Windows Installer 4.5 & .net 3.5

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Hi Friedrich

Do you have any plans to provide an include script for the Windows Installer
4.5 and one for the .Net 3.5 install?

Rather than have the customers not be able to install my app's because they
don't have this installed on their PC and knowing what a pain it is getting
them to install these two themselves, I'd prefer to ship it in my
installation files so the users have no hurdles to overcome, hence the
question and the hope I might be able to save myself a bit of work doing the
scripts? <vbg>

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Cheers
Richard

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Hi Richard,

> Do you have any plans to provide an include script for the Windows
> Installer 4.5 and one for the .Net 3.5 install?
>
> Rather than have the customers not be able to install my app's because
> they don't have this installed on their PC and knowing what a pain it is
> getting them to install these two themselves, I'd prefer to ship it in my
> installation files so the users have no hurdles to overcome, hence the
> question and the hope I might be able to save myself a bit of work doing
> the scripts? <vbg>

From the technical point of view, it should be possible to develop the above
include scripts (not trivial, but doable). The overhead of the MSI 4.5
redistributable would be around 50 MB (requires 7 different MSU and MSI
packages). The overhead of the .NET 3.5 would be 200 MB.

But if you distribute your products over the Internet, this extra overhead
of 250 GB as part of your setup.exe would be a bad idea <g>. So perhaps a
download option would be cool. Similar to what the Clarion.NET install
offers. If the required .NET Framework is not installed, it asks to
download the .NET stuff from the SoftVelocity site and executes it (a
standalone SetupBuilder redistributable).

If there is enough interest in the .NET 3.5 and MSI 4.5 include scripts
(we'll not make it available as a Core Prerequisite because this would
result in several terabytes of extra download traffic from our servers),
then I'll put it on the wishlist.

Friedrich

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Friedrich Linder
Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
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Hi Friedrich

I'm not too worried about my server traffic (at the moment) but some
customers might not have the bandwidth at their end so like you said it
might be better to have a link to MS's site for them to download the link.

I'll send you a private mail to discuss the costs of getting one of your
experts to do the scripts for me. <g>

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Cheers
Richard

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Hi Richard,

> I'm not too worried about my server traffic (at the moment) but some
> customers might not have the bandwidth at their end so like you said it
> might be better to have a link to MS's site for them to download the link.
>
> I'll send you a private mail to discuss the costs of getting one of your
> experts to do the scripts for me. <g>

<G>

With the include scripts, you'll be able to do the following:

You compile your own .NET 4.5 and MSI 4.5 "redistributables" and host them
on your site -- of course, you can also have both MSI 4.5 and .NET 3.5 in
one redist.exe, no problem. Your "main" installer detects that MSI 4.5 and
..NET 3.5 is not available and opens a page on your web site with the links
to the redistributable installer(s). It would also be possible to
automatically download/launch the stuff from the main installer, but some
users prefer download links so they can backup the files.

The user can then start your redist.exe and it installs .MSI 4.5 (if
required) and then .NET 3.5.

Friedrich

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Hi Friedrich,

> If there is enough interest in the .NET 3.5 and MSI 4.5 include scripts
> (we'll not make it available as a Core Prerequisite because this would
> result in several terabytes of extra download traffic from our servers),
> then I'll put it on the wishlist.

I'm very interested in this, hope you can make it

Regards,
Hanspeter Stutz
Global System AG