Custom AddOn installer

[floydman]

Is it possible to create a custom installer that installs a custom AddOn into the folder NinjaTrader 8\bin\Custom\AddOns so the user doesn't have to use the Tools->Import option? So the install and un-install of the indicator would be done via a custom installer EXE provided by a vendor.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello floydman,

Thank you for your post.

This is a possibility. Several vendors have created custom installers for NinjaTrader 7 in the past. We do not have any resources on custom installers available in our documentation though.

[Calonious]

If you're using VS to do your development then there are extensions out there for a MSI that you could use for this purpose -

VS 2013 - https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.mic...9-0fbf6151054d

VS 2015 - https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.mic...7-c509fb8933b9

[floydman]

Just a quick update on this. I managed to get a custom installer working well using INNO setup ( http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php )

Basically you can just set the destination for your Add-On to be NinjaTrader 8\bin\Custom and run the installer created by INNO and it all works nicely. The end user has a nice installer and doesn't have to copy DLLs manually.