Whats the best way to create the multi language installer for Office Addin Deployment Setup?
Is it possible using VS.NET 2008, C# or do I need to use any 3rd party tool or like install shield 2009 ??
I would suggest using InnoSetup, its free and supports multiple languages.
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
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I have developed a windows application (one type of CRM System) but now I want to create its setup file so it can be easily installed on client's machine. I have searched online and found out the way using InstallShield. But it is giving the free trial and then it is offering the paid version. Is there any other way to create Setup file without using InstallShield?
You can use the extension Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension: VSI_Bundle.
See the The Visual Studio Blog
It worked good for me.
See my answer in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28029063/200824
You can use visual studio 2015 and install installer projects extension.
You should also take a look at https://wixtoolset.org. A lot of new, helpful elements (grammar is XML) were added to simplify development. So while it's not drag-and-drop design, it's fairly easy to use and 3.x builds MSIs that are still the mainstay on Windows. 4.x pre-releases can also build other formats such as AppX (though, that is only supported on Windows 10 to install).
I want to use C# to manage Excel read/write with the following method:
How to: Use COM Interop to Create an Excel Spreadsheet (C# Programming Guide)
Before using COM Interop API , most articles said that I should install Office Developer Tools . so ,is it possible to use Visual studio Express 2017 to fulfill its demands.If not, is there another way to manage excel read/write through C#? thanks!
What is the simplest version of Visual Studio (professional, enterprise, or other) that I could purchase that supports C# or F# development?
It looks like F# is downloadable from Microsoft for no charge and comes in configurations
that would allow .Net and non-.Net development with or without Visual Studio. Am I missing something?
Is the same true for C#? That is is it downloadable without cost?
Thank you.
The simplest single version of Visual Studio which supports both developing in F# and C# is professional.
It's possible to install multiple free versions of the Visual Studio shell to allow you to develop C# and F# locally
C# via Express SKU
F# via Free Tools + Isolated Shell
This won't give you a single IDE though for developing in both languages.
C# is downloadable without cost as either part of the Windows SDK (which provides a commandline compiler csc) or Visual C# Express, which provides an IDE.
F# is available either in commandline form (fsc) or as a Visual Studio plugin, which requires the VS Shell (which is freely downloadable) or a full (non-Express) Visual Studio.
This means that you must purchase at least VS Professional to open both types of projects in the same editor, but you could also use a combination of VS Express and VS Shell for free.
Visual Studio Express Editions allows you to develop in NET languages. For example Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express and it has no cost.
However it lacks many features. If you need a more powerful IDE, you can use SharpDevelop. It has no cost and allow you to develop in C#, F# and many more. Give it a try. Good luck!
I'm creating a windowing system, comparable to WinForms or WPF, in XNA for a game I'm making.
Now, it would be nice to be able to use the Visual Studio form designer to make my windows.
I've googled a bit but I couldn't find anything. However, it might be possible because Microsoft uses the same basic designer interface/structure for many different things. (WinForms designing, WPF designing, Workflow designing, User Control designing, ...)
Is it possible to achieve this with Visual Studio's plugin system or will I have to make something custom to do it?
I don't know how you can use VS, but before starting to make something custom, I would recommend to take a look at http://sharpdevelop.net/opensource/sd/
Well, you must have a lot of programmers in your team if you intend to reprogram something like the Visual Studio forms designer on your own ;-)
In fact, I don't know if it will be possible with the VS plugin system, but if I were in your situation, I would use VS to create a Winforms or WPF GUI, and create a code generator which maps the code generated by VS to the classes of your windowing system. Most likely you will have to restrict yourself in using Winforms/WPF components for which you provide something similar in your framework.
I think it is very complicated things to do but you can do that.
At first you have to know about Visual Studio SDK.
Usually you have to download separately from the main products.
AFAIK CMIIW it is version dependent. So if you are installed VS 2010 with SP1 you have to use VS 2010 SP1 SDK.
The other you have to choose that is your products is isolated or integrated shell. The isolated means your shell will launch on separated vs 2010 instance(not in vs 2010). The example is SQL Server management studio from microsoft itself is isolated. Integrated shell means your products will integrated in VS 2010.
You can see on MSDN in here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb166441(v=VS.100).aspx how to use that SDK.
I need to know if Windows systems that have VS Express c# 2008 will have had the WPF libraries installed along with the VS installation (XP, so it's not preinstalled on the system).
Google didn't really turn up much.
Yes they will.
Express versions are limited not to have external plugins, which WPF certainly isn't.
Assuming that your after the development environment.
Then the answer is yes, although you won't be able to use extras such as Silverlight.