Newsgroup: it.comp.lang.visual-basic
Titolo: [Long] Novitá: Visual Studio Installer

Per gli utenti MSDN é disponibile il nuovo Visual Studio Installer.
(download circa 17 Mb)
Visual Studio® Installer 1.0
Microsoft® Visual Studio Installer is a graphical tool that simplifies the
creation of application setup programs for distribution to single user or
enterprise-wide desktops. Setups created with the Visual Studio Installer
provide advanced capabilities such as centralized distribution for
maintenance and updates, application self-repair, and powerful installation
rollback facilities.
Visual Studio Installer setups are based on the new Microsoft Windows®
installer technology. The Windows installer reduces the total cost of
ownership (TCO) for customers by enabling them to efficiently install and
configure applications. The Windows installer is part of the Windows 2000
and Zero Administration Windows (ZAW) efforts to reduce the overall cost of
deploying, using, and managing desktop computers.
The Windows installer is also available for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows
NT® 4.0, and Windows 2000. Windows installer-based setups can run on any
32-bit Windows desktop platform.
Developers and end users will both benefit from Visual Studio Installer
setups. 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.
Features:
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. For example, you installer projects can include
Visual Basic®, Visual C++®, and Visual J++® outputs (.exe and .dll files).
Installer project templates
Visual Studio Installer provides wizard-like templates that can be used to
create installer projects, including a template specifically for Visual
Basic projects.
Graphical editors
Use the Visual Studio Installer graphical editors to manage file placement,
registry entries, file associations, and user interface dialogs displayed
during the installation.
Support for a variety of distribution media
Easily configure setup programs for distribution on a variety of different
media, such as floppy disks and CD-ROMs.
Faster and easier application installations
Because all the installation information about an application is maintained
in a central location, you can predetermine the answers to many installation
questions, reducing the occasions for your users to make complex decisions
when they install or update the application.
Application self-repair
Because the centralized installation information enables your application to
repair itself, your users spend less time uninstalling and reinstalling an
application, as well as trying to fix undiagnosed or difficult to identify
problems. A malfunctioning application can check installation data to
discover and replace any missing or corrupt files.
Powerful rollback capabilities
The Windows installer maintains an "undo" operation for every change it
makes during any installation. If your user encounters a fatal error that
stops the install process, the user can still return the machine to its
exact pre-installation state. Even if an installation fails, users can
continue to be productive with their previous set of applications.
Additional Features for Windows 2000
Users running on Windows 2000 can realize additional benefits from the
Windows installer, including:
Application Advertising capabilities
Use application advertisement to add application icons to the Start menu of
remote machines without installing any files on any machine until the
machine's user selects the application icon. When the user chooses to run
the application, the Windows installer copies and installs the necessary
files and components onto the target machine.
The ability to run installation programs on "locked down" machines
Windows 2000 system administrators can give Windows installer packages
permission to run with administrator privileges on user machines. This
enables application installation on locked down Windows 2000 machines, where
ordinary users don't have privileges to do the things the installation
program may have to do.
Availability
The Microsoft Visual Studio Installer is available to licensed customer of
any Visual Studio 6.0 Professional or Enterprise edition tool, including:
Visual Studio 6.0, Professional and Enterprise edition
Visual Basic 6.0, Professional and Enterprise edition
Visual C++ 6.0, Professional and Enterprise edition
Visual InterDevT 6.0 Professional edition
Visual J++ 6.0 Professional edition
Visual Studio Installer saves you time and effort in authoring application
installers by providing:
Seamless integration in the Visual Studio shell. Visual Studio Installer is
integrated into the Visual Studio shell. If you are an experienced Visual
Studio developer, you will be familiar with the windows, editors, and
controls in Visual Studio Installer.
Installer project templates. Visual Studio Installer provides several
wizard-like templates you can use to create installer projects. The
following templates are built into Visual Studio Installer:
Empty Installer project template. Sets default configurations and creates an
installer project into which you can manually add all installation files.
Empty Merge Module template. Sets default configurations and creates an
empty merge module project you can configure and then build into a merge
module (.msm file).
Visual Basic® Installer template. Sets configurations and creates an
installer project based on the Microsoft® Visual Basic® project you specify
and containing the Visual Basic project outputs.
After creating an installer project with a template, you can further
customize your installer by modifying the installation configuration as you
wish.
Graphical editors. You can use the Visual Studio Installer graphical editors
to manage these important elements of your application installation:
File placement. With the File System editor, you can specify where files,
folders, and shortcuts are installed on the target machine.
User interface dialogs. With the User Interface editor, you can specify
which user interface dialogs are displayed during the installation. You can
also customize some of them.
Registry entries. With the Registry editor, you can specify the registry
actions you want to take place during the installation.
File associations. With the Associations editor, you can specify the
associations between file extensions and verbs that are created or modified
during the installation.

Scrivi "[OT]" nel titolo, please.

 Scrivi "[OT]" nel titolo, please.
Beh questa proprio non mi sembrava OT, anzi.
Cmq è solo la mia opinione
Ciao
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Se la tua donna ti chiede un parere in realtà
vuole solo sentire il SUO parere detto con la TUA voce
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vuole solo sentire il SUO parere detto con la TUA voce
Vabbè, se lo dici tu... ci credo!

Io non lo ritengo OT, anzi mi sembra un ottima alternativa al PDW di VB,
fosse solo per la funzione Advertise (disponibile se avete Win2000) oppure
la funzione Repair che permette all'applicazione di ricostruirsi in caso
l'utente cancelli o manometta dei files nel sistema.
Ciao,
Corrado

OT?!?!?
allora il 60% dei messaggi di questo newsgroup è OT!
dai una scorsa in giro e leggi quanti chiedono qualcosa del tipo "...come
faccio a installare..." "...come faccio a distribuire applicazioni VB..."
ecc. ecc.
ciao


Ma dai, scherzo, non te la prendere.
Ciao, sempre amici.