MSDE and Framework - custom application setup

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- 22 Aug 2003 11:23 GMT

Hello,

is there a way to include both MSDE and .NET Framework setup packages into
my custom application setup project?

The setup program needs to check if framework is installed, install it and
then installe MSDE and my custom application. I managed to include Framework
setup into my setup by using a bootstrapper. But is there a easy way to
include both Framework and MSDE setup?

Thanks in advance

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Kallely Sajan - 22 Aug 2003 22:43 GMT

Nothing is easy! Good that you have already taken care of .NET Framework.
Using MSDE 2000 SP3 is little more involved. Just launching the Setup.exe
and waiting for it to complete will do no good. MSDE2000 SP3 includes
repackged MDAC 2.7 as a self extracting executable sqlredist.exe. This
sqlredist.exe will hang and the install will never complete successfully.
What you have to do is create a separate thread and launch the MSDE SP3
install in that thread. In the main thread you have to have a message
processing loop to handle the windows messages. It took me a while to sort
of figure out what is happeing. Looks bit odd, isn't it? The earlier
versions of MSDE installations doesn't seem to have this problem.
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Regards,
Sajan.

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