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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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Is there any point to the setup.exe file created by a setup project in Visual Studio?

I've created my first setup project using Visual Studio 2010. I've noticed that when I build the setup project it generates an MSI installer file and a setup.exe executable. However, I seem to be able to just right click on the MSI file and choose…
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How to move all referenced DLLs into seperate folder in c#?

I have a solution with 3 projects in it. 2 of the projects are referencing log4net, and a couple of others DLLs. When I create the install package and add project output for each of the projects - it drops the DLLs into the main "Application…
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Visual Studio: Conditionally Create Shortcuts in Setup Project?

I am working on a Setup Project in Visual Studio, and I would like the user to be able to specify whether to create a Desktop Shortcut and/or a Start Menu shortcut to the program by using checkboxes. I am able to have the installer to create working…
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How can I create Setup package for wpf 4.5 application using some script

I need to create install-able setup via scripting for my WPF application. I don't know where to start and what is best way to do this. Please help.
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Updating GAC dlls

I got a DLL registered in the GAC which has a bug in it (v4.2.0). I've therefore fixed that bug, updated the file version only (v4.2.1) (keeping the assembly version, v4.2.0) and built a new MSI package. The problem is that the DLL is not installed…
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Bootstrapper Manifest Generator for Visual Studio 2010

I'm looking for Bootstrapper Manifest Generator for VS2010. Where can I download it? I want to include MySQL installer in my C# setup project in the way I include Net Framework. Can you help me?
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Special Folder "Common Application Data Folder" not available in my setup project. Why?

I want to create a Visual Studio 2010 setup project that deploys some files to a folder where my application can use it from. I want it so, that all users have the same files, and that they also could manipulate them without admin rights. Thus,…
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Custom Action not working - Visual Studio Setup Project

In the past we have used Advanced Installer to build our .msi installers for a particular project. Our yearly license for Advanced Installer has expired, so to avoid the renewal cost, and because I think the same can be accomplished with Visual…
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Auto-increment Visual Studio Setup Project version number

I use Visual Studio Setup projects to create MSI's for my .Net Applications. It would be nice if I could have my version numbers auto-increment. Even better would be an option to set the installer version equal to AssemblyVersion of the primary…
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How to use the final {project}.exe.config file when creating a setup project

I have created a console application (blah.exe) with specific app.config's for dev and prod. These are named dev_app.config and prod_app.config. I have hooked up an AfterBuild target in my csproj file* which copies the correct config file to the bin…
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Setup project for a windows service and the event log

I got a setup project that installs a windows service. We are registering a event log source in a custom log which should be used by the winservice project (how and why is not important). My problem is that the setup project tries to create an event…
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VSTS Online Building Setup Projects?

I have a .NET Console app with a setup project I am trying to port to VSTS Online (visualstudio.com) to make use of the source control and well as adding automated build/deploy. I've got the code uploaded just fine and it builds great, but am…
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WizardImageFile does not work in Inno Setup 5.5.8

I installed the latest version of Inno Setup v5.5.8 (a) and now I can not view the WizardImageFile bitmap file in my installation wizard. It worked just fine in a the previous version. Am I doing something wrong or its a bug? Here a script example I…
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Change the current culture of the entire windows forms application .NET Compact Edition

I need to change the current culture of the application to th-TH I have tried to do this to create an object of the following type and I intend to assign it to the current thread's CurrentCulture…
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How to make a System.Configuration.Install.Installer to get a variable from the Setup project?

I have 2 projects in my solution A Windows service Its Setup project I need that my ProjectInstaller : System.Configuration.Install.Installer's method called OnAfterInstall to get the ProductName from the Setup Project. How do I do that?
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