Visual Studio Prerequisite

[endpointsys]

Hello,

I want to create an installer package that ensures a version of Visual Studio is installed as a prerequisite before the installer will run successfully. From what I can ascertain from the documentation, the way to do this is via a custom bootstrapper that looks for the particular Component IDs that comprise of any kind of visual studio installation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb164659.aspx for more information regarding the component IDs in question). I just want to make sure that I'm correct, and see if I can get any code snippets supporting this theory, before moving on with an actual effort to create this particular kind of install package.

Regards!

[jassing]

If you don't need "pure msi" (ie: you can use a bootstrapper) then you can definately restrict the install based on whatever criteria you want!

Of course, you can probably get creative and do it in MSI -- but a boot strapper is much simplier.