Installation Program

[Pengyu]

How to build a installation program that
(a) First detects if .NET and Microsoft Data Access
Components (MDAC) have already been installed on your
computer. If not, install them.
(b) Then, installs my own program.

Thank you very much in advance!

Pengyu.

 

[Rob Windsor]

This MSDN article discusses the different options for deploying the
framework including using a bootstrapper to do what you described below.
Note that future versions of setup projects in VS will most likely do this
for us automatically and that retail products like Wise or InstallSheild
probably already have this feature (I haven't used them so I'm not certain).

Redistributing the .NET Framework 1.1
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/redistdeploy.asp