Setup looping problem seems to occur at ISInstallPrerequisites
This seems to be the same behavior reported earlier this week by Stinger for a looping problem with a patch install.
In my case though, it's during the initial installation. I've got a Basic MSI project.
I added a Prerequisite for the 64-bit .net framework. If I "Install before feature selection" - it seems to work.
I prefer to have it tied to a feature though, so that i can include it in one release but exclude it from another.
When I create a feature and conditionally link the prerequisite to that feature, then when it gets to the ISInstallPrerequisites portion in the Installation sequence, the setup is restarted, getting me to the welcome dialog again. If I continue, it will repeat the behavior (and so on, and so on).
Any help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
If you want to include/exclude it by release, you can do that for either kind of prerequisite. Right click the prerequisite in the Redistributables view, select Properties, and enter release flags there. In general we recommend .NET frameworks to be installed only as setup prerequisites (before feature selection).
Using the release flag for a setup prerequisite should work great. I haven't tried it with the project that got into the looping problem yesterday, but I tried that approach with a different project today and it seemed to work. Monday I'll be back on the original project and will implement that approach.
