Well as mentioning some new, trending deployment technologies. From your current remark you apparently meant to say that there is no GUI that hides theįact that there is Xml.UPDATE, Aug.2018, a new and shorter option: How to create windows installer.įocused on summarizing MSI and its major benefits and to list the major tools available (with download links), as
I was responding to your comment "Wix probably supports service installation but there is absolutely no GUI" by pointing out there is in in fact a GUI. The XML part of WiX, then I'd like to know how to find it because all there is is an XML editor with (poor) hints. I have no idea what to type in that XML file to e.g. If you call the editing of XML files in a text editor an UI, then you have no idea what an installer project UI should/could look like. Your choice to remove the setup project really has brightened my world of programming. The person installing the package then needs to run these bat/cmd files manually after installation/before uninstall. It seems I have to make due with a simple installer and supply bat/cmd files to register/unregister the service. Therefore, ISLE is also worthless as a service installer.Īdvanced Installer (google it) also does not support service installations in the free package. ISLE I have tried but it too cannot install services EXCEPT if they are called Service1 (which mine aren't). Wix probably supports service installation but there is absolutely no GUI and I do not want to learn Wix xml programming just to create a simple service installer. If that is the case, then ClickOnce is of no use to me as I am trying to install a service which ClickOnce does not support. Thanks, I assume that ClickOnce is the same type of installation I get when I in VS2013 use the publish feature.
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