Installation process

[SarahNcl]

Hi

Has anyone found a way around this scenario?

I have a program that is written in Visual Studio.Net that i want to deploy to a customer. The customer has Windows 98 with Internet Explorer 4.

I understand that the current process for installation would be:

Install IE5 or greater THEN
Install the .net framework, using the setup bootstrapper THEN
Install the product

What i dont want to do is have message boxes informing the user that they do not have the correct version of internet explorer on their machine.

What i would like is some sort of automated process that will look for the version of IE, if it is not there, install the new version from the version i created using IEAK which will be on the CD. And not have the user looking through folders for the setup.exe for example.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can go about this? And if i cannot do the installation using the proposed method above, is there anyway around this?

Thanks in advance

Sarah

[SarahNcl]

please does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks

sarah

[xjavaman]

Bump. I have the same questions. Anyone have answers?

Joe

[Cander]

write your own setup application in C++.

[Penavin]

Hi!
Did you try with Package and Deployment Wizard in Visual Studio 6 Tools?

[xjavaman]

Originally posted by Cander
write your own setup application in C++.

I don't know C++

I barely know VB.NET as I am just learning it.