I'm unable to run a .vdproj in Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition. I tried the below link which hasn't worked either Visual Studio - vdproj is incompatible The project shows incompatible and a...

I've been searching around the web for the past hours, finding a lot of information related to my problem - but none actually fixing them. My machine is 64 bit with a 32 bit Visual Studio 10 inst...

I am working on an older project that contains .vdproj installer projects and am using Visual Studio 2013. The problem is that for every .vdproj project I receive a warning – thus, after opening t...

I read quit a few Stackoverflow Questions about building mergemodules via commandline but all of them were accepted when either somebody suggested to use devenv for compilation or use Dark to creat...

I use log4net for my desktop application written in c# and deployed using Visual Studio Extension "Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects" (MSI-Installer). After installation I do not see the l...

I'm sure there must be some documentation on MSDN somewhere, but I couldn't find it. It looks like some subset/variation of JSON. Really, this question grew out of something that has always bugged ...

I know that some companies allow you to install their products on build machines as required without requiring a separate license (DevExpress is one that comes to mind). However I was wonderi...

With VS 2010 or 2013, We can use this command to build .vdproj project(VSI): <Exec Command=""$(ProgramFiles)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.com" your.vdproj /b...

I have a Setup deployment project in VS 2010. The project compiles perfectly with the GUI interface of VS 2010, but any time I trying to compile it via vs cmd (devenv.com) it comes up with this err...

I want to generate MSI files from a .vdproj file using the devenv command in a command prompt. This command is running well but no MSI file is generated. What is wrong? What should I set in enviro...

Our product currently installs via 4-5 MSI's which are created from .vdproj files which consist are created from the output from vs 2010 projects and additional information in merge modules. I hav...

I'm trying to move a solution I have over to Visual Studio 2012 and one of the project types is .vdproj. According to this link this project type is not supported in Visual Studio&n...

I have the dreaded issue from my attempted installation of an MSI: MSI (c) (98:B0) [18:01:22:818]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\DOCUME~1\sspencer\LOCALS~1\Temp\1\MSI19.tmp, Entrypoint: C...

I need to convert a vdproj file to WiX format so that I can get it building using msbuild. One solution was to call the devenv executable from msbuild and build the vdproj file from there but that'...

So I have a command I want to run which looks like the following: for /r %n in ("*.vdproj") do "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/Common7/IDE/devenv.exe" %n /build "BuildServer" It ...

I am using VisualStudio2005 and a vdproj to create a simple MSI file. I need to pass in the REINSTALLMODE property when I launch it. I know this can be done via command line, like so: msiexec.exe...

I'm getting used to using nant for build releases. But I have started to use asp.net MVC, and i choice make the setup for installation with a .vdproj . But, when I call the: < exec program="${...

I think most people here understand the importance of fully automated builds. The problem is one of our project is now using an integrated Visual Studio Setup project (vdproj) and has recently bee...

I have a Windows Forms application with an installer (.msi) already created with Visual Studio. I am now creating a new installer for version 2.0 with the property RemovePreviousVersions set to tru...

I've seen a confusing behavior regarding the MSI files generated by a VDPROJ file. If I build my MSI in Visual Studio and then right-click and pick "Install" from within Visual Studio, it will auto...