VB 2005 Express Project Deployment
I have writtewn an app that needs three pre-requisites, .Net 2, Installer 3.1 and SQL Express.
All the publish details are setup etc.
When I choose "Download prerequisites from the same location as my application" where is this "same location".
My app will not publish beacuse it says, for example, "windowsinstaller3_1\windowsinstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe...cannot be located on disk".
I have tried saveral locations but all have failed to date.
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cakehole] at [2007-12-24]
To keep the download size of the Express products smaller, we did not include the actual installer/redist files. As a result, you can't use "Same Site..." unless you download the redist files from Microsoft.
If you look at the product and package.xml files for each package you need, you can follow the "HomeSite" attribute, check the Strings table in the package.xml, and get the URL to download each file from. Or you can just search the download site on microsoft.com for the files.
Hope that helps.
 David Guyer MS wrote: |
| To keep the download size of the Express products smaller, we did not include the actual installer/redist files. As a result, you can't use "Same Site..." unless you download the redist files from Microsoft. |
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I have downloaded all the necessary files. I must do this as the machines on which the app will be installed do not have net access, even via dial up.
| David Guyer MS wrote: |
| If you look at the product and package.xml files for each package you need, you can follow the "HomeSite" attribute, check the Strings table in the package.xml, and get the URL to download each file from. Or you can just search the download site on microsoft.com for the files. |
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Where do I find the product and package.xml files?
Thanks for the prompt reply.
David,
I eventually found that folder, thank you, and installed the programs I had downloaded. I have no reduced my error count from 5 to 2. The build function doesn't like the sqlexpr32.exe I downloaded and I cannot locate instmsia.exe it wants in the DotNetFX folder.
Can you advise where I can download these files from so I can build my nstall and finish this project.
Thanks
