Phil,
Thanks for the information - though it's not what I was hoping for
;). It makes creating a manageable install package somewhat difficult.
Hopefully someone on the .Net/MSI team is reading this.....
Thanks,
Matt
Phil Wilson wrote:
> The short answer is to just manually add the files you want, Dlls, config
> files, whatever. Drag the files into the appropriate folder. This seems to
> be a common general issue, the definition of project output. I've never
> quite understood why it's popular because when you use it you won't know
> what files are actually being installed until you've run the MSI setup.
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> >
> > Actually that was true for .Net 1.x, but with .Net 2.0 / VS 2005
you can
> > have app.configs for .DLLs and/or .EXEs - basically an app.config per
> > project. Just right-click a project and click "properties". When
you see
> > the properties screen select "settings" - this is where you would
create
> > an app.config for any project. It works well too in debug mode. The
> > problem arises when I try to get all of my app.configs to get
bundled up
> > with my setup. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Galcho[MCSD.NET] wrote:
>> >> AFAIK you cannot have .config files for class libraries
>> >> if you need them then they read config values at runtime from
>> >> app.exe.config file.
>> >>
>> >> this is why VS 2005 add only app.config for exe's
>> >>
>> >> I hope this helps
>> >> Galin Iliev[MCSD.NET]
>> >> www.galcho.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> MJB wrote:
>>> >>> I have several dlls that have app.config files tied to them. When
>>> >>> adding their primary output to a Setup project everything works
fine,
>>> >>> but only the app.config for the .exe gets added to the Setup
project
>>> >>> automatically. Is there any way to get the app.configs for the
dlls
>>> >>> added to the Setup without manually doing "Add File"? Thanks
for the
>>> >>> assistance.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Oh, this is a windows service application and I'm using Visual
Studio
>>> >>> 2005 Prof / .Net 2.0
>> >>