I got tired of working with visual studio setup projects, but not so tired of them that i wanted to move over to Installshield Lite. In my experience, they are much easier to get a working install. I have only done enough testing on this to get it to be useful for me.

Usage: [OPTIONS] projectfile.vdproj
Options
  -b, --browse               Browse for project file to open
  -o, --output=VALUE         Write output to file
      --stdOut               Write output to console
      --stdIn                Read input from StdIn
      --xmlIn                Read file in as XML
      --xmlOut               Write output as xml
  -r, --remove=VALUE         Remove file from setup project if it's SourcePath
                               contains this string
  -q=VALUE                   Return the value the XPath query
      --increment            Increment the build version
  -?, -h, --help             Show help

Some examples

• Update the version number of a project. And write the new version to stdOut
  ProjectParser.exe -q=//ProductVersion --increment -o=c:\temp\Setup.vdproj c:\temp\Setup.vdproj
• Same thing, but reading from standard input.
  type c:\temp\Setup.vdproj | ProjectParser.exe --stdIn -q=//ProductVersion --increment -o=c:\temp\Setup.vdproj
• Convert a vdproj to xml and then back to vdproj format.
  ProjectParser.exe c:\temp\Setup.vdproj --stdOut --xmlOut | ProjectParser.exe --stdIn --xmlIn --stdOut