thanks again for the reply Phil.
Yes, i'd discovered the need for createobject instead of
wscript.createobject with the vbs for the shortcut. It may interest you to
know (although you probably already know, that it was not possible to update
the self-repair shortcut's targetpath property made by VS2005's setup project
- other shortuct properties such as description could be updated but not the
targetpath - had to delete shortcut and create new one. Also the vbscript
failed inside custom action if it used wscript.arguments(0). So, to pass the
TargetDir from the custom action I had to set it as an argument on the
shortcut made by the setup project - then get this from the shortcut before
deleing it and making a new one!)
Am i correct in not being able to run another msi from my setup project in a
customer action vbs script? i've tried .exec, .execute, .run. They all
produce the usual script failure message.
Jeff

Hi Phil

Don't know if you can help, I hope so.

I'm getting error "Could not find prerequisite 'MS Access 2003 Runtime' in
path 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper'".

My Product.xml (located in 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper\Packages\CustomPackage')is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Product
 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/2004/01/bootstrapper"
 ProductCode="MS.Access.2003.Runtime.Package">
 <RelatedProducts>
   <DependsOnProduct Code="Microsoft.Windows.Installer.2.0" />
 </RelatedProducts>
 <PackageFiles>
   <PackageFile Name="ACCESSRT.MSI"/>
   <PackageFile Name="ACCESSRT.CAB"/>
 </PackageFiles>
 <Commands>
  <Command PackageFile="ACCESSRT.MSI" Arguments="">
   <ExitCodes>
    <ExitCode Value="0" Result="Success"/>
    <ExitCode Value="1641" Result="SuccessReboot"/>
    <ExitCode Value="3010" Result="SuccessReboot"/>
     <DefaultExitCode Result="Fail" String="GeneralFailure"/>
   </ExitCodes>
  </Command>
 </Commands>
</Product>

Files AccessRT.mst and AccessRT.cab are located same folder as Product.xml.

My Package.xml (located in 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper\Packages\CustomPackage\en' :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Package
 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/2004/01/bootstrapper"
 Name="DisplayName"
 Culture="Culture">
 <Strings>
   <String Name="DisplayName">MS Access 2003 Runtime</String>
   <String Name="Culture">en</String>
   <String Name="GeneralFailure">A general error has occurred while
installing this package.</String>
 </Strings>
 <InstallChecks>
  <MsiProductCheck
     Property="IsMsiInstalled"
     Product="{901C0409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}"/>
 </InstallChecks>
 <InstallConditions>
  <BypassIf
     Property="IsMsiInstalled"
     Compare="ValueGreaterThan" Value="0"/>
 </InstallConditions>
</MsiProductCheck>
</Package>

Thanks in advance,
Jeff