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sahana

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Posted 25 July 2008 - 12:09

Hi!!

plz help me to create a custom dialog through which i can check for .NET 3.5 is installed in the users pc and then continue with the installation.

Problem: my Installer should check for the existence of .NET 3.5 in the users system and give an option to the user to download the setup from the net.

If the user doesn't want to download the setup, he should continue with the normal installation

If the user wants to download the setup, he should download and return back to the the setup to continue the installation.

folks plzz help me out....



Stefan Krueger

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Posted 28 July 2008 - 15:17

Looks like you should use a prerequisite and make it optional?

sahana

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Posted 29 July 2008 - 04:33

Yup.. i tried including a pre-requisite!! but the size of .NET 3.5 bloats up my setup like anything.. so was trying to figure out some alternative method.

sahana

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Posted 29 July 2008 - 06:00

We are looking for " giving a hyperlink" sad.gif in a custom dialog, so that Explorer gets launched redirecting the user to download .NET setup from the website. unsure.gif

Stefan Krueger

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Posted 29 July 2008 - 11:43

In the release wizard you can select that prerequisites will not be included in your setup but downloaded only when needed.

sahana

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Posted 27 August 2008 - 08:20

Thanks for giving a solution for including a prerequisite. I tried including it, but the problem i am facing is, i have to mention the URL from where it has to download the setup.
For example if i have to download Notepad.exe , and if the location where it can be found is http://abcwebsite.co...der/Notepad.exe. The URL to be given in the form of http:/abcwebsite.com/downloads/.

In case of .NetFramework 3.5 Redistributable, the link which i am giving is not working fine. The setup which should be downloaded is in the following location

http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en

As per the above example if i give the URL to be http://www.microsoft.com/dowmloads/, i shall not be directing the user to download the desired setup.

Looking forward for your help or suggestion.



Stefan Krueger

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Posted 09 September 2008 - 15:12

You may need to copy the framework to your server to circumvent Microsoft's locale and language detection logic.