Installing merge modules before feature selection?
I have a Basic MSI project and want to install MSXML 4.0 for Windows XP and higher as a setup prerequisite (I have other prerequisites that depend on it). There is Merge Module that will do this, but no InstallShield prerequisite. I tried setting a custom prereq that would download msxml 4 and install it from our server, but the prereq installation fails on Vista machines. So now I'm thinking I'll try using the Merge Module, but from what I can tell, merge modules can only be associated with Features. Is there a way to run a merge module before feature selections like you can with installshield prereqs?
You could use that prerequisite as a model for creating your own prerequisite for v4. Googling "MSXML MSI" (without the quotes) resulted in this location to download "MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2".
That's what I was trying to do in the first place. I was having problems getting the prereq to run on Vista machine and finally realized that earlier versions of MSXML 4 were only compatible with XP. I found a more recent service update that had Vista compatibility and it solved the problem.
