Can anyone advise a way to distrbute .NET with a Delphi app ?

[Andy Teal]

I would appreciate any advice before I go and spend (a lot of) money on
Installshield Express 2008 - just so that it will check and install .NET
2.0.
I tried to do it with IS Express 5, but it will only pack .NET 1.1 into the
setup.exe file and fails to register the assembly (wrong regex I presume?)
on a clean install of XP.

Any advice much appreciated :)
Thanks

[MikeR]

Check out InnoSetup at http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php It uses Pascal script.
Download the QuickStart Pack.
Mike

[Andy Teal]

"MikeR" <nf4lN...@pobox.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
Thanks Mike - I forgot to mention that we must have MSI - at first glance it
seems Inno doesn't work that way - is that the case ?

[Andy Teal]

"David Cornelius" <no...@notgiven.nil> wrote in message
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>I think you can download a redistributable .EXE or .MSI from Microsoft.
> It may not be completely integrated, but sure costs a lot less!
>
> --
> David Cornelius
> CorneliusConcepts.com
> custom designed software
Hi David,

I have had a quick go with dotnetfx.exe (v2) and getting it to work with
Installshield Express, however, I don't know how to tell whether .NET is
already installed (from within the installation script).
I would have to run this setup first within the install (which maybe not
possible with Express), so that .NET is installed, then somehow get it to
register the assembly .dll with regex.exe (which has hopefully just been
installed)

Think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and fork out for Installshield
Express :(

Thanks,
Andy

[Andy Teal]

"Andy Teal" <at...@denford.co.uk> wrote in message
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Oops - what the hell is regex ? Of course I mean RegASM.exe.

[David Cornelius]

Correct, InnoSetup does not support MSI.

You might consider Installaware (http://installaware.com/), the new
install builder being shipped with the studio versions of Delphi (in
place of InstallSheild, I think). I believe it's written in Delphi.

If you want to look at building your MSI files from the command line or
some free tools check these references:

http://www.installsite.org/
http://wix.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mcsemag.info/solution/w2k04.htm

--
David Cornelius
corneliusconcepts.com
custom designed software

[Andy Teal]

"David Cornelius" <no...@nil.not> wrote in message
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Thanks David,

I've downloaded the 30 day demo of installaware express, and I'm very
impressed so far !
I've already created a very nice looking install which distributes .NET 2.0
along with the appropriate windows installer as well.
Its very easy to use and a lot cheaper than the other solution ;)

Andy

[MikeR]

Andy Teal wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks Mike - I forgot to mention that we must have MSI - at first glance it
> seems Inno doesn't work that way - is that the case ?

You can wrap an MSI in Inno, but it doesn't produce one.