I try to add an exe to the custom actions and hope that it will run
after the installation automatically. That exe being added is excluded from
the installer. However, the path of the exe seems not correct and cannot be
ran. Do anyone have any ideas about this?

Is there a way to install without the cd? This is for 2002 edu version.

Hello,
I'm receiving the error "Visual Studio .NET has detected
that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET
version 1.1" when I try to create a new ASP.NET

I'm new to Visual Studio and I am having problems with the default currency
symbol.
The Regional and Language Options on my machine are set to English (United
Kingdom).

I did not find a more matching category, so I post my question here, since
it has to do with setup.
I am using InstallShield X and have problems extracting one specific file
out of the data1.cab file. This occurs with Windows Installer, WinRar and

I just bought it, and try to activate it, however, I can neither activate it
on internet nor telephone, both said invalid id number, I installed it
without any problems using the product key on cd box, it is obviously a valid
key, I have no idea how it come, now things getting ...

I am trying to take the 3 MSDN VS.NET 2003 ISO images from the MSDN
Subscription site and put them on DVD. Unfortunately it looks like 3 CD's are
required due to volume labeling. Is this correct, and is there no way for me
to create my own DVD from the ISO images?

I am developing installer project in Visual Studio 2003 for my
components and I have a problem with upgrading assemblies in GAC. I need
upgrading these assemblies with newer ones (AssemblyVersion is the same,
but AssemblyFileVersion is different) and I wanted to do so with

I successfully installed the VS .NET 2003 Pro Trial from the Action Pak CD
on an XP machine at work that had SP1 installed. Trying the same install at
home so I could learn in my "spare time" results in problems.
The machine at home is a clean install of Win XP with SP2, IIS with

   I was trying to install visual studio .net academic 2003 edition.
By mistake i had entered a wrong product id and after installation, it
gave an error "Please enter a valid product key to use this product -
...". After that I unistalled the product and tried to install it

When I tried to install VS6.0 on a XP machine, I received the following
warnings. what is the cause of this warning? The only software that preexists
on this machine I can see from Control Panel is Visual SourceSafe 6.0. Is it
okay to procedd by ignoring the warnings? Thanks!

After successfully installing VC6 and a later help collection which I still
had around rather than the one which came with the product, Tools | Options

Collection, so that I can not pick a collection for the ...

I have seen numerous threads regarding forcing an "Everyone" install and even
removing the radio buttons, but I actually wish to not even allow the user to
select the install location [BUT] force it install for Everyone.  
I saw one thread about a Property called ALLUSERS, but ...

I have created a setup for our product using the Visual Studio Setup
project.  The project has close to 500MB of content that is included along
with the file structure inside the setup project.  When the final msi package
is built it's file size is 208MB.

I've created an AddIn that will compile a web setup project automatically.
But I got a problem that seems to be very annoying:
I'm attempting to build an MSI to deploy my ASP.NET Web site with a Visual
Studio .NET 2003 deployment project (vdproj). When I build the deployment