You can target the. NET 4 versions in your windows and Web applications. Additionally, you can check that any version of the. NET Framework is installed on the end-user computer, rather than checking for a specific version of the.
NET Framework. Let us look at these available templates from the picture below;. Setup Project Builds an installer for a Windows application, setup projects will install files into the file system of a target computer.
In addition, a Setup Wizard is available to simplify the process of creating a Setup or Web Setup project. Builds an installer for a Web application, the files for a Web Setup Projects are installed into a Virtual Root directory on Web servers.
The distinction between Setup and Web Setup projects is where the installer will be deployed. A merge module. Merge modules cannot be installed alone, but must be used within the context of a Windows Installer.
Merge modules allow you to capture all of the dependencies for a particular component, ensuring that the correct versions are installed. Much the same as dynamic-link libraries allow you to share code between applications; merge modules allow you to share setup code between Windows Installers. Creates a CAB file for downloading to an earlier Web browser. Unlike the other deployment project types, there are no editors provided for working with Cab projects. Files and project outputs can be added to a Cab project in Solution Explorer, and properties can be set in the Properties window or in the Project Property pages.
After the wizard has finished, now you have completed to create an installer for your application. Now save all changes and start to build your application, if building completed successfully, build the installer.
Go to where you have saved the solution and you will see an installer file inside the debug folder in your setup project directory. But I think this is not enough for you! You need to go deeper in customization, so follow me in the following issues:. The deployment editors are used to configure an installer that you create with a deployment project.
To open an editor, select a deployment project and the buttons will appear as shown below or alternatively, right-click your deployment project, point to View, and then click the name of the editor that you want to open. File system editor; When the project is added to the solution, the first thing to be displayed is the file system editor.
The picture above shows file system editor. To put shortcut of your application in start menu or desktop go to application folder , right click on primary output from … Or any other files which you want to create shortcut for them , select create shortcut to… then the shortcut will appear, cut it and paste to the folder where you want a shortcut to appear. Also you can add project outputs in the target folder using the same way explained below just select project output… instead of a file.
The user interface editor helps you to customize the installation wizard interface. The Install section contains dialog boxes that will be displayed when the end user runs the installer; the Admin section contains dialog boxes that will be displayed when a system administrator uploads the installer to a network location. The Registry Editor allows you to specify registry keys and values to be added to the registry of the target computer. Playing with registry need more experienced person otherwise it may course some trouble in target computer, but you can add or remove keys according to what your project needs.
To add a registry key select a top level node, in the action menu click new key , then type the new name and edit properties of the key in the properties window as necessary. To add a sub key select a key node, in the action menu point to new and then key and you can edit its properties from the properties window. Also you can remove a key by selecting it and then click Delete from Edit menu.
During installation the values will be written to the registry and any existing values will be overwritten by the values that you specify. Here you can specify additional actions to be performed on the target computer at the end of an installation.
When these components are configured as installation components, they are wrapped in an installer class and are recognized by the deployment system as a custom action. The editor contains four folders, each corresponding with a phase of installation: Install Commit, Rollback, and Uninstall which are run in the same order that they are displayed in the editor.
To add custom actions first must be compiled as a. NET framework component and added to a project as a script or assembly before they can be added to a deployment project. Setup project in the Solution Explorer. In the invoked context menu, choose Add Project Output…. The Add Project Output Group dialog will be invoked. In the Project dropdown list, select the Windows Forms application project e.
In the Configuration drop-down list, select the Release configuration. All the dependent assemblies will be added to the Setup project.
Specify the Setup project properties via the Properties window. Set the Author property to your name. Set the Manufacturer to your company name.
Set the ProductName to MySolution. Set the RemovePreviousVersions to True. Set the Title to MySolution Setup. Right-click the MySolution. In the invoked context menu, choose View File System. Right-click the blank space to the right.
In the invoked context menu, choose Create New Shortcut. In the invoked Select Item in Project dialog, double-click the Application Folder to expand its content. Double-click the Primary output from MySolution. Win Active item to set it as the shortcut target. If your application is localized and uses the pre-built satellite assemblies , the satellite assemblies should be deployed with the application.
Add the required satellite assemblies to this folder right-click the folder and choose Add File…. Additionally, the satellite assemblies with your custom localizations made within modules, should be added. In the Project dropdown list, select the module project e.
Analogously, add the required localized resources from the platform-specific module. It seems to create only the. Running places the program in the program files directory. We will choose the setup wizard to deploy this particular application. The setup wizard brings up a nice step by step dialog for creating our setup project: As stated in the dialog, the wizard creates an installer that you can use to install your project.
The next screen asks you what kind of installer you wish to create: We want a plain old Windows setup, so we choose set up for a rich client application. The next screen prompts us as to which files we would like installed: If you just want to deploy the application with no source or documentation, then just choose Primary output. This will deploy the necessary exes and dlls for your application. The next screen prompts you for additional files such as readme.
In the case of Hangman, we added the sound files: The last screen is just a report informing you of what you've done and where the vdp visual deployment project is created: When you click finish, a directory is created for deployment.
Now we need to build our project in order to deploy it, so simply choose build solution from the build menu. This will create the MySetupProject. If we double click on MySetupProject. For most installations, this just means xcopying all the necessary files into a directory under program files. In the case of the hangman project, these would be all the System. I don't know. K Wednesday, August 7, AM. Tuesday, August 6, PM. If you still need help then you need to help us help you.
What specifically do you not understand? Or what specifically does not happen that needs to happen or what specifically does happen that is not supposed to happen? Sam Hobbs SimpleSamples. Sunday, August 4, AM. Monday, August 5, AM. Monday, August 5, PM. Yep, that seems to be for store apps. K, Thanks for your feedback.
Please check whether the extension is installed. Besides, make sure that the extension is " Enable ". If you do so, the template project is already exists.
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