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When I'm making an installer with the wonderfully crappy installer maker in VS for my VB program, I've noticed one thing suspicously missing. There doesn't seem to be a way to add an option onto the end of the installer to actually launch the program. You know like a checkbox that's checked by default that says "Launch ____ when finished". Anyone know if there's a way to add one of those?
from your installer project, right click the installer project, and choose view-->custom actions. then right click on commit, and you can specify a file to run.
wow, they couldn't have hidden that any better if they tried. Well I added the primary output from my program to the commit folder and now at the end of the installer it says "Could not find file 'C:\Program Files\ ...\myprogramname.InstallState'
and that's paraphrased cuz U don't need know the company name ;) Then after that error it completely uninstalls itself. And before I click ok on the error all the folders it refers to exist. The final folder includes the .exe and the icon file and that's it and that's all it's supposed to according to VS. After I click okay it leaves the folder structure there and leave a "TBDFA.tmp" file. It's 60kb and mostly unrenderable, non ASCII data and at the end the names of all the controls on my forms...strange. My .exe happens to be 60KB also so it might have just renamed that. Any idea why that's happening?
it worked first time for me