Developers will find that Visual Studio Installer simplifies installation design and development and makes it easy to specify complex configuration changes when necessary. End users will find that setups authored with Visual Studio Installer provide easier and more stable product installations. Side by side installation allows you to install multiple versions of previously shared DLL's that only your application will use. Isolating DLL's in this way ensures that your application is more robust and allows applications that require different versions of the same shared DLL to be installed on the same machine. Setups created with Visual Studio Installer 1.1 create a .local file in the same directory as the application you are installing, along with the isolated versions of the side by side DLLs.
Windows installer merge modules provide customers with packaged forms of the redistributable files.
Version 1.1 includes updated merge modules to match the updated redistributables in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 4. Seamless integration in the Visual Studio shell Visual Studio Installer is integrated into the Visual Studio shell. Experienced Visual Studio developers will be familiar with the windows, editors, and controls in Visual Studio Installer. Support for mixed language projects Easily construct installer projects that contain outputs from more than one Visual Studio product. Visual Studio Installer provides wizard-like templates that can be used to create installer projects, including a template specifically for Visual Basic projects.