Hi When you install Visual Studio on your machine you will have the Bootstrapper packages (like for .Net Franework , SQL Express etc) already created.. You can utilize them... they perform all the checks.. and if you need you can customize it
Thank you Anweshi ________________________________ From: Ben Cheetham <b...@softfooding.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 7:21:08 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help needed I found the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator useful for this. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bmg Ben -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Karper [mailto:christopher.kar...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 February 2009 13:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help needed You can't do this from within the installer, as MSI won't allow multiple simultaneous installations. Read up on Bootstrappers, that will get you what you need. Chris On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Prabhakaran Paulraj < prabhakaran_paul...@dynamicbi.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am a newbie to Wix and i'm using .NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, Wix 2.0. > I need to check to some of the conditions before my application starts the > installtion. It should check for .NET 2.0 or higher version if not found it > should install it. > > I used the help from http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php i am able > to detect if the particular Framework is installed or not. If .NET 2.0 is > not installed it shows a error message and winds up the installation. I need > to have if .Net 2.0 is not installed it shoulf start the installation > automatically. > > Also it should install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express edition is there > any way to acheive this? > > Thanks in advance > Prabhakaran > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, > CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: > SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
