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I have a windows installer, which is creating a database as a part of the installation process. While installing the application CREATE DATABASE process is failing because the windows installer using a wrong user. It is using NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM instead of using the login user. NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM user does not have permission to create a database. Is there any way to force the installer to use the login user? Using Windows 10 environment with VS 2017 and MS Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects. The short answer is that you can't do this in a Visual Studio setup that is an InstallAllUsers

Currently I am working on a project that needs .NET 4.0 to work properly but when I configure the windows installer and try to install it is trying to install the latest version of .NET. So how can I configure the windows installer to install the .NET version on which the project was created. Also I would like to know how to include the Visual C++ Redistributable in my installer. When you create a setup project and add primary output of a project to the setup project, the setup project automatically detect dependencies including Microsoft .Net Framework . To see if the detected dependency is

I have created an installer using Visual Studio 2015 (with the Visual Studio installer addon). The goal is to always run the APP with the same local resources, regardless of who is logged on, therefore we target [CommonAppDataFolder] (C:\ProgramData... on Win10). The installer works just fine placing all shared resources where we want them. But the generated MSI provides the option to install as "everyone" or just the "just me" We want to grey out the option to install as "just me". Is there a way to do this from within Visual Studio as part of the build process for the MSI. I see some

I have created an .msi installer. I want to further add prerequisites (such as .Net) but when I go to Setup Project properties, the Prerequisites button is disabled. How do I enable it? Other details: I'm using VS 2015, SQL Server 2008 R2, .Net 4.5.2, C#, WinForms, Win 10 Pro x64 My setup project is in the same solution as the main project Prerequisities in Visual Studio Projects In Configuration at the top of the dialog, did you try to select either Release or Debug ? That should enable the Prerequisites... button. Unecessary, outdated prerequisites? One pet-peeve of mine : is it really

I'm using the Visual Studio Installer Projects extension to build the MSI-installer for my application. However, my application is meant to be running at all times, and if it's open when the user is installing a new version of my software, the open files are not overwritten, and very little to nothing is actually updated (although there are no installer-errors). I've found that using the installer project's "Custom Actions" to run a script that closes the application doesn't help, as none of the actions are called before the files are replaced. Is there a good way to make sure the open/locked