I have developed a tool in C#/.NET and built the release .EXE of that tool. I woluld like to build an MSI install of the tool.

How can I do that from within the Visual Studio.NET IDE


Thanks

You could use any third party tool that builds MSI files, depending on the requirements of your setup:

http://installsite.org/pages/en/msi/authoring.htm

including Visual Studio's Setup&Deployment project.

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/getting-started-with-setup-projects/

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/visual-studio-setup---projects-and-custom-actions/

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/updates-to-setup-projects/

I tried to install Visual Studio installer but I was unable to.as the set up is looking for a bundle of pre-requisites like Visual Basic 6.0 Visual C++,Visual Inter Dev 6.0 etc.

 All I have Installed on my m/c is Visual Studio.NET 2003

Is there an easier to build an MSI file. I need to let the user create a couple of subdirectories as part of the set up. Is this possible through an MSI install

Thanks

Ok..i tried to build the MSI file by adding a setup and deployment project in Visual Studio 2003.NET

But when I try to build the solution I get the following error,

An error occurred while validating.  HRESULT = '80040155'

Could you tell me how I can fix this error

 Would you recommend that I try this

http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.asp articleid=q106194

I am not sure which version of Installshield I uninstalled. Besides I don't want to mess with the registry.

Thanks