#Visual studio 2019 upgrade how to
#Visual studio 2019 upgrade install

For your project, you will replace WinService with the name of your window service project Since we included WinService as a reference we are able to use the project reference varialb $().dll. In the Dependency Files component group I created a component for each dependency dll containing a single File element with the following attributes This Guid must be unique for every Component and should not change between versions.

Guid: Unique guid for each component which is used by the installer to identify the files when doing uninstall/upgrades.

I set this to INSTALLFOLDER for all my componnets.Д®ach Component element has at least this attribute

Directory:В The directory where all the components inside the group will be installed to.

Id:В unique name of the group that can be used as a reference Id.

I set these attributes on my ComponentGroup elements

#Visual studio 2019 upgrade install

The dependency files need to be overwritten every time an install is performed and removed when the service is uninstalled. I did it in my project to group files by their install/uninstall behavior. In my project, I grouped components together into 3 groups (Dependency Files, Configs, & Service) using the ComponentGroup Element. While it is possible for a single component to contain multiple files, it is recommended to create a component for each file that needs to be installed. In WiX, Components are used to define the units that need to be installed. In the next 3 sections we will define each file that needs to be included in our installer.

#Visual studio 2019 upgrade how to

In this post, I will be detailing how to create a windows service with some additional project dependencies and how to create an installer for that service using the WiX toolset. I will not be going over the history and details of what WiX is or how it is better or worse than the old Visual Studio Installer project, but I have added some links in the Sources section at the end of this post if you would like to dive deeper. For this new project, we wanted to use the approach recommended by Microsoft which, at the time of this writing, is the WiX toolset. Support for the project type can be added to later versions of visual studio through an extension which allows us to build older projects in VS 2019. VS 2010 had a built in project type called Visual Studio Installer Project which we had been using, but it was deprecated in VS 2012 and beyond. This was not the first windows service application we had built, but it was the first new one built using Visual Studio 2019 where all others were built using VS 2010 or older and much has changed since then, particularly with the installer. I recently completed a project where I had to create a new windows service and installer.