It seems to me that the answer, and path you take lies in your audience. If you have control of your systems I expect the XP machines already have .Net 2 because so many applications require it. This gives you the chance to poll the path/configuration managers and learn what they have put in place. If .Net 2.0 isn't already installed you may be able to enlist them to load it ahead of your application. This would let you out of building a bootstrapper and simplify your work.
If you are building for general public dissemination; I would be safe and go with a bootstrapper that tests for and loads the .Net you require. Good Lucl -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 1:47 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: t-gr...@microsoft.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Newbie to Wix for MSI installer. On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:10:33 +0000 Grzegorz Borczuch <t-gr...@microsoft.com> wrote: > The new visual editor for WiX was released lately and was announced > here on this mailing-list: http://sharpsetup.eu/ I'd be interested to know how many computers running XP will have .NET 2.0 installed already - unfortunately I get the impression lots of people are hanging onto XP and not upgrading. Personally I'd be wary of using an installer that depends on it since I have no idea if the majority of people will have it installed. I know Vista and Windows 7 come with it already installed, but do applications like Office 2007 install it too? At least back in the .NET 1.1 and early 2.0 days there were fairly few .NET applications and I saw complaints from people who needed to install a large framework in order to use a small application. -- Bruce Cran ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
