Leather is the best material... Just kidding. :-)
I have added a project to one of my solutions that generates a bootstrap to
preinstall required pre-requisites. I thought I would share this with all
of you:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Deployment.ManifestUtilities;
using Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Deployment.Bootstrapper;
using Microsoft.Build.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Build.Framework;
using Microsoft.Build.Utilities;
namespace GenerateBootstrap
{
class GenerateBootstrap
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
GenerateBootstrapper gbs = new GenerateBootstrapper();
TaskItem SqlBcRuntime;
TaskItem WseRuntime;
string PFiles = Environment.GetFolderPath(
Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles).ToString();
try
{
gbs.ApplicationName = "My Product";
gbs.ApplicationFile = @"MyInstall.msi";
SqlBcRuntime = new TaskItem(@"
SQL.2005.Backwards.Compatibility");
WseRuntime = new TaskItem(@"
Web.Services.Enhancements.2.0.SP2");
gbs.BootstrapperItems = new ITaskItem[] { SqlBcRuntime,
WseRuntime };
gbs.Path = PFiles + @"\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper";
gbs.ComponentsLocation =
ComponentsLocation.Relative.ToString();
gbs.CopyComponents = true;
gbs.OutputPath = @".\output";
gbs.Execute();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
}
}
}
The above code will generate a bootstrap package with a reference to the
required dependencies and my product MSI. The two dependencies I am using
were packages I created using the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator available
here:
http://www.codeplex.com/bmg
I call this compiled executable as a post-build task to create the
bootstrap. If there are any questions, let me know. Hopefully, someone
else will find this useful
Regards,
//aj
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