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Hi,
since Visual Studio 2008 creates a "My DocumentsVisual Studio 2008Wizards" directory for every user, it would seem that there should be a way to actually use it...
I am trying to create a custom app wizard that sets up a new project using some libraries we have developed, and Id like to make installation of this wizard as simple as possible, preferably by just extracting an archive to the users VS2008 Wizards directory so that they dont need administrative rights to add files to the Visual Studio install directory.
The problem I have is that I cant figure out how to set up the path in the .vsz file to point to a directory in "My DocumentsVisual Studio 2008Wizards". Specifying a relative path (RELATIVE_PATH) always seems to be relative to Visual Studios installation directory, rather than the directory containing the .vsz file, and an absolute path (ABSOLUTE_PATH) obviously cant be made to accommodate various user names. Is there any other solution to this?
The little to no documentation on custom wizards Ive found so far isnt exactly helpful when it comes to distributing and installing them...
Thanks!
Zen
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since Visual Studio 2008 creates a "My DocumentsVisual Studio 2008Wizards" directory for every user, it would seem that there should be a way to actually use it...
I am trying to create a custom app wizard that sets up a new project using some libraries we have developed, and Id like to make installation of this wizard as simple as possible, preferably by just extracting an archive to the users VS2008 Wizards directory so that they dont need administrative rights to add files to the Visual Studio install directory.
The problem I have is that I cant figure out how to set up the path in the .vsz file to point to a directory in "My DocumentsVisual Studio 2008Wizards". Specifying a relative path (RELATIVE_PATH) always seems to be relative to Visual Studios installation directory, rather than the directory containing the .vsz file, and an absolute path (ABSOLUTE_PATH) obviously cant be made to accommodate various user names. Is there any other solution to this?
The little to no documentation on custom wizards Ive found so far isnt exactly helpful when it comes to distributing and installing them...
Thanks!
Zen
View the full article