Creating Installer and uninstaller in Visual Studio 2008/2010.

Creating Installer In Visual Studio 2008/2010
Hi Friends, it's very common requirements some time to create installer and uninstaller in .net windows application. I have give some ideas how to perform both of these operation in a single application.
Setp:-1. Right click on Solution - =>Add => New Proejct
setp-2 Select Other Project Types. Select SetupProject from VS Installed Templetes.
Setp-3 Give Proper name for Setup.
Setp-4 Filse System (Setup Window Opens)
setp-5 Select Application Folder in left panel and right click on right panel.
setp-6 Add-> Project Output-> Primary Output, click on Ok button
setp-7 Select user's Desktop in left panel and right click on right panel.
setp-8 Select Create Shortcut-Application Folder -> Primary output.
setp-9 Rename current desktop shortcut.Change Icon from Property.
setp-10 Do same things for user's Programs Menu.
setp-11 Finaly rebuild you setup project.
setp-12 Find you setup in relese folder of setup project.


Creating UnInstaller: ( In Visual Studio 2008/2010)

To create UnInsteller we need to do following Things:
Setp-1: First Create Insteller
setp-2. In the Setup Project –> File System windows –> Right Click “File System on Target machine” –> add a Special Folder, select System Folder;
Setp-3: Into this system folder Add a file. Browse for msiexec.exe from local System32 folder and add it. Override default properties of this file as follows:

Condition:=Not Installed (make sure you put ‘Not Installed’ exactly like that, same case and everything),
Permanent:=True,
System:=True,
Transitive:=True,
Vital:=False.
Setp-4: ) Create a new shortcut under the ‘Users Program Menu’, Set Target to the System Folder which you created in the Step-3
and point it’s at the msiexec.exe. Rename the shortcut to ‘Uninstall Your Application’. Set the Arguments property to /x{space}[ProductCode].
       Note: To get Product code: select you setup Project and check in Property will display Product code, copy it including {} and palce it after /X <Space> <Product code>
Step-5:Build the project, ignore warning about the fact that msiexec should be excluded, DONT exclude it or the setup project wont build.

The ‘Not Installed’ condition and Permananet:=True ensure that the msiexec.exe is only placed into the system folder as part of the install IF it doesn’t aready exist, and it is not removed on an uninstall - therefore it;s pretty safe to ignore that warning and just go for it.

That's it.. Good luck..