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Chapter 5
Assembling an Installation
Files or Web Files Page
Windows Installer Editor Reference
This chapter includes the following topics:
Files or Web Files Page
Visual Studio Solution Page
Registry Page
on page 161
INI Files Page
on page 170
Shortcuts Page
on page 172
Adding an Environment Variable
Adding File Associations
Services Page
on page 179
Adding an ODBC Item
Adding to the Windows Firewall Exception List
On the Files or Web Files page, you specify the directories and files to be installed on the
destination computer. You also can specify operations to remove, copy, or move files on
the destination computer during the installation.
On the Web Files page, you also can add Web sites, virtual directories, and Web folders,
and set their options. The Web Files page displays items to be installed to a Microsoft
Internet Information Services Web server, while the Files page displays all items to be
installed. For a summary of differences between the two pages, as well as links to Web-
related functionality, see
(Visual Studio integrated editor only.) When you create an installation that is part of a
Visual Studio solution, all primary outputs (.EXEs and .DLLs) of the projects in the
solution are added to the installation. Other, non-primary outputs are added if they
belong to an output group that is included in the scan for new files. Use the Files page to
organize files into features and to add any files that are not added automatically. The
Visual Studio Solution page provides a project- and output group-oriented view of the
files in the solution.
See
Visual Studio Solution Page
See also:
When to Use the File-Related Installation Expert Pages
on page 125
on page 157
on page 176
on page 176
on page 182
About Web Installations
on page 157.
on page 184
on page 266.
on page 127
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