CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windowsvisual-studioinstallation
rem
rem

Reputation: 17045

VS setup project - is there drawbacks?

Taking into account that some Windows Installer products from independent vendors (for example IstallShield) are rather expensive we can say that using a setup project in Visual Studio for building Installation packages has some drawbacks. Otherwise why developers should buy something else.

For what reasons developers could use something else (not Visual Studio) for building their setup packages?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 97

Answers (1)

TheHurt
TheHurt

Reputation: 1610

Generally speaking the third party installers let you perform very complex setup actions relatively easily. Not to say that most things cannot be done with VS, but there can be quite a bit of hand coding for custom install actions. The third party tools hide a lot of this manual work.

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions