My distributable application requires the .net Framework. In the launch
condition it always directs the user to the microsoft website to download
and install the framwork. How can I change the Launch condition so that I
can ship the Framwork with my application?

Any help in this area is greatly appreciated.

JH

The difficulty with doing this is that VS setup projects don't have IDE support
for running code early enough in the setup that you could put a value in the
equivalent of the InstallUrl property in the MSI file (in the _VsdLaunchCondtion
table, a custom table that VS adds to the MSI file). You can change the URL in
the IDE, but getting the runtime installed is all done in a Dll that's part of
the
MSI file. You could look at some of the bootstrapper programs that do this
checking and installing and then launch the MSI.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/dotNetInstaller.asp

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Phil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer]
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