User Guide

Setting Options

Note

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

this dialog.

Projects Options

To override these defaults for individual installations, or to change them for existing

installations, edit the Projects page of the installation project settings. See Entering

Project Settings on page 84.

! Scan Method

Each time you load, save, or build an installation project or change its settings, Wise

for Windows Installer can scan the other projects in the solution for new files to add

to the installation. See Scanning the Solution for New Files on page 89.

Specify the default level of scanning that will occur for new installations.

• Never scan solution

If you select this, you must add new files to installations manually using the Files

page. Also, when files are removed from a solution, you must remove them from

the installations manually.

• Prompt only when new files are detected

Select this to be prompted each time there are new files in the solution that need

to be added to the installation. The prompt appears during save, build, or

compile.

• Prompt when any files are detected

This is the highest level of prompting. Like the previous option, the prompt

appears during save, build, or compile when there are new files. Also, if you

previously excluded files by clearing their checkboxes, you’ll be prompted to

confirm that those files should be excluded.

• Always scan solution

Each time Wise for Windows Installer scans a solution, it adds new files to the

installation and deletes files that have been removed from the solution.

! Bind installed files to the solution build configuration

Mark this to set the default for new projects you create. This option causes the

installation source paths to change automatically when you change a project’s build

configuration. To change this option for an existing project, right-click a project name

in Solution Explorer, and select Properties.

Main Project Options

To override these defaults for individual installations, or to change them for existing

installations, edit the Main Project page of the installation project settings. See Main

Project Page on page 86.

! Automatically Update Product Information

Mark this to update the installation’s product name, version, and manufacturer

whenever you rebuild the solution or whenever the version number of the main

target file changes.

! Create Shortcut

Mark this to add a shortcut for the main target file to each installation.

Also see Setting Options on page 43.