"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Morris,
>
> As for the SQL Express BootStrapper package, it simply install an SQL
> Server express edition instance with the instance name as "SQLExpress" on
> the target machine. Thus, no matter whether there is SQL Server Full
> edition installed on the box or not, the SQL Express bootstrapper package
> just check whether there is any existing SQL server 2005 instance with
> instance name as "SQLEXPRESS" on the box, if not, it will install the SQL
> Express instance.
>
> For your scenario, if you want to do some other customized checking to
> control the installation of SQLExpress bootstrapper package, you can
> consider add some custom "install check" logic. You can refer to the
> following MSDN article for detailed info:
>
> #Authoring a Custom Bootstrapper Package for Visual Studio 2005
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730839(VS.80).aspx
>
> Also, all those existing VS 2005 setup bootstrapper packages are under the
> following location(include the SQLExpress ):
>
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages
>
> You can simply find the SQL Express one and customize it(the xml configure
> file ot if) or copy it and build a new bootstrapper package based on it.
>
> Hope this helps. If you have any other questions on this, please feel free
> to post here.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Steven Cheng
>
> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
>
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