Also, we want to stop the service when the product is about to get uninstalled. If you want to customize any of the installer action, highlight the action > Add Custom Action… and select the project and type of output where the custom action handler code been written.įor instance, by default, SampleWinService project doesn’t start the installed service on target machine. Here, four basic installer actions appear: Install, Commit, Rollback and Uninstall. Right click on SampleInstaller project > View > Custom Actions Needless to say that if you don’t want to perform upgrade, then click No option.Ĭustom Actions are the one which enables the main project’s (SampleWinService) custom code to be executed at corresponding installer actions. This can be done by clicking YES to below question when you modify the Version number, Hence, make sure that ProductCode is changed when changing the Version, if you planned to perform upgrade. This allows user to perform upgrade operation of the product. When the Version number of product get changed, the UpgradeCode won’t change but ProductCode get change.

UpgradeCode is important GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) which is used to identify the family of products using this number.

If you want to install this installer on 64 bit machine as 64 bit application then select 圆4 instead of x86. Make sure you select appropriate platform using TargetPlatform. Now, fill the fields appropriately as per the description mentioned when you highlight the field. Now, highlight SampleInstaller and click on Properties tab seen right side of the project. Under the list box of this dialog, select “Primary output” to tell the installer that it has to pick up only DLLs and EXEs from the selected project for deployment and click OK. Right click on SampleInstaller project > Add > Project Output…įrom “Add Project Output Group” dialog, select appropriate project in Project field for which you planned to ship binaries. The generated binaries from SampleWinService project has to be deployed to target machine using SampleInstaller project. Hence, let’s create windows service project called “SampleWinService”. The ultimate purpose of SampleInstaller project is to deploy binaries built using Windows project. Let’s create a project called SampleInstaller using “Setup Project” template. There are five types of installer templates available currently:Īs our scope is “Setup Project” type, we will focus on adding custom action and upgrades of this type, in this article. To install Visual Studio Installer for Visual Studio 2015, see here. To have Visual Studio installer project type with your version of Visual Studio, make sure you download and install corresponding extension to your machine. Visual Studio provides installer projects in order to make application deployment simple.

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