Re: Visual Studio Installer Project 2019
Lala Klingerman
From Visual Studio, choose Extensions > Manage Extensions, and search for "Visual Studio Installer Projects". Or, download the extension directly from the Marketplace.
To create a self-contained installer, set the PublishProfilePath property on the Publish Items node in the setup project, using the relative path of a publish profile with the correct properties set.
If you would like your installer to be able to install the necessary runtime for a framework-dependent .NET Core 3.1 or .NET 5.0+ app, you can do this using prerequisites. From the properties dialog of your installer project, open the Prerequisites... dialog and you'll see the following entries:
This tutorial will show you how to create installers for your Visual Studio solutions using Visual Studio 2022. For other versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, please make sure you first download the corresponding Advanced Installer extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace.
We will start by adding an Advanced Installer Project to an existing solution, editing it and creating a package. Afterwards, we will include and a new Visual Studio project to the solution and build both projects in a single package.
Let's suppose we have an Enterprise edition of Advanced Installer. By default, the installer project will be created based on a Freeware license. Since we want to use features from the Enterprise edition, like selecting a theme for the installation dialogs, we will need to upgrade our project type:
If an Advanced Installer Project is added to a solution, it will automatically import the build output and all useful information related to the projects from the solution. If later, the existing projects are modified, or another project is added to the solution the import operation must be redone.
If you have solutions that contain old Visual Studio Deployment projects (.vdproj) you can automatically convert them to an Advanced Installer project and have it included in your solution, replacing the old VDPROJ. Just open the solution in Visual Studio, with our Advanced Installer VS extension installed, and VS will prompt you to accept the conversion from VDPROJ to AIPROJ (Advanced Installer VS project).
The new project Advanced Installer project will contain all the resources from the old VDPROJ. If you want to customize it more just use the "Edit in Advanced Installer" button, available when you open the .aip file in Visual Studio.
I have a project that has a labview panel and a visual studio (vb.net) 2008 component. The labview panel was compiled into an exe file, and then I built an installer for that exe. That installer works great if I install it stand alone. However, I would really like my visual studio project to install that, so I included the volume folder that is built by labview into the application folder in visual studio setup project. I then have been trying to run a custom action to call the setup.exe file with the arguments : "/qb /AcceptLicenses yes /r:n". However, no matter what I do I get an error of some sort. That exact command always makes a window pop up that says invalid parameters. I have attached a picture of my visual studio project that shows the custom action and the arguments. What am I doing wrong?
1.) Before adding the installer with the quiet installation args I would test it separately by a simple cmd line call. I dont think that this is a setup project issue.I suppose that the LV setup doesnt support the switches.
2.) I wouldnt include the LV setup with all the dependencies like the the complete LV runtime because typically you just release an updated version of your executable that doesnt require a reinstallation of the LV environment. That will also take a loooong time. Thats why I would suggest just to add the executable to your VS setup project. That would be a simple copy action to your destination directory.
Add-in Express enables developers to build Windows Installer based setup projects for their Office extensions in two ways:
- Installation Software Products Supported by Add-in Express
- Creating a setup project using Setup Project Wizard
- Creating a Visual Studio Installer setup project manually
Add-in Express doesnt directly support installation software products that don't integrate with the Visual Studio IDE. To deploy an add-in using such an installation software product, you need to "translate" instructions we publish in Creating a Visual Studio Installer setup project manually to the "language" of the product. A "translated" instruction is available for Advanced Installer; see here.
To help you create an installer for your Office plug-in, Add-in Express provides the setup project wizard accessible via menu Project Create Setup Project in Visual Studio. Another way to run the wizard is shown in the screenshot.
Let's run the setup project wizard for the sample project described in Writing Microsoft Outlook COM add-in. The below describes creating a standard setup project in Visual Studio. You may also want to check Creating a WiX setup project.
Also, the following custom actions are created for your setup project. They will be performed on the end-user's machine to register your add-in after installation and unregister it before uninstallation:
You can create a Visual Studio Installer setup project manually; follow the steps below. To manually create a setup project for any other installation software product, you need to "translate" the steps below to the "language" of the product that you use.
If a COM add-in or RTD server is installed on the per-user basis, or if you deploy a smart tag or an Excel UDF, the value of the privileges argument above is user. If a COM add-in or RTD server is installed on the per-machine basis, in other words, if the RegisterForAllUsers property of the corresponding module is true, the value of the privileges argument above is admin.
Make sure that the .NET Framework launch condition specifies a correct .NET Framework version and correct download URL. Note that we recommend using launch conditions rather than prerequisites because installing a prerequisite usually requires administrative permissions and in this way installing a per-user Office extension may result in installing the extension for the administrator, but not for the user who ran the installer.
If administrative permissions are required to install prerequisites, then for a per-user Office extension, the elevation dialog will be shown on UAC-enabled systems. If the administrator's credentials are entered in this situation, then the installer will be run on behalf of the administrator and therefore, the Office extension will be installed for the administrator, not for the user who originally ran the installer.
The executable adxPatch.exe also provides the /RunActionsAsInvoker parameter. If set to true (default), it specifies that adxRegistrator.exe used as a custom action will be run with the privileges of the user who launches the installer.
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Visual Studio provides installer projects in order to make application deployment simple. To have the Visual Studio installer project type with your version of Visual Studio, make sure you download and install the corresponding extension to your machine.
Now, fill the fields appropriately as per the description mentioned when you highlight the field. Make sure you select the appropriate platform using TargetPlatform. If you want to install this installer on a 64-bit machine as a 64-bit application then select x64 instead of x86.
Override the OnAfterInstall method of the ProjectInstaller class and perform the start operation to enable automatic Windows service start after installation. Similarly, override the OnBeforeUninstall method to stop the running service at the time of product uninstallation.
The upgrade is the process of installing or uninstalling required features components binaries or files from the existing installation. To perform the upgrade using the Visual Studio installer perform these steps.
Note. When performing upgrades to remove the existing product automatically, one should override the OnBeforeInstall method of the Installer class and write the code to remove the product. Refer to the OnBeforeInstall method for details.
The primary reason for this is that the ProductCode Guid identifies the product to Windows (see the setup project properties in Figure 1). Since you have already installed the product identified by that Guid, you must use a Windows Installer update mechanism to install a new version of your product.
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