Install Wizard

[ThePentiumGuy]

How can i add a wizard that extracts the project files to a certain directory. The wizard must check if the user has the laterverson of DIrectX, if not, then install dX9.

 

When i burn the WIzard and all to a CD, i want an AutoStart thing to pop up when you insert the CD, saying, Play, Install, Uninstall, Help or something like that

[ThePentiumGuy]

sorry this post was in the wrong place.. i wasn't sure where to put it :(

[Nerseus]

You'll have to read Microsoft's site or the readme's that come with DirectX SDK on how to distribute DX9. As for making a CD autoplay, you need a file in the root directory of the cd named autorun.inf. It's a textfile. At the bare minimum, have it show the file to run and, optionally, an icon. Here's a sample:

[autorun]
open=myexe.exe
icon=myexe.exe

 

I can't remember if you can specify the EXE file for the icon or not - I think you can.

 

As for making a setup program in the first place, Visual Studio offers setup templates with a wizard for creating a setup project. You can point it to a project to get started (it will pickup most of the dependencies). You then build this setup project, which creates a setup.exe (bootstrap) and setup.msi and the associated cab files. You can learn more about setup projects in the VS help.

 

-Nerseus