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Localization of a "Deployment Project" (Or "Setup Project")

Posted by nickniebling on Mon 17 of May, 2010 07:07 GMT

I have some troubles translating a “Deployment Project”.
(Getting started with setup (incl. deployment, red) projects: http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/getting-started-with-setup-projects)

My Deployment Project is used to create a standard MSI-file for easy installation on “all Windows PCs”.

My issue is:
I cant find the project in the project list?
Do you have any suggestion on how I should translate this type of project with your software?

Yours Faithfully,
Nick Niebling

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Posted by Phil on Mon 17 of May, 2010 16:51 GMT Germany

Hi Hick,

sorry, the Add-In does not support deployment projects. I have never really considered supporting them. At present, I don't really know what it would involve, or how it would work.

I did originally use a deployment project for the Add-In, but I switched to using Inno Setup about 5 years ago. (Over the years I have become more and more skeptical about Windows Installer. I know that it has some real advantages, but I don't enjoy working with it).

Phil

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Posted by nickniebling on Tue 18 of May, 2010 09:44 GMT

Thank you very much for your reply.

I have searched some forums and found out it's not possible to make a single MSI file with multiple languages - without using a "hack" that transforms the text strings based on the windows platform language.

Don't dig too deep if you haven't already done so.. It's messy..

Thank you for mentioning the tool you use. I took a look at the tool you mentioned and it has some good specs, but I really miss some stability and usability (when installing) documentation.

Stability and usability (from a "stupid" end user point) is some of the key advantages we like of the MSI. But it's very "locked down" and hard to configure when you want to add a little logic (like localization).

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