Running a database installation msi
by Joseph on Jun 28th in CodeProject, Setup and Deployment, SQL Server, Stan Prodan, VS 2008
It’s remarkably unintuitive how to install a database through Visual Studio 2008. Nevertheless, it CAN be done! Solutions such as RedGate’s SQL Packager are great, but expensive. I needed a quick, free solution. As luck would have it, one of my favorite resources, CodeProject, had just the thing. Thanks to Stan Prodan for his article on deploying SQL Scripts through an MSI!!! Check the article out here:
Deploy SQL Server databases easily with an Installer class
What is basically came down to was overriding the installer class with some custom code, and going from there. Fun Stuff!!!
