addin build as tool

[NachoShaw]

Hi

one thing that eludes me is the completion of the tool. What is the best way to compile it into a tool? bearing in mind thee are various references and files required to be placed in specific places, what is the best installer to use?

What is the process to get onto the app store? do we send the project itself or do we build an installer to send to Autodesk?

cant seem to find good info about this

Cheers

Nigel

[Anonymous]

Not too sure on the requirements to submit the tool to autodesk app store but I would recommend Inno Setup and Inno IDE from http://www.innoide.net/ as a powerful tool to make installers. Has good functionality for varying install to suit the machine windows/software versions. And Free

[NachoShaw]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. I downloaded inno and it seems easy to use. Thanks for that. What is the best way to publish the project pre deployment build? I currentlt publish and get a setup file, setup.exe and an application files folder. I would prefer just a single file. Or do i build my project and use the build exe along with the references seperately?

Im not sure of the app store requirements. Ive read documentation but its not very clear


Thanks

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I am a little unclear on what your trying to change...

Are you saying when you compile the Inno file, you get more than setup.exe generated.

Or when you run the setup.exe generated by Inno you get more files created than you want.

A couple of screen shots of issue may be helpful.

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[NachoShaw]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. Regarding the Inno tool, i am not usre if i need to publish my project in VS first then use Inno to create the application or, do i just build the project (not publish) and use Inno instead to add the reference files and VS build exe foun d in the project/bin/ folder

for example-

In VS, i can publish my project which creates an install file with application files (not a clickonce application)

or

If i dont publish the project in VS first and only use the build application using Inno, im guessing i would need to add all of the files that need referencing into Inno to get them referenced. I'll pay around with Inno today and see what works best.

As for preparing an application for the App Store, i understand that Autodesk create the install application for App store apps. What i dont know is, How do they require the project? do they want the whole project of just a bunch of files? I cannot find that documentation. I do know that they do NOT want an application build to be submitted.

Thanks