I have been searching for a way to place a listbox at the start of a Wix Chain Bundle in order to select the computer name to which the program should reference. Is this possible?
If you are using standard bootstrapped, there is no simple way to modify the UI.
You can use a custom managed bootstrapper in WPF or set this in the UI of the first Installer.
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Can anyone please guide me how can I convert Add-Ins to VSPackage Extention without recreating/replicating everything into VSIX?
I have one addin which is supporting VS2010 to VS2013. I have everything in .sln. I want to migrate/create .addin into .vsix for compatibility issue of VS2015. After few research, I have found that the code what is written in IDTCommandTarget.Exec method has to run into my custom command class of vsix project...
So, I created a new .vsix project in same solution & add a reference of my .addin project into .vsix project and I am able to load initial controls of my addin project as like below...
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but as per the code, I want to create CreateToolWindow2 on double click of my tree node but I am getting following error (null AddInInstance)...
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Can anyone please guide me how can I create an Instance of AddIn class to create ToolWindow2?
This is not quite the way to do this. You create a .VSIX project, then add a Custom Command, and you add the code/logic that was in your old addin's Exec method, to the custom commands MenuItemCallback method.
Note, you no longer need to programmatically create the menus/commands, toolbars, etc. VSPackages have an entirely different (and much more effective way) via the .VSCT file.
FAQ: Converting Add-ins to VSPackage Extensions
To convert an add-in to a package is not easy or trivial, you need to use .vsct file to create menus, toolbars, commands, etc.
About toolwindows:
The usual way for packages is:
HOWTO: Create a toolwindow with a ToolWindowPane class in a Visual Studio package
http://www.visualstudioextensibility.com/articles/packages/
But you can do it in the same way as add-ins:
HOWTO: Create a toolwindow without a ToolWindowPane class in a Visual Studio package
(same link)
About not "duplicating everything" when migrating an add-in to a package, see my post:
Strategies migrating from Visual Studio add-ins to packages
I have a new HTML helper, SelectionOtherTextBoxFor. It is a textbox linked to a <select> element1 for capturing the actual other value if the user selects 'Other' in the select list.
It has some JavaScript, HtmlHelper code, and some attribute code.
How do I package this so that other developers can just install and use it, without a list of files and where to put them? I suspect Nuget, but maybe there is a simpler way.
Otherwise, please may I turn this into how do I go about doing this in NuGet?
The easiest would probably be to package the code in a class library that other developers could reference in their projects. As far as the javascript part is concerned, you could ship it alongside the class library.
If you want to automate the process, NuGet is definitely the way to go. You should read the Creating and Publishing a NuGet package guide which contains very detailed instructions on how you could create a NuGet package and include dependencies in it. In this case you will have the assembly containing the custom helper and attribute and javascript file as a content to the package. The javascript file could then by default be deployed in ~/Scripts when some developer installs the NuGet.
Personally I have always used NuGet for those kind of things as it offers lots of flexibilities.
I find it incredibly tedious every time I edit a core data model in the XCode model builder to select "Editor -> Create NSManagedObjectSubclass", then select the project group and directory in which to place the generated files, and agree that yes, I do want to replace their old versions.
It would be really great to have a one line shell command to generate these with a default group and directory. Does such a tool exist? If not, how would one go about writing such a tool?
I don't think there's any way to automate Xcode like that. The closest you can come is the generic UI automation functionality in AppleScript, but what you're asking for is pretty complex.
Instead, you may want to investigate mogenerator. It doesn't do the exact same thing that Xcode does, but it is basically a tool to regenerate CoreData classes as part of your build system, without interfering with custom code you may want to write for the class.
We are trying to install a Java program to run as a windows service. Of the various available options(JSW, YAJSW, Launch4J, procrun, WinRun4J etc etc), we would like to use srvany.exe and install it using InstallShield. The Windows documentation says ...
Using RegEdit : create a "Parameters" key for your service (e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MyService\Paramaters\ )
Using RegEdit : within the newly created "Parameters" key , create a string value called Application and enter the full path to the application you are wanting to run as a service.
Is there a way to achieve this using InstallShield without using InstallShield's registry editor? Is there an InstallScript call that can take care of adding and removing "Parameters" to the srvany entry in the registry? The solution should to work for Windows 2008R2 & 2003R2.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Assuming you are using a Basic MSI project type, I find a combination of the ServiceInstall, ServiceControl and Registry tables to be a good solution. Due to the fact that ServAny is really just a thunking layer, the ServiceInstall table can't fully describe the service without a little assistance from the Registry table. Still, no custom actions should be needed and the MSI will be very solid and robust.
As we were not able to find a favourable solution within available time, we decided to not use the srvany.exe. We decided to use YAJSW and within InstallShield use "Text File Changes" to modify the wrapper.conf for the YAJSW to launch our java application.
I made installer with Inno Setup. It consist of multiple executables all located in Program Files "APP" folder. But for every executable there's different subfolder in this "APP" folder.
Because every executable is different from purpose, I want to create uninstaller where I can choose, which component I want to uninstall (for example Change button in Add/Remove programs). At the moment uninstaller removes all the applications.
One option is to create different installer for every component and then create installer that contains other installers, but this is too weird.
Is it possible to create custom uninstaller with option to select which component I want to uninstall?
What seems that you need is a modify/repair setup option to your application's setup, right?
Take a look in this extension named UninsHs
Note: Searching in Google I've found another newer version in other site, but I am not sure if it is legit.
It is possible to do in the Inno uninstaller but it won't "fit in" with the wizard style, and will require showing your own forms, and cancelling the uninstall when you've removed the bits you want.
An alternative is to use the setup (which is slightly better suited for this) and handle components being ticked and unticked.
Both of these will require fairly extensive [Code] being written though.