How do you create a Install project in C# Express?

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Bryce K. Nielsen

I've been using C# Express and couldn't find anywhere to create an
installation project, like I could in VS2003. Is this possible with the
"express" version of VS?

-BKN
 
Bryce K. Nielsen said:
I've been using C# Express and couldn't find anywhere to create an
installation project, like I could in VS2003. Is this possible with the
"express" version of VS?
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I think that is precisely what they left out.
 
Doesn't it only allow click-once deployment (or whatever it's called) in the
Express editions?
 
Doesn't it only allow click-once deployment (or whatever it's called) in
the Express editions?
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Yeah, I just found the product-matrix and the only thing that Express
editions have for Deployment Tools is the ClickOnce deployment. Not exactly
sure how that works, researching now...

-BKN
 
Bryce said:
Yeah, I just found the product-matrix and the only thing that Express
editions have for Deployment Tools is the ClickOnce deployment. Not exactly
sure how that works, researching now...

-BKN
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And when you've done all the work, post the results here. It gets very
complicated when you want to add other files like databases etc.

I've been thinking that I might just do a normal VS2003 install program for my
program once I've worked out what files to include. ClickOnce doesn't allow you
to set the registry or create desktop shortcuts etc.

I didn't upgrade to VS2005 because I didn't think it was worth it to pay
$800+(Australian) for a service pack.
 
Oh come on. VS2005 is more than just a service pack.
Can you do .NET 2.0 in VS2003? Cause AFAICT that's about the only difference
between the two...

-BKN
 
There were some changes to C# but what are you going to do when C# 3.0 comes out
? Buy the product again? And then there is C# 4.0 ...

Anyway, I tried to make an install program in VS2003 to install the .NET 2.0
runtime by using the .NET plugin, but it seems to assume that because I'm using
VS2003 I only want to install .NET 1.1.
 
Bryce K. Nielsen said:
Yeah, I just found the product-matrix and the only thing that Express
editions have for Deployment Tools is the ClickOnce deployment. Not
exactly sure how that works, researching now...
Click to expand...

If you want to do a real setup, download WiX from Sourceforge. It's a lot
better than the setup project that's bundeled with Visual Studio.
 
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