Need Installer Project to install device drivers

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Steve

I've tried to find out how to do this on MSDN and other sites, but I can't
find an example or even a mention of this. I need to install some printer
drivers with my application, anyone know how to accomplish this with a c#
Installer Project (MSI)?

Thanks for any help,
Steve
 
Steve said:
I've tried to find out how to do this on MSDN and other sites, but I can't
find an example or even a mention of this. I need to install some printer
drivers with my application, anyone know how to accomplish this with a c#
Installer Project (MSI)?
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Support for these kinds of things is not provided by default. You should
probably invest in a more robust installation package. It can be done
though. You'll have to implement a customaction which installs the
printer driver. I have no code samples for this and it would probably
involve a few p/Invoke calls to the win32 api, but it could work eventually.

It's probably cheaper and easier to just go out and buy a decent
installer product.

Jesse Houwing
 
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