POS for .NET with Installer Project

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2008-12-04 11:31:36 UTC

I have an app that currently uses POS for .NET to communicate with a few
devices. The app needs to be able to deploy the base POS for .NET files, but
I have not had much success.

What is the best way to include POS for .NET in either a VS.NET installer
project or a 3rd party utility like InstallShield?

Thanks.

2008-12-09 15:28:21 UTC

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Looking for the same solution...the only thing i've come across is to invoke
the setup.exe from within your application with the silent tag
link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2008/06/20/installing-pos-for-net-from-your-installer.aspx

but looking for a more integrated method of deploying the POS for .Net
service....

Post by PW
I have an app that currently uses POS for .NET to communicate with a few
devices. The app needs to be able to deploy the base POS for .NET files, but
I have not had much success.
What is the best way to include POS for .NET in either a VS.NET installer
project or a 3rd party utility like InstallShield?
Thanks.

2008-12-09 21:11:01 UTC

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Thanks for the link.

Is there a single self-contained setup.exe? Part of the problem is, in
order to run setup, it looks like I need all/most of the other junk that I
have extracted along with the setup.exe file (e.g. res files,
documentation(?), random .dlls).

So far, I think I have to include the huge archive, extract it to a temp
folder, launch setup with the appropriate command line options... ugh. :)

Post by <>
Looking for the same solution...the only thing i've come across is to invoke
the setup.exe from within your application with the silent tag
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2008/06/20/installing-pos-for-net-from-your-installer.aspx
but looking for a more integrated method of deploying the POS for .Net
service....

Scott H.

2008-12-12 21:04:13 UTC

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That's what I did, and it ran fine on one machine, but I'm getting an
"Incorrect function" error when trying to install on another machine. Were
you successful in running the POS setup.exe file from your app installation?
What command-line options did you use?

Post by PW
Thanks for the link.
Is there a single self-contained setup.exe? Part of the problem is, in
order to run setup, it looks like I need all/most of the other junk that I
have extracted along with the setup.exe file (e.g. res files,
documentation(?), random .dlls).
So far, I think I have to include the huge archive, extract it to a temp
folder, launch setup with the appropriate command line options... ugh. :)

Nobody

2009-02-17 04:30:48 UTC

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Post by <>
Looking for the same solution...the only thing i've come across is to invoke
the setup.exe from within your application with the silent tag
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2008/06/20/installing-pos-for-n
et-from-your-installer.aspx
but looking for a more integrated method of deploying the POS for .Net
service....

Unfortunately we needed to change the compression tool that is used for
the self extracting archive of POS for .NET in the latest release. This
version of the tool does not include the ability to pass parameters to
the setup program while it is still contained in the hive. We are
currently evaluating new compression tools that would restore this
capability. Hopefully we will be able to restore this capability at
some point in the future.

- SL