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I have a .NET app which works in 32 and 64 bit.
I would like to write one single installer that installs to c:\program files, not c:\program files(x86) regardless of the platform.
From this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w1behyzx(v=VS.90).aspx
it doesn’t look possible. Is it the case?
According to How to: Create a Windows Installer for a 64-bit Platform:
Not the best experience, but works.
Update: The usual way people deal with their desire to avoid two installer packages is to produce one setup executable, which packs both installers and choose the correct one on the fly.
You can just create a quick C# (though now you have the problem of bootstrapping it on machines without .Net. yeah, are there such machines yet? :-)) or C++ executable yourself that detects the platform it runs on and launches the msiexec process with the proper .msi extracted from the executable resources or downloaded from a web siter.
Or this SO question’s accepted answer talks briefly about that and mentions a third-party tool called Advanced Installer, that can help you with this. Note that I have not tried that tool and I can’t vouch for it, theI just mention it for mere reference; you’ll have to evaluate it on your own. 🙂