What is the best installer?

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What is the best and easy to use installer to use with .NET wpf ?

Posted 6-May-14 4:37am

suhasges

Updated 6-May-14 4:38am

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[no name] 6-May-14 10:47am

It would be the one that does what you want it to do and is the easiest one for you to use.

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Solution 2

You can just use Visual Studio "Setup Project" it's the most simple one, here is a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpiZ_o5EgCo[^]

Posted 6-May-14 4:52am

Shai Vashdi

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Sorry I can't give an answer I just can warn you from one tool called "InstallShield". Ok very comfortable -sometimes- but also very expensive everytime.

Posted 6-May-14 6:13am

idle63

Updated 6-May-14 6:22am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-06T05:01:00

Solution 3

First of all, the question is not related to WPF. Installer is installer, it does very general work.

I highly recommend open-source WiX toolset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX [^],
http://wixtoolset.org/ [^].

In my past answers, I explained why:
installshield and Visual Studio 2012 [^],
How to conditionally install components based on processor architecture type (32-bit or 64-bit)? [(2)],
How to conditionally install components based on processor architecture type (32-bit or 64-bit)? [3],
Custom setup project [^].

Posted 6-May-14 5:01am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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thatraja 6-May-14 11:11am

5! You stole my show

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-May-14 11:14am

Ha-ha-ha ::sinister laugh:: :-)
Thank you very much, Raja.
—SA

Maciej Los 6-May-14 11:44am

5ed!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-May-14 12:00pm

Thank you, Maciej.
—SA

thatraja · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-06T04:44:00

Solution 1

I don't think any one worked on N number of installers. So do comparison using this list.
List of installation software[^]

Posted 6-May-14 4:44am

thatraja

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BELGIUMsky 6-May-14 10:50am

What installer do you suggest from that list?

thatraja 6-May-14 10:54am

This is a good question. I prefer WiX because it's FREE & it's pluggable with Visual studio. Besides active releases.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-May-14 11:14am

Good link, a 5.
I would add: not only WiX is pluggable, it tightly follows the contemporary MSBuild standard for project files. In this respect, it is the most legitimate, and the Setup project template which was bundled with Visual Studio up to VS 2010 (as far as I remember) was not.
—SA

Maciej Los 6-May-14 11:43am

5ed!