Deploying a VSIX from a MSI
***Disclaimer: This information applies to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 only.***
Let’s say that we want to deliver our extension with a installer. How we can easily deploy our VSIX?
The VSIXInstaller tool supports the /quiet switch. That means that we can just have a custom action that calls the tool from within our msi:
<Property Id="VSINSTALLDIR">
<RegistrySearch Id="VSInstallRegistry" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0" Name="InstallDir" Type="directory" />
</Property>
<CustomAction Id="SetVSIXInstaller" Return="check" Execute="immediate" Property="VSIXInstaller" Value="[VSINSTALLDIR]VSIXInstaller.exe" />
<CustomAction Id="DeployVSIX" Property="VSIXInstaller" Execute="deferred" Impersonate="no" ExeCommand="/quiet" Return="asyncWait"/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="Set_SetVSIXInstaller" After="ValidateProductID">VSIXInstaller=""</Custom>
<Custom Action="DeployVSIX" After="MsiPublishAssemblies" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
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