When do I need a customer installer?

[Davey]

Hi All,

I am learning .NET. I am a little confusing about when do I need a
customer installer.

I can add the Installer class in my WinForm project. But I don't know
what the purpose of that. Under what circumtance do I need a customer
installer?

Thanks,

Davey

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[Mark Rae]

"Davey" <Da*******@gmail.comwrote in message
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Under what circumtance do I need a customer installer?

When you have written an application for somebody else to use, the app
might need to be "installed" on their computer... The installer creates an
executable (usually "setup.exe") which the user clicks, and this installs
the app i.e. copies the assemblies and executables etc into a folder of
their choosing, makes any necessary Registry entries, places an icon on the
user's desktop / start menu / quick launch menu etc...

[Peter Macej]

what the purpose of that. Under what circumtance do I need a customer

installer?

In most cases, you don't need custom installer class. The VS setup
project can handle many operations needed during application setup. But
its capabilities are limited. If you need to perform something special
during your install or uninstall, you need to write this code yourself.
The custom installer class is the place for this code. Then you call it
as a Custom action form your setup project. See
http://tinyurl.com/y5lk8t for more details.
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Peter Macej
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[Davey]

Thank you Peter. Now I understand. When I using VS to create a Setup
project, during the installation, my customer installer will be called
to performce my special tasks.

Thanks again.

Davey.

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Peter Macej wrote:

what the purpose of that. Under what circumtance do I need a customer
installer?

In most cases, you don't need custom installer class. The VS setup
project can handle many operations needed during application setup. But
its capabilities are limited. If you need to perform something special
during your install or uninstall, you need to write this code yourself.
The custom installer class is the place for this code. Then you call it
as a Custom action form your setup project. See
http://tinyurl.com/y5lk8t for more details.
--
Peter Macej
Helixoft - http://www.helixoft.com
VSdocman - Commenter and generator of class documentation for C#, VB
.NET and ASP .NET code

[Peter Macej]

Thank you Peter. Now I understand. When I using VS to create a Setup

project, during the installation, my customer installer will be called
to performce my special tasks.

Exactly

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Peter Macej
Helixoft - http://www.helixoft.com
VSdocman - Commenter and generator of class documentation for C#, VB
..NET and ASP .NET code