Good installation programs????

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Aussie Rules

Hi,

I am having to many problems with the clickonce/publish tool that comes with
vs2008.

I would like to find a good installation tool, such as wise or install
shield thats good for winform apps (sql expresss, crystal reports and plenty
of third party components) that are installed from a web site, with the
ability to do updates/patches.

I have looked at install shield and a few others but the price for these
tools seems huge.

Has anybody had any positive experiences with cost effective installation
tools they can recommend.

Thanks
 
Hi,

I am having to many problems with the clickonce/publish tool that comes with
vs2008.

I would like to find a good installation tool, such as wise or install
shield thats good for winform apps (sql expresss, crystal reports and plenty
of third party components) that are installed from a web site, with the
ability to do updates/patches.

I have looked at install shield and a few others but the price for these
tools seems huge.

Has anybody had any positive experiences with cost effective installation
tools they can recommend.

Thanks
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Hi Aussie,
You can take a look at InnoSetup which is free for non-commercial use,
but you may need to type some scripts to build and at this point some
script generator tools may help you to generate for InnoSetup, just
Google them.(for example: Istool -- http://www.istool.org/)

Thanks,

Onur
 
There is an open source setup WIX (http://wix.sourceforge.net/) from
Microdots itself. I have not used it but there are rumours that it will be
included in next version of vs. You may want to go for that to get a head
start on the next release of vs.

Regards
 
Microdots

Sorry Microsoft. spell check problem. Come to think of it, spell check is
form Microsoft too.
 
You can take a look at InnoSetup which is free for non-commercial use,

Just small correction. InnoSetup is free even for commercial use. We've
been using it for one of our products for years. It's excellent.
 
Just small correction. InnoSetup is free even for commercial use. We've
been using it for one of our products for years. It's excellent.

--
Peter Macej
Helixoft -http://www.helixoft.com
VSdocman - Commenter and generator of class documentation for C#, VB
.NET and ASP .NET code
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Hi Peter,
Thanks for the correction, you're right. It's said to be a complete
"freeware". But scripting may be a trouble, even more GUI-based
installers may exist.

Thanks,

Onur
 
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