You can add an inclusion list entry with a custom action in your Windows Installer file. For more information about enabling the inclusion list, see How to: Configure Inclusion List Security. If neither option is used, a trust prompt is displayed to the user to let them decide whether to trust the solution.
For more information about security related to document-level solutions, see Granting Trust to Documents. The Setup and Deployment project templates are included with the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects extension that is available for download.
Visual Studio opens the File System Explorer for the new setup project. The File System Explorer allows you to add files to the setup project. The setup project needs to deploy the ExcelAddIn. You can configure the setup project for this task by adding the ExcelAddIn project output to the setup project. The setup project needs to deploy the deployment manifest and application manifest.
Add these two files to the setup project as stand-alone files from the output folder of the ExcelAddIn project. Select the ExcelAddIn.
Figure 3: Application and deployment manifests for the Add-in in Solution Explorer. These components must be excluded and deployed using prerequisite packages to allow them to be registered correctly. Also, the Software License Terms must be displayed and accepted before the installation begins.
The Utilities assemblies are meant to be deployed along with your application. In the Properties window, change the Exclude property to True to exclude the dependent assemblies from the setup project.
Make sure to not exclude any Utilities assemblies. You can configure your Windows Installer package to install prerequisite components by adding a Setup program, also known as a bootstrapper. This setup program can install the prerequisite components, a process called bootstrapping. For the ExcelAddIn , these prerequisites must be installed before the Add-in can run correctly:.
In the Prerequisites dialog box, select the correct version of the. Some of the configured prerequisite packages in your Visual Studio Setup Project are dependent on the selected build configuration. You must select the right prerequisite components for each build configuration that you use.
Microsoft Office locates Add-ins by using registry keys. Delete the [Manufacturer]? Use the text Software for the name of the new key.
Right-click on the newly created Software key and create a new key with the text Microsoft. Right-click the SampleCompany. ExcelAddIn key, select New , and click String value. Use the text Description for the Name. Right-click the Description value in the registry editor and click Properties Window.
Select the FriendlyName key in the registry editor. Select the LoadBehavior key in the registry editor. In the Properties Window , change the Value property to 3.
The value 3 for the LoadBehavior indicates that the add-in should be loaded at startup of the host application. Select the Manifest key in the registry editor. The VSTO runtime uses this registry key to locate the deployment manifest. This extension provides the same functionality that currently exists in Visual Studio for Visual Studio Installer projects.
To use this extension, you can either open the Extensions and Updates dialog, select the online node, and search for "Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension," or you can download directly from this page. Once you have finished installing the extension and restarted Visual Studio, you will be able to open existing Visual Studio Installer projects, or create new ones.
You can download a version of this extension compatible with Visual Studio here. Sign in. What's new in 1. NET Core 3. Files and project outputs can be added to a Cab project in Solution Explorer, and properties can be set in the Properties window or in the Project Property pages. After the wizard has finished, now you have completed to create an installer for your application. Now save all changes and start to build your application, if building completed successfully, build the installer.
Go to where you have saved the solution and you will see an installer file inside the debug folder in your setup project directory. But I think this is not enough for you! You need to go deeper in customization, so follow me in the following issues:.
The deployment editors are used to configure an installer that you create with a deployment project. To open an editor, select a deployment project and the buttons will appear as shown below or alternatively, right-click your deployment project, point to View, and then click the name of the editor that you want to open. File system editor; When the project is added to the solution, the first thing to be displayed is the file system editor. The picture above shows file system editor.
To put shortcut of your application in start menu or desktop go to application folder , right click on primary output from … Or any other files which you want to create shortcut for them , select create shortcut to… then the shortcut will appear, cut it and paste to the folder where you want a shortcut to appear. Also you can add project outputs in the target folder using the same way explained below just select project output… instead of a file.
The user interface editor helps you to customize the installation wizard interface. The Install section contains dialog boxes that will be displayed when the end user runs the installer; the Admin section contains dialog boxes that will be displayed when a system administrator uploads the installer to a network location. The Registry Editor allows you to specify registry keys and values to be added to the registry of the target computer. Playing with registry need more experienced person otherwise it may course some trouble in target computer, but you can add or remove keys according to what your project needs.
To add a registry key select a top level node, in the action menu click new key , then type the new name and edit properties of the key in the properties window as necessary. To add a sub key select a key node, in the action menu point to new and then key and you can edit its properties from the properties window. Also you can remove a key by selecting it and then click Delete from Edit menu. During installation the values will be written to the registry and any existing values will be overwritten by the values that you specify.
Here you can specify additional actions to be performed on the target computer at the end of an installation. When these components are configured as installation components, they are wrapped in an installer class and are recognized by the deployment system as a custom action. The editor contains four folders, each corresponding with a phase of installation: Install Commit, Rollback, and Uninstall which are run in the same order that they are displayed in the editor.
To add custom actions first must be compiled as a. NET framework component and added to a project as a script or assembly before they can be added to a deployment project. Then right click on one of the four folders and chose Add custom action then select your item to be added.
This also adds the item to your project. To add a custom action to all four folders, select the Custom Actions node in the editor, and choose Add Custom Action. File Types editor allows you to specify document types and associate them with file extensions.
In addition, you can specify the verbs or actions for each document type and specify MIME types for the document types for use in browsers. The File Types Editor contains a single pane with hierarchical list of file types and actions.
There are three steps involved in associating a file type with your application: adding a document type, associating a file extension, and associating an executable file. Then you can associate it with file extension by going to its properties and type the extension without precede it by a period separate multiple extensions by ;.
Then you can set a command by selecting a. The Launch Conditions Editor allows you to specify conditions that must be met in order to successfully run an installation. For example you may check for the OS version, windows installer components, registry key or even a file if it exists in a target machine.
To add an item to search right click on Search Target Machine and then select an item you want to be searched in the target machine and then set its properties from the properties window. The following pictures from MSDN summaries the properties available:. Choosing prerequisites to install: Sometimes your application may depend on components that must be available in target computer before the installation can take place.
Down the dialogue there is specify the install location for prerequisite , and three radio buttons are available: Details of Prerequisites This capability to automatically detect the existence of components during installation and install a predetermined set of prerequisites is referred to as bootstrapping and the component that performs it is called the generic bootstrapper which uses bootstrapper packages to install the prerequisite components on the target computer.
Creating installer for 64 bit platform: The deployment tools in Visual Studio allow you to create installers for bit applications and components. Publishing using ClickOnce for Setup Creating Publish properties can be set using the Publish Wizard but only a few of the properties are available in it, all other properties are set to their default values. Install mode and settings; First you have to say if the application is available offline or not online only.
Publish version; To increase publish version, increase major, minor, build or revision version number according to what updates you have made! Security in ClickOnce: ClickOnce security relies on Authenticode certificates to determine whether an application should be installed, a step known as a trust decision. InstallShield Limited Edition At the bottom of the screen are the steps to the installation project and I am going to talk a little on them.
Using the next button will make sure you have passed on all steps Application information; Here you will feel the basic information about the application including application name and version. Installation requirements; Specify the prerequisites that must be installed including version of OS and. Customer prerequisites can be defined under create a custom software condition Installation architecture; This step is disabled in the Limited Edition. Application registry; If the application requires any registry entries, they can be defined here.
Installation interview; This defines the user interface by specifying which dialogs should be displayed to users and which should not. Solution Explorer Now you can build it to get a. Happy Coding. Password Manager with Advanced Features developed in C. C vs Other Programming Languages.
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