.Net Deployment

stevenmu

Just wondering if anyone's tried creating an installer for a .Net application which includes the runtime installer. I've seen mention before in Microsoft documentation about doing it, but of course now that I actually go and try to do it I can't find it.

Using VS.Net 2003 I'm able to create an installer that includes my assemblies and the dotnetfx.exe redistributable and I've set that to run during install but windows installer doesn't like doing more than one thing at a time. I could just send both seperatly but I'd like a nice warm fuzzy integrated installer if anyone knows how (prefferably just using VS.Net or the .Net SDK)

stevenmu

Found it just after I posted, there's a article on it here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/vsredistdeploy1_1.asp if anyones interested, you have to download a seperate plugin.

bonkey

Nice one.

I might use that myself in an app that I'm just about to deliver to a customer I know doesn't have .Net Framework installed yet.

jc