Setup Project in Visual Studio 2017 for Deployment.

Question

_{Saturday, March 11, 2017 9:40 AM | 4 votes}

Hi,

I am trying the Visual Studio 2017; I couldn't find the "Setup Project" to deploy any software created using Visual Studio 2017.

Can someone guide me how to get it / where to find it?

Thanks

VKSBK

A Real Novice Programmer !

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_{Sunday, March 12, 2017 6:40 AM ✅Answered | 34 votes}

Hi VKSBK,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

Please click->Tools->Extensions and Updates to download Microsoft Visual studio 2017 Installer Projects.

After this, you could find it when you create a new project.

Best regards,

Joyce

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_{Sunday, March 12, 2017 3:42 AM}

+1 on this!!!

I found it:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6hbb4k3e(v=vs.110).aspx

• Deploying the .NET Framework with a client application (for developers

And...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee942965%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Looks they junked the old native process...

_{Sunday, March 12, 2017 4:34 AM}

I tried the Publish (Wix and OneClick??), under project properties, creates a nice setup.exe with supporting files, but no obvious way to package into an msi...

This looks promising...

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-690586.AdvancedInstallerforVisualStudio2017

You have to download the app as well

http://www.advancedinstaller.com/

It says free license is fully functional, but sure will run into a limitation...

No InstallSHield LE for VS 2017 that I could find???

_{Sunday, March 12, 2017 6:42 AM}

Forget about Advanced Installer, typical commercial stuff. Make you think its free, but its not really!

This seems to be the ticket...

http://wixtoolset.org/

_{Sunday, March 12, 2017 4:19 PM}

Hi All,

Thanks for the help.

VKSBK

A Real Novice Programmer !

_{Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:57 AM}

Is there any alternative for "Microsoft Visual studio 2017 Installer Projects" because 2017 version still has a severe bug "Unrecoverable Build Error" and doesn't work if SSDT installed on a PC (a setup project should not be empty).

This blocks work with SSIS projects because you must to uninstall SSDT.

This blocks build-servers.

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/112241/visual-studio-2017-setup-project-error-unrecoverab.html

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/216968/visual-studio-2017-setup-project-ssdt-error-unreco.html

_{Thursday, December 20, 2018 11:00 AM | 1 vote}

Dera all, following what's suggested, the system is returning me that Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer is ALREADY installed, but I cannot see it in the installed tools :-( 

How can I do?

_{Saturday, December 22, 2018 2:08 PM}

Hi

****if you close VS2017 after installed the ****Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer  and restart VS2017 you could be see  this:

FIRST STEP

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2. Step

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_{Saturday, June 22, 2019 1:43 PM}

Hello, I think you are well in wix toolset and may I ask you that can I attach databse to setup created with wix and how can I create updater? Thank you in advance!

_{Wednesday, December 4, 2019 3:34 AM}

I download this tool and can add new project as you shown.

My VS2017 project contains image and configuration subfolders, those files are not in the VS2017 project,

how can I add those subfolders ?

Regards

Sam