Create installer for bho that consumes a web service?

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Create installer for bho that consumes a web service?
 
Perry Kivolowitz




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My browser helper object consumes a web service. I would like to create an installer for the bho, how do I add the web service information to the installer project?


thanks
Posted 24 Dec, 2010 16:02:34 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Perry.

Did you try to add additional dialogs in the User Interface editor of the setup project?
Posted 28 Dec, 2010 07:01:40 Top
Perry Kivolowitz




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I'm sorry Sergey, I am not following you. The BHO uses no dialogs, nor does the web service.

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Posted 28 Dec, 2010 10:09:29 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Perry.

I meant the dialogs of the setup project.

how do I add the web service information to the installer project?

Could you please clarify the question?
Posted 29 Dec, 2010 06:23:38 Top
Perry Kivolowitz




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I am still not following and need some step by step instructions (which would make a nice addition to the documentation).

I have a BHO. It consumes the web service at:

http://imagefx.org/Service.asmx

I want to make an installer for this BHO. I did not once (and cannot repeat what I did) and Internet Explorer threw an exception that the service definition files could not be found.

The BHO project contains a folder called Service References. This folder contains a lot of files.

Starting with the solution selected, I right click and Add New Project and navigate to Visual Studio Installer. I sel ect Setup Wizard. I click OK. I click Next. I leave the first choice "Create a Setup for a Windows application." set. I click next. I click "Primary Output fr om XXX". I click next. I have no idea what to add here "Which additional files". I click next. I click finish. I immediately get a warning that c:\windows\syswow64\ieframe.dll has dependencies that cannot be determined. I hit OK. The project is created.

I right click the set up project and select build. A program crashes - "Microsoft Visual Studio registry capture utility has stopped working." The build proceses:

'ieframe.dll' should be excluded because its source file 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ieframe.dll' is under Windows System File Protection.

I exclude ieframe.dll. I rebuild. The registry capture utility crashes again. The build completes. I install, and no add-in is added to IE.

Help? I am under a deadline to show this prototype and I have limited programming time available due to pain of a herniated disk.
Posted 29 Dec, 2010 11:02:08 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hi Perry,

You need to add custom forms to the setup project. Please check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ecaca8zb.aspx and http://www.ms-windows.info/Help/visual-studio-setup-project-faq-7012.aspx. Most probably, you'll need to create a custom action DLL processing the web service info. Say, you'll need to do something if that info is not entered or typed in incorrectly. See also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9k65z2d.aspx.

Hope this helps.


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 29 Dec, 2010 11:48:57 Top