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Programs used to create installers are generically called setup projects. In most cases you are probably using a tool (on Windows examples are Visual Studio, InnoSetup, WiX, Advanced Installer, Wise, InstallShield) to create the setup, so a more accurate and useful tag would be one for that specific tool.

Because the requisite process varies for each program and each computer, many programs (including operating systems) come with a general-purpose or dedicated installation program called an installer–a specialized program which automates most of the work required for their installation.

The program which create installer are setup project.

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How do I fix 'Setup project with custom action file not found' exception?

I am trying to create a setup project for a Windows Service. I've followed the directions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816169 to create the setup project with no trouble. I want to be able to get a value during the installation in order to…
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Specifying c:\ProgramData folder in Setup project?

I am using a Windows Installer deployment project in VS 2010 to create an installer for a small demo project. The demo needs to install a SQL Compact database file (MyData.sdf). The demo can't install the database to the application folder on the…
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Will Web Deployment Projects still be available in Visual Studio 2012?

It looks like Visual Studio 2012 will not include Visual Studio Setup and Deployment Projects according to MSDN, so I'm currently learning WiX. Will this loss of functionality extend to Web Deployment Projects?
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General failure building bootstrapper

while doing the build of my dontnet 4.0 project setup i'm getting following errors An error occurred generating a bootstrapper: Unable to finish updating resource for E:\project\Setup\Debug\setup.exe with error 8007006E …
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Why do I get "An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '80004005'" when building a setup project?

Why do I get the following error when building a setup project? An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '80004005'
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How to "enable 'Download prerequisites from the same location as my application'"

tl;dr Visual Studio 2013 Creating a plain installer, project template: Other Project Types > Visual Studio Installer > Setup Project There's gotta be something simple I'm missing. I've got the installers (i.e NDP451-KB2858728-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe)…
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Visual C++ 2010 Runtime Libraries prerequisite keeps popping up on a VS 2010 created installer

I created an installer with Visual Studio 2010 Version 10.0.40.219.1 SP1 Rel. My application is built/compiled for x86 and requires VC++ runtime libraries. Thus, the setup project is configured with VC++ runtime libraries as a prerequisite. Every…
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Is there any Haskell-land equivalent to the Ruby-land's Bundler et. al and, if not, how would a project so structured be contrived?

Note to readers: Bear with me. I promise there's a question. I have a problem to solve and think to myself "Oh, I'll do it in Ruby." $ bundle gem problemsolver create problemsolver/Gemfile create problemsolver/Rakefile create …
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Visual Studio: How to automatically uninstall previous installed version?

I have a simple Web Setup project that reads from a Deployable Project. Even though I have set the Setup to DetectNewerInstalledVersion to false I always get that annoying alert box that a previous installation exists and I need to go to the Control…
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Setup Project in Visual Studio 2010 Requires .NET 4.0

When setting up a Setup Project in Visual Studio 2010 and even to I removing all the prerequistes .NET 4.0 is still required on the computer that runs the Installation. Deploying with ClickOnce works but is not an option, but at least it doesn't ask…
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Experiences with Wix# WixSharp compared to WiX

We are using Inno Setup and are planning to replace this with WiX. But when evaluating and playing around with WiX, I felt the declarative manner has some limitations compared to programmatic setup solutions. Moreover I found out that the WiX…
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Setting correct icon for Shortcut in VS2010 Setup Project

I have a small app with a setup project. If I create a shortcut to my Primary Output, then this gets a standard Win7 icon and not the icon specified in my exe's Application Icon? Whats the best way to make sure my desktop shortcut icon is the same…
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Cabal to setup a new Haskell project?

Is it possible to (ab)use Cabal to have it create a generic Haskell project with a simple command, similar to what you can do in the Scala world with Sbt or Maven? e.g. > cabal create AwesomeProject > ls AwesomeProject.hs awesomeProject.cabal …
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How to add nuget packages and run custom project wizard?

I built my own project template. When a project is created with the template, a custom wizard is launched that allows the user to edit the project that was created. The problem is that I also need to add some very simple nuget packages to the…
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Best tool to create MSI

I am new to setup project creation. Now I am using Visual studio 2008 to create setup file (msi) for my project. I am quit uncomfortable in creating my own custom forms in the installation wizard as well as upgrading an existing version of my…
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