prerequisites

The Publish feature stopped working once I installed Visual Studio 2012. Publish cannot find the prerequisite Microsoft .Net Framework 4 Client Profile (x86 and x64). Previously in Visual Studio 2010 this worked fine. I use 64-bit Windows 7. The exact Visual Studio 2012 error message reads: Error 104 - To enable 'Download prerequisites from the same location as my application' in the Prerequisites dialog box, you must download file 'DotNetFX40Client\dotNetFx40_Client_x86_x64.exe' for item 'Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile (x86 and x64)' to your local machine. For more information, see

I have created a setup project in VS2008. My WinForms app uses .NET 2.0, so I chose .NET 2.0 Prerequisity and built the setup project. When I run my Setup.msi on a clean PC, it correctly detects that the .NET is missing and asks if it should be installed. After a successful installation of the .NET, the installer simply exits and doesn't continue with installation of my app (I think it should). When I run the MSI file on a PC with .NET already installed, my app installs correctly. Is there any way how to install .NET 2.0 and my app together in one step? How did you install the product? The

I'm trying to combine my package in a single setup EXE file and upload it to the Internet. I have created a Microsoft bootstrapper that contains Setup.exe with project MSI output, and pre-requisite .NET Framework 2.0, Windows Installer 3.1 , Visual C++ 2005 redistributables, and Microsoft ReportViewer . I have created a setup project using Visual Studio 2008 . Now I'm trying to create a single compressed setup using WiX 3.6. I have installed it in Visual Studio 2008. I have attached the setup.exe and MSI file using following commands. <ExePackage SourceFile ="setup.exe" Compressed ="yes"/>

I have a wix Windows Installer for my C# application. Things are working, I am able to install and uninstall the application. But I have few Prerequisites and other 3rd party applications that I want to install with my application. Prerequisites: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64) - dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe SQL Server 2008 Express SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.EXE SQLEXPR32_x86_ENU.EXE SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 SSCERuntime-ENU.msi SSCERuntime-ENU-x64.msi 3rd Party Application: TeamViewer - TeamViewer_Setup.exe So of-course I am not looking for complete guidelines for all the Prerequisites and 3rd

How can I have my Wix package to download the required .NET Framework when it's not yet installed in the client's machine? I already have the condition to check for the installed .NET version but I'm not sure how to have it downloaded and installed when not found. ClickOnce does this automatically by checking the pre-requisites in the properties pages. I just need to have it done in Wix due to some other requirements. Thanks! Dirk Vollmar UPDATE Aug 2017: This very nice answer now appears outdated. Please also read the other answers in the "thread" for a few different "bootstrapper options".