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I'm working on an old Visual Studio 2008 project which had a setup project. I have upgraded everything to VS2019 made the changes in the code, increased the version, added a few files and made the ...
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I have a C# project in a solution I built in VS2019 Enterprise, using .NET 4.8, and since this is a tool for internal use only, 1) the build log I'll be posting will be redacted, and 2) I know exactly ...
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How i can execute exe after installation from installed location. Currently it is unable to execute exe from installed location.I have used custom action as well but it is unable to execute exe.
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For legacy reasons we still use the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project Extension. In the setup project there is an project output added of type content files that points to a library project. ...
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Using Visual Studio Installer Project I can launch a post install option using the script given here: Run exe after msi installation? The question is does the launched program run in elevated ...
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It's the first time I use Visual Studio Setup to create an installer, and there's one thing I don't understand. I've added the files I want via simple drag-and-drop, but the end result is that the ...
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I have a Windows Installer project attached to my solution, which allows the user to optionally install two components of the application (they are Windows Services) using a "Checkboxes" dialogue box ...
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I have a C# application which stores it's settings in ProgramData subfolder such as C:\ProgramData\Manufacturer\Product\Version\Settings.xml I noticed that the application can't save settings changes,...
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I have created an installer with Visual Studio 2008. VS project type is deployment project. This installer fails in some environments but also runs perfectly in some other environments. For example, ...
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I have a custom action that runs as a Visual Studio Installer Projects deployment. Is it possible to specify the working directory of this custom action, relative to the installation directory? Edit ...
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Is it possible to set up a Visual Studio Installer - Setup project so that the generated Setup.msi can be installed without requiring administrator privileges, i.e. install the app for the local user ...
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I am creating the installer for my application using a "Visual Studio Installer" project type in Visual Studio 2017. I want my installer to install visual c++ redistributable 2015 with my application....
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I want to make sure that the drive I'm currently installing to is a certain format (e.g. NTFS, exFAT, FAT32, etc.). I was thinking there might be a condition I can check or something before installing....
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I have a Visual Studio Setup project which includes a .SQL file from my project which should always overwrite the existing file if I run the installer on the same machine to update to a new version. ...
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I have developed a windows form application in visual studio. Now, I would like to install that windows application on my PC without administrator privilege. How can I create a setup. (I already ...
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I have a Visual Studio Installer project that is configured, works fine and is ready for deployment. When I build the project, it creates a .exe file and a .msi file. I can delete the .exe file and ...
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I'm using the Visual Studio Installer Projects extension to build the MSI-installer for my application. However, my application is meant to be running at all times, and if it's open when the user is ...
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I installed the Visual Studio 2017 Installer and added an installer project to my solution. When I'm building my main project, I'm using post build events to create a Production directory (in which ...
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I created a localized wpf apllication. To install the application in the system I used msi installer provided by visual studio. Upon completion of the installation i run the application by running the ...
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I have created an installer using Visual Studio 2015 (with the Visual Studio installer addon). The goal is to always run the APP with the same local resources, regardless of who is logged on, ...
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I've developed an Outlook addin that perfectly works with my outlook. I used our organizational code signing cert and used ClickOnce. Now I want to deploy it on a small group of machines (piloting). I ...
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I'm trying to create exe/msi for my solution it contains the following Projects ActiveDirectoryEngine: library used to implement AD operations ADService: windows service - performs the work in the ...
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I have a windows installer, which is creating a database as a part of the installation process. While installing the application CREATE DATABASE process is failing because the windows installer using ...
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I have been having troubles with this, hope you can help, I have developed an app using c#, now it's time to deploy, I have recently installed the plugin to create an installer project in my solution, ...
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I want to add a dialog which will be a Text-box, user will write something in that (like client Name - Nike) which will mandatory to fill and then i want to use that value in Application Folder . Ex - ...
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