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I have created a setup project using Visual Studio 2008. After the application is finished installing, I would like to have it start up immediately. Any thoughts on how this can be done?
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If you have Visual Studio open, go to Tools > Get Tools and Features... which opens the Visual Studio Installer. Or, open the Visual Studio Installer from the Start menu. From there, you can choose the workloads or components that you wish to install. Then, choose Modify.
From Visual Studio, choose Extensions > Manage Extensions, and search for "Visual Studio Installer Projects". Or, download the extension directly from the Marketplace. From the Start window, choose Create a new project, and then type "setup" in the search box. Choose a Setup project, and follow instructions.
On the Action menu, click Add Custom Action. In the Select Item in Project dialog box, double-click the Application Folder. Select the gadget assembly that was added to the setup project, and then click OK. In the Properties window, make sure that the InstallerClass property is set to True (this is the default).
I've used a script to place a checkbox "Launch [ProductName]" on the final form of the MSI. I cannot take any credit for the script though. You can find the script over on Aaron Stebner's blog at MSDN http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/08/12/696833.aspx
There's an interesting article about it on CodeProject and some good answers there also (which is where I found Aaron's article). http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/Installation.aspx
Finally, there's also some other similar questions on StackOverflow
How to run executable at end of Setup Project?
How to automatically start my application when my setup is done in C# setup project
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