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DommyCastles
DommyCastles

Reputation: 425

Creating an MSI Package Using a Visual Studio Setup Project with PostBuildEvent

I am creating an MSI package using Visual Studio and I have added in the SQL Express set up, it all works fine, except I would like to automatically open the SQL Express when the application has finished installed.

I did a bit of investigating and saw an option in Visual Studio in the properties window for the Setup named PostBuildEvent. Can I add a custom macro here to boot the SQL Express installer? If so, how would I go about doing this? And if not, does anyone have any suggestions on how I could make this work?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 491

Answers (1)

shf301
shf301

Reputation: 31404

The post build event runs on your machine immediately after the build of the MSI file completes. It will run code immediately after Visual Studio is completes building the MSI. It will not run when an end-user installs the application.

To have the installer run code after the end-user installs the application use a Custom Action.

Upvotes: 1

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