Are you using dotNetInstaller for a shipping product?

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dblock
Coordinator
Feb 23, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Edited Sep 24, 2009 at 10:40 PM

I'd like to collect some field stories about using dotNetInstaller. Can I please ask you some questions?

* What's the name and url of your company?
* What product(s) are using dotNetInstaller?
* What's the $ size of the product(s)? (eg. a few $, thousands of $, millions of $)
* When did you start using dotNetInstaller?
* How are you using dotNetInstaller?

Please share any other implementation details, but keep this to a few lines, don't write a novel :)
elevitov
Feb 25, 2009 at 8:48 PM
  • Company: Application Security Inc.
  • Products: DbProtect, AppDetectivePro
  • Started using around August, 2008
  • We hook up a number of inter-related components, using DNI. We also bootstrap a bunch of prerequisites. All of the components are mandatory, and there's quite a complicated set of conditions imposed on them.
jsaville
Apr 29, 2009 at 3:13 PM
 Company: CCMJ Consulting LLC
Products: Evaluating for a project
Started: Around Jan 09
Using: To get .net framework installed before launching a custom .net program that installs software a product written in .Net and c++.  Not using msi because of advanced stuff done during install - such as product key check calling web services, complex user registration, downloads and unzips installs latest install package on thread, some special dependencies, etc...would have to create about 10 custom install screens for msi in C++, was easier to just write an installer 'look alike' in .net - so far it's a much better user experience than a standard installer...and simpler than dealing with msi...

Thanks for great project...very nice.
LarsBroberg
Jun 11, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Company: Elbe-Data AB, Sweden
Products: EP-KursAdmin 2000
Started: April 2009
Using: Evaluating DNI for for a special version of our product where .NET Framework 3.5, SQL Server Express 2008 and "some more" has to be installed before our application.
Found this project on CodePlex and it looks like it can fit our needs. Have just "restarted" some tests and hope to have something ready for production before autumn.
Thanks for a great project!
dwelsh99
Aug 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Edited Aug 10, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Company: Visual3D.Net
Products: http://www.visual3d.net/
Started: October 2008
Using: To handle pre-reqs and installation of the product.
Very nice bootstrapper, 10x easier to use than MS's bootstrapper. Thanks for the great work!!
Macros
Feb 6, 2010 at 9:28 PM

Company: COPsync, Inc.

Products: Evaluating for our next release.

Started: January 2010

Using: To handle pre-reqs and bootstrapping our 32-bit and 64-bit installers together.

We need to make sure .NET 2.0 is installed along with Crystal Reports 10.5. We also started running into issues when we had some 64-bit clients come on so we needed an easy way to bundle a 64-bit installer in our release package.
sprovencher
Mar 4, 2010 at 1:42 PM

Company: Window Book, Inc.

Products: Various utilities which support our main products

Started: June 2009

Usage: We are using it to package up various prerequisites and components in an automated build process using WIX. DotNetInstaller has been a solid performer for us and has saved us a lot of time building our own, or money by not needing some of the commercial products.
boinst
May 27, 2010 at 1:41 AM
Edited May 27, 2010 at 1:42 AM
 Company: Optimatics
Products: Optimizer: Enterprise software for pipeline design
Started: February 2010
Size: $2m
Usage: Install .NET before launching WIX package
beelineuk
Aug 23, 2010 at 10:13 AM

Company: Akqa Inc
Products: Various enterprise solutions for Blue-clip clients
Started: 1995
Size: millions
Started using dotNetInstaller a few weeks ago to package an MSI created with Wix in order to install perquisites during installation.

 
howitzer29
Sep 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM
Edited Sep 15, 2010 at 2:05 PM

Company: AWRCORP

Products: Finite Element Analysis Software

Size: Many thousands

Started using: August 2010

How we are using it: Bootstrapping our msi with mpich2 and .NET 3.5
uwekeim
Sep 17, 2010 at 6:05 AM

Company: Zeta Software GmbH

Product 1: Test Management Software "Zeta Test" (Size: free and few hundreds of $)
Product 2: Homepage Generator CMS "Zeta Producer" (Size: free and few hundreds of $)

Started: approx. 2008

How are we using it: Wrapping a .NET 2.0 application with .NET Framework and JET.
rdadbhawala
Jun 1, 2011 at 5:05 AM
Edited Jun 1, 2011 at 5:08 AM

Company: Cubic Systems

Product: "Cubic Systems Installer" (which in turn installs our product suite "CompuTax")

Started: January 2011

How: Wrapping an MSI setup along with prerequisites (.Net 2, .Net 4 and MSI 4.5 for 32-bit and 64-bit)
(Distributed on a CD as well as downloadable from the site)

Size: 500 clients (ranging from winxp to win7, from single user clients to clients with multiple branch offices with upto 40 computers in one environment)
packedbytes
Mar 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM

Company: Packed Bytes

Started: March 2012. 
How are we using it ? Handle prerequesites, download/install the .NET framework 4 if needed, and wrap an msi made with WIX.
$ Size: It's a freeware :-)
Love your bootstrapper. Very easy to use. Thanks a lot for your work !
dawsofty
May 3, 2012 at 5:19 PM

* What's the name and url of your company?
* What product(s) are using dotNetInstaller?
* What's the $ size of the product(s)? (eg. a few $, thousands of $, millions of $)
* When did you start using dotNetInstaller?
* How are you using dotNetInstaller?

 

Company: Digital Broadcast

Product: Spot Delivery System

When did I start using: March, 2012

How am I using: Using to link together a variety of other prerequisite components for our project, including a SQL Server installation, custom WiX-created msi's, and freely distributed products.
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