bootstrapper

Gets or sets the name of the application to be installed after the bootstrapper installs all required components.

Specifies the name of the application that the bootstrapper will install.

Specifies the file the bootstrapper will use to begin the installation of the application after all prerequisites have been installed.

The Setup. Exe Bootstrapper sample demonstrates the code used to wrap a setup program to check if the. NET Framework is installed.

The Bootstrapper does not dictate which installer technology the application must use (Windows Installer or ClickOnce).

To access the Web Bootstrapper Settings dialog box, click the Settings button on the Build Property Page for a deployment project.

It is still a good idea to include the launch condition in case a user tries to launch the. Msi file directly, bypassing the bootstrapper.

Visit Troubleshoot_Guide. Htm on your CD or temp directory and rerun the bootstrapper from the website and try the download again.

Specifies a location for the bootstrapper to look for installation prerequisites to install.

Otherwise, if all the prerequisites are detected, the bootstrapper just starts the application installer.

IsWebBootstrapper determines whether the setup. Exe bootstrapper works over the Web or in disk-based mode.

Gets or sets the file to be installed after the bootstrapper installs the required components.

The bootstrapper created by the Prerequisites Dialog Box checks for and installs any missing prerequisites.

If your custom bootstrapper package does not appear, close and then reopen the Prerequisites Dialog Box.

This bootstrapper may unpack the binaries to a temp location and then start another process that initiates the installation (see Figure 9).

Gets or sets whether the bootstrapper will perform XML validation on the component manifests.

The bootstrapper is responsible for installing these prerequisites before your application runs.

To download the full redistributable package , rather than the bootstrapper , click the architecture you need below to start the download.

The following table shows the properties that are automatically populated by the bootstrapper.

Gets or sets whether the bootstrapper components will be copied to the build output directory.

Object representing the results of the bootstrapper generation.

The following table describes the common errors that are processed by the Setup. Exe Bootstrapper sample.

This will prevent bootstrapper components from being included in any application deployment projects.

However, we recommend that you distribute dependencies and prerequisites by using a chainer or bootstrapper.

The Setup. Exe Bootstrapper sample is responsible for automatically performing the following operations.

True, the bootstrapper performs XSD validation on the specified input bootstrapper items.

The operations performed by the Setup. Exe Bootstrapper sample are automatic.

This interface defines the settings for the bootstrapper build operation.

If prerequisites are not installed, first the bootstrapper shows the license agreements.

The recommended guidance for solving this problem is to create a bootstrapper EXE.

Specifies that products be located relative to the generated bootstrapper.

See the Using the Setup. Exe Bootstrapper Sample with an Application topic for instructions on specifying a culture name.

Gets or sets the expected source location when the bootstrapper is published to a Web site.

Retrieves all products available at the current bootstrapper path.

BootstrapperEnabled determines whether to generate the setup. Exe bootstrapper.

Specifies the location of the required bootstrapper files.

Gets or sets the URL for the Web site containing support information for the bootstrapper.

This class defines the settings for the bootstrapper build operation.

This class is the top-level object for the bootstrapper system.

Returns all products available at the current bootstrapper.

We recommend that the bootstrapper install a version of the .

Setup. Exe is the bootstrapper, which by default is configured to install the. NET Framework.

Use the bootstrapper to deploy your COM components; this works on all supported platforms.

Specifies the built location of bootstrapper package files.

Gets or sets the culture identifier specifying the culture for which the bootstrapper is built.

Returns the path for the required bootstrapper files.

Gets the product builders to use for generating the bootstrapper.

Gets the build messages generated from the bootstrapper build.

This name will appear in the UI the bootstrapper uses during installation.

Specifies the products to build into the bootstrapper .

This error occurs when the bootstrapper cannot find setup. Bin on the disk.

Generates a bootstrapper based on the specified settings.

Keeping Bootstrapper Package Redistributables Separate from Application Installations

Object representing all products available at the current bootstrapper

Using the Setup. Exe Bootstrapper Sample with an Application