C# Tutorials and offshore development in India
    Tutorials   Resources   Forum   Communities   Interview   Jobs   Projects   Offshore Development    
Silverlight Tutorials | Mentor | Code Converter | Articles | Code Factory | Computer Jokes | Members | Peer Appraisal | IT Companies | Bookmarks | Revenue Sharing |


Prizes & Awards
My Profile



Active Members
TodayLast 7 Days more...
New Feature: Community Sites: Create your own .NET community website and start earning from Google AdSense ! It's Free !






Creating Setup project for windows application


Posted Date: 06 Aug 2008    Resource Type: Articles    Category: .NET Framework
Author: D.Jeya kumar(JK)Member Level: Diamond    
Rating: Points: 10



How to create Setup for windows Application in .net
Application once created will have number of associated dll and exe and other project related files and that has to be bundled in single file as MSI file. For that visual studio offers a setup project to do it.
Assume that we had created application and then we need to add a setup project from the visual studio.
Here is the first setup to add the setup project to the solution.
Step 1
Right click the solution Add New project in the pop window click the other project types and add the Setup Project as show below and rename the name of the setup project and click ok button and it will added in you solution

Setp2
Once the Setup project is added to you project. Automatically it will have the application folder, user’s Desktop, User’s Program Menu. We need to add the project output in the application folder. On right click of the application folder and we can add the project output and project will be added to the application folder.

Right Click the project output and create a short cut and we can add it in User’s Desktop folder and User’s Program menu. So that in program menu after installation the application shortcuts will be shown. If we used any other files apart from the project output right click and browse and add the needed files.
Step3
Right click the setup project file and build the setup and it will have the output MSI files in release folder of the Setup.
Step4
In VS 2005 it creates "advertised shortcuts" automatically. Shortcut launch the Windows Installer to check whether components are installed before cal ling the shortcut and it will install the components again when the application is installed by a user and opened from other user login. It will be disabled automatically.
To enable this we need to edit the MSI tables using ORCA tool. ORCA tool is used to edit database. This will be downloaded from Microsoft site from the below location.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370557.aspx
We can to this in number of ways
Second method
Wwhile installing the MSI file We need to tell the windows installer to not disable advertised shortcuts. This will cause it to create regular shortcuts instead
Open the command line
Run the setup.exe with the below command it will enable
"setup.exe DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS"
Or create a batch file and add this lines in that batch file and on double click of the batch file
Path of the EXE and DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS
Ex:
C:\justtotest\setup.exe DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS
Second method
Install the ORCA.MSI.
Orca will show the List of the Tables of MSI file and Click the property table and it will show the property and value in right side window.
In Right window Right click the last row and click add new row?in property add DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS in property and add 1 in value
How to check whether it is correct?
Click the start button?program files?go the installed application ?right click the application and go to properties and Target text box will be enabled now. Check this before and after this modification.



Responses

No responses found. Be the first to respond and make money from revenue sharing program.

Feedbacks      
Popular Tags   What are tags ?   Search Tags  
(No tags found.)

Post Feedback


This is a strictly moderated forum. Only approved messages will appear in the site. Please use 'Spell Check' in Google toolbar before you submit.
You must Sign In to post a response.
Next Resource: Getting started with Unity Application Block
Previous Resource: Working with text files in Vb.net and c#
Return to Discussion Resource Index
Post New Resource
Category: .NET Framework


Post resources and earn money! 		 
Related Resources


dotNet Slackers   BizTalk Adaptors    Web Design

Contact Us    Privacy Policy    Terms Of Use