Deployment in Visual Studio

Setup and Deployment

Projects

Install Shield Limited Edition

Windows Installer XML

Toolset

Setup and Deployment - step by step

• Add Setup project to solution

• Set properties of Setup

• Add Project output to file system application folder

• Create shortcut from the output file and move to desktop or program menu

• Customize UI in User interface Editor

• Add custom actions to Extent features

• Add Installer class to project and refer that dll to Custom action

• On this class we can override functions

• Pass installer variables /TARGETDIR = "[TARGETDIR]“

• in custom action data property of dll reference

• Access those variables as Context.Parameters["TARGETDIR"];

Install Shield - step by step

• All the above as Easy configured by GUI

WIX

• Microsoft uses it to deploy its own software including Microsoft Office and Visual Studio

• it gives you greater control over how things work (eg: You get much more control when you write the HTML yourself as opposed to using a WYSIWYG software)

• Its simply configure setup in XML files