User Guide

Setting Options

You can set options that control the installations you create and determine the

installation resources you use. Some of the options are global; they are set for all files

you open with Wise for Windows Installer, including files you created previously. Other

options provide defaults for new files and do not affect existing files.

You set options on the Options dialog, which you access by selecting Tools menu >

Options. In Visual Studio: select Tools menu > Options and click Wise Options in the list

at the left of the dialog.

The Options dialog contains several tabs. (In the Visual Studio integrated editor they are

called pages.) See:

Setting General Options

Setting .NET Assembly Options on page 45

Setting Advertising Options on page 46

Setting Digital Signature Options on page 48

Setting ExpressBuild Options on page 49

Setting Installation Expert Options on page 51

Setting Merge Module Directories on page 52

Activating Suppressed Prompts on page 53

Setting Repository Options on page 54

Setting Source Control Options on page 55

Setting the Default Target Platform on page 56

Setting Visual Studio Options on page 57

Setting Wildcard Groups on page 59

Setting General Options

To set general options, select Tools menu > Options and click the General tab. (In Visual

Studio: Tools menu > Options > Wise Options > General.)

Note

(Visual Studio integrated editor.) To display context-sentitive help, click the Wise Help link on

this dialog.

Automatic Options

! Create backup copy during save

Mark this to create a new backup file every time you save. The backup file name

consists of the current file name plus a number. (Example: if the current file name is

Sample.wsi, the backups are named Sample1.wsi, Sample2.wsi, and so on.) Only the

file you are working on is backed up. (Example: if you open a .WSI and save it, the

corresponding .MSI is not backed up.) Use caution with this option if you are working

with large installation files; if you save often, your disk space will quickly become

depleted.

! Add default remarks to installation sequences

Although most Wise project (.WSI) files have remarks that explain the actions in the

sequences, compiled .MSIs do not. Mark this to add remarks to the current .MSI and

all .MSIs that you open subsequently. Remarks are added to .WSIs only if no

remarks already exist.

! Don’t get Home page from Internet

Mark this to disable the dynamic Product Home page that is downloaded from the

Wise Solutions Web site and display the static Product Home page that is installed

with Wise for Windows Installer.