MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Create a setup for a Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 add-in using Inno Setup

.NET support in next version of InnoSetup installer (handy for COM-based add-ins)

Carlos Quintero (Microsoft MVP) blog — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:48:30 GMT

Finally InnoSetup , a freeware very popular installer for Windows will include support for .NET, that

re: MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Create a setup for a Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 add-in using Inno Setup

Carlosq — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:58:35 GMT

You can customize whether admin rights are required or not.

If you register the add-in using per-user registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) or per-user folders, it will work fine, but notice that on Windows Vista, without admin rights the user won't be able to install on C:\Program Files, which is the default folder for installations, he will need to use one of its own folders (C:\Users\<user>) which is weird for an installation.

re: MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Create a setup for a Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 add-in using Inno Setup

Utkarsh — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:35:03 GMT

Thanks for the info. Does Inno setup check user privileges before starting the installer? Few days back, I used MSI based installation for one of my addin and it failed to create entry in registry (Lookin folder). I want user with minimum privileges also to install my addin through setup. Hope this will be possible through Inno setup.

re: MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Create a setup for a Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 add-in using Inno Setup

Dmitry Pavlov — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:53:07 GMT

Hi Carlos,

I also use Inno Setup for creating installers for my packages due to problems with custom actions in MSI.

That might be interesting for Inno Setup users who works in Visual Studio: Lexpa - Inno Setup Integration for Visual Studio.

URL: www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx