.NET 2.0 Install Cheker

9 Aug 2006 12:47 PM

Matt

hi,

dont know if any one could help me. but i need a way to find out if .net 2.0
is installed before running the setup.exe file..

is there a small .exe some where that can pop up a message box if .NET 2.0
is not installed?

any help would be appriciated.

M@ Peters

9 Aug 2006 12:59 PM

Pieter

I use the dotNetInstaller:
http://www.devage.com/dotNetInstaller/dotNetInstaller.html

Usefull to be sure that the users have all the latets service packs, needed
software etc isntalled...

9 Aug 2006 1:16 PM

Matt

can this be used for .NET 2.0 ??

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"Pieter" <pietercou***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I use the dotNetInstaller:
>http://www.devage.com/dotNetInstaller/dotNetInstaller.html
>
> Usefull to be sure that the users have all the latets service packs,
> needed software etc isntalled...
>

10 Aug 2006 11:13 AM

Pieter

Yes, but offcourse you need to change the parameters in the config-file

9 Aug 2006 2:22 PM

Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer)

You can bootstrap the .NET 2.0 Framework to your installer.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/Bootstrapper/

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"Matt" <matt.pet***@thehighway.co.uk> wrote in message
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> hi,
>
> dont know if any one could help me. but i need a way to find out if .net
> 2.0 is installed before running the setup.exe file..
>
> is there a small .exe some where that can pop up a message box if .NET 2.0
> is not installed?
>
> any help would be appriciated.
>
> M@ Peters

9 Aug 2006 2:30 PM

Siva M

Or you can write a small utility yourself by checking few registry entires
as indicated in http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;315291

"Matt" <matt.pet***@thehighway.co.uk> wrote in message
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hi,

dont know if any one could help me. but i need a way to find out if .net 2.0
is installed before running the setup.exe file..

is there a small .exe some where that can pop up a message box if .NET 2.0
is not installed?

any help would be appriciated.

M@ Peters

10 Aug 2006 12:41 PM

hSiplu

if you are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005,
on the project properties pane you will find prerequisite button in
publish page.
this publisher will create a setup.exe and the setup file will
automatically check the prerequisites. again you can also add the
redistributable package in your setup file from here.

hope this would help you.