| Subject: Can VS2008 generate side-by-side installation merge modules? |
| Group: microsoft.public.vstudio.general |
| Date: 6/10/2008 10:45:17 AM |
| From: John Aldridge [Email Address Protection] |
I can create a Visual Studio Solution which contains Lib a DLL Project App an EXE Project which references Lib LibMSM a merge module Project which includes the primary output from Lib AppSetup a setup Project which includes the primary output from App & LibMSM and I have a solution which is suitable for development & debugging of the App/Lib combination, which generates an installer for my App/Lib application, and which generates a merge module which permits a third party to develop and deploy applications based on Lib. Visual Studio automatically embeds suitable manifests as resources in the Lib.DLL and App.EXE. But this results in Lib being installed as a private assembly, in the application folder. I would like to instead install it as a side-by-side assembly, for serviceability reasons amongst others. Does Visual Studio 2008 contain any support for generating a suitable merge module which will install Lib as a side-by-side shared assembly? I've read through the "Guidelines for Creating Side-by-side Assemblies" topic in the VS2008 Help, and not found anything helpful, but maybe I've just not looked in the right place. Thank you in advance for any pointers anyone can offer, even if it's just a statement that VS can't do this -- at least I'd know to stop wasting time looking! -- Cheers, John |
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