Can you deploy a .net 5 app using VS Installer project?

Question

Hi; I recently had to migrate a small C# WinForms app from .Net 4.6.1 (VS 2015) to .Net 5 (VS 2019) and then deploy it. There is an existing VS install project that is used to install the WinForms app. I have the app up and running in .Net 5 and i have updated the VS Install Project to VS 2019. Everything seemed to go great. I changed the files that get installed to use the newly generated ones under the new "Net5-Windows" folder that gets created when you build with .Net 5. I built the installer and attempted to do the installation on a VM. As soon as the installation is complete and i try to run the application, it pops up a dialog that tells me to install .Net 5. Question 1) During migration to .Net 5 i had all the projects setup as SDK Style. If i included the entirety of the "Net5-Windows" folder, why do i still have to install .Net 5? Question 2) i installed .Net 5 on the VM but every time i try to run my app i am still getting the pop up telling me to install .Net 5. How do you get around this?

Answer 1

to answer my own question...
i was installing the application on a x64 OS so i installed the .NET 5 SDK x64 version. The application i was trying to run was x86. This configuration would not run. I wound up installing the x86 version of the .NET 5 SDK and i was finally able to get the application to run.

Answer 2

Hi,ShawnEckley

You can download .net 5.0 SDK and runtime here:

Download .NET 5.0

Then verify you have successfully installed the .net 5 by using

dotnet --info

in cmd.

Best Regards,
Jerry Cai

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Answer 3

Hi Jerry;
Thanks for your reply. I didn't have the sdk install so i went ahead and installed it. I still get the same response when i try to launch the application ".Net must be installed".