Setup.exe Utility


Version: 1.0
Size:
14KB
Requirements:
No special requirements
Price:
Free
System:
Windows XP/2000/98
Rating:
4.2
License:
Freeware

Description - Setup.exe Utility



When building .NET applications and components you may come across the need for a basic setup.exe that will launch your msi file in a user friendly manner.Users expect to find a `setup.exe` to click on when they receive your product, but the only way to get this from a Visual Studio .NET deployment project is to allow it to include the installers for MSI itself. Since these total over 3.5MB you don`t usually want to distribute them unless you have to. Our Free Setup.exe app does the following: * Automatically locates any msi file in the same folder as itself (limitation: it will use the first one returned by the FindFirstFile API call) * Checks that the Windows Installer is present before trying to open the msi file, and presents a user friendly message if it isn`t, directing the user to the Microsoft Downloads site * Reads the MSI Title from the package and presents a confirmation dialog like: `This setup routine will install the following program: XYZ Product. Are you sure you want to continue?`. The MSI Title corresponds to the Title property of the Deployment Project in VS.NET * Launches MSIExec to Process the msi file

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