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Resume an installer after restarting
The installer needs to run the .NET 4 installer (dotNetFx40_Full_setup.exe) and Microsoft Surface Toolkit (SurfaceToolkitRuntime.msi). The problem is that the .NET 4 install needs to restart the ...
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How should I implement an MVC Bootstrapper for Unity and AutoMapper?
What is the best way to create a bootstrapper for my MVC 2 app? I'm using Unity and AutoMapper and want to abstract the loading and configuration of them as much as possible.
A decent example is ...
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Bootstrappers that download packages over the web from Microsoft
What are the best practices for creating internet download bootstrappers that reference Microsoft packages?
For example InstallShield has a Setup Prerequisite that can download vstor40_x86.exe from ...
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Wix Bootstrapper should take installfiles from subfolders [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make a WiX installer with a completely self-contained .NET 3.5 sp1 installer?
Is there any possibility to say the WIX-Bootstrapper to take the Installfiles located in ...
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Wix: How to define conditional bootstrapper pre-requisites?
I am using WIX 3.0 Toolset and VS2008. In my ".wixproj" file I have added the following code (which works fine). I want to add a condition so that it will only install PIA if office 2007 is installed.
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Detecting if SQL Server 2008 is installed
I am using dotNetInstaller as a bootstrapper and I need to detect if SQL Server 2008 or above is installed as a prerequisite.
Currently I am using this registry to detect the installation:
HKLM\...
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DirectX Bootstrapper package
I want to share DirectX redistributable as a prerequisite package of my application setup msi( made with visual Studio).
Anyone developed a bootstrapper package of DirectX? Where can I find it? I ...
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Custom prerequsites to visual studio setup project
I have a Visual Studio Setup project and have followed the steps mentioned in this link to load the Shared Add-in Support Update for the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (KB908002) to the prerequisites ...
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Can i use VS Setup Project to build a bootstrapper which can install correct platform version or are there any free 3rd party tools?
I'm building 2 different MSI with Visual Studio Setup Project. One for x86 and x64. But i couldn't find a way to combine both into one project so that the bootstrapper is installing the correct ...
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Getting started with Prism (Ent Lib v5) and building an app framework
Can anyone point me to any useful examples of an application framework being built using the newly released Enterprise Library 5?
I have previously used v4.1 and after downloading the source for v5 ...
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Can I modify package.xml file in SQL bootstrapper to install a named SQL server instance
I want to use the SqlExpress2008 Bootstrapper for a new installation on Windows7, I do not want to use the default SQLEXPRESS Instance.
I have attempted to edit the package.xml file located in:
C:\...
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Bootstrapper Package for SQL Server 2008 Native Client and SQL Server 2008 Management Objects
I'm using the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator to make bootstrapper packages for the following redistrbutables:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Objects
Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
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How to pass values to msi through Inno Setup
I'm using Innosetup as a bootstrapper for my msi setup. It packs the main mis file and other prerequisites. It works fine when we use full UI. Now i want to install the whole setup in silent mode. ...
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How do I prevent InstallShield 1158 errors?
Sometimes, when running an InstallShield installation, an error dialog will appear containing the text "1158", and OK button, and nothing else. InstallShield error 1158 means there was a ...
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changes url of setup.exe (deploy ClickOnce) using Msbuild
I use msbuild for using setup -url="location"...
I publish application using ClickOnce and I want changes the url in the setup.exe.
<Exec Command="$(PublishDir)\setup -url=$(ProviderUrl)" />
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Reusing InstallShield prerequisites
I'm looking to have a release layout with multiple installers but with a single source for prerequisites, in the following structure:
\Product1\setup.exe
\Product2\setup.exe
\Product3\setup.exe
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Problems with Prism hosted in a WinForm ElementHost
I am having problems with hosting a WPF prism app in an ElementHost control and am desparate for help.
The PRISM app runs fine in silverlight and in a standalone WPF.
The main Shell seems to setup ...
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Bootstrapper: Check if msi version is installed before running
I'm trying to find a solution for the following issue:
I have numerous programs (lets call them slaves) that all rely on a single program (master). I need to distribute an installer for each slave. ...
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Launch x86 or x64 MSI from MSBuild bootstrapper
So I have a WiX based MSI that installs a handful of device drivers and therefore I have an x64 and an x86 version. The package also has a .NET 3.5 dependency so I'm generating a bootstrapper to do ...
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Looking for Prism example of Modules loading themselves into a menu
Does anyone know of WPF code examples using Prism in which modules each register themselves as a menuitem in a menu within another module?
(I've currently got an application which tries to do this ...
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How do I build a PXE-bootable boot loader from Workbench? [closed]
I'm trying to build a VxWorks boot loader that is PXE-bootable from Workbench, but not having any success. Here is a run-down of my environment:
VxWorks 6.6 + latest patches
Workbench 3.0 + latest ...
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Managed DirectX as prerequisites
I am packaging an vb.net application which uses managed DirectX and I am not using vs deployment project etc.
Now, I want to check managed directX 9 C is installed on the client or not. If not ...
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Bootstrapper Prerequisite ordering
When using the generic bootstrapper with MSBuild how is the order of installation of prerequisite items determined?
For example, given:
<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft....
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Running a bootstrapper on Windows 2000
Is there any way how to run the setup.exe bootstrapper generated by VS2008 with .NET 2.0 WinForms application on Windows 2000 SP4? If I try to run it, it gives me an error message about missing ...
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Paver 0.8.1 compatibility with python 2.6
Does anyone manage to bootstrap its development area using paver with python 2.6 ?
I have install python 2.6, install paver with easy_install-2.6, everything looks fine.
But when I try to launch the ...
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