Good Cheap Installation Software??

22 Feb 2006 8:58 AM

Wayne Gibson

Hi,
Was wondering anybody could help?

I'm looking an application to help deploy my Windows Form application. I've
been using the built in installer in VS.NET 2005, but I want to package all
the files up into one exe (this includes the prerequisites!). So that my
users only have to download one exe and not have to worry about downloading
a zip and then unzipping it..

Any ideas?

Thanks

Wayne

22 Feb 2006 12:46 PM

Michael D. Ober

Take a look at WinZip. It has an optional module that allows you to create
self-extracting exes that then start one of the programs in the zip file.

Mike Ober.

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"Wayne Gibson" <wayne.gib***@rendersoft.com> wrote in message
news:dth93i$a68$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi,
> Was wondering anybody could help?
>
> I'm looking an application to help deploy my Windows Form application.
I've
> been using the built in installer in VS.NET 2005, but I want to package
all
> the files up into one exe (this includes the prerequisites!). So that my
> users only have to download one exe and not have to worry about
downloading
> a zip and then unzipping it..
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wayne
>
>
>

22 Feb 2006 3:34 PM

Jeroen Vandezande

What I use is NullSoft Installer AKA NSIS.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

It's very good and it generated one .exe file.

Best Regards,

Jeroen Vandezande

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"Wayne Gibson" <wayne.gib***@rendersoft.com> wrote in message
news:dth93i$a68$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi,
> Was wondering anybody could help?
>
> I'm looking an application to help deploy my Windows Form application.
> I've been using the built in installer in VS.NET 2005, but I want to
> package all the files up into one exe (this includes the prerequisites!).
> So that my users only have to download one exe and not have to worry about
> downloading a zip and then unzipping it..
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wayne
>

22 Feb 2006 3:35 PM

Li-fan Chen

Hi Wayne,

From my online readings, it appears a considerable number of shareware and
mISV vendors prefer Nullsoft's NSIS and Jordan Russell's Inno Setup. Do
please check them out.

Best regards,
-- Li-fan

--
Li-fan Chen
Software analyst/developer, Entrepreneur
Markham, Ontario, Canada

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"Wayne Gibson" <wayne.gib***@rendersoft.com> wrote in message
news:dth93i$a68$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi,
> Was wondering anybody could help?
>
> I'm looking an application to help deploy my Windows Form application.
> I've been using the built in installer in VS.NET 2005, but I want to
> package all the files up into one exe (this includes the prerequisites!).
> So that my users only have to download one exe and not have to worry about
> downloading a zip and then unzipping it..
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wayne
>

3 Mar 2006 12:33 PM

Stu Smith

I've used WiX and found it to be useful for smallish problems. It takes a
while to get used to and is quite techy (you define the installer via XML
files) but there is a basic UI for it floating around somewhere.

Stu

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"Wayne Gibson" <wayne.gib***@rendersoft.com> wrote in message
news:dth93i$a68$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi,
> Was wondering anybody could help?
>
> I'm looking an application to help deploy my Windows Form application.
> I've been using the built in installer in VS.NET 2005, but I want to
> package all the files up into one exe (this includes the prerequisites!).
> So that my users only have to download one exe and not have to worry about
> downloading a zip and then unzipping it..
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wayne
>