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How the Installation Integrates With the Solution

Windows Installer Editor Reference
Visual Studio integrated editor only.
When you add an installation to a Visual Studio solution, as described in
Installation Within a Solution
installation project:
All primary outputs (.EXEs and .DLLs) of the projects in the solution, and all content
files in the solution. (Content files are not compiled but are meant to be distributed
with the application. Examples: HTML, ASP, and ASPX files.) When a project
consists only of a .DLL or .OCX, has no additional content, and is a dependent of
another project, it is not added to the installation by default.
To add other outputs to the installation, select the appropriate output group on the
Project Outputs page in the project settings, or add them on the Visual Studio
Solution page.
Windows Installer Editor can scan for files you add or delete after you create the
installation project, and can add them to or delete them from the project.
See Scanning the Solution for New Files
Assembly dependencies, if you have selected one of the rescan assembly options in
Wise Options.
View these in Installation Expert > Files page or Visual Studio Solution page.
The application name, version, and manufacturer from the main project in the
solution.
View these in Installation Expert > Product Details page. The default directory is
filled in with the same name as the main project. You can change the main project
on the Main Project page in the project settings.
Note
Except for the product version, once the information on the Product Details page is
set, it does not change if you change the information in the main project.
An advertised shortcut for the application.
On the Project Outputs page in the project settings, you can choose not to create a
shortcut.
When you add a new project to the solution, its outputs are added to the installation.
To exclude a project from the installation, or to change how the installation project
integrates with the solution, edit the installation's project settings.
See Entering Project Settings
Note
Only files that reside in the directory where the solution (.sln) file resides and its
subdirectories can be managed with source control. Files that reside in system
directories or other locations outside the solution directory are not managed by source
control, and therefore do not appear in the Other Files or Source Files folders under the
installation project in Solution Explorer.
Working With Wise Installation Files
on page 73, the following items are added to the
on page 84.
on page 78.
Creating an
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