
I simply want to get the primary output executable to automatically launch
once installation is complete.  Either prompting the user with an option to
do so (checkbox?) or automatically doing it with no prompt.

Thank,
- Marc

How to specify a condition to whether include or exclude a merge module in
the setup program?
I have different .msm files for help integration for VS2002, 2003 and 2005.
And want to run these .msm files conditonally , depending on which

Hi, I'm trying to find out a way to get the CD drive from wich my setup is
being run.
Let's say if the user runs the setup from the local computer (c:\docs and
setts\user name\desktop\) I would like to retreive "C:\" or "D:\" from the

is it possible to create a patch file? Does anybody know good resources
(tutorials) for creating setup projects in VS 2005?
Thanks for your help
Thomas

I have several dlls that have app.config files tied to them.  When
adding their primary output to a Setup project everything works fine,
but only the app.config for the .exe gets added to the Setup project
automatically.  Is there any way to get the app.configs for the dlls