What is Inno Setup? Inno Setup is a free script-driven installation system software for creating Windows app installer. Inno Setup is open source, the best non-MSI alternative installer by Jordan Russel and Martijn Laan.It is first introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.

I am using a setup & deployment project template to build an installer for a Windows forms application developed in Visual Studio. The output of the S&D project is an installer which consists of two files: a small Setup.exe and large Application.msi database. The two-file installer built by the S&D project works fine, but my website's download manager is designed for distribution of single-file downloads, and I'm wondering if there is any way for the S&D project to build a self-installing exe rather than the two-file msi/setup?

I suppose I could package the two files into a zip archive, but it would really be a lot cleaner if the installer were a single self-installing exe. What is the best way to do this? Hi BGood, It is an FAQ, please check this FAQ first, then I will share some my threads that have some suggestions: • • And I recommend you to use the Windows Build-in tool: IExpress, Start button > Run. > IExpress can start this tool. Please view the document about it: And there is a workaround to do install the prerequisites manually. Please write a Command Batch file, and we could in this batch file to install your prerequisites and run your setup program. Then compress this batch file and your exe/msi files into one file, set the startup file to this batch when the user uncompress your self-extracting executable. Sincerely, Bob Bao [MSFT] MSDN Community Support Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

After evaluating IExpress and several other alternatives, I ended up using, a freeware/donateware application which seems to work perfectly for my needs. At this point, the configuration consists of a Visual Studio 2010 solution with 2 projects, my VB application and its S&D installer, and then manually running ExeMsiCombiner on the.msi and.exe files generated as the S&D output to create a single self-extracting exe. The next step will be to configure a post-build command line for the S&D project which will automatically run ExeMsiCombiner. Download lagu padi menanti sebuah jawaban original.

Thanks for everyone's input. PS: My dyslexia must be surfacing. My original post mistakenly referred to the tool as MsiExeCombiner.

The link is correct, I just got the name transposed. Thanks, Phil. Yes, I suppose winzip or win7 would work, but uncompressing would add at least 1 more user step to the install. I was experimenting with Inno Setup as an alternative to S&D if for no other reasons Inno Setup is free and creates a self-extracting exe. Unfortunately I have not yet created a successful installer with Inno Setup, possibly because of the Sql Server Compact 3.5,.net Framework 4.0, and Reportviewer prerequisites. If anyone else has any ideas, please let me know.