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You can use the &nbsp;<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371199(v=vs.85).aspx" rel="ugc">RemoveFiles</a> action, for that you will need to use the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371201%28VS.85%29.aspx" rel="ugc">RemoveFile Table</a>.<br />
Alternatively you can create a simple bat file to delete the directory.
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You can use the  RemoveFiles [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371199(v=vs.85).aspx] action, for that you will need to use the RemoveFile Table [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371201%28VS.85%29.aspx].
Alternatively you can create a simple bat file to delete the directory.

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if I created a bat file how would I get VS setup to run the bat file at uninstall time?<br />
Thanks
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if I created a bat file how would I get VS setup to run the bat file at uninstall time?
Thanks

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Action Test<br />
Type 34<br />
Source SystemFolder<br />
Target cmd.exe /c c:\test.bat<br />
ExtendedType &lt;blank&gt;
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Action Test
Type 34
Source SystemFolder
Target cmd.exe /c c:\test.bat
ExtendedType <blank>

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I have a Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 win32 application and recently I’ve added a Setup Project to create a .msi install/uninstall file. I created a custom folder, let’s call it c:\myfolder\logs, that gets created on install. When my application runs it creates a log file that it creates and placed in the ‘c:\myfolder\logs’ folder. My problem is that on uninstall everything is uninstalled except for the ‘..\logs’ folder’. I believe this is because there are files within the …\logs folder. <br />
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Is there some way to tell the Setup Project I want this folder and all files within deleted on uninstall?<br />
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I really don’t want to have to create a ‘custom dll’. Seems like a lot of work for a simple request.<br />
<br />
Thanks.
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I have a Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 win32 application and recently I’ve added a Setup Project to create a .msi install/uninstall file. I created a custom folder, let’s call it c:\myfolder\logs, that gets created on install. When my application runs it creates a log file that it creates and placed in the ‘c:\myfolder\logs’ folder. My problem is that on uninstall everything is uninstalled except for the ‘..\logs’ folder’. I believe this is because there are files within the …\logs folder. 

Is there some way to tell the Setup Project I want this folder and all files within deleted on uninstall?

I really don’t want to have to create a ‘custom dll’. Seems like a lot of work for a simple request.

Thanks.

Visual Studio setup, how to uninstall folder with files in it.

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