Comments on: Creating a bootstrapper with dotNetInstaller

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:11:00 +0000

For any detail question regarding the dotNetInstaller please consult http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/. There is a discussion section where you can post your question.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:45:00 +0000

Good Article. however when I tired, came up with one minor problem.
I was trying to play with dotNetInstaller bootstrapper for one of my project for installing some prerequisites. I run the command InstallerLinker and link my msi with banner and other stuff. The executable created a setup file named Setup.exe. I double click it install it and all went well.Now, when I hover the cursor over Setup.exe, I can see the company name is “DevAge, Vestris Inc. & Contributors”.Since I am delivering the project to the client, my client want their company name in place of it.Is there any way I can do it? If yes please explain in detail.Thanks,Nitin

By: Gabriel N. Schenker

Gabriel N. Schenker — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:14:49 +0000

@Sunil: you should post your question to the appropriate discussion group at http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/

By: Sunil Agarwal

Sunil Agarwal — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:29:05 +0000

Hi..
I am using the same code and am able to create bootstrapper. But when I provide icon parameter it fails throwing error
Embedding icon “D:\Bootstrapper\dotNetInstaller 2.0\Bin\icon.ico”
16×16, 16×16, 32×32, 32×32, 48×48, 48×48
ERROR: The system cannot open the device or file specified

By: Gabriel N. Schenker

Gabriel N. Schenker — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:56:46 +0000

@John: a bootstrapper is an application that installs the pre-requisites on the system needed by the installer package which then in turn installs the application. In our case this might be the .NET framework which needs to be installed such as the application can run on the system.
Visual Studio offers the possibility to create bootstrappers for SQL Server and IIRC for the JetEngine which is the database engine of Access. Just have a look at the installer template

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:18:15 +0000

hi experts. i want to know few things as i’m trying my hands in vb.net application development.
1) What is a bootstrapper, how does it help us?
2) I’ve built an vb.net application and now i want to deploy it in client’s machines. I’ve used SQL server 2005 as backend and MS Access 2003 for printing report(somehow logically).Now i want to incorporate both sql server compact edition and MS Access 2003 in the setup file i.e: when i install my project/software into client’s system, it will first install full SQL server and MS Access if they are already not installed, and then my application. how do i do that?

If possible Please send Your replies to my mail Id- “jumba_4u@yahoo.com”. Please experts, let me know in detail if possible, thank u in advance, God bless u all.