Hello everyone,
I have a project which i want to publish but the problem is i don't know how to add my name as the developer in the setup...
can anyone tell me how to do that...
thanks in advance
johnrosswrock 0 Light Poster
ddanbe 2,724 Professional Procrastinator Featured Poster
What do you mean by setup? An about dialogbox? A splash screen?
johnrosswrock 0 Light Poster
setup means the appliction setup file
ddanbe 2,724 Professional Procrastinator Featured Poster
Please specify what you mean by a setup file?
Do you use Visual Studio?
johnrosswrock 0 Light Poster
yes i am using visual studio and in that when i publish by project i get a
setup (.exe) file i the solution folder
i want that setup details have my name as publisher or aurthor
ddanbe 2,724 Professional Procrastinator Featured Poster
OK, now I see.
But why not add a nice, professional looking aboutbox to your application?
Here you can put your name version number etc.
Just use add new item 
johnrosswrock 0 Light Poster
okay,thanks for that idea :)
but i still want to know if it can be done
ddanbe 2,724 Professional Procrastinator Featured Poster
Sorry, I have absolutely no idea how to manipulate the setup process.
deceptikon 1,790 Code Sniper Team Colleague Featured Poster
but i still want to know if it can be done
Yup, it can be done. How depends somewhat on how you're deploying the setup.exe, but typically for standalone installers you can either use the default user interface, tweak the default user interface, or define your own completely.
For example, in Visual Studio's Setup & Deployment project (.vdproj), if you right click on the project and choose User Interface from the View menu, you can fiddle with the install wizard views. You can also use custom actions to get a little more flexibility.
With something like WiX, you get much more control over the UI, but at the cost of a steep learning curve for the declarative XML language. I actually prefer WiX if any kind of customization beyond UI banners is needed, otherwise the standard Setup & Deployment project is easier to build and maintain.
InnoSetup is also popular because it has an expressive scripting language. I haven't done much UI customization from InnoSetup though, so I'm not qualified to provide details on your question.
johnrosswrock 0 Light Poster
thank you for that ans
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