Deployment with all dependencies

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Riaan Cilli? - 17 Mar 2004 19:25 GMT

Hi

This question has probably been asked a few times before, but the web hasn't
given me the answers I'm looking for.

I know now that you cannot include only certain parts of the .NET Framework
needed for your application to function. So, my question is:

How do I include the whole .NET framework and all the other files from SDK's
such as the ADSI SDK in my .MSI file? I'm using Visual Basic .NET btw.

When I tried not "excluding" files needed from the ADSI SDK, the setup
project would not compile.

Thanks

Riaan

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Phil Wilson - 17 Mar 2004 20:06 GMT

You don't. For one thing the .NET setup is MSI-based, and so is yours, and you
can't have two simultaneous MSI-based installations. For another. the framework
installs the right version (2.0) of Windows Installer, so your install won't
even start if the version on the system is too old. That's why there are things
like this (you may have to sign in):

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/dotNetInstaller.asp

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