How To Make An Installer For Program
Nov 11, 2011i would like to ask on how to make a installer for my vb.net program. Are there application that is capable of making an installer.
View 1 Repliesi would like to ask on how to make a installer for my vb.net program. Are there application that is capable of making an installer.
View 1 RepliesHow do you make an advanced MSI custom installer in VB.net? Like InstallShield, ect...
View 18 RepliesI have made my program which i want to distribute, how can i make an installation package for it?I know there are third party software i can use to do this, but is there anything in the VB framework that i can use to install it?
View 3 Repliesi would like to ask....after i completed my application and i would like to make it become an installer instead of publish it,what should i do next?
View 9 RepliesI have completed a VB.NET project and I want make a installer for this project by coding.so I don't know how coding !
View 3 RepliesHow can i make my own installer with out using INNO for example.
The current one i use is Click Team it's freeware but has a ad at the end which i hate. I made a small application that downloads the latest version of the main application. But the problem is that it downloads the click team install package.
I want to make my own custom installer without those other stuff. I want the installer to how I made it.I got the layout, directory picker and everything but how can I get the files I want them to install into the program and they click a button so they install to the location.
View 2 Repliesmake a splashscreen with an installer like the image below.. I know how to make a splashscreen. Say i made a splashscreen in vb2008 i added a button saying install Is there a way i can get a app into the button..Sorry for my bad english.. Do you see the image below? If i click copytodvdsetp it will open the installer and start installing
If i click the serial button it will open a text box.. How do i make that??
Is there a way to make the progress bar in Windows Installer look different?Could you make it look like a progress bar with the green boxes?
View 7 RepliesI use VB 2008 express edition. I want to be able to make an installer for my project. If I run the executable file from the development computer, it works fine. When I try to install the program in other computer, it tries to download .net framework. Is there anyway to prevent this to happen? I have the .net framework installer in a CD.
View 2 RepliesI have been searching online for an answer for this question, but cannot find anything useful in my case. I added deployment to my project, but I want that deployment to copy JavaScript files to a certain dynamic location. The only way I can think of is having the deployment call my function that I can write in VB.net.
View 1 Replieswhat is the name of the installer used to create a vb.net program?
View 1 RepliesWhat would be the most clean & efficient method to make a page based interface, such as an installer?
I've had a few ideas, I could make a class for each control i'm going to use that has a Page ID number, and compare that against a global current page number, except I want it to be reusable, so that would mean i'd have to make a class for every control.
I know that you can make an installer with visual basic and have an option to run as admin and add to firewall. But is there a way to do this with out installing?
View 3 RepliesHow do i make the program into a real exe installer? like the normal ones you use for other apps.
View 2 RepliesI just finish my first application, and it is runing very nice on my computer, outsite IDE.But when I put it on another computer or in a virtual machine, i get some error and it is not running.In my application i have only controls, no dll, no nothing, except one picture.I have to mention that i have win7 on 64 bit and i use visual basic 2010 Express with netframework 4.0.
I also want to ask you what i have to do to make an install pack that contains microsoft installer and framework.I want to make a setup file with all this included.
I'm currently developing an application for a POS Terminal using VB.net. Our project is approaching the last stage of development and I've been tasked to create 2 installers. 1 for Initial Installation, and the other for upgrade installation.
The project is composed of several elements. These are:
1. The application executable
2. Common DLLs that we developed
3. some resources (.resx and XML)
The requirement for the upgrade installer is that only those files with modification should be installed. (i.e. if only the xml or resx files are modified those are the only items that will be reinstalled, since the size of the upgrade installer is a consideration so we cannot reinstall everything).
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 for my deployment project but I'm a bit confused about how to set the properties of each file in such a way that during the upgrade, only the files that were modified would be updated and the rest of the files will not be removed since I'm setting RemovePreviousVersion property to True. I have a hunch that I need to do something with the custom action but I haven't been able to figure it out. The upgrade installer setup is almost the same as the initial installer except that all files are excluded.I tried to acquire a copy of Phil Wilson's book (The definitive guide to Windows Installer) but its not available in our local bookstore and it would take too long to order it.
Basically while tinkering with the settings/properties there are instances where the dll was not updated and there are also times when the application exe was removed.
I already verified that the Product code is the same for both installers and that I'm sure that the version number is being incremented for each upgrade.
If I will be redoing both installers from scratch, how should I go about it?
I'm also confused about the Condition property and the transitive property.
Triying to use the built in Visual Studio 2010 to install a couple of files and after that is done to run another installer package (3rd Party Installation Wizard).
View 1 RepliesHow can i create msi installer for my designed project in vb 2008
View 8 RepliesI downloaded this project which is in c sharp: [url] that guys sets his startup object as SID.Installer.BootStrap.Program. I created a windows forms application in vb wanting to do what he did. Probelm is I don't get my program class as a startup. Mine has dropdowns for startup form which I can only set as Form1.
View 3 RepliesI want to make a extractor/installer for example the users will press Install and it will extract myprogram.exe at C:/windows/system32/ automatically when they press install.
View 7 RepliesI want to create a windows installer package using visual studio. It is my understanding that there was a simple way to do this in vb6, you could add an installer like you can add a new form.
How can I do this in vb.net? I downloaded and installed the Windows SDK from [url]... because it said somewhere that it could create installer packages and had tools to do so for .net
I am trying to kill my program when a new version is being installed through the installer using a custom action.
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I have written a program in Visual Basic 10 and all is well. I have published it and have been burning the result to a cd and installed it on various computers, however it is the click once app, which has been fine till now. What I need to do now is to have the program install the .exe file and associated files (non click once app) to a specific drive on a computer or network computer. I have searched the net for instructions on how to initiate the windows installer and have failed. is there a program that you can select the source files then point to the installation folder tell it to go and an installation package gets made that I can burn to disk.
View 3 RepliesI have code/support an application built on .NET framework that has always run on .NET 2. This year we are upgrading the application to use .NET 3.5 (or 4?). In preparing for this change we noticed that that Offline Installer (required for our customer base) for .NET 3.5 is 200+ MBs bigger than the .NET 4 offline installer.
Here are my questions.Why is the dotnet 3.5 installer so much bigger than the 4 offline installer?
Can we TARGET .NET 3.5 but distribute .NET 4. In other words, is .NET 4 backwards compatible? Assuming that .NET 4 was the only installed .NET could application still target earlier frameworks?
IF our application is compiled for x86 CPU (rather than Any CPU) do you still have to distribute the x64/x86 Client Profile or can we just distribute the x86 Client Profile? In other words, can we distribute the x86 Client Profile even though it will be installed on x64 machines if our app is compiled for x86 target CPU? Any risks or gotchas for doing this?
The issue is that if we upgrade our app to target .NET 4 there are a lot of application servers that we also have to upgrade which effects a number of other applications.
I cannot find a way to make a program that I write make a shortcut in the start menu for all users.My final goal is to make an MSI and deploy it in group policy to all users on a computers OU. Is this possible?
View 5 RepliesHow do i make my button open a program and make it windows size?
View 6 RepliesIf e.CommandLine.Count > 0 Then
Dim IncomingCommand As String = e.CommandLine.Item(0).ToString
If IncomingCommand.Substring(0, 2) = "-1" Then
form1.close()
End If
End If
I am trying to make the program close if the -1 string is sent with the program. See my installer allows for me to run certain programs before it actually installs, but it doesn't shut down copies of the program itself. So I have a next startup instance set to shut the program down if the -1 is received. But if the program is not running it starts up instead. This is not desired. form1.close doesn't work. e.cancel = true doesn't work, etc etc. What can I do to make the program not start during this instance.
I made vb.net program for 1440x900 resolution, if i run my program on 800x600 or 1024x768, my program's resolution is bigger then windows, so i have problem with resolution. Now i want to change my program's size and i am interested in, wich resolution is correct to make program, 800x600 such as minimum?
View 9 RepliesHow do I make a program that opens a file in the folder the program is stored?
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