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Deployment issues in VS 2003 addressed (hopefully!) in VS 2005

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seer asked a question in an earlier post about deployment issues with VS 2003:

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Why I can't create setup that install framework and MSDE? Why I must use external tools to create such setup? And please don't fix it by just adding MSDE option - I want to include my other setups also.
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I forwarded this question to the Sean Draine, who is responsible for the area, and he replied to the effect that the issues are addressed in VS 2005:

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We’ve addressed this scenario with the Visual Studio 2005 Bootstrapper, which handles detection, downloading, and installing prerequisite components like the the .NET FX and SSE. Out of the box, developers can choose to redistribute the FX + lang packs, J#, SSE, MDAC, MSI 3.0, the VC runtime, and Crystal Reports runtime with their ClickOnce or Windows Installer application. Developers can also leverage the bootstrapper’s extensibility model to intelligently predeploy other MS or 3rd party components as well.

You should point people to this MSDN magazine article for an overview and more details.

  -Sean

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seer, it would be great if you could try out these features in one of the VS 2005 pre-release SKU's and let us know if your pain points with VS 2003 are entirely addressed in VS 2005.  Feel free to email me (scottwil) or Sean (seandr).

Thanks for the feedback, seer.  I wish you some happy C# coding the rest of the week!

--Scott

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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2005
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    January 19, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2005
    Hopefully you provide an option to include JET setup files, too. MDB files are just enough most of the times for small applications.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2005
    Thanks for this answer. :-)
    This bootstraper from VS 2005 will solve my problem for now. But I must agree with James Hancock that there is still need for conditional prerequisites setup - I don't want to install MSDE if client will use his SQL Server.

    I must check if it's present in Express edition of VS 2005 Beta to look it closely, coz this is the only one available for me now (no MSDN subscription).

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2005
    I dont understand this discussion. Don't merge modules already accomplish this purpose?

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2005
    Uhh, I don't know about that.
    Why Uninstaller can't check other aps before whole uninstall proces and then ask for user acceptance with info about apps that depends on it.

    BTW
    I have one more thing that annoys me in VS 2003. In typed dataset editor there is no support in PropertyGrid for other namespaces. What I mean is that when I add
    xmlns:codegen="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msprop"
    attribute to the "xs:schema" element I want in PropertyGrid new properties to show for appriopriate elements - codegen:typedName, codegen:typedPlural and such.

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2005
    sorry I mean other schemas not other namespaces :-)

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    January 20, 2005
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    January 20, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2005
    This is somewhat related, but why haven't there been any updates or service packs or ANY fixes for Visual Studio.NET 2003? VS6 had at least six service packs... Even Help | Check for Updates doesn't appear to work, at least right now I'm getting the following from computers in two different locations (home and work):

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    Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
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    Visual Studio .NET 2003 setup encountered errors while attempting to download required files. Check your Web browser configuration settings and your connection hardware, and then try again.
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    Retry Cancel
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