When Deploying A Windows Application With A Setup Program
Aug 26, 2011
When depolying a Windows Application with a CD How does one depoly Folders, with a large number pictures in them, along with the program that uses them!Further, when having the Control Panel utillities Uninstall the Program, how can you get it to remove the Folders containing the pictures along with the program that was installed with the pictures, assuming you can do so in the first place?Do not suggest using C or any other laguage please!
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Oct 29, 2011
I'm a Visual Basic beginner. There are many things that I didn't know about Windows software development as I've been a Mac user for 20 years and just started developing Windows programs several days ago.
Anyway, using Visual Studio Installer (File > Add > New Project > Visual Studio Installer), I have two files inside the Release folder - setup.exe and Setup.msi. I've got some information about these files. So when you publish your software, what do you do with these two files? According to one web site, you can put them together into one with IExpress, which produces a file with an extension of CAB. Another web site suggests SFX Compiler. In the meantime, I downloaded a dozen applications at Download.com earlier. If I click on the download button, the final delivery extension is .exe on most of them. I know that you won't go anywhere by double-clicking on setup.exe from the Release folder without Setup.msi. Meanwhile, Setup.msi is a tand-alone application. But nobody uses this file alone to distribute their product.
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Aug 31, 2010
When a user click the .msi, i want a folder called "Your Files", which comes with two small images by default, to be created in C:UsersYourNameDocuments. In short, MyDocuments.
What i did is put the following code in program.cs:
string myDocuments = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
string downloadArea = System.IO.Path.Combine(myDocuments, "Your Files");
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(downloadArea);
Just before:
Application.Run(new mainForm());
The problem is, this folder will be created every time the user runs the application which is not a good solution, also in this case there is no place to load the two images so it can be loaded while the folder is created. I want the folder to be created once preferably while installing the application, so even when i uninstall the folder "Your Files" and its sub files be deleted automatically along with the program files. I tried to do it via Setup Project, but i couldn't.
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Jun 6, 2011
I am about to finish an application for a client. Now I'm having hard time deploying it since I really don't know how to do it.How do I deploy a windows form application with database?I've already downloaded the prerequisites redistributables. I also want those to be included in the installer.
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Jul 24, 2009
I created the windows application with Crystal Report 9.0 in .net 2003. While Deploying the Setup file I created the Merge Modules. I installed .net Framework 1.1 in that user system. After that i installed the Setup File.
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Jan 11, 2010
I want to know how to only deploy/copy the app.config file in a deployment project based on if it already exists or not. So if this is the first installation, I want to copy the app.config file to the installation directory. If it is already there, I don't want to write over it.
I also do not want this file un-installed if the either the user or the setup.exe uninstalls the program. The users will be updating this file with local information, and everytime i have a new update, I don't want to have to have them reenter it.
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Feb 17, 2009
is it possible to take and run vb.net windows application setup as windows service...if possible means how to take and run vb.net windows application setup as windows service....is it possible to run the vb.net windows application setup automatically 5 mins once....if possible means...how to run vb.net windows application setup automatically...want to run 5 minutes once automatically..
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Feb 10, 2009
I'm writing a program to deploy laptops in a domain environment. I'd like to invoke the windows setup feature that some laptop manufactures use to install applications after windows xp is installed.
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Mar 13, 2009
I have developed a couple of windows applications in Visual Vasic Express 2008. To my horror, I have just discoved that the Setup Project is not available in the express edition.I have been searching to discover which DLLs I will need to include when using my 3rd party Deployment Application.
I know which ones I need for my 3rd Party Controls, but am stuck on which Microsoft DLLs will be needed the Microsoft Controls I have used, plus any other Common DLLs that are always needed.
I have tried searching Microsoft's site but without success.
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Aug 4, 2011
i have made a window application programme in vb.net.i want to make a setup sothat it can easily install on another computer.plz help me....Pramod Gupta
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Aug 11, 2010
I have made a program that i would like to install onto both 32- and 64- bit windows. If i create a setup for 86bit will it install on both?
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Mar 20, 2009
I want to create a setup for windows application using 2008 including crystal report libraries (DLL files)and should create a icon on desktop
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Sep 29, 2009
the project contains access database file i want to make a setup of my windows application .
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Apr 8, 2009
I created a new Windows Service and a stand alone set up program for it. To the solution I added a set up program project and included both programs as outlined in [url]... However, when I run the Setup program, I do not see the my new service in the services window after the set up program completes. Is there additional work that needs to be done to have the program install the windows service correctly or do I need to include the [url]... program and a batch file to get it installed?
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Apr 8, 2009
I have created a windows application which Installs Multiple MSI's based on some condition. The project is created in Visual Studio 2008 with .Net framework 3.5; If this application runs in a machine which has atleast Dot Net 2.0 installs, it works fine. but the system without framework 2.0 throws an error "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135)"
How can I stop my application from crashing. I tried giving a check in the Main(), but it is not even firing the Main(); Is there any way I can give a prerequisite, But not in the Publish, Coz i am using the output exe and not the clickonce output..
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Dec 30, 2011
I am seeking advice or clarification of feasibility.Ihave a VB.NET (2008) application that, as an administrative tool,generates a user id, password and business role, and creates a file on disk with the aforementioned as content. This file needs to be deployed to users via a setup program that will put the file in a fixed path I specify. I was wondering if it is possible (and if so how complex it might b to mimic the functionality of the IDEs setup and deployment wizard within the application (that is to say buildthe msi file and setup.exesupplying the parameter of installation path).
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Jun 11, 2012
I packaged a VB 6.0 application using the Package and Deployment Wizard. After that I executed setup.exe in the package to setup the application. On Windows Server 2008 (32 bits), however, I received the following error when processing the setup:
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Jun 22, 2010
Step-by-Step Process of Creating a Setup and Deployment Project for windows application
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Jun 30, 2010
I am creating a windows application setup project using Visual studio 2008 setup project. This setup will have following steps[code]...
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Jul 2, 2009
Deploying Winforms Application to Client Machines Application Failing on start
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Jul 21, 2011
I built this vb.net windows application that uses an Access DB for data storage and it works fine in visual studio. The problem is, when I deploy, install it from an MSI, i get this error: (see below)If I right click on it and run this program as administrator, it works fine. I thought it was a permissions problem so I gave user, administrator and system full rights to all the files in the directory. But I still get the error.Isn't giving all the files in the program directory full rights the same as making it run as admin?
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Apr 2, 2009
add serial number requirement to Setup & deployment > setup wizard for VB.net application
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Dec 10, 2009
I have an application (.net 3.5 app) that depends on odp.net (11g). I had installed the odp.net on the production machine, i deployed my binaries. The program works fine, however it displays an error like this:This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem.The machine has Windows 2003 R2 as OS. This error occurs on the catch Oracle Exception block of my code. The program is supposed to display a message box indicating the error. It works as expected in my development machine..
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Feb 6, 2010
I'm a first time visitor and poster, but I'm definitly going to stick around. I'm running an old version of Visual Studio .Net Academic 2002 and the .Net framework 2.0. I'm stuck on an issue regarding the deployment of a few programs I've thrown together. They all work fine on my development machine, but the problem they all use SQL Server databases, and I can't find any specific help on deploying a windows application with a database on a machine that isn't set up basically just like my development machine.
I know that I need the .net runtime bootstrapper on the target machine, so I can run basic programs that dont use SQL databases. That's no problem. But what about programs that make heavy use of databases? How does one go about deploying it on target machines? Is there a SQL server bootstrapper?
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Mar 13, 2006
What is involved in deploying a vb.net 2003 application with the Microsoft Media Player component? What files must be part of the build?
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Oct 6, 2010
i have developed one windows service to support my front end application. I need to deploy only service project as MSI so client simply can install and no need to open services.msc for manual action.
I tired to use InstallUtil C:Myservice.exe and it is working but all client don't have VB.NET to find installUtil.
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May 23, 2011
I am using visual studio 2008 professional.i am trying to deploy a simple hello world application to a hand held device.
i currently have the device connected via usb, i can run the app through vb and it deploys and runs on the device however i don't know how to create the install and install it on the device so it can run independent.
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Dec 17, 2010
I'm trying to deploy a service created in VS2010 and am continually getting this error, along with the description that is expecting an application manifest, when trying to use installutil (.net 4.0)to install the service.I've developed the service both in a 32 and 64-bit environment, and tried installing in both a 32 and 64-bit environment. This does not seem to have an effect.
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May 31, 2010
I have made a Database application using SQL Server 2005 and Visual Basic (V Studion 2005). The problem is: the SQL server name on my PC is different from the name on my brother's PC.....i want to run the application in his PC......however, all database adapters, objects i have used are linked to my SQL server...hw can i run my application on my brother's PC, with minimum changes and effort?
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Jun 8, 2011
I am using VS 2008 VB and setup my application software in Win XP without any issue. But after installed in Win 7, it doesn't work well (it show one file not found, but I saw the file in the right folder). Could it be the incompatibility of VS 2008 and Win 7? If I upgrade to VS 2010, will the issue be fixed?
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