Any way to change logo on default setup dialogs?

Question

A default setup project in visual studio 2008 gives you dialogs with a logo-type image in the upper right of a monitor. All I want to do is change this image to new logo. Don't want to deal with custom dialogs. Any way to just change the image?

Answer 1

In your setup project, go into the User Interface Dialog editor and click on one of the dialogs. In the properties window for that dialog, you can change the BannerBitmap property to any image that you want.

It's a long thin bitmap that extends across the entire top of the dialog. The one that I use has about a 7.5:1 width to height ratio. Specifically, it's a 497x69 pixel bitmap (.bmp). I don't remember how I came up with that exact size, but it has worked for me.

Answer 2

Please see the this blog post:

http://followtheheard.blogspot.com/2008/09/changing-bitmap-banner-in-visual-studio.html

You can follow Stewbob's way (which is the right way), but it will require you to change the image on every page of every installer you create. The above link will let you change the image in the template that Visual Studio uses to create all of your installer files going forward. That way, you can leave your pages pointing to the Default image, because you changed the Default image to be YOUR image.

This solution worked great for me. Set it and forget it.