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Super Lloyd26-Jan-15 2:34

Super Lloyd

26-Jan-15 2:34

Wix is soooo hard!
Try Wix#[^], it's like Wix, but C# easy! Smile | :)

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Yvan Rodrigues26-Jan-15 3:52

Yvan Rodrigues

26-Jan-15 3:52

I second that!

If you don't need msi, NSIS + HM NIS Edit is not too painful.

The old InstallShield that came with VS2005 wasn't bad.

Personally, unless I have reason not too, I forgo the installer and make my applications portable. You can even make an "installer" using the PortableApps platform if you want that experience.

Super Lloyd26-Jan-15 2:32

Super Lloyd

26-Jan-15 2:32

Glad you asked, I literally just experimented with Wix#[^], it's awesome! Smile | :)

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#realJSOP26-Jan-15 3:43

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26-Jan-15 3:43

I'm gonna have to look into that...

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Super Lloyd26-Jan-15 10:11

Super Lloyd

26-Jan-15 10:11

Go on, have a look!
It's impressively easy! Smile | :)

My only hiccups was to specify file location.
In the end my 1st installer looks like that: (not the #if DEBUG/RELEASE and relative path)

class Script
{
    static public void Main(string[] args)
    {
#if RELEASE
		var APPGuid = new Guid("------------");
		var TargetFolder = @"%ProgramFiles%\RPGStoryboards\Studio";
		var src_dir = @"..\RPGStoryboards\bin\Release";
		var dst_dir = @".\bin\Release";
		var setupName = "RPGStoryboards-Setup";
#elif DEBUG
		var APPGuid = new Guid("------------");
		var TargetFolder = @"H:\DebugStoryboards\Studio";
		var src_dir = @"..\RPGStoryboards\bin\Debug";
		var dst_dir = @".\bin\Debug";
		var setupName = "RPGStoryboards-DebugSetup";
#endif
		var project = new Project
		{
			OutDir = dst_dir,
			OutFileName = setupName,
			Name = "RPG Storyboards",
			GUID = APPGuid,
			UI = WUI.WixUI_InstallDir,
			Dirs = new [] 
			{
				new Dir(TargetFolder)
				{
					DirFileCollections = new []
					{
						new DirFiles(src_dir + @"\*.dll"),
						new DirFiles(src_dir + @"\RPGStoryboards.exe"),
						new DirFiles(src_dir + @"\RPGStoryboards.exe.config"),
#if DEBUG
						new DirFiles(src_dir + @"\*.pdb"),
#endif
					},
				},
			}
		};
		Compiler.BuildMsi(project);
	}
}

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modified 26-Jan-15 16:18pm.

den2k8826-Jan-15 2:34

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26-Jan-15 2:34

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Dan Neely26-Jan-15 3:07

Dan Neely

26-Jan-15 3:07

Visual Studio Installer for the last one we delivered to an external customer (internal stuff for my project is all xcopy); but a requirement we didn't know about until the absolute last minute is probably going to force us to go to the paid version of install shield for the next update. VSI won't let you do a "Mode X or Y?" dialog and copy an alternate app.config file depending on the answer; and the customers approved list for tools allowed to build their stuff means that Install Shield is our only other choice. Cry | :((

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Jacquers26-Jan-15 4:08

Jacquers

26-Jan-15 4:08

This [^]might help.

Dan Neely26-Jan-15 4:28

Dan Neely

26-Jan-15 4:28

Maybe; but why the Elephant is MS crapping all over separation of concerns by requiring part of the VSI installer setup to be put in the application project instead of in the VSI one. If I used installshield or anything sane instead, I'd be using their automation; not the VSI version that would be blighting my app project...

Maximilien26-Jan-15 3:29

Maximilien

26-Jan-15 3:29

We use Install~~Sh*t~~Shield.

It works OK for for use, but I really do not like it.

One one side it works nicely for simple small projects, but once you want something "more", all hell break loose.

I'd rather be phishing!

Now that is a breakfast sandwich!!

Jacquers26-Jan-15 4:15

Jacquers

26-Jan-15 4:15

We are using the standard MSI installer / setup project with Visual Studio 2010. I recently found out that there is an extension for VS2013 to bring back that standard msi installer.

We had some custom requirements that required tweaking of the msi:

- disabling self-repairing shortcuts (because we use our own auto-updater)
- extracting the msi, modifying the app.config files with the client's network info and re-compiling the msi (using msi2xml and xml2msi) so they can just download from their server and install

There is also NSIS that can be used as an installer.

Slacker00726-Jan-15 2:20

Slacker007

26-Jan-15 2:20

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/26/doughnut-bacon-maple-syrup-buttie-bird-london-ultimate-breakfast-combo[^]

I think I shall make this, sometime this week.

modified 26-Jan-15 8:29am.

Happy Australia Day

Corporal Agarn26-Jan-15 2:01

Corporal Agarn

26-Jan-15 2:01

Did not see a post so I though I would start one.

Bob is quite festive today.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter26-Jan-15 2:14

26-Jan-15 2:14

It's already tomorrow to half of them, and probably the other half lying in some pub... Big Grin | :-D

By the way, what is it in the right-hand of Bob?

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chriselst26-Jan-15 2:15

chriselst

26-Jan-15 2:15

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
By the way, what is it in the right-hand of Bob?

I'm going to guess at Vegemite.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter26-Jan-15 2:19

26-Jan-15 2:19

After looking it up I would be better with two glasses of beer...

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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Corporal Agarn26-Jan-15 2:52

Corporal Agarn

26-Jan-15 2:52

I think it is a can of beer, however, Vegemite would have been my first guess.

HobbyProggy26-Jan-15 2:21

HobbyProggy

26-Jan-15 2:21

Corporal Agarn wrote:
Bob is quite ~~festive~~ drinky today.

FTFY, btw happy Aussie day Wink | ;)

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Easy to use Linux?

ZurdoDev26-Jan-15 1:33

ZurdoDev

26-Jan-15 1:33

I installed the Zorin OS 3 or 4 years ago because that is what people said was closest to Windows. However, my biggest complaint is there are no executables.

For example, to update Java you have to download the file and then get into command lines to actually do the update. I also installed Android Developer Studio over the weekend and never finished because of all the command line this that and the other.

I remember a time when people were convinced Linux would take over Windows; however, until they can get this simple concept to work in Linux I don't see it ever happening.

I don't want to go back to the DOS days.

Is there a flavor of Linux that has executables so that updating software is easy?

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter26-Jan-15 1:41

26-Jan-15 1:41

Actually there are distributions that do the update/install just like Windows...Nice UI and all...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

ZurdoDev26-Jan-15 1:58

ZurdoDev

26-Jan-15 1:58

Such as?

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter26-Jan-15 1:59

26-Jan-15 1:59

Fedora, Ubuntu...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

ZurdoDev26-Jan-15 2:03

ZurdoDev

26-Jan-15 2:03

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
Fedora, Ubuntu

Maybe I'll try Ubuntu. Zorin is supposedly the "same" as Ubuntu.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter26-Jan-15 2:09

26-Jan-15 2:09

I do not know of Zorin, but Fedora and Ubuntu have the auto-update feature...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.