[program-l] Re: Choosing an installation mechanism for my visual basic .net application
- From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:17:12 +0530
Hi David,
Many thanks for your comprehensive response. I had read about the setup
projects and templates but, they do not work in the express edition. I
suspect I could probably download some templates from the web but I have had
no success in finding any to download.
My C++ executable does not need any registering and is not really bound to
the project. The program however calls the executable as a separate process
so, I thought it would be better to include it with the program
distribution.
The installer seems to have worked
Pranav
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of David Lant
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:48 AM
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Choosing an installation mechanism for my visual
basic .net application
Hi Pranav,
By all means use ClickOnce if you like it. There's nothing hidden or
complicated about it. If your VB application references another C++
application, then by default Visual Studio will include the referenced
component in the installation directory.
If, on the other hand, you are using the C++ application in a late bound
manner, such that Visual Studio itself knows nothing about it, then the
simplest thing is to create a folder in your project and place the C++
executable in there. Include that file in your project as a miscellaneous
file and when you go through the procedure to set up your ClickOnce, just
make sure that you include all the subfolders in the project path. This is
normally the default. .NET will always check the current folder for
relative references first, then the subfolders of the current folder and
then it may go off to look in the GAC. If you're using ClickOnce, I'd steer
clear of the GAC as it's more trouble in the disconnected world you want to
be in with ClickOnce.
If there are aspects of your C++ program that prevent it from being safely
downloaded with ClickOnce, or forces you to acquire a software certificate,
then you could just as well switch to the Setup Wizard in Visual Studio.
Unfortunately, as I've never even looked at any Express editions of Visual
Studio, I don't know whether you get the Setup project templates in the
Express edition. But the Setup project templates are perfectly flexible and
accessible and I've used them on many occasions. You can manually include
files you want to distribute with your application as well as include custom
installation actions such as registering components or a host of other
things. You can associate these custom actions with various events in the
installation process, so you can customise the install, commit or rollback
operations to your heart's content. When you've done creating your setup
project, you can specify whether you want a bootstrapper to check for the
presence of Windows Installer, or simply assume the user has that and only
create an MSI. It's up to you.
All the best,
David
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Pranav Lal
Sent: 13 October 2009 15:02
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Choosing an installation mechanism for my visual
basic .net application
Hi Nick,
I have null soft downloaded but it looks too complex.
Pranav
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From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:19 PM
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Choosing an installation mechanism for my visual
basic .net application
Hi.
I'm a fan of Null Soft scriptable installer, NSIS>. It's free, very
powerful and can be gotten from www.nullsoft.com I think.
Thanks.
Nick.
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal
Sent: 12 October 2009 17:14
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Choosing an installation mechanism for my visual
basic .net application
Hi all,
I have created an application in visual basic .net. This application
uses an
external application that I have written in C++. How do I build an
installer? I could have used the click once deployment method supported
in
Visual Studio Express but I do not see how to include that C++
executable
file such that it is copied to the same directory as the application's
executable.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Pranav
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