VS Setup Project Will Not Ship With Future Versions of VS In the past I wrote about Visual Studio Setup Project and how you use it for your software deployment - Extending Visual Studio Setup Project But now Microsoft decide to remove the support from VS Setup Project and invest more in WiX. Buck Hodges “ Future versions of Visual Studio will not include the Visual Studio Installer project templates. To preserve existing customer investments in Visual Studio Installer projects, Microsoft will continue...
Implementing a WIX installer that calls the GDR version of VSDBCMD.EXE Duke Kamstra just post a great article about WIX and DB Dude. One of the cool things that shipped with the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR (aka the GDR) is the command line utility VSDBCMD.EXE . By using this utility, you can take the artifacts created by building a Database Project and deploy them to a database instance. If the database doesn’t exist on the instance of SQL Server, it will be created...
Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset Windows Installer XML (WiX) platform is a set of tools and specifications that allow you to easily create Windows Installer database files (MSI and MSM). The WiX tools model the traditional compile and link model used to create executables from source code. For WiX, source code is written in xml files. These files are validated against a schema, wix.xsd, then processed by a preprocessor, compiler, and linker to create the desired result. The WiX platform has been...