Visual Studio Integration Overview

InstallAware integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio to provide automated setup creation from within the Visual Studio IDE itself.

Supported Versions

InstallAware supports versions 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 of Microsoft Visual Studio.

Available Functionality

InstallAware's Visual Studio Add-In provides the following functionality directly inside the Visual Studio IDE:

• Automatically detect the files built by each project in a Visual Studio solution
• Create an InstallAware setup project to install all detected solution files
• Build and run the created InstallAware setup within Visual Studio
• Configure code generation and additional project settings for InstallAware setup generation within Visual Studio
• Launch InstallAware with the generated setup project to further customize and build automatically generated setups

Additionally, for versions 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019 of Microsoft Visual Studio:

• Build MSIX/APPX packages from existing Win32, Win64, and .NET projects; designed for submission to the Windows Store, Nano Server, or Sideloading
• Build App-V Microsoft Virtualization packages from existing Win32, Win64, and .NET projects; designed for use with the APP-V Virtualization platform

You may access this functionality through one of the following three ways inside Visual Studio:

• By clicking on the Visual Studio toolbar icons for InstallAware,
• By clicking on the Visual Studio menu items for InstallAware,
• By right-clicking the solution in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer, and choosing the InstallAware sub-menu from the solution context menu.