Testing Releases

To build a setup.exe like the appveyor build does for releases, first do a full release build in Visual Studio, then open up a PowerShell window (NOT cmd.exe!) and perform the following commands:

$env:APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG="true"
$env:APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME="v9.0.0"
$env:APPVEYOR_BUILD_VERSION="9.0.0"
.\PackRelease.ps1
.\BuildRelease.ps1

Afterwards, you should have a Setup.exe in the releases-packages folder.

We use version 9.0.0 here so it is always newer than the last stable version. This way, it will correctly build a delta package for that stable version and will not try to auto-update once you launch your fake setup.