Msm file that is generated when the project is compiled. An easy button for you to buy the product on the e-tailer sites with ease.There are many ways provided by Microsoft to create a setup project for Windows applications.Property Description Output file name The name of the. You can share the build list with your friends or to the forum for more opinion on you PC build. Take your time to compare and consider. Simply save the planned build list first if you haven’t yet decided to purchase your rig at the moment.
There are numerous articles I found over the network, explaining how to create a setup project, but some do not work as they say, and some do not have a live example to follow.Let InstallAware worry about the details of generating your MSI package while you work on your real setup, unencumbered by artificial limitations. We must send the file location along with the silent switches to use to the command.But when I started to create one, I got nothing but queries and confusion of how to start and where to start. Let’s pretend that the software we’re packaging up is an EXE and the switches to install it silently are /s. To do this, we use the Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage command. How to Create a Chocolatey Package.
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It could also be "bin\release" as per the project build, and specify the file folder name and file name to read the content. Therefore just add a text file, I called it Sample.txt to the "bin\debug\Input" folder, Input is the custom folder I created to place my txt file.Write a few lines of code just to read the txt file from the Startup path, in my case "bin\debug". Now open the file system editor by clicking on the project and select the option to open the file system editor, as shown in the following figure.You'll get to see the Application Folder, User's Desktop and User's Program Menu.Right-click on the Application Folder and add an output project the output project specifies the project we are creating an installer for, like in the following figure:Select "CreatingInstaller", in other words the Windows application project name in the "Add Output Project Group" window, select it as the primary output as shown below and click "Ok".The Primary output will be added as shown below, having a type defined as Output.In the meanwhile let's add some more functionality to our Windows application, let's read a file and show its output in a message box on button click. Right-click on the solution and add a new project to your solution like in the following figure:And add a Setup Project by "Other Project Types" -> "Setup and Deployment" -> "Visual Studio Installer" as in the following:The project will be added to the solution. Now let's create an installer for the same Windows application.
That means the folder will always be created whenever we run the installer, after a fresh build release.You can decorate your form to add an icon to it, that icon will also be required at the time of installation to create a shotcut icon to our application. The folder will be created just below the Application Folder, name that folder Input.Right-click on the folder, select properties and mark Always Create property to True. Now we also need this Input folder and a Sample.txt file at the time of installation to be located at the location of the installed application.For file operations I added the namespace System.IO, needless to specify this thou.Therefore running the application will show two message boxes, one after another showing the text box text and text from the Sample.txt file.Now in this folder creation logic has to be implemented in the out setup project, so that when the application installs, it has all the pre-requisites required to run the application, like the Input folder and the Sample.txt file.So, right-click on the Application Folder in the File system editor and add a folder.
The following three images shows the process:Right-click on the middle window pane to create a new shortcut.Select the shortcut source to the primary output as selected.Also add an icon to the shortcut, as done for the Desktop shortcut.Right-click the Application folder to set the properties of where to install the application, as in the following:We always have an option to uninstall the application from the Control panel's Programs and Features list (as simple as that) but how about creating our own uninstaller, that too is under the programs menu so that we do not need to disturb the Control Panel.Right-click on the File System on the target Machine and "Add Special Folder" -> "System Folder" as shown in the following figure:Right-click on the newly created system folder and browse for the msiexec.exe file in the local System.Windows32 folder. In that folder create a new shortcut pointing to the primary output as done for creating a Desktop shortcut. The job is done to create a shortcut to the user's Desktop.For shortcuts to be created in the User's Program Menu, add a new folder to the User's Program Menu that will be created at the program's menu location. The following figures shows how to add an icon.Cut the shortcut created at the Application Folder and paste it under the User's Desktop Folder. This icon will be created on the Desktop when the application launches. Right-click the Input folder created and Add file to it, browse for the Sample.txt file in the Windows Application project we created earlier.To create a shortcut to the application, right-click on the Primary output in the middle window pane and select "Create Shortcut to Primary Output", name that shortcut as CreatingInstaller.Select the properties of the shortcut by right-clicking it and add an icon to it.
We see a list of properties, we can customize these properties as per our installation needs, like set Product name, Author, Installation location. I have given it the name "Uninstall".Press the F4 key by selecting the setup project. You can add icons and a name to your shortcut.
According to them it should show a message or close during uninstallation. For example my QC team reported a bug that when the application is run and in the background the application uninstall is done, the application continues to run. We will need the product code as a parameter to msiexec for uninstallation.Right-click the Uninstall shortcut and set the arguments property as shown in following:You can get the entire detailed list of parameters and their use at (v=ws.10).aspx, choose the one you prefer.Now our setup is ready to install our Windows application.Just browse the debug folder location of the Setup project, we find a msi and a setup.exe, one can run either of the two to initiate the setup.When started we see a setup wizard, having screens that welcomes User and that asks for the location to install to (already showing the default location).After completing the wizard, click the Close button.Now the job is done, we will see our shortcuts to the application created on the Desktop and the User's Program Menu like in the following figure.Now if we navigate to our installation location then we can also see the Input folder created and Sample.txt file inside it.Run the application and see the output it works perfectly as was when executed from Visual Studio.Click on uninstall to remove the application, the wizard launches as in the following:I just want to provide a glimpse of Custom Actions we can define while creating a setup.Custom actions are the actions that contains customized functionality apart from the default ones at the time of installation and uninstallation.
I just want to explain the use of custom actions.Public partial class Installer1 : System.Configuration.Install. I will not go into more details of that. When we open the installer class we will see the events specified for each custom action, in other words for Installation, Uninstallation, Rollback,Commit.My need was to write code for uninstallation, so I wrote a few lines to satisfy the requirement.The code contains the logic to find the running exe name at the time of uninstallation, if it matches my application exe name then just kill the process. Just add an installer class to the Windows application we created earlier.
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