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Visual Studio Installer - Getting Started

James Crowley

Getting Started

You will now see a familiar Project Explorer, just with rather different items contained within them:

It is from this that you can customize your installation. The VSI should have automatically added all the files your test project needs to successfully install under the Files folder. This will be split up into the VB project EXE file, and some Dependencies:

The three files with .msm extensions are Merge Modules which contain all the required files for certain components. For example, COMCTL.MSM contains the files for the Microsoft Common Controls, MSVBVM60.MSM contains the VB6 runtime files, and OLEAUT32.MSM contains the OLE Automation files.

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

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  • Re: [64] Visual Studio Installer

    Posted by awp on 30 Mar 2007

    Trying to download Windows Installer from this page but the link behind the word 'here' doesn't work but I think it's at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718352.aspx

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    Posted by bradleyw on 28 Sep 2005

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    Hi,



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    Posted by jyotiraditya on 20 Nov 2002


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