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N.Umamageswari

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creation of .msi setup file in .net Posted: Dec 2, 2004 3:54 AM
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Hi All,

I am currently working on creating a setup file for a windows application. I have created a setup file for the project through the "Setup And Deployement projects" while creating a new project. But i want to add my own screens to the Installer Wizards or i want to change the existing Wizards which are there while installing a project.

For example In the Installation Folder screen i don't want the "Disk Cost" Button which is there, rather i want to print the Available Space and Required Space below the text box also in all the wizards i want the cancel button in the right end of the screen after the next button.

How to change these screens ? Also i want to add my own screens which has buttons and text boxes. Is there any way to do this?

I need it urgently. Please help me.

Thanx in advance
Uma


Prabakar

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Re: creation of .msi setup file in .net Posted: Aug 9, 2005 9:49 PM
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I too have same issue.
It is really a big hide Microsoft made, to restrict us to code the setup application

Jan Bannister

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Re: creation of .msi setup file in .net Posted: Aug 31, 2005 6:24 AM
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The templates are stored in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\Deployment\VsdDialogs\1033

They're in a binary format which I don't think is documented.

Jan

Matt Gerrans

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Re: creation of .msi setup file in .net Posted: Aug 31, 2005 11:01 PM
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The install project stuff in VS is just a freebie to get you a rudimentary setup, if you want to do more customized and complex things, you need to you a full setup tool.

Check out Wix: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix

There's a nice tutorial for it at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/

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