I have msdn'd and googled but its still not clear
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I seen on msdn that you can use the setup.exe bootstrapper to make a setup program detect if the dotnetfx framework is on the current computer and if its isn't it will install dotnetfx.exe. That sounds wonderful. I just don't see anything on there about actually how to do it. I tried using the setup wizard its just not clear to me. If i really knew a keyword to search for or something that would be great. I have my project complete and would like to distribute it but I don't need my clients searching all over the internet for the dotnet files. I want it to install everything they need. if there is a good tutorial on using the setup wizard that would be great and please DON'T DIRECT ME TO MSDN that site might be great but in all honesty i go in there trying to learn how to write my name and by the time i get done reading i've done forgot the alphabet. Win32newb "Making windows programs worse than they already are"
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I seen on msdn that you can use the setup.exe bootstrapper to make a setup program detect if the dotnetfx framework is on the current computer and if its isn't it will install dotnetfx.exe. That sounds wonderful. I just don't see anything on there about actually how to do it. I tried using the setup wizard its just not clear to me. If i really knew a keyword to search for or something that would be great. I have my project complete and would like to distribute it but I don't need my clients searching all over the internet for the dotnet files. I want it to install everything they need. if there is a good tutorial on using the setup wizard that would be great and please DON'T DIRECT ME TO MSDN that site might be great but in all honesty i go in there trying to learn how to write my name and by the time i get done reading i've done forgot the alphabet. Win32newb "Making windows programs worse than they already are"
The bootstrapper is a program that checks for the .NET Framework installed on the machine running your setup .MSI. If it is not there, the bootstrapper launches the install dotnetfx.exe to install the framework. If it is there, then it simply launches the .MSI Installer for your app. You might want to look at the GotDotNet Bootstrapper Plugin workspace here[^]. RageInTheMachine9532
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I seen on msdn that you can use the setup.exe bootstrapper to make a setup program detect if the dotnetfx framework is on the current computer and if its isn't it will install dotnetfx.exe. That sounds wonderful. I just don't see anything on there about actually how to do it. I tried using the setup wizard its just not clear to me. If i really knew a keyword to search for or something that would be great. I have my project complete and would like to distribute it but I don't need my clients searching all over the internet for the dotnet files. I want it to install everything they need. if there is a good tutorial on using the setup wizard that would be great and please DON'T DIRECT ME TO MSDN that site might be great but in all honesty i go in there trying to learn how to write my name and by the time i get done reading i've done forgot the alphabet. Win32newb "Making windows programs worse than they already are"
First, some actual resources for those willing to learn to research :) Read This Now step by step: Read the article called "Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Redistribute the .NET Framework" Download the plugin for VS 2003 NOTE: You will not notice anything visibly different with your installs. There's no pretty wizard or anything. However, when you compile your application you will notice that the setup contains the dotnetfx.exe file in it as well as a few others. You can zip up the whole lot of 'em and just have users run setup.exe Of course by doing this your distribution size just grew by 23 megs or so... --Tony Archer "I can build it good, fast and cheap. Pick any two."