Making setup file

[praveen pandey]

hi all, how to make a setup file in such a way that prerequisites are installed automatically before application is installed, e.g. if .net framework 2.0 is not in target machine it should check and installs it before installing the application. thanks,

[Malcolm Smart]

Not being facetious, or unhelpful, but have you tried googling?[^] --facetious - what a word to spell!

"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF

[Larantz]

You could go and have a look at Windows Installer XML. WIX for short. It should cover all your needs for checking registry prerequisites and installing your application. -Larantz

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[praveen pandey]

Thanks for your useful reply.

[Ed Poore]

ClickOnce is easy to use and does this, but has some undesirable side-effects.

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[kubben]

I wrote an article on setup projects: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Win_App_Setup_Project.asp[^] It seems that with vs 2005 the setup is improved to beable to check and install the .net framework. It checks the dependance prompts the user to accept the license. Then installs the .net framework. NOTE when it is done it is looking for the setup.msi file so that needs to be there. Here is a microsoft link on it: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480239.aspx\[^\] Hope that helps. Ben