Enabling Online Registration in a Deployment Project
Visual Studio deployment allows you to enable online product registration as a part of an installer. The Register User installation dialog box in the User Interface Editor provides the ability to launch an executable file that handles the registration process. You can create an executable to handle registration using any of the Microsoft Visual Studio languages; for example, you can launch a Web browser and navigate to a registration page on your Web site. When the user clicks the Register Now button in the Register User dialog box during installation, the executable file runs.
To add online registration
Add an executable file that handles registration to your deployment project.
Select the End node in the Install section of the User Interface Editor.
On the Action menu, click Add Dialog.
In the Add Dialog dialog box, select the Register User dialog box.
If necessary, you can use the Move Up or Move Down commands on the Action menu to change the display order of the dialog box.
In the Properties window, choose (Browse...) in the Executable property dropdown.
In the Select item in project dialog box, select the folder that contains the executable file.
Select the executable file.
See Also
Properties for the User Interface Editor | Customizing Installation Dialog Boxes in the User Interface Editor | User Interface Management in Deployment