NSIS Integration with Visual Studio.NET
Posted by sapientcoder on August 26, 2008
Based on the amount of traffic my blog post that talks about auto-generating NSIS scripts with iNSISt has generated, I’ve decided to go ahead and create a product that nicely integrates NSIS with Visual Studio.NET and allows people to use NSIS from within their Visual Studio projects. I’ve created similar things before and believe I can do it in a relatively short timeframe.
To those of you reading this because you stumbled upon this blog while looking for just such a product: Please leave a comment and tell me how you think a product like this should work! What would you like to see? What should it do? What features do you like or dislike about similar products for other installers (like Lexpa’s Inno Setup, for example)?
I can venture forth using my best guess and create something, but we all know as developers that products tend to be much more successful and useful when built upon a solid set of requirements.
Also, I’ll probably use this product as a springboard to get my software business up and running (even though I know it means I’ll probably be branching outside of only serving the travel industry like I had originally talked about). Along those lines, if you’re an experienced developer who would like to join me and help create this product, please leave a comment with a way to contact you and let me know. And since this product will most likely be developed as a Visual Studio Package, experience with VS packages and/or programming against COM interfaces would be a plus.
Nick said
Hi.
If you will it will be very useful… Good luck!
It’s very cool idea to integrate NSIS and Visual Studio. I want this!
Nick
Johan said
Hi Bart
I’ve been looking for a product/whatever to be able to create a installer project in VS where i get intellisense and be able to compile a setup project using the nsis engine.
I stumbled upon your blog entry today, which is about 2 months old, so i guess either you dropped the project or you are finished
Regards,
/Johan
Rick said
Did you ever pursue this?
sapientcoder said
I had planned on it but got busier than expected when I became self-employed, so I haven’t gotten around to it yet. It seems like there’s definitely an interest, though, so maybe I’ll get something going on this in the near future. Also, it would help to get some ideas from other developers about what they’d like to see in a product like this (i.e. how they’d envision it working).