Hi Techies,
I have requirement of finding out the location of where my setup file
exist(not installed application location - not target directory) when i
run the setup

I am creating a setup for a windows application in VS 2005. Now I want to
customise look and feel of all the installation steps screens. But VS 2005
seems not to provide this feature. This only allows to change the baaner
bitmap and some selected text strings. How can this be ...

I want to install sql server express after checking if the user needs it and
it is not already installed
I have written a small vb.net program to do this but I want it to run the
sql server installation from the application setup CD

Hi techies
I have a registration form to download my application. During this
registration i generate serial no for that user and i am sending to
user by e-mail

I have a .NET 2.0 VB app (windows form app).  If the only visible interface
is a notification icon and the main form is not visible, if you run
Add/Remove programs MSIEXEC will not detect the process is running in memory
and proceed to uninstall the application.  However, if you ...

There doesn't appear to be any "Launch Appliation" dialog box that I can add
to the User Interface End section -- is there some way I can get this to
happen via VS 2005 Windows Setup project?

Is there a method to create a Run at StartUp via the VS 2005 IDE for a
Windows Setup project?

Hi All: My win2K advanced server (also Domain Controller, and running latest
SPs/updates) downloaded the latest security update for .NET Framework v. 2.
It installed and the server rebooted automatically, but IIS hung on restart.
In my app log there's:

I have a problem that I hope you can help me with!!
I had VS2003, and had built a setup project that used the bootstrapper to
install .NET Framework 1.1 if necessary on the target machine.
This all worked fine.

I'm planning to use "Satup project" for
appl developed in VS 2005.
This appl will be installed on PCs
that don't have .Net Framework 2.0.

Hopefully I'm posting this in the correct forum!
I have a solution containing a Windows Service project and a Setup project.  
This was originally written in Visual Studio .NET 2003 (.NET 1.1 - VB.NET)
and the installer worked correctly except that I had to manually start the

I'm using Visual C# Standard 2003 for this.
I've got a component that uses interop to call Shell32.dll.
The setup project that I've created wants to include a copy
of Shell32.dll in the project.

I downloaded and installed the .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable
Package (x86) on an xp sp2 machine. Setup ran without any errors reported.
However the .Net Framework 2.0 Configuration control panel applet is not
there? Was it supposed to be installed with the ...

The first thing the installation process tells me is that I must uninstall
2.0 Beta framework. Ok, that's fine. But how?
The Beta is not in the Add/Remove program list, there are no Beta files (or
any .NET files) on my disk, there is no mention of anything in the

Could any one help me out that how can I ship additional components
with my .net 1.1 windows application. The components will only be
installed if they are not installed already. The setup MSI has to be
initiated only once and all prerequisite should be installed.