Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project

2006-05-18 Thread Peter Suter
sage - From: "Vince P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project Installer packages can be a bit tricky if you really don't take time to read the docs about them , becaue IMHO a lot of it is not intu

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project

2006-05-11 Thread Vince P
36 PM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project > > The Setup&Deployment project's IDE provides a perfectly fine > method for browsing to any file you want to add to the > installer project. Choosing that functiona

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project

2006-05-11 Thread Wilson, Phil D
Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vince P Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:20 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project I would say your attempt to bypass the system is more likely to result in od

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project

2006-05-11 Thread Vince P
] On Behalf Of > Wilson, Phil D > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:43 AM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project > > I've never trusted the Project Output options as input to a > VS installer project. I've heard

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project

2006-05-11 Thread Wilson, Phil D
TECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ritchie Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:28 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project Is this DLL one that you are compiling? If you're not, I suggest making the DLL a member of the project for which the Setup

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Ritchie
Is this DLL one that you are compiling? If you're not, I suggest making the DLL a member of the project for which the Setup project is for, then mark that DLL as "Content". Then, make sure the Setup project includes "Content" from your application project. This is not only handy from the setup p

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project

2006-05-11 Thread Vince P
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Suter > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:34 AM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project > > How is one supposed to create an installer that works ... > After creating the installer proj

[ADVANCED-DOTNET] Confusing Installer Project

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Suter
How is one supposed to create an installer that works ... After creating the installer project about 3 months ago and lots of enhancements and rebuilds later. I came back today and deleted the old .msi, deleted the exe from the installer and added it back, checking that the Source Path for one spe