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The following article uses options that are available starting with the Freeware edition and project type.
This tutorial will show you how to create installers for your Visual Studio solutions using Visual Studio 2017.
We will start by adding an Advanced Installer Project to an existing solution, editing it and creating a package. Afterwards, we will include and a new Visual Studio project to the solution and build both projects in a single package.
- 1. Open the Visual Studio solution
- 2. Add an Advanced Installer Project to the solution
- 3. Create the first install package
- 4. Edit the installer project
- 5. Add another Visual Studio Project to the solution
- 6. Create the final install package
- 7. Automatically import .VDPROJ files (optional)
- 8. Video tutorial
- 9. See also
1. Open the Visual Studio solution
Open the solution for which you want to create the install package.
2. Add an Advanced Installer Project to the solution
Once the Visual Studio solution is loaded:
- From the 'New Project' dialog select Advanced Installer Project
- In the 'Solution' field select Add to solution option
- In the 'Name' field you can write a name for your project
- Press to add the project to the solution
By default, when adding an Advanced Installer Project, the build output of the solution will not be automatically added to the installer project, to do this you must:
- Go to the 'Files and Folders' section of the Installer Project
- Press 'Add Project Output' button
- Select the 'Primary Output' and 'References'
- Press
The output of each project contained by the solution is automatically synchronized in the Advanced Installer project.
Mac lipstick shades with price. Following these steps, Advanced Installer Extension for Visual Studio adds in the installer project all application references except the Microsoft .NET assemblies.
3. Create the first install package
In Visual Studio select 'Build' > 'Build Solution' option to start the build.
After the build is completed successfully, it will create two main files: HelloWorld.exe which is the output from the C# project and Installer Project.msi which is the installation package.
4. Edit the installer project
Using the Advanced Installer Project viewer, you can edit basic information about your installer like Product Details, Launch Conditions, Install Parameters, and much more..
Let's suppose we have an Enterprise edition of Advanced Installer. By default, the installer project will be created based on a Freeware license. Since we want to use features from the Enterprise edition, like selecting a theme for the installation dialogs, we will need to upgrade our project type:
- Press the button to open your installer project in Advanced Installer
- From the 'Project' menu select 'Options..'
- Navigate to the Project Type Tab and select Enterprise
- Press the button
Now, that we have an Enterprise project we have full access to all the available Advanced Installer Enterprise features.
- Go to Themes Page
- From the right view select the desired theme and variation for your installer dialogs
- Save the project and exit Advanced Installer
Visual Studio will ask you if you want to reload the installer project since it was modified. Press the button.
5. Add another Visual Studio Project to the solution
If an Advanced Installer Project is added to a solution, it will automatically import the build output and all useful information related to the projects from the solution. If later, the existing projects are modified, or another project is added to the solution the import operation must be redone.
Let's add a new Visual Studio project to the solution:
- From the 'New Project' dialog in Visual Studio select 'Visual C#' > 'WPF App'
- In the 'Solution' field select Add to solution option
- Press the button. The new project will be added to the solution
- Rebuild the solution
6. Create the final install package
Include the second project in the installer package:
- Select the Installer Project.aip file from the 'Solution Explorer'
- Check that both projects output builds are included in the installer package from the 'Files and Folders' page
- Rebuild the solution
- Test the new installation package
The newly created installer will contain all the projects from the solution.
7. Automatically import .VDPROJ files (optional)
If you have solutions that contain old Visual Studio Deployment projects (.vdproj) you can automatically convert them to an Advanced Installer project and have it included in your solution, replacing the old VDPROJ. Just open the solution in Visual Studio, with our Advanced Installer VS extension installed, and VS will prompt you to accept the conversion from VDPROJ to AIPROJ (Advanced Installer VS project).
The new project Advanced Installer project will contain all the resources from the old VDPROJ. If you want to customize it more just use the 'Edit in Advanced Installer' button, available when you open the .aip file in Visual Studio.
8. Video tutorial
Visual Studio Code is not Visual Basic Express, nor does it recreate the underlying Microsoft Windows system features and libraries that Visual Basic Express expects. If the school requires Visual Basic Express, then you need to provide your son with a Windows solution on his Mac. Depending on the school's business relationship with Microsoft, they may offer a less expensive, and even potentially, a free version of Windows 10. Inquire.
Your options for running Windows 10 on the 2015 MacBook Pro with El Capitan, are: Alex for mac.
- Apple's Boot Camp Assistant (included) with El Capitan in /Applications/Utilities.
- Creates a separate, bootable (not virtualized) partition on the Mac and installs Windows 10 into it
- One can choose to boot into OS X, or Windows 10.
- Apple provides specific drivers for Windows 10 for MacBook Pro hardware compatibility.
- Thoroughly read the above link before plunging into a Boot Camp installation.
- One of three virtual machines to run Windows 10 concurrently as a guest OS with OS X
- Free
- Expects a Windows 10 ISO (.iso) installer
- Parallel's Desktop
- Currently $79/year home/student
- Purchased from Parallels Site
- Parallel's Lite (free) in Mac App Store requires $60/yr in-App purchase to install Windows
- VMware Fusion
- Currently $79
- Purchased from VMware Fusion site
Let's add a new Visual Studio project to the solution:
- From the 'New Project' dialog in Visual Studio select 'Visual C#' > 'WPF App'
- In the 'Solution' field select Add to solution option
- Press the button. The new project will be added to the solution
- Rebuild the solution
6. Create the final install package
Include the second project in the installer package:
- Select the Installer Project.aip file from the 'Solution Explorer'
- Check that both projects output builds are included in the installer package from the 'Files and Folders' page
- Rebuild the solution
- Test the new installation package
The newly created installer will contain all the projects from the solution.
7. Automatically import .VDPROJ files (optional)
If you have solutions that contain old Visual Studio Deployment projects (.vdproj) you can automatically convert them to an Advanced Installer project and have it included in your solution, replacing the old VDPROJ. Just open the solution in Visual Studio, with our Advanced Installer VS extension installed, and VS will prompt you to accept the conversion from VDPROJ to AIPROJ (Advanced Installer VS project).
The new project Advanced Installer project will contain all the resources from the old VDPROJ. If you want to customize it more just use the 'Edit in Advanced Installer' button, available when you open the .aip file in Visual Studio.
8. Video tutorial
Visual Studio Code is not Visual Basic Express, nor does it recreate the underlying Microsoft Windows system features and libraries that Visual Basic Express expects. If the school requires Visual Basic Express, then you need to provide your son with a Windows solution on his Mac. Depending on the school's business relationship with Microsoft, they may offer a less expensive, and even potentially, a free version of Windows 10. Inquire.
Your options for running Windows 10 on the 2015 MacBook Pro with El Capitan, are: Alex for mac.
- Apple's Boot Camp Assistant (included) with El Capitan in /Applications/Utilities.
- Creates a separate, bootable (not virtualized) partition on the Mac and installs Windows 10 into it
- One can choose to boot into OS X, or Windows 10.
- Apple provides specific drivers for Windows 10 for MacBook Pro hardware compatibility.
- Thoroughly read the above link before plunging into a Boot Camp installation.
- One of three virtual machines to run Windows 10 concurrently as a guest OS with OS X
- Free
- Expects a Windows 10 ISO (.iso) installer
- Parallel's Desktop
- Currently $79/year home/student
- Purchased from Parallels Site
- Parallel's Lite (free) in Mac App Store requires $60/yr in-App purchase to install Windows
- VMware Fusion
- Currently $79
- Purchased from VMware Fusion site
Your son can run any of these solutions on the 2015 MacBook Pro with El Capitan. If it is an 8GB RAM machine, you may want to caution about running any other applications while using the Virtual Machines, or your son may run out of memory. I currently run Windows 10 w/Fall Creator's update in VirtualBox 5.2.6 on a 2011 Mac mini with 16GB RAM.
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