Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 2 In my last post on that subject Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 I showed how to create and use the basic features in Visual Studio Installer, this is the second part and more advanced. Download Demo Project Run External Application during Setup In this step I’ll show how to run an external application before the actual install process using “Installer Class”. Create new WPF Application project called – “SetupHelper” and add additional...
Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 One of the thing I hear all the time when companies talks for building reliable Windows Installer (MSI) for their product is –> Visual Studio Setup Project is not enough and we need much much more, my first response is – Wait, VS Setup project is not like Advanced Installer , InstallShield but still can do a lot more outside the box. Setup projects are used to create Windows Installer (.msi) files, which are used to distribute your application for...
Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE I started to build a Build Definition in TFS 2010 (WF) for one of my customers and ran into a strange problem with couple of Setup Projects, when I build the Setup Project in Visual Studio 2010 IDE the setup built just fine but once I tried to build it using devenv command it fails.. (To build setup project using Team Build you need to invoke devenv with command line arguments.) The Error from the command line is: ERROR: Unable...