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| | Total Hits: 65 | Today: 0 | Author: Bill Daugherty II | Rating:  |
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Creating an install MSI file is rather simple; however there is very little documentation about it, or it's choppy and sometimes too wordy. Well, the point of this article is to show you how to create the installer application, and how to make it launch your application after it has finished installing.... |
| | Total Hits: 59 | Today: 0 | Author: Neil Baliga | Rating: |
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I'd like to begin by providing a brief background of services and their capabilities to put the forthcoming solution into context. Windows services are a feature of NT operating systems such as NT 4, Windows 2000 and XP. Services are not available on legacy "desktop" operating systems such as Windows 95, 98, and the short lived Me. They are analogous to the daemon processes that run on UNIX servers and workstations.... |
| | Total Hits: 46 | Today: 0 | Author: Stefan Kuhr | Rating: |
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I recently ran into a problem where I required a self-extracting installer that would allow customers to download one single huge file in order for them to choose from a variety of setups or associated documents, like readme files or release notes. Consider a company that ships a product suite that is made up of different components like a server installation, a client installation, an administrative installation, and a command line tools installation. If each of those components has a separate ... |
| | Total Hits: 73 | Today: 0 | Author: David Hay | Rating: |
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With a Setup project created using Visual Studio .NET 2003 it is easy to add a Desktop shortcut to your application. But creating a shortcut based on a condition is not supported. Also, adding a shortcut in the Quick Launch bar is not supported. This article shows you how you can allow the user to choose whether to add these shortcuts. While developing this solution, I also needed to overcome a limitation with the System.Environment.GetFolderPath method and the System.Environment.SpecialFolder e... |
| | Total Hits: 14 | Today: 0 | Author: Douglas Day | Rating: |
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In today's world, applications are quickly moving towards a simple, all-encompassing distribution model. Web applications are gaining popularity because of their scalability and ease of deployment, and desktop applications are becoming less common. This holds both positive and negative consequences - mainly with functionality and user experience. Most applications need to ensure the best user experience possible for any given situation. In many cases, a web site meets the needs of both the devel... |
| | Total Hits: 39 | Today: 0 | Author: Terry Denham | Rating: |
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Recently I was trying to write a C# service using the .NET framework and ran into a lot of issues that were not covered in the documentation or if they were, the solution wasn't easily inferred. So I decided to write a series of articles describing in step-by-step detail, how I went about solving the problems I encountered.... |
| | Total Hits: 66 | Today: 0 | Author: Pablo van der Meer | Rating: |
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There are a lot of setup programs available, but I found that their code may add more than 250KB to the total size of the final setup application, and because most of my applications are not much bigger than 100KB, I decided to write my own installation builder. The application does not have all the features available in commercial setup builders, but it's a good start (I think...). Maybe in the future I will extend the installation builder with more features, but for now I found it good enough ... |
| | Total Hits: 45 | Today: 0 | Author: Stefan Prodan | Rating: |
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If you made an application that is using an SQL Server database that needs to be located on the client server, VS.NET Setup Project doesn't help too much, you could go for InstallShild or other product that will make things easy but the costs will get higher. So searching for a free solution I've found an article on MSDN about using the Installer class and custom actions to make this happen. The code is in VB.NET, so this article is porting it to c# with some new features that I've found useful.... |
| | Total Hits: 31 | Today: 0 | Author: Davide Icardi | Rating: |
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This application doesn't replace tool like InstallShield, Wise or Visual Studio Setup and Deployment Project; my goal is to create an application to help the users to installing the correct prerequisites components. Today applications often need to install several components to work properly: Windows Service Pack, Internet Explorer, MDAC, .NET Framework etc. With this tool the developer can define the application prerequisites and install the correct version of these components in the correct or... |
| | Total Hits: 75 | Today: 0 | Author: ambatisreedhar | Rating: |
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There is no need of any other tools like “mysql-gui-tools-5.0-r17-win32 “ and EasyPHP for Drupal installation. WampServer has inbuilt server and database.... |
| | Total Hits: 99 | Today: 0 | Author: Kevin Wessell | Rating: |
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Here is the solution to - "Try installing Windows Live programs again. Programs were not installed because the installation was canceled. aborted:0x80004004. A lot of people have asked and I found the solution.... |
| | Total Hits: 72 | Today: 0 | Author: Anand Narayanaswamy | Rating: |
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This article covers some common problems that may occur after the installation of Visual Studio.NET "Whidbey" and how to overcome them.... |
| | Total Hits: 49 | Today: 0 | Author: Natty Gur. | Rating: |
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This application is a part of the installation system that I use. My installation process uses an input XML file that is created by the application, to deploy and register the assemblies in the same locations as in the deploying machine. Using this method I reduce many errors. You can use this application to test your applications in a production environment. You can test and see if all of your application references match the files on your production server and to find out any existing problems... |
| | Total Hits: 186 | Today: 0 | Author: gtamir | Rating: |
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Many believe that an MSI install file is the only way to install a Windows service. In truth, using an MSI is only one of several ways to install a Windows service. This article will explain how to perform a scripted install of a Windows service. In addition to explaining how to install a service using a script, this article will also explain how to install multiple instances of the same assembly as multiple Windows services.
I maintain a distributed software application. The application back... |
| | Total Hits: 41 | Today: 0 | Author: David Fleischman | Rating: |
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Describes the redistribution of the .NET Framework for development computers and the required or recommended programs for using the .NET Framework as well as the rationale behind their installation. A computer that hosts a distributed application. This could be a Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, or Windows 2000 computer. In many cases, these computers are Web servers running ASP.NET applications. A computer that runs a locally installed application, such as a Windows application, th... |
| | Total Hits: 33 | Today: 0 | Author: Dennis Angeline | Rating: |
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The side-by-side support built into the .NET Framework allows multiple versions of the Framework to be installed on a single system. With the release of version 1.1 of the .NET Framework, application and component developers need to consider how their code operates on systems that have multiple versions of the Framework installed. The 1.1 Framework is designed to be highly compatible with the 1.0 Framework. Microsoft has gone to great lengths to ensure that the vast majority of applications buil... |
| | Total Hits: 236 | Today: 0 | Author: Anthony Glenwright | Rating: |
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When it comes to installations, automation beats manual intervention hands-down every time. Learn how to build custom installer classes to automate setup tasks that Visual Studio setup projects don't handle automatically.... |
| | Total Hits: 94 | Today: 0 | Author: Visual Studio Team | Rating: |
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This article introduces the Experience Visual Studio .NET lab module and discusses the hardware and software requirements to run it. The hands-on labs that comprise the Experience Visual Studio .NET module highlight the programming features within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. You will be introduced to C#, ASP.NET and Visual Basic .NET in a variety of ways: you will look at, run, and debug code using the Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE).... |
| | Total Hits: 203 | Today: 0 | Author: Peter A. Bromberg | Rating: |
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For those of you expert hotshot programmers who are too young to remember what you were doing during the Crash of '87 or who don't know what a mutual fund is, the BASIC compiler was a deal that processed your GW-Basic non-gui, inline code that had a buncha GOSUBS and GOTOS in it, and this dealie would mangle it and turn out an EXE file that you could RUN - without the BASIC interpreter. In geek - speak, kinda like running a Java program without the Java VM.... |
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