Visual Studio Installer Projects

Gloops 41 Reputation points
2021-01-10T20:41:01.967+00:00

Hello everybody,

In Visual Studio Community 2017, I installed Visual Studio Installer Projects, to get a setup program to install my solutions.

Well OK it provides a setup program, but a few more refinements would be welcome. Perhaps I did not look at it properly ?

After two projects here are the two points I would like to solve.

In fact for the first one it is nearly done. I systematically get a setup.exe program that runs a setup1.msi pack. By default, if I launch it as is, and use it to launch ten programs, then in case one has to be reinstalled, I am invited to uninstall it from the configuration panel. There, I find ten programs named Setup1.exe, and no way to distinguish one from the other. Well I renamed two things in the solution explorer, and it seems it will be good.

For the second one ...
I am systematically proposed to install the program in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Default company name\setup

That path is editable, I can type the company name and the program name in the last two segments of the address.

But it would be nice if I could do that before generating the setup program. Any hints about that ?

I think I remember I could get a shortcut in the startup menu. Any more hints than what is obtained from the default documentation ?
Some other places can be of interest in Windows, too.

I know that if I ask too many questions, it is better to use InnoSetup.

What about the tags I used ? vs-setup is rather to install Visual Studio, and ... Visual Studio Installer Projects is not specially focused on Windows 10.
But I did not see anything particularly convincing when typing Setup.

Windows 10 Setup
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Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Setup: The procedures involved in preparing a software program or application to operate within a computer or mobile device.
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Visual Studio Setup
Visual Studio Setup
Visual Studio: A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.Setup: The procedures involved in preparing a software program or application to operate within a computer or mobile device.
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