How to remove "Welcome to the Setup Wizard" text from Visual Studio Installer project

Question

I have a Visual Studio Installer Project that I'm making in Visual Studio 2010 and am unable to figure out how to remove the "Welcome to the [Product Name] Setup Wizard" text from the wizard's dialog boxes.

For example: How do I remove the text "Welcome to the Setup1 Setup Wizard" from the screenshot below?

Answer 1

You can "remove" the text by removing the Welcome dialog and replacing it with a custom dialog. In VS 2005 -

1. Right click on the Setup project in the solution explorer
2. Select View - User Interface
3. Under the Start group for Install and Administrative Install delete "Welcome"

Then you can add a "Textboxes (A)" dialog (right click the "Start" group and select Add Dialog) to the project, set the visible property for the text boxes to false. Move the Textboxes (A) up to the top of the "Start" sequence.

The properties for this dialog include:

• BannerBitmap
• BannerText
• BodyText

This should allow you to control the look / feel (to a certain extent) of this new "Welcome" page.

Answer 2

You can easily change the welcome text by modifying the the project file in notepad. (i.e. project1.vdproj) Make sure to change the ProductName or Title. I can't remember which one exactly and then rebuild the project and you're all done.