Visual Studio Installer Confusion

[benski]

I am a little bit confused

I've be testing new methods of application deployment and the new VSI interface and cleanup/repair options seem fantastic - eg a user can delete the entire application, but clicking on a shortcut will re-install and start the application- how cool is that?

My question is pretty simple I guess- How do you create an executable installation package with VSI, instead of just a .msi file?

Is there a generic VSI Setup.exe that controls the .msi contents I need to include, if so where is it?

Go to the properties of your 'solution', under the build you'll seea combo box with Build type:, there you can choose the, installer with Windows Installer Loader option, this will include the Windows Installer program so you will be able to execute .msi files.

Hope it helps,

[benski]

Top Advice Nice one!!

I think the problem was that I hadn't waded through enough of the 147 page manual- well none of it actually

[jarrodj]

I wish to use the Visual Studio Installer that you mention hopefully to register a com object under MTS/Com+ but I cannot find it, I have VS Enterprise Edition (as well as the entire MSDN Dev CD's and Technet) and cannot find it.

It is not under enterprise tools and setup does not give me the option for it.

I would really appreciate any help you can suggest.

Thanks

Jarrod