I have made a program consisting of about 15 smaller projects, each with their own .dll/.exe
I need to make a custom installer that will prompt the user for different options, which the installer setup built into VS10 does not support.
I need to be able to have this run like its own program, with combo and text boxes for usr input, and then to compress all the files i need into the .exe
How would one go about doing this?
if possible i would like to keep everything inside of VS10 instead of a third party application. And free would be the best too. =)
Thanks
~Matt
mrclark 0 Light Poster
Naveed_786 25 Posting Whiz in Training
Please use installationshield
grobelny 0 Newbie Poster
If you want very customizable WinForms GUI that can be graphically designed inside Visual Studio for your software installer then have a look at SharpSetup.
RenanLazarotto 0 Posting Whiz in Training
You can look to at NSIS (http://nsis.sf.net), InnoSetup (has a nice third-party IDE - http://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) or the most-known (and well paid) InstallShield (http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/installshield.htm)
Luc001 77 Posting Whiz
I have made a program consisting of about 15 smaller projects, each with their own .dll/.exe
I need to make a custom installer that will prompt the user for different options, which the installer setup built into VS10 does not support.
I need to be able to have this run like its own program, with combo and text boxes for usr input, and then to compress all the files i need into the .exe
How would one go about doing this?
if possible i would like to keep everything inside of VS10 instead of a third party application. And free would be the best too. =)
Thanks
~Matt
Hi,
I think you can find some explanation in the Launch Condition Management in Deployment
Look, here.
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