Deploy .Net with InstallShield (older versions)

Jan Montano

19y9.8k

Hi,

Has anyone tried deploying .Net 3/2/1.1 applications with older versions of InstallShield? Specifically installshield versions with no built-in .Net support yet.

I'll be using InstallShield version 2.03. What's the best way to do this? Is there a merge module for .net?

Any advice, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm having a hard time converting our existing InstallShield project from version 2.03 to version 2008. That's why I opt to deploy it using version 2.03 instead.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Jan

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Jan Montano19y ago
Thanks Mike! By the way, I've read that there's no merge module for .net framework which could be used by instlallshield. There's a merge module alright, but it's only for internal use by .net. I forgot the url of the site, can't explain clearly. hehehe. Again, thanks.

Jan
Mike Gold19y ago
Hi Jan,

I think you can somehow put up a custom yes/ no dialog in InstallShield to ask if they want to install .NET. Then if they click yes, have it launch dotnetfx.exe (If your app is .NET version specific e.g. 2.0, then you can just run the dotnetfx.exe redistributable). I would also put this at the end of the InstallShield script.

Best,