What all is involved in writing an installer for a C# .NET Windows program?

[Will Pittenger]

I have C# .NET Standard 2003 (not Professional) but did not a Installer
project template in the project template list. How would I use that? I
have one DLL that my program uses. (I needed controls derived from other
controls of my own creation. Without the DLL, the form editor would not
accept the base class as valid.

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Will Pittenger
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[Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]]

With this scenario, you should pretty easy do away with one of free
installer tools available on the Web.
Even XCOPY deployment would do here, but it's not that user-friendly, you
know :-)

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Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
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"Will Pittenger" <wi************@verizon.net> wrote in message
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I have C# .NET Standard 2003 (not Professional) but did not a Installer
project template in the project template list. How would I use that? I
have one DLL that my program uses. (I needed controls derived from other
controls of my own creation. Without the DLL, the form editor would not
accept the base class as valid.

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Will Pittenger
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[cbmeeks]

This is what I use...it's free and awesome:

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

-cb

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I have C# .NET Standard 2003 (not Professional) but did not a Installer
project template in the project template list. How would I use that? I
have one DLL that my program uses. (I needed controls derived from other
controls of my own creation. Without the DLL, the form editor would not
accept the base class as valid.

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Will Pittenger
E-Mail: mailto:wi************@verizon.net
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[Will Pittenger]

What about the installer that apparently comes with Studio. I see its
project template listed in the new projects dialog. Also, my project may
get more complex as some internal namespaces may get promoted to separate
projects so I can post them by themselves to CodeProject. I have no clue
how these installers know when to put something into Common Files. I have
no clue as to whether my DLLs need to be registered. I have no clue if I
will have problems converting those namespaces into separate DLLs.
Furthermore, since I have never written an installer, what I pick to install
with will be easy to use.

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"cbmeeks" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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This is what I use...it's free and awesome:

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

-cb

"Will Pittenger" <wi************@verizon.net> wrote in message

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I have C# .NET Standard 2003 (not Professional) but did not a Installer
project template in the project template list. How would I use that? I
have one DLL that my program uses. (I needed controls derived from other controls of my own creation. Without the DLL, the form editor would not
accept the base class as valid.

----------
Will Pittenger
E-Mail: mailto:wi************@verizon.net
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