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.NET Framework 2.0 Installer for InnoSetup Updated: 16 Aug 2008   An InnoSetup install script that downloads (if setup files don't exist) and installs .NET Framework 2.0 and its dependencies .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	stfx	4.86
Deployment made simple using Powershell Updated: 14 Dec 2006   Powershell scripts allow you to take advantage of .NET libraries and write scripts which are almost as powerful as the .NET code itself. C#, Javascript, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Omar Al Zabir	4.72
Deploy SQL Server databases easily with an Installer class Updated: 6 Apr 2005   Deploy MS SQL Server databases using System.Configuration.Install and a VS.NET Setup Project. .NET 1.1, SQL 2000, VS.NET2003, C#, SQL, Windows, DBA, Dev, Intermediate	Stefan Prodan	4.72
dotNetInstaller - Setup Bootstrapper for .NET Application Updated: 4 Jan 2004   With this tool the developer can define the application prerequisites and install the correct version of these components in the correct order based on the user operating system type and language, allow the user to download these components from the web or install these components directly. VC7, VC7.1, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Davide Icardi	4.71
Manual uninstaller for PocketPC Updated: 7 Jun 2003   If you don't want to use CAB, this is how. eVC 3.0, PocketPC 2002, C++, Windows, Visual Studio, STL, Dev, Intermediate	ljw1004	4.71
Creating a C# Service Step-by-Step Lesson II Updated: 9 Apr 2003   A multi-article contribution describing in step-by-step detail on creating your own service with integrated support for setup and custom event logs. This lesson we'll add multiple child services as well as updating the installer to install these services as well. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Beginner	Terry Denham	4.69
Install a Service using a Script Updated: 11 Nov 2004   How to install a service using a script instead of a Windows Installer MSI package. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Architect, Dev, Intermediate	gtamir	4.67
Allow user to set physical directory path during Web Project deployment Updated: 16 Nov 2006   How to deploy a Web application to a user defined physical directory. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, ASP.NET, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	rmortega77	4.67
Using VBScript in an installer package Updated: 24 Sep 2005   How to use VBScript to enhance an installer package and guide the user through installation and configuration. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, VBScript, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Edwin Roetman	4.65
13 disasters for production web sites and their solutions Updated: 6 Aug 2007   Learn about 13 production disasters that can bring down your business .NET 2.0, Win2003, SQL 2005, IIS 6, Win64, Visual Studio, CEO, Architect, DBA, Dev, Intermediate	Omar Al Zabir	4.64
How to Pass Command Line Arguments to MSI Installer Custom Actions Updated: 14 Dec 2006   When writing unattended installs, it's very handy to be able to send command line parameters to your custom actions that run during your application's setup. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Nick Pirocanac	4.64
Deploying Controls to VS.NET ToolBox Programatically Updated: 1 Oct 2004   This article explains on how to deploy custom controls and components to a particular tab in Visual Studio Toolbox programatically. This can be used with installer programs for automatic deployment. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Kannan.V	4.63
CAP_FontInstaller - A basic (un)installer class for application specific fonts Updated: 24 Apr 2006   A simple wrapper to dynamically install/uninstall application specific fonts from compiled resources. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, GDI, Dev, Intermediate	Franc Morales	4.63
Create custom dialogs for use in your Visual Studio Setup projects Updated: 20 Jun 2007   Create custom dialogs for use in your Visual Studio Setup projects .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Shaun Wilde	4.63
Editing MSI Deployment Packages with Orca and Adding Custom Shortcuts Updated: 5 Apr 2005   Tutorial on Basic MSI Architecture, how to edit VS.NET Setups with Orca, and adding custom shortcuts. C++, C++/CLI, C#, VB, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Architect, Dev, Intermediate	rwestgraham	4.63
Creating a C# Service Step-by-Step: Lesson I Updated: 9 Apr 2003   A multi-article contribution describing in step-by-step detail on creating your own service with integrated support for setup and custom event logs. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Beginner	Terry Denham	4.60
Set a password textbox for Visual Studio .NET setup project Updated: 15 Feb 2004   Set a password textbox for Visual Studio .NET setup project. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, C#, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Javier Teixido	4.59
WSE 3 Deployment: MSI and ClickOnce Updated: 17 Jul 2007   Overview of deployment techniques using example WSE 3 enabled solutions .NET 2.0, SQL 2005, IIS 5.1, IIS 6, VS2005, C# 2.0, ASP.NET, Windows, DBA, Dev, Intermediate	Predrag Tomasevic	4.59
Assemblies: locating, binding and deploying Updated: 10 Nov 2005   How to plan, up front, for service packs, upgrades and hot fixes as they come along. .NET 1.1, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, XML, Dev, Intermediate	Cohen Shwartz Oren	4.58
How to Install and Run ASP.NET Applications on Systems That Don't Have IIS Updated: 24 Dec 2005   The article describes creating a Visual Studio .NET Setup Project that allows ASP.NET applications to be deployed on boxes that don't have IIS installed. Some familiarity with Visual Studio .NET Setup Projects will help better understand the material in this article. Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, IIS 5.1, IIS 6, VS.NET2003, VS2005, C#, VB, ASP.NET, .NET, Dev, Intermediate	Vlad Hrybok	4.57
MSI Custom Action DLL Updated: 27 Apr 2002   This article will step you through adding a custom action DLL to a Windows Installer setup VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	mgama	4.55
Little Install Builder Updated: 30 Jul 2002   Building setup programs using Microsoft's setup scripts. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Pablo van der Meer	4.55
NSIS Quick Start - Unedited Updated: 15 Dec 2007   Deploying NET apps with NSIS .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, TabletPC, Embedded, Mono, DotGNU, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6, .NET 3.5, C#, VB, Windows, .NET, Win32, Dev, Intermediate	Jared James Sullivan	4.55
Deploying MFC applications via ClickOnce Updated: 14 Jan 2008   A step by step tutorial on how to deploy an MFC application via ClickOnce C++, C++/CLI, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, MFC, Architect, Dev, QA, Design, Beginner	Nishant Sivakumar	4.54
Conditional Install of Desktop and Quick Launch Shortcuts Updated: 31 Oct 2005   Create an installer that allows the user to choose whether to create shortcuts on the desktop or in the quick launch bar. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	David Hay	4.52
VS.NET Deployment Project Version Updater Updated: 3 Jan 2004   A command line ulitity that updates the version and GUID of VS.NET deployment project files. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Don Kackman	4.50
Automated Extract and Build from Team System using PowerShell Updated: 20 Apr 2008   We describe a PowerShell script to extract source code from Team System version control and automate the build process WinXP, Win2003, VS2005, VS2008, Dev, Advanced	Clift Norris, John D. Cook	4.50
Easy Installer Updated: 14 Sep 2006   The Easy Installer program VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Abu Mami	4.49
Adding automatic updates to your program - Part 1 Updated: 31 Dec 2007   This article describes the steps to add automatic update capabilities to your application quickly and easily using the DDay.Update library. VC8.0, .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, Mono, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, Dev, Intermediate	Douglas Day	4.48
Installing .NET Framework 2.0 Applications with InstallShield Updated: 13 Nov 2005   How to install .NET 2.0 Framework applications with InstallShield. .NET 2.0, VS.NET2003, VS2005, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Will Stott	4.45
A Custom Action for Deploying a Visual Studio 2005 Add-in Updated: 23 Jul 2006   Walks you through building a generic custom action to manipulate and XCopy the .addin file along with your add-in assembly that will work for most add-in deployment scenarios. C#, XML, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Ting Huang	4.45
A Setup and Deployment project that passes parameters to the configuration file Updated: 20 Jan 2006   An article on how to use the setup and deployment project in .NET and adjust it to your own needs. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, XML, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Adi Eduard	4.44
Uninstall a Previous Application Installation When Upgrading an Application with Setups Created in VS.NET - Part 2 Updated: 22 Oct 2005   Extend the configuration of your upgrade setups to to work properly for both per-user and per-machine previous installs. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	rwestgraham	4.44
An Advanced Windows Hotfix Manager Updated: 3 Feb 2002   An advanced utility that scans computers for missing hotfixes, and helps you download and install them. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, ATL, WTL, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Michael Dunn	4.41
Deploying the .NET Framework and MDAC Updated: 15 Oct 2004   Install the .NET Framework and MDAC along with your .NET application in a single, smooth installation process .NET 1.0, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Dwight Johnson	4.41
An Intelligent .NET Multilanguage Installer Updated: 2 Jul 2008   An article about an intelligent .NET multilanguage installer .NET 1.1, C#, Dev, Beginner	Elmue	4.39
A ServiceInstaller Extension That Enables Recovery and Autostart Configuration Updated: 2 May 2004   An extension assembly that allows configuring the "advanced" service configuration options for recovery actions. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Neil Baliga	4.39
How to Install VSCMDShell in Visual Studio 2005 Updated: 13 Apr 2006   This article describes how to install VSCMDShell from the source files Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	harryteck	4.33
Add an uninstall start menu item to your .NET deployment project Updated: 21 Aug 2005   The simple way to add an uninstall menu item to your .NET deployment project VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, Windows, .NET, Dev, Intermediate	mjmeans	4.31
Sandcastle CHM-compile BAT script and configuration utility Updated: 5 Aug 2006   Create MSDN-style class documentation CHM files for your assemblies using Microsoft Sandcastle CTP with this configuration utility and BAT script. .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Beginner	Ashley van Gerven	4.28
XmlConfigMerge - Merge config file settings Updated: 6 Nov 2006   Supports merging of .config file settings, such as in a push to staging-server deployment environment. Also supports XPath updates. Class library and Console app provided. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	buc	4.27
NUKEleus - A DotNetNuke Installation Program Updated: 10 Mar 2005   An installation program for the popular DotNetNuke ASP.NET portal. Win2K, WinXP, SQL 2000, VB, SQL, .NET, Visual Studio, DBA, Dev, Intermediate	Todd Davis	4.26
Simple InstallShield tutorial Updated: 27 Mar 2002   A tutorial on how to begin to use InstallShield VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	bryce	4.26
Specify a different location for Virtual Directories in Web Setup Projects Updated: 16 Oct 2006   HowTo: Enhance the Installation Address UI dialog in a Visual Studio 2005 Web Setup Project so that the user can select a different physical path for the Virtual Directory installation. .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS2005, C#, VB, ASP.NET, IIS, Dev, Intermediate	Arnold E. Schrijver	4.20
Create conditional shortcuts during the installation of a .NET application Updated: 22 Jan 2006   This article shows how to add shortcuts during an installation, based on the user's choice. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Mukund Pujari	4.19
License Key Generation Updated: 17 Jul 2005   An article on license key generation. .NET 1.1, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Donsw	4.19
Creating an installer using Wix v3.0, Votive, and Visual Studio 2005/2008 - Part 2, the GUI Updated: 28 Nov 2007   An introduction to creating a Wix installer with GUI using Visual Studio 2005/2008. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, VS2008, XML, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	duncanmhor	4.19
Project \ Assembly dependencies viewer Updated: 11 Jan 2004   This simple application gets any VS.NET project or assembly and displays all the assembly / project dependencies. All dependencies are shown in a tree view with images that indicate the assembly location (Bin, GAC or registered as COM+ component). .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, VS.NET2002, C#, ASP.NET, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Natty Gur	4.18
.NET Framework 1.1 Installer for Innosetup Updated: 22 May 2004   An innosetup install script that detects which dependencies to download from Microsoft, dowloads and installs them with little user intervention. .NET 1.1, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Ted Ehrich	4.16
Visual Studio .NET "Add New Item" Custom Template Installer Updated: 20 May 2004   Tool to automate the installation of Custom Item Templates in Visual Studio .NET. VC7.1, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Michael McKechney	4.15
How to create installation patches for VS.NET deployment projects Updated: 28 Oct 2005   Automaticaly create Windows installer patches. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, C++/CLI, C#, VB, Windows, .NET CF, Dev, JScript .NET, Intermediate	mjmeans	4.15
Calling JavaScript from a Visual Studio Installation Project's Custom Action Updated: 3 Oct 2006   When you create an installation project with Visual Studio, you can use Custom Actions to perform extra processing once the basic installation has completed. This article describes how to have a custom action execute some JavaScript, passing it some parameters. Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, C++, Javascript, Dev, Intermediate	Piers Lawson	4.14
The NAR loader - single file .NET deployment Updated: 27 Oct 2006   JAR archives for .NET = NAR archives. VC8.0, .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Advanced	Richard Prinz	4.12
Creating an installer using Wix v3.0, Votive, and Visual Studio 2005/2008 Updated: 26 Nov 2007   An introduction to creating a Wix installer using Visual Studio 2005/2008. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, VS2008, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	duncanmhor	4.09
Creating an Installer Updated: 7 Mar 2008   Using NSIS to create a simple installer Architect, Dev, Design, Beginner	Hamed Mosavi	4.08
Modifying Web.Config During Installation Updated: 26 Jan 2006   How to modify the Web.Config of a WebService during installation. C#, ASP.NET, XML, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Amal ElHosseiny	4.00
Configuring Plastic SCM database backend - Unedited Updated: 20 Jan 2008   Configuring Plastic SCM database backend SQL 2005, Windows, SQL Server, Architect, DBA, Dev, Beginner	parallelcoder	4.00
Extension for extracting Regsitry entries for COM DLLs and EXEs Updated: 14 Jul 2008   Support for COM/DLL Registry in WIX. As WIX does not support the Extract At build feature, we can make use of this DLL as an extesnion while running Candle and have all the Registry entries extracted during build time. C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, Windows, .NET, Dev, Intermediate, SysAdmin	vishal820	4.00
Interact With Desktop when Installing Windows Service Updated: 31 Aug 2003   This article will describe how to set the "Allow Service to Interact With Desktop" on a windows service created in .NET C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Robert H. Davis II	3.91
Modified Easy Installer Updated: 10 Aug 2005   Abu Mami's Easy Installer modified , to create a setup.exe style installer for installations from CD. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Martin Dowd	3.91
Developing and Deploying Pocket PC Setup Applications Updated: 20 Jan 2004   Learn how to create a single .msi file that is run from the desktop to install an application on different Pocket PC devices. The development process is automated so it's easy to build and package all of the necessary components into the .msi file. Sample code is provided for C# and VB.NET. C#, VB, Windows, .NET CF, .NET, Visual Studio, Mobile, Dev, Intermediate	Microsoft - Compact Framework	3.84
A Windows Installer Database Diff Tool Updated: 21 Dec 2004   A command line tool that generates XML and/or HTML Diff reports of two Windows installer databases. .NET 1.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, C#, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Don Kackman	3.83
Packaging and Deploying Pocket PC Applications Updated: 16 Apr 2004   Step by step instructions for creating an MSI Windows Installer for Pocket PC applications. VC7, VC7.1, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, C#, VB, .NET CF, Visual Studio, Mobile, Dev, Intermediate	Simon Kittle	3.81
TopMost MessageBox Updated: 1 May 2007   A simple wrapper class to ensure MessageBox messages are visible. .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Vance Kessler	3.75
GAC Installer Updated: 14 Mar 2008   A command line GAC installer that removes assemblies even if they are installed by an MSI. WinXP, Win2003, Vista, C# 2.0, C#, Windows, .NET, Win32, Design, Intermediate, SysAdmin	Alex_1	3.72
Steps for creating Custom Setup Updated: 27 Sep 2005   If you ever thought creating a custom setup should be an easy task, here are the tips to break the ice. VC8.0, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, DotGNU, C#, VB, ASP.NET, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Gelu Vac	3.62
Visual Studio.NET Blank Property Browser Bug Updated: 14 Aug 2004   Visual Studio.NET 2003 version's property browser goes blank, I found the remedy and I have made an Add-in to resolve this bug. C#, VB, ASP.NET, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, JScript .NET, Intermediate	Akash Kava	3.58
NewSetupVersion for MSI Projects Updated: 19 Dec 2007   Auto-increment the version number of an MSI setup project. NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, TabletPC, VS6, Embedded, VS2008, VBScript, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Hans-Jürgen Schmidt	3.56
Using VB to create & check license keys - Unedited Updated: 23 May 2007   Generate and check license keys embedding 16-bit configuration information VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 6, Windows, .NET, CEO, Dev, Intermediate	maz2331	3.55
ClickOnce - Quick steps to Deploy, Install and Update windows based client applications - Unedited Updated: 9 Jan 2007   Easy Steps for IT and Deployment Team to setup and deploy windows based application using Microsoft ClickOnce Deployment Tool which is part of Visual Studio 2005 Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Preeti Baranga	3.51
Deploy your Application or Component Using Windows Installer - Unedited Updated: 3 Sep 2006   An article on creating setup programs without having the knowledge of setup scripts Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Prabhakar Manikonda	3.39
How to Create Installer (.cab) for web part? Updated: 30 Jun 2005   A sample project (Hello world webpart and installer project) and walk through for creating an installer for web part that will install the webpart on the share point portal site. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Rajshekar Chittoory	3.36
All about Installers - Customizing Windows and Web setup projects Updated: 10 Jan 2004   This article guides how to customize an installer for specific needs of the application. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, C#, VB, Dev, Intermediate	avnrao	3.34
Deploying Web Applications using Visual Studio .NET Updated: 31 Aug 2002   Deploying an ASP.NET project using the Visual Studio .NET Windows Installer .NET 1.0, ASP.NET, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Majid Shahabfar	3.00
R2build 1.0 RC1 Published for Beta Test (Continuous Integration/Daily Build Tool) Updated: 18 Sep 2007   R2build is a continuous Integration (or daily build/night build/build automation) tool, establishes the night build in minutes, only by adding build step node and linking the node. It supports lots of development tools: sourcecontrol, compiler, packaging, FTP, mail, autotest. VC7.1, .NET 2.0, VS.NET2003, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	r2build	3.00
Monitoring Unreliable Scheduled Tasks Updated: 24 Jun 2008   This article describes RunAndWait, a program that provides monitoring and logging for scheduled tasks .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	Clift Norris, John D. Cook	3.00
All In One Dot Net Deployment Updated: 3 Mar 2003   Installing .NET framework with your application. VC7, .NET 1.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VB 6, C#, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Jeff Turner	2.90
An Uninstaller To Uninstall Any .NET Application - Unedited Updated: 2 Aug 2007   Create an Uninstaller to Uninstall Any Installed .NET Application .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Windows, Dev, Beginner	Hungry Mind	2.88
How to Validate a Serial Number or PID in MSI Setups Created in VS.NET Updated: 8 Jun 2005   Describes how to create a custom action DLL and implement serial number or PID validation in dialog based setups created with VS.NET. VC7, VS.NET2002, Windows, .NET, Dev, Intermediate	rwestgraham	2.75
Multiple Setup Selection Screen Updated: 29 Jul 2005   When delivering multiple products at once, provide end-users a splash-screen enabling them to select one of the setups. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, VB, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Julien Hoffmann	2.67
Pocket PC Memory Card Based Installer - Unedited Updated: 24 Feb 2006   A sample software installer for the Pocket PC that installs software when a memory card is inserted into the device. VC8.0, VS2005, Windows, Win Mobile, Mobile, Dev, Intermediate	wduros1	2.67
How to work with Assemblies in InstallShield Developer 7.0 Updated: 13 Oct 2004   This article describes how to work with assemblies in InstallShield Developer 7.0. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Santhosh Kumar R V	2.50
Yaida Updated: 25 Aug 2004   Yet another installer deployment application. VC7.1, .NET 1.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Dan Bloomquist	2.47
Writing A Good Setup For Your Applications - Unedited Updated: 9 Apr 2006   Does your application set up correctly on the client's PC? Getting those ubiquitous errors? This article will give you important information on making better Setup programs. Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	Cyril Gupta	2.36
Remove .NET dependency from .MSI file - Unedited Updated: 8 Feb 2005   Have an MSI that is forcing installation of the .NET framework even though your application doesn't use it? Here's how to fix it. Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Mark Harmon	2.30
Installing .NET Windows Services (the easiest way) Updated: 19 Jun 2008   Installing .NET Windows services without using InstallUtil.exe C#, Windows, .NET, Intermediate	Sudheer Reddy Battula	2.26
How to create customized InstallShield for a VC++ Application Updated: 23 Mar 2004   This article basically talks about InstallShield for VC++ applications. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Jimmy M Joy	2.22
Detecting WRP files and Registry on Vista Machine - Unedited Updated: 17 Jul 2008   This program basically helps installer guys to see the registry they are putting in is included in WRP list or not C++	vishal820	2.00
Install Windows Service using Custom Action - Unedited Updated: 15 May 2008   This article explains how to a custom action EXE to install a service using WinNT utilities, instsrv.exe and srvany.exe WinXP, C# 2.0, C#, Windows, Beginner	lata07mahi	1.80
Deploy IIS settings along with your Web Project Updated: 15 Nov 2006   Very simple code to set the authentication method for your IIS virtual directory .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, ASP.NET, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	rmortega77	1.60
Windows Registry - Unedited Updated: 31 Aug 2007   Few tips about Windows Registry C++, C#, VB, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	interface Mirror	1.46
ASP Application installer using Javascript - Unedited Updated: 7 Apr 2007   This is a article for ASP .net Application Installation using Javascript. This will register your application in IIS and also create start menu and desktop icon for that.