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Heath Stewart15-Nov-04 6:17
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raviran wrote:
The installer works great but it is missing a couple things.

What have you been smoking? Smile | :)

As someone that's worked with Windows Installer (including beta-testing and consulting) since MSI 1.0, I can tell you that VS.NET's installer project is missing a whole hellofa lot. It gives you the basics, but it's definitely not meant for commercial deployment. For that there's Wise for Windows Installer[^] (my preferrence based on experience, price, performance, and robustness) or InstallShield Developer[^]. There's also the WiX[^] toolset (generating MSIs and MSPs from XML files), one of Microsoft's open-source projects. It's also got a magnificent Custom Action library that would accomplish the very things you want. You could actually just use the Custom Action library and integrate with whatever MSI you want to produce.

With VS.NET's installer project just add a file to your project (like the WiX custom action DLL) then switch to the Custom Action view. Right-click either the root node (to add to all install actions) or to whichever install action(s) you want and select "Add new custom action" (or whatever it says). Browse to the DLL you added and add it. Then switch to the PropertyGrid, specify the EntryPoint, and provide any custom action data (in whatever format you want) required (like a URL to launch).

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