Hi Dave,
Thank you for posting.
As for the SQLExpress installation, since it is a prerequisites of your web
application setup project, I think you can consider using the VS 2005 setup
project's "Prerequisites" feature which can help add some automatic detect
and install support of some certain components(such as .net framework,
MDAC, SQLEXPRESS.... ). Actually this is done by the built-in bootstrapper
component included in the VS 2005 setup project, you can have a look at the
msdn reference on this:
#How to: Install Prerequisites in Windows Installer Deployment
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7eh4aaa5.aspx
By default, the installation option for such prerequisites are download and
install from the vendor's site(recommend), however, you can also manually
specify a location(local or remote ) which will be displayed to user during
the setup step. For your scenario, if you choos the "Sql Express" as one
of the prerequisites, when the user launch your application's setup
package, it will first check the existence of those prerequisites
components on the user's machine and if not existed, it will launch that
component's installation package according to our configuration( from
vendor site or from the msi in within our application's setup pakage or
from a custom location...)
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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