Create Setup/MSI installer in Visual Studio 2017

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Ed Mozley picture Ed Mozley · May 31, 2017 · Viewed 120.8k times · Source

I have written an outlook add-in VSTO in Visual Studio Pro 2017 (VB.NET). I have published it which creates a setup.exe which is OK but I would like to create a proper installer that copies the files locally and can be run silently etc.

How do I go about doing this? When I go to create new project there is no installer project option.

Thanks

Answer

James Hogle picture James Hogle · Jun 7, 2017

You need to install this extension to Visual Studio 2017/2019 in order to get access to the Installer Projects.

According to the page:

This extension provides the same functionality that currently exists in Visual Studio 2015 for Visual Studio Installer projects. To use this extension, you can either open the Extensions and Updates dialog, select the online node, and search for "Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension," or you can download directly from this page.

Once you have finished installing the extension and restarted Visual Studio, you will be able to open existing Visual Studio Installer projects, or create new ones.

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