Re: Custom Actions during setup

Hi Matt,

As you said you're manually launch the SQLExpress package if
necessary,correct? However, based on your previous threads ,you are using
the VS 2005 setup project's bootstrapper/prerequisites feature to do the
SQL Express deployment and this should occur before your own application
start installation. Also, for those SQL Express instance detect, I've
posted information on the conditional install detection for bootstrapper
package in the previous thread, have you had a look at that or do you have
any other concerns that make you unable to use that approach?

Anyway, when using bootstrapper package to deploy prerequisites, after the
prerequisites be installed, the setup process of it should end and then
your main application's installation start. If you want to any further
configuration on the created SQL Express instance, you can use a custom
Action in your main application's setup program. This strength of this is
that those initalization code logic does not need to be added into your
main application's code logic.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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