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nulastudio / NetBeauty2

Move a .NET Framework/.NET Core app runtime components and dependencies into a sub-directory and make it beauty.
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Using NetBeauty together with Visual Studio Installer Projects #70

Closed f4l0 closed 1 week ago

f4l0 commented 1 week ago

Hey guys,

NetBeauty works great when building the application from VS. To deliver the app, I like to use the VS Installer Project. The installer uses the publish item to gather the files from the project. However, it looks like, that the installer uses the not beautyfied version where all the libs are placed in the root folder

Anyone has an idea?

f4l0 commented 1 week ago

I found a solution. I added a lib folder to the installation folder and used a lot of filters to control which file goes where...

liesauer commented 1 week ago

I found a solution. I added a lib folder to the installation folder and used a lot of filters to control which file goes where...

can you upload a demo to show us how to achieve this? and it would be great if i put it into NetBeauty2 as example project.

f4l0 commented 1 week ago

Yeah sure, where should I upload the test solution?

liesauer commented 1 week ago

in this issue is fine.

f4l0 commented 1 week ago

Not cleaned up yet... But I hope you figure it out... NetBeauty2InstallerDemo.zip

liesauer commented 1 week ago

yeah, don't worry about this