AutoLaunch Wizard in .NET

[romcab]

Hi guys,

Just want to ask your idea on how I can make an AutoLaunch wizard. What I want is to automatically launch a wizard after I install my application. This wizard will configure the initial settings of my application. Do I need to add this on my installer project? How can I detect that my apps is successfully install and autolaunch the wizard? Hope you can share my some ideas and I will gladly try it.

Thanks guys!

[romcab]

Hello.

I was able to create an installer that can autolaunch an application. But I encountered another problem. I cannot locate the exact location of the exe that I'm going to launch. Right now it's working because i hardcoded it's position. I'm thinking on how to get the value in installation folder so I can assign it to the Process var. Below is my code snippet.

public override void Commit(System.Collections.IDictionary savedState)
{
base.Commit(savedState);
//System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://www.microsoft.com");
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Documents and Settings\myName\Desktop\AppsToLaunch\AppsToLaunch\ bin\Debug\AppsToLaunch.exe";
+ "AppsToLaunch.exe";
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.Start();
}

If you notice, the p.StartInfo.FileName is hardcoded. This should be replace by the installation folder + exe name.

[romcab]

Hello,

I was able to figure it out. I just set the CustomActionData property to /INSTALLDIR="[TARGETDIR]\" and get it using Context.Parameters ["INSTALLDIR"]; I then set it to p.StartInfo.FileName. Hope this will help other guys.

Thanks.