Announcing VS 2003 Bootstrapper Plugin

[Sean Draine [MSFT]]

I'm happy to announce the release of the VS 2003 Bootstrapper Plugin
component. You can download the plug-in from GotDotNet at

http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/workspaces/workspace.aspx?ID=2F8F0A23-F52
9-4158-8E0A-D187D16F41F1

The plug-in extends VS Setup and Deployment projects to support automatic
configuration of a setup.exe that can bootstrap the .NET Framework 2003 and
MDAC 2.7 as part of your application installation. This makes it easy to
write a smart installer for your application that automatically
pre-installs these prerequisites as needed on the target PC.

Also available on the GotDotNet site are documentation for the plug-in, and
a message board where you can get answers to your questions. Please
download the plug-in and let us know what you think!

Sean Draine
Program Manager, Visual Basic