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Mon, Nov 2 2009 10:02

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 includes link to InstallShield Limited Edition

Some beta testers of Visual Studio 2010 pointed out that in the New Project dialog there is a new template called "InstallShield 2010". It's listed next to "Visual Studio Installer" under Other Project Types > Setup and Deployment...
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Sat, Sep 12 2009 2:30

Microsoft's recent Security Updates for Visual Studio break Windows Installer Updates

This problem was brought up in a question on the InstallSite Forum and is also mentioned in a blog post by Gauravb (who appears to be a Microsoft employee). The typical symptom is missing or not updated files after you install a Small or Minor Update...
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Fri, Apr 3 2009 6:07

No joke – WiX will NOT Ship with Visual Studio

Several months ago, Microsoft had announced that the next version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2010, code name Rosario) will ship with a subset of the Windows Installer XML Toolkit ( WiX ). But on April 1st, 2009, Rob Mensching, the WiX project lead...
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Fri, Aug 1 2008 12:38

Deploying VSTO Office Add-Ins with Windows Installer

If you are creating Office add-ins you may find this two-part MSDN article useful. It describes how to install add-ins created with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) using Windows Installer. The article uses Visual Studio to create the MSI. Deploying...
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Thu, Jan 3 2008 19:16

InstallShield Support for Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 and VC++ 9

Macrovision released updates for InstallShield 2008 to support integration with Visual Studio 2008 and redistribution of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VC++ 9 runtime files: HOTFIX: Beta Support for Visual Studio 2008 UPDATE: InstallShield 2008 Basic MSI...
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Tue, Nov 27 2007 0:20

Microsoft to "productize" WiX

Rob Mensching reports that Microsoft will include a sub-set of the Windows Installer XML toolkit ( WiX ) in the next version of Visual Studio, code named Rosario. WiX is an open source project for authoring of Windows Installer (MSI) setups. While Microsoft...
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