Suggestions for predefined prerequisites

[Cosmin]

Hello everybody,

We're trying to expand our predefined prerequisites list and who better to ask than our users. Let us know which preconfigured runtimes, frameworks or third-party applications you want to add with just a couple of clicks.

Thank you,
Cosmin

[jwest]

Office / Excel / Access 2010

Should be similar to 2007 except the registry keys have 14.0 in them.

Of course, Office 2010 can be installed as either a 32 or 64 bit version.

The 32 bit version of Excel 2010 running on a 32 bit version of Windows (XP) will have the following key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\InstallRoot

The 32 bit version of Excel 2010 running on a 64 bit version of Windows (XPx64,Vistax64,Win7x64) will have the following key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\InstallRoot

The 64 bit version of Excel 2010 running on a 64 bit version of Windows (XPx64,Vistax64,Win7x64) will have the following key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\InstallRoot

Sorry, but I am only familiar with Excel but I imagine it is similar for Access 2010. I should also add that I don't actually know if Office 2010 works on XP-64.

[Zardoz2293]

• SQL Server Express 2008 SP1

[Cosmin]

Hi,

Office / Excel / Access 2010

We will include support for them in Advanced Installer 7.8. Thank you for your suggestion.

SQL Server Express 2008 SP1

We already implemented this, along with SQL Server 2008 R2 and they should be available in the next version (7.7).

Regards,
Cosmin

[stevehiner]

.Net Framework 4.0

I know it's really, really new but we're thinking of updating our app for it and we'd like to start using Advanced Installer to package the app.

Note: my copy is a little old 7.5.2 because our support lapsed. I don't know if the two newer versions support .Net 4.0 but I didn't notice it in the feature list. Official support for 4.0 would likely be all the reason I need to have my boss extend our support.

[Bogdan]

Hi,

Support for .NET 4.0 prerequisites has already been implemented in Advanced Installer 7.7, this version is scheduled for release very soon.

Please let us know if you have other suggestions.

Regards,
Bogdan

[suki]

I see there are no reporting tools available in the pre-requisites section in advanced installer. So, You can add any of the most used reporting tool for windows based applications and web applications as well..

Crystal Reports for visual studio 2005 and visual studio 2008 is my option.

- Suki

[gregmac]

• ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
• ASP.NET MVC Framework

[moniuch]

This is a great notion, Cosmin!
After a while without development at all, I am coming back to life. I would love to see the Adobe applications as well as more browser-related prerequisite tests.

As per Adobe: I would be interested in not only in querying for a particular app, but also its version and locale (locale was used to determine the preset folder paths around CS2 and CS3, so it is quite important)
As per browsers: I would not only like to query for a specific browser installed but also to know which has been assigned as system default.

And I hope to get them in the free version - $500 is still too much for a scripter
Happy coding, everyone.

[Cosmin]

Hi,

As per Adobe: I would be interested in not only in querying for a particular app, but also its version and locale

Our next release will include predefined searches for Adobe products.

As per browsers: I would not only like to query for a specific browser installed but also to know which has been assigned as system default.

I added this improvement on our TODO list and it will be available in a future version. Thank you for your suggestion.

Regards,
Cosmin

[phlow666]

What about oracle client?

[Cosmin]

What about oracle client?

Oracle Database releases have multiple files and folders, so a predefined prerequisite would have to include the actual release files. For now we cannot do this because the OTN License Agreement doesn't allow it. We can create predefined prerequisites only for single file installers or installers we can redistribute.

Regards,
Cosmin

[timryder]

Visual C++

[kellymac]

I very much need to have Windows 7 Service Pack 1 as a prerequisite for or installed application. Is there a way I can add this now?

Thanks so much!

Kelly

[Cosmin]

Hi,

Visual C++

Advanced Installer already has predefined prerequisites for Visual C++ redistributables.

I very much need to have Windows 7 Service Pack 1 as a prerequisite for or installed application. Is there a way I can add this now?

You can create a custom prerequisite which checks this registry entry:

Code: Select all

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CurrentBuildNumber

It should be 7601 for Windows 7 SP 1.