My application needs to install a USB driver. The hardware manufacture supplies a separate installer and its associated files. When I create my setup project where should it install these files, on the target machine? Once the path for the installed driver is included in the driver setup. I just need to know where to locate these files during install. After install I will deleate them.

I would install them as a prerequisite. To do that, you need to roll a setup & deployment package just for this, unless all of the files are included in the installer (i.e. it's an msi or something like that).

Onceyou have an install package, you can use the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator to add it to the prerequisites list in VIsual Studio, then select it as a prerequisite.

Here is some information about the BMG.

BMG Guyer
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformssetup/thread/92d68fc3-3c00-4435-9d45-f781aad89ad1

Instructions on using it:
http://jcrawfor74.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bootstrap-manifest-generator-how-to-custom-pre-requisites/

RobinDotNet

I would install them as a prerequisite. To do that, you need to roll a setup & deployment package just for this, unless all of the files are included in the installer (i.e. it's an msi or something like that).

Onceyou have an install package, you can use the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator to add it to the prerequisites list in VIsual Studio, then select it as a prerequisite.

Here is some information about the BMG.

BMG Guyer
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformssetup/thread/92d68fc3-3c00-4435-9d45-f781aad89ad1

Instructions on using it:
http://jcrawfor74.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bootstrap-manifest-generator-how-to-custom-pre-requisites/

RobinDotNet