kristine

Can anyone help me on how to use the visual studio installer to make a setup file for my visual basic project?

I search the micirosoft knowledge base and i found the "HOWTO: Create a Visual Basic Installer Package with Visual Studio Installer" My problem now is:

1.) how will i know if i succesfully created the package?
2.) what will be the file extension of the package?
2.) How to run the package on the user client?

Please help.
Thanks!!!

hariharan_j80

hi kristine,
With Visual Installer it is quite easy to implement vb installers. The extension of installer is *.msi. To see if this extension is associated with any program, just search for such files. If they have an unknown icon. Then install instamsiw.exe from microsoft site.
the only drawback which i think is that you must have at least one visual studio component on ur pc.
To test your package try it out on another machine. or uninstall visual studio. then tryout by running the MSI file. be sure to backup all your project files before uninstalling.
You can mail me if you have additional problems.