I developed an application in C#.net platform and made its setup.exe file using windows installer in visual studio 2008.
Now I want to make Portable version of my application, so that i can use it without installation on PC.
I tried universal installer for this but didn,t get the results.
The message appeared was:
setup.exe could not be extracted.
It appears to be a(n) InstallShield installer, which is supported, but extraction failed.
so, can i get help in this regard.
would be thankful.
Shalini
Re: C#.net portable application.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. You developed an application yourself, compiled and created an installer using Visual Studio, and now want to unpack that installer using Universal Extractor? If you developed the program yourself, you should already have access to the unpacked compiled files. Just copy them out of your Visual Studio project and you should be done. Or, if VS is doing something funky and compiling everything directly into an installer, you should be able to change the options such that it just does a basic compile without also packing it.
Universal Extractor, in this context, should only be needed by people that don't have access to the original program files and have no choice but to rip files out from the installer. In your case, pulling the files directly out of VS (or your file manager) would be a much better option.