NotePad2 Installer with Registry Hack
May 25th, 2006
Florian Balmer produces NotePad2 but does not make it available with an installer. In the previous post I showed a registry hack to make it easy to open any file in NotePad2 directly. I decided to take it a step further and create a setup project in Visual Studio to produce an MSI installer which puts the EXE in place as well as sets that registry value for the shell command. I'll be sure to pass this back to the author for direct distribution.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:23 am
[...] I have often created MSI installers for applications to make it trivial install and uninstall an application. I created an installer for Notepad2 because the author was just distributing the binaries and since was so easy to do. But there are a couple of major problems. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
You should try notepad++.
It beats notepad2 in every aspect.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
[...] The zip download includes the executable but no installer so I have created an MSI installer (as I did before) which places the files in your Program Files folder and sets a registry setting which adds [...]
June 26th, 2007 at 10:07 am
[...] brennan has create an installer.you can it download here Post a comment [...]