I've created an msi installer for a WinForms based app using a Setup project. The project produces an msi file which correctly installs my app on our desktops. I noticed in the Property Pages for the Setup project a field "Installation URL:" What does that do? I set it to a UNC share on my development machine, to see if it did anything different, but it appears to do nothing. I've looked for documentation on it and only find:
Installation URL: Specifies the installation location, that is, the URL of a server or Web site from which the application and/or prerequisites will be installed. See Prerequisites below for information on how Windows Installer uses this URL.
When I check below in the Prerequisites section of the help it states:
If you select Download prerequisites from the same location as my application, prerequisites and the application will both be downloaded from the URL specified in Installation URL.
Does this mean I'm supposed to copy my msi to that directory listed in the Installation URL? Is that just a URL to a directory which is supposed to contain all of the prerequisites for this program?
Is there any documentation which explains how this whole thing is supposed to be used?
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