How to precheck whether application is installed or not before the prerequiste installing it

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I have developed an application which is one click installation it will be installing AccessdatabaseEngine as Prerequiste before the installation of My application. Now the question is how can I check whether AccessdatabaseEngine is installed or not in the system before prompting the user to install AccessdatabaseEngine so that if its priorly installed in system than it doesnt request to install AccessdatabaseEngine, but directly install with the application rather than asking for reinstalling it.

I found that We can do it with the tag of XML adding in package that I have added, but I have no idea of what tag should be added some one Please help me with this.
Its very much urgent please

Posted 25-Mar-13 2:49am

sagarjainhr

Updated 26-Mar-13 3:34am

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Prasad Khandekar 26-Mar-13 14:56pm

Here is an article (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15863/Add-your-own-custom-prerequisite-to-quot-ClickOnce) which will help you.

sagarjainhr 28-Mar-13 7:41am

I have done the package with the help of same link you provided. but its failing to check whether the prerequesites application is priorly installed or not

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IND-CODENAME-47 · Answer 1 · 2013-03-28T03:38:00

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For knowing if the access database is available or not in client machine at the time of deployment. U can use a Microsoft tool BMGVS2008(BOOTSTRAPPER MANIFEST GENERATOR). Please go though some links to understand it. it can check for registry entry and manual available of software.

Posted 28-Mar-13 3:38am

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