Sam Hobbs SimpleSamples. Sunday, August 4, AM. Monday, August 5, AM. Monday, August 5, PM. Yep, that seems to be for store apps. K, Thanks for your feedback. Please check whether the extension is installed. Besides, make sure that the extension is " Enable ". If you do so, the template project is already exists. Tuesday, August 6, AM. Dear Dave, Thanks for the reply. Many many thanks for solving the problem!! Edited by V. K, We are so glad that your issue solved. Thanks for your understanding.
Wednesday, August 7, AM. Hi Perry, Sorry I forgot to mark your reply as "Answer"; now it is done. I'm seeing the same problem. BTW I installed on a different machine, and it works like it supposed to. Monday, February 3, PM. Now open the file system editor by clicking on the project and select the option to open the file system editor, as shown in the following figure. Right-click on the Application Folder and add an output project; the output project specifies the project we are creating an installer for, like in the following figure: Select "CreatingInstaller", in other words the Windows application project name in the "Add Output Project Group" window, select it as the primary output as shown below and click "Ok".
The Primary output will be added as shown below, having a type defined as Output. In the meanwhile let's add some more functionality to our Windows application, let's read a file and show its output in a message box on button click. Therefore just add a text file, I called it Sample. I chose to keep my txt file at the startup path so that I could explain how to create files and folders at the time of installation.
Now we also need this Input folder and a Sample. For file operations I added the namespace System. IO, needless to specify this thou. Therefore running the application will show two message boxes, one after another showing the text box text and text from the Sample. Now in this folder creation logic has to be implemented in the out setup project, so that when the application installs, it has all the pre-requisites required to run the application, like the Input folder and the Sample.
So, right-click on the Application Folder in the File system editor and add a folder. The folder will be created just below the Application Folder, name that folder Input. Right-click on the folder, select properties and mark Always Create property to True. That means the folder will always be created whenever we run the installer, after a fresh build release.
Create Shortcuts You can decorate your form to add an icon to it, that icon will also be required at the time of installation to create a shotcut icon to our application. Add an icon to the form like in the following figure: It is now time to add the Sample. Right-click the Input folder created and Add file to it, browse for the Sample. To create a shortcut to the application, right-click on the Primary output in the middle window pane and select "Create Shortcut to Primary Output", name that shortcut as CreatingInstaller.
Select the properties of the shortcut by right-clicking it and add an icon to it. This icon will be created on the Desktop when the application launches. The following figures shows how to add an icon. The job is done to create a shortcut to the user's Desktop. For shortcuts to be created in the User's Program Menu, add a new folder to the User's Program Menu that will be created at the program's menu location.
In that folder create a new shortcut pointing to the primary output as done for creating a Desktop shortcut. The following three images shows the process: Name the folder CreatingInstaller.
Right-click on the middle window pane to create a new shortcut. Select the shortcut source to the primary output as selected. Also add an icon to the shortcut, as done for the Desktop shortcut. Right-click the Application folder to set the properties of where to install the application, as in the following: Uninstall We always have an option to uninstall the application from the Control panel's Programs and Features list as simple as that but how about creating our own uninstaller, that too is under the programs menu so that we do not need to disturb the Control Panel.
Windows32 folder. This file provides the parameters and other data to install and uninstall the application based on certain parameters specified. Set the properties of the file exactly as shown in the following figure: Step 4 Now create a new shortcut under the User's program Menu and point its source to msiexec as shown below.
You can add icons and a name to your shortcut. I have given it the name "Uninstall". Step 5 Press the F4 key by selecting the setup project. We see a list of properties, we can customize these properties as per our installation needs, like set Product name, Author, Installation location. I'll not go into a deep discussion about all this, since they are quite easy to understand and set.
Andy, thnx for this article! I got it. Andy 19 May Good to see this has been of use…. Peter 7 July Thanks so much! Andy 7 July Glad to see these instructions are still of use…. Tarun Kumar Singh 5 September Sandiego 30 July Andy 30 July Hi Sandiego Yes, it was the exectuable contained in the Debug or Release folder that I had in mind, that exe which when you double-click on it runs the application you are working on.
Andy 31 July Alex 21 August Thanks a lot. Andy 21 August For the second question, perhaps these links may be of help? Andy 11 January Adriana 18 January Hi Andy, Got article. Many thanks in advance. Daniel 23 January Great article.
Andy 27 January Naveen C 29 January Hi Andy, Great explanation. Is there a way to add a value to appdata folder or registry or add environment variables? Regards, Naveen C. Sub Dee 14 March Is that possible to keep all the Dlls in one folder and only the executables in release folder. Skip 31 March Hassan 22 July Randy Billingham 3 March Andy 17 August Glad to hear it. Bless Lemon 7 May Precise and Concise tutorial you have there. Descriptive and intuitive enough. IshanthSriram 7 July Id ok to use VS Thanks Ishanth.
Trevor 22 May Thanks in Advance, kwndev.
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