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To install a font during an update you will need to add the font to the Fonts folder and then call a native method (AddFontResourceA)to complete the installation.  Before installing, you'll probably want to check to see if the font is already installed.  I'll provide an example project on how to do this with this post.  In this example, I'll use four update actions that you can add to your update.

Action 1 - Set Shared Property action.  With this action I'll add the local client fonts directory to a shared property.  The other three actions will use this location.

Action 2 - Dynamic Code action.  With this action, I'll iterate the local fonts folder, looking for the font that I am installing.  If the font is not present, I'll conditionally execute the final two actions to install the font.  If the font is already here, the next two actions will be skipped.

Action 3 - Add & Replace files action.  Conditionally execute.  Add the new font files to the Fonts folder.

Action 4 - Dynamic Code action.  Conditionally execute.  Use P/Invoke to call the AddFontResource method.  This completes the font installation.

These actions will add a font to a system during an update.  If you'll be doing this in many updates, you could alternatively build a single custom update action to add a font.

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