[Guide]Making Installers

[MaestroLuke]

Hello buddies

Today i will show you how to make installers

So first question is what type of installers?(winrar or etc...)

This time we will make installers ending with .msi extention and .exe

Alright

 

First the basics

 

Do i need programming experience?

No you don't just follow the guide

 

What tools i  need?

Hmm let me think

Brain

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

You can download a free trial from microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/downloads/microsoft-downloads.mspx

 

Okey so let's get started

 

We open our studio and choose at Up and Left

File->New->Project...

And a window pop up

We choose

Other project types->Setup and deployment

And choose Setup Project

 

Okey if you have done everything right it should be something like that:

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Ok let's move

 

Application folder is the ProgramFiles\ManfactureName\AppName

So here we put the parts that we want to be installed

Depending on what we need We click on Application folder -> add-> Folder/file

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In this case i will add a random prog i choose cssource hacker of DragonHunter

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Alright fine now we choose what we want to install

Note that you can install many things

Now everything should be smth like here:

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Let's Move Now in the next part

I will explain what to do inside the picture with letters

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Alright Now We made Everything fine

In the upper side of your screen click build

And then build solution

Now your installer is fine

THere will be two types

Setup.exe and setup.msi

 

Now let's make desktop and start menu shortcuts

 

Click At User's Desktop And Click properties

Then Set AlwaysCreate True

Fine

Now let's make the shortcut+icon

 

Right click on White of the screen:

NOTE:DON't MAKE RIGHT CLICK AT User's Desktop Only AT THE RIGHT WHITE SCREEN!

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Now We clicked it:

We double click on Applications Folder And then click at CSSourceHacker and press Ok

 

Ok now let's put the madafaka icon

We click at the shortcut and press properties

at the icon click elipsis(...)browse

 

Now click again at the new window->application folder

then you will see that

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Press ok here

Now it will find the icon and it will name it 1

Click ok

 

Do the same for User's Program Menu

 

Fine Let's build

CLick again build->build solution

And ready

 

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Credits For this tutorial are all to MaestroLuke

Special thanks to DragonHunter for letting me use his program as example

The End

For Any Errors ask help here

[DragonHunter]

Nice guide ;)

 

lol you used my counter strike source 1.6 hacker :D

[Vazelos]

What about to add download link for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008? And btw amazing job! IF you keep like that you will be reward...

[MaestroLuke]

What about to add download link for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008? And btw amazing job! IF you keep like that you will be reward...

Added

Thanks both for the good comments

[DreaM]

Nice one. Altho you forced me to comment this ! :(.

[Grim.]

lol ty ....i thought that i have to know programming languages but it is nothing