Visual Studio Installer?? 1

[badrion]

Anyone use this? Is there a way to set up to autorun?

 

[madlarry]

You could add a registry entry into the installation into the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

This would make your application run always on startup.

Alternatively you could make your application run as a service (on NT or 2000), this would have the added security benefits that services can provide.

Madlarry

 

[badrion]

When I burn the CD, for our user to install, I want to have it autorun. The Autorun.inf file doesn't recognize the extension .msi that VSInstaller saves it as. Does anyone know of a way to make an Autorun file recognize that????

 

[MrMoocow]

Try changing the files extension to exe. It may seem wierd but lots of files can be recoginzied as other files (.scr to exe for example.) it may or maynot work

 

[badrion]

Tried that already, it will open a dos screen for about 5 seconds then closes and does nothing. It's like it doesn't recognize it.

 

[madlarry]

Hi badrion,

If you still have this problem, see my reply in thread222-102369 and change the project properties so that Setup.exe is included in the Output, then change your Autorun.inf to reference the setup.exe file instead of the .msi file. It might work....

Madlarry