Hello, I am evaluating InstallShield to distribute a WPF application. Unfortunately, I am new to InstallShield, and I can count the number of .NET apps I've written on one hand, so I am hoping someone in this community can help clear some items up.
1) When I create the installer and run it on a virgin Windows 10 VM, it seems to install, but when I run the app it requests that I download and install .NET Core. OK, I understand about redist files and I have added VC++ 2019. When I have the app download the .NET Core, it downloads windowsdesktop-runtime-3.1.22-win-x64.exe. I don't see anything like that in the IS redist dialog, closest I see is Microsoft .NET Core Runtime 3.1.13. If I add that to the redist list, that does not seem to satisfy things. What redist am I needing? When I download the 3.1.22 and run my app, nothing happens bringing me to item #2 below.
2) It appears that I need to include about 60 additional files from my VS2019 build. Things like: ... System.ComponentModel.Composition.dll System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.dll System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource.dll System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.dll System.Drawing.Common.dll System.IO.FileSystem.AccessControl.dll System.IO.Pipelines.dll System.Management.dll ...
I assume these are part of WPF or one of the NuGet packages that I included in the App. I would have assumed these would be in the .NET redist. What are the InstallSShield best practices when packaging a WPF/NuGet application? How can I determine what actually needs to be installed? Anyway to automagically determine the dependencies?
