Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
    • Introduction to ASP.NET Deployment
    • Creating an ASP.NET Application for Deployment
    • Deploying ASP.NET Applications Using Copy Project
    • Deploying ASP.NET Applications Using Copy
    • Deploying ASP.NET Applications with Windows Installer
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Exercises

The method in which the database was created in the custom action is just one way to accomplish the task. My goal was to show you the power of custom actions, not the absolute correct way to create a custom database.

For today's exercise, you're going to view a walkthrough from the software development kit (SDK) that shows you another way to handle database creation during installation using a resource file and custom dialogs.

To get to the walkthrough, search the SDK for Using a Custom Action to Create a Database During Installation.

Follow the project steps, which should take about 30 minutes, to learn about another option when creating custom actions. This exercise is also a good example of passing data from a custom dialog to an external application.

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