In my VS 2008 C# WinForm application, I've made the Install.msi and
Setup.exe on my application release folder.
The client can install the application on C:\Program Files\ by running the setup.exe.
But there comes a new question, when I made a new Install.msi and Setup.exe,
the client has to remove the application via Control / Add Remove Program,
then excute the Setup.exe.
How do we fix this problem so the client's update will be more convenient?
otherwise,
how to create simple exe file like vb exe.
Thanks for help.
There are a couple of things you need to do. In the Properties for the Setup Project:
Set the RemovePreviousVersions property to TRUE.
Set the VersionNumber of the Setup Project. When doing this, you will be prompted that you will need a new product code. Just click Yes.
The VersionNumber of the installer is what the installer uses to determine if the current version is greater than the installed version. If the current version is greater, it will uninstall the previous version, then install the new version.
When you are deploying an update of your application with a VS2008 Setup Project, you must change the version of the project.
When doing so, VS2008 will ask you that if you change the version of your application it will change the product code of your application.
Mading these changes, when you will install the application on your client computer, Windows will detect that your application is an update of the older one and he will automatically overwrite the data with the new application data.
Hope it helps!
Regards,
PL
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I have WPF application who is possible to update when is have new version. For create installer I will use Visual Studio Installer. I understand how to auto update my app, but this is not exactly what I want.
I want when user check is want to "Automatically check for updates" only then is check do is have new updates. Like in the picture
My question is: Is it possible with Visual Studio Installer to manage update for application. When user is checked then if is possible to update to new version. If user not checked then the application is not check for new version.
Im sorry for my bad English. Thanks in advice.
It's not very clear whether you want that checkbox in the installer itself or in the app. All the instances I've seen are in the app. There's no point in putting the check in the installer because the user does that just once, and updates may be generated after the product has been installed. You cannot run the same install again! So this check is added to the app, and the implementations I've built do a web service call to the company web site (passing in the installed product's version, ProductCode, UpgradeCode) and if there is an update the app downloads it. The user may or may not be able to install the upgrade if it requires elevated privilege and the user has limited privileges.
The supported upgrade mechanism with VS setups is to increment the setup project's version property, accept the requested changes, rebuild the entire MSI with incremented file versions for the files you need updating, and set RemovePreviousVersions to true to upgrade the entire product.
I just made my first C# application in Visual Studio 2012 and I want to export it in some way so other people could use it in they computers (including computers without Visual Studio 2012). How can I do it? I'm new at C# and I couldn't find anything that I could understand. Can someone explain or indicate some site with a good (and maybe didactic) explanation on how it works? I have only made C/C++ programs by now, and they I just needed the .exe file, but, based on what I could find, I need something else to send a C# program to others to use.
Sory for the bad English and thanks for those who help.
Right-click the project in VS 2012, and choose Publish... from the context menu. Publishing to a file lets you create an installer:
Choose a location in the file system to which you would like to save the installer
Click [Finish]
Wait for the publishing operation to complete
A Setup.exe installer file will be created at the location that you have selected in the first step of the publish wizard. Share the installer with the people to whom you would like to give your application.
After building your project, you will find an EXE file in bin\(Debug or Release)
Check also the .net framework that it is required in order for c# apps to run. You can find what framework your app is build in projext properties. If the target computer has an old os (XP) maybe the .net framework needs also to be installed
You need any computer that wants to run it to be windows, and running the correct version of the .net framework. If it's a program that's created with VS2012, that'll be .net 2.0 to 4.5.2. After that, you need to find the location of your program, and you can just copy the debug folder that you are currently running from, and your program will work.
I'm very new to Setup project in Visual Studio, I've just tried creating a one, it deployed my files as I configured in the setup project. But after testing the install file (.msi), there was something I can't understand:
There is no entry in the Add/Remove programs list in Control Panel but I tried re-running the setup and it showed a dialog saying that I couldn't setup because there was another version which has already been installed in the target computer, I should uninstall that version first, but I couldn't find an entry in Add/Remove programs and there is also no uninstall.exe file. I tried searching for all entries which contains my application executable file name in Registry and deleted these entries but It still shows me that dialog. (There must be some way through which it can detect another version installed on the target machine).
How I create an uninstall.exe for my deployed application in Setup project??? I thought it should be created automatically for me when I build my Setup project.
Your help would be highly appreciated. Thanks.
There is no uninstall.exe when you are using msi packages to install applications. If you double click the msi of an already installed application you get the choice to do a repair or an uninstall.
What name did you give to your installation package? Maybe you left the default name or gave it some "weird" name different from your application and that's why you can't find it. In 7 you can sort the installed programs by install date and check what's been installed last, don't remember if it's possible in XP.
I have created an installation project for Outlook Plugin application using Add In Express.
I wish to create an installation package that would simply overwrite the previous version without asking the user to manually uninstall the previous version.
Well this is becoming a real problem for me. Certainly the internet has some information on this but even with all that info and experimentation I am not able to get out of this.
I have set the property values of the set up project thus:
1) DetectNewerInstalledVersion : True
2) InstallAllUsers : True
3) RemovePreviousVersions : True
4) UpgradeCode : Same as in the previous version
5) ProductCode : has been changed by VS itself as I incremented the Version
property of the set up project (I clicked yes).
I have also incremented the Assembly version of the Outlook Plugin project in the AssemblyInfo.cs class.
Result:
The .msi file on double clicking, installs the new version and does not uninstalls the older version. :(
I am using .Net 4.0 with Windows 7.
Any help is appreciated.
regards,
Has TomTom has stated, we need to know what technology you are using. I am going to assume that you are using the Installer package with Visual Studio. To have the installer automatically uninstall your application you need to set RemovePreviousVersion to True and make sure that you increase the version number of your application by at least the Build number.
If the end user dont have .net 4.0 installed , i dont want them to go to a microsoft page to download manually and install it. I rather want them to just click "ok" and the setup goes to my website and downloads the webinstaller file and start installing automatically.
In my solution i have 2 project, 1 windows project and 1 setup project. I have noticed that if i go to properties on either of the projects and then Prerequisites, there i can choose between these 3 options :
Download prerequisites from the component vendor's website ( default )
Download prerequisites from the same location as my application
Download prerequisites from the following location ( with a textbox )
I should want the last option right? But do i link to a folder in my website and it will look there for the right "name" to install ? Then i have to add the installers to that folder?
And i dont know if i only should do this on the windows project or the setup project or both?
I am using visual studios default installer.
Really confused.
Thanky you.
If it is ok for you to distribute the .NET framework with the program you can use the instructions from the answer to this post:
silent .NET Framework install in setup project
The setup should install the .NET framework without requiring any user input.
I normally choose the second options.
Why? Because VS actually compiles a bootstrapper which gets sent to you Debug/Release folder. So all you need to do is copy that whole folder and burn to cd or usb and ship to your client.