Working on new Neutron installer (which is not MSI based due to some troubles related to Vista UAC system) I had to install the assembly into the GAC without using gacutil.exe. I mean programmatically. I googled some blog posts on this subject. The first article proposed to use Windows Installer. F... [More]

Inno Setup 5.4.0 has been released. Amongst other things, this version includes a much improved Compiler IDE editor. Download: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php For the complete list of what's new/changed, see: http://www.jrsoftware.org/files/is5-whatsnew.htm

Download: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php For the complete list of what's new/changed, see: http://www.jrsoftware.org/files/is5-whatsnew.htm The QuickStart Pack now offers to download and install InnoIDE instead of ISTool. InnoIDE is a new easy to use Inno Setup Script editor by Graham Murt and... [More]

I am often getting the questions about how to install the Custom Tool for Visual Studio let say you created for your colleagues in your team. Custom Tool – is a code generator installed to your IDE that generates code based on other file. You will see such generator for typed datasets, web services,... [More]

A new version 5.3.10 of InnoSetup (is a FREE installer for Windows programs) has been released. Quoting the source: Inno Setup 5.3.10 (2010-06-11) Added .NET Framework 4.0 support: Added constants {dotnet40}, {dotnet4032}, and {dotnet4064}. An exception will be raised if an attempt ... [More]

Inno Setup 5.3.8 has been released. Inno Setup is a cool and FREE installer for Windows programs. I participate in developing commercial addin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 - Lexpa InnoSetup for Visual Studio - which integrates this great Inno Setup compiler into Visual Studio IDE. The complete l... [More]

Once you decided to write installer for your program. If you are a Visual Studio developer you should know about Setup and Deployment Projects containing the several cases to create Windows Installer project you need: Setup Project, Web Setup Project, Merge Module Project, Setup Wizard, CAB Project ... [More]