setup.exe is prompting to install the prerequisite components everytime it is run

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Hi, I am developing a desktop application using VS2008 and I need to build the setup file with some specific prerequisite components. As I my components are custom ones, I have used the bootstrapper manifest generator to make them appear in the Pre-requisites window. Before building the setup, I have checked them from the Pre-requisites window and built the setup. Now when I run the setup.exe file, it is prompting me to install the pre-requisite components and everything thing went smoothly. The problem is that every time I run the setup, it is prompting me to install those components. As they have already been installed in the first run, the setup shouldn't prompt me to install them again and again.

Hope I am making sense. Your answer is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Ramesh Chandra

Posted 25-Jun-10 1:53am

Ramesh@Prakrit

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Scubapro · Answer 1 · 2010-06-29T03:41:00

Solution 1

Did you set the 'System Checks' in the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator?

Here you can set various checks to determine if a file should be run or not.

Posted 29-Jun-10 3:41am

Scubapro

Ramesh@Prakrit · Answer 2 · 2010-07-01T23:36:00

Solution 2

Hi Scubapro, Thanks a lot; your suggestion gave me good insight of the bootstrap generator. I found an interesting post related to this: http://jcrawfor74.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bootstrap-manifest-generator-how-to-custom-pre-requisites/

Thanks again,
Ramesh

Posted 1-Jul-10 23:36pm

Ramesh@Prakrit