I want to install only the visual basic. How can I customize my installation excluding the additional features of VS2015? I have tried the custom installation but I am lost on what is the pre requisite applications needed to make VB projects.
It seems that by default, C#/VB, Web and some Desktop features are included.
Visual Studio allow you to custom this installation. However A Custom installation automatically includes the components that are in a Default installation.
This is from the msdn website.
You can't only install visual basic, sorry.
EDIT :
Even if you must install C#, you can specify your default environment setting to Visual Basic.
I think you just can't because is in the "pack" with c#
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I am creating an installation file using VS2019 which creates two files setup.exe and install.msi. Is it possible to bundle them together for easier distribution into one setup file. Previously I used iexpress to bundle them together and using custom.bat file to execute setup after extracting. Though this is an very old technique, Is their any more innovative way we can use directly from VS2019 ?
I found this guide which makes use of Advanced Installer through a Visual Studio extension. I was able to take two projects in a solution and package them into one .msi, which installs both of the project executables when ran.
You will need to download the "Advanced Installer" Visual Studio extension (see the "Extensions" menu item in Visual Studio), as well as install Advanced Installer itself, which can be found here (the extension will prompt you to download Advanced Installer if you attempt to use it without having it installed). All the extension does is make use of the Advanced Installer software, but through Visual Studio. Once you have it all configured, all you need to do is perform a build on the Advanced Installer project that you will need to add to your solution.
I have installed Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. Installed it without any specific things selected like C++ development or Windows development etc. After that I have installed Wix through wixtoolset, which downloaded and installed wix tool set components. After that I have installed the Wix ToolSet extension for Visual Studio 2017. Restarted the Visual Studio and trying to create a new project through File -> New -> Project - WiX Toolset -> Setup Project.
It gives the error and does not let me create the project. I am totally new to WiX and have just a little knowledge about Visual Studio.
Initially, I did not select any of the Installation workloads for VS17 and installed it just to make the installation faster.
Through the comments from Azaz, I came to know that NuGet Package Manager is required to install the packages on demand. But since I could not see the NuGet option at all, I tried to install it with Extensions and updates but it did not work. I did a bit of research and found that at least one .Net development workload is required at a time of VS17 installation which will make the NuGet install automatically in VS17.
So I uninstalled the VS17, WiX at all and removed them from the system. Then Installed VS17 with certain workload packages as shown in the below screenshot.
After that I installed WiX and an extension for the same in VS17. i.e. Votive2017.vsix.
I restart the VS17 and now I am able to create project for WiX.
Looks like there is something I missed somewhere in installing which did not let me install required DLLs and GUID feature, which were important for creating project templates.
Sharing the steps I followed in order to fix the same issue that I found with Visual Studio 2019, as I also installed it without any workload. I was also looking at a reduced installation.
The steps I did in order to fix the template error, install the following individual components:
.NET 5.0 Runtime
.Net Core 3.1 Runtime
.NET SDK
C# and Visual Baisc Roslyn compilers
ClickOnce Publishing
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects
Hope it helps someone else. I have to point out that the comments before helped me understand the issue. But, for example, I couldn't even open the NuGet command line.
I created an installer for MVVM Light and part of the installation is about code snippets for Visual Studio 2010, 2010 Express and 2008. Unfortunately, the code snippets are installed into a folder with a LCID (culture code, for instance 1033 for en-US). If the snippets are not in the correct folder/LCID, Visual Studio doesn't load them (yes, utterly stupid I know. But this is what we have...)
When VS is installed in English, all is well. However when a Geman (for instance) version of VS is found, the snippets fail to register in VS.
Is there a way in Wix to detect the LCID and to use that as a property, in other words to install the snippets in the correct folder depending on the LCID? I know about multilanguage installers but it seems like a bazooka to kill a fly. Any other idea?
Thanks,
Laurent
The user's locale is available in the UserLanguageID property. You need a SetDirectory to assign the runtime value to a directory's name.
It seems like it's still not possible to build .vdproj on a build-server without having Visual Studio installed. However, using Wix seems to be a lot more complicated.
Are there any other options to do the following task:
Visual Studio 2010 Solution with multiple projects (.csproj)
Many loose content files (not inside assemblies)
Installer must be built on Build-server without Visual Studio on it (devenv.exe / devenv.com)
Installer must create Registry keys
Installer must associate file extensions with installed product
Installer must support upgrades (version upgrades)
Installer should be able to register COM components
Installer should be able to pre-JIT assemblies
My goal is:
Effort to maintain installer is low
Minimal changes if new project (assembly) is added to solution
Ideal: no changes if new content files are added to any of the projects
Maybe I just did not get the point with Wix, but including project output (like in .vdproj) seems very complicated.
Any suggestions very much appreciated!
OK I decided to go with Wix. Found out that using Votive it's possible to include project output like in .vdproj (Binaries, Content, Symbols and even Source Code).
If I run into more complicated situations where this isn't sufficient, I could fall back to some kind of harvester (Heat, Paraffin).
See some more Links in comments below (too little reputation to post more than 1 link in this post).
Check out InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition ( Free for Visual Studio 2010 users ). It has pretty much all the functionality that VDPROJ ( being retired btw ) has and supports silent builds. You can get one license for your dev box and one license for your build machine pretty easily.
I want to create a windows installer package using visual studio. It is my understanding that there was a simple way to do this in vb6, you could add an installer like you can add a new form.
How can I do this in vb.net? I downloaded and installed the Windows SDK from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c17ba869-9671-4330-a63e-1fd44e0e2505&displaylang=en because it said somewhere that it could create installer packages and had tools to do so for .net, but no such luck.
I would prefer not to use NSIS or Inno Setup for this.
Is there any way to get the same functionality that you could have in vb6 with the installer packages?
Thanks, I feel I am missing an important step here...
EDIT: I am using visual basic 2008 express, not professional. I dont have "Setup and deployment" or anything like that under my template options.
You could create a .msi installer. Have a look at this question/answer for some more details. How can I create an MSI setup?
Edit: Others have mentioned WiX, so here's a link to a tutorial showing how to use it
There is a setup & deployment project type under other when you go to create a new project in VS Standard edition and higher. If you have express it's not available.
Here's some info on Setup & Deployment projects:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wx3b589t.aspx
Tutorial:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/vishnuprasad2005/SetupProjects12022005022406AM/SetupProjects.aspx
File -> New Project -> Other Project Types -> Setup and Deployment
Will allow you to add a setup project to any Visual Studio solution.
In Visual Studio.,Net you would create a Setup Project (or Setup Project Wisard) to create an installer.
Tutorial Here: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic58021.htm
Because the express version doesn't include the Setup and Deployment project type, you'll probably find it easier to use a third party tool such as www.advancedinstaller.com - the free version is probably sufficient for your needs.