Packaging prerequisites with Setup.exe does not work in MSI
Hi Folks. We have a requirement that we need to package Microsoft .Net 2.0 SP2, Microsoft SQL Express 2008 SP1 and Windows Installer 4.5 for Vista into an MSI based single Setup.exe. These prerequisistes are all installed locally and enabled. Then I go to Release Wizard and choose Web-> One Executable-> Extract Prerequisites From Setup.exe -> Cache Installation On Local Machine-> Defaults -> Finish
After the build process is over, these prerequisites are not contained within the Setup.exe. What am I doing wrong?
Ya, I've discovered the a similar issue, but with a InstallScript MSI project. So far I haven't found a solution. If you or anyone else finds one please post.
How do you know they aren't in setup.exe? I tried using a sample notepad prerequisite with the settings as described, and the prerequisite is definitely included on my current development build. Furthermore, if I select the SQL Express or .NET 2.0 prerequisites, which are currently not downloaded to my machine, building results in a -6003 error when it cannot copy their files.
Is this problem specific to the prerequisites you mention? Note that some prerequisites, such as the "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (Web Download)" only contain and run a web-downloading bootstrap, even when the contents of the prerequisite are included in setup.exe.
