Adding Setup Prerequisites to Your Project

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PROJECT

This information applies to Windows Installer projects.

When you add a merge module or object redistributable to your project, you must associate it with one or more features. However, when you add a setup prerequisite to your project, you do not associate it with features.

TASK

To add a setup prerequisite to your project:

Open the Redistributables view.

In the Object types to display list, select All types or Setup Prerequisite.

Select the check box in front of the setup prerequisite that you want to add.

To see information about a setup prerequisite, such as the files it installs, select the prerequisite name. The information is displayed in the pane on the right.

NOTE

If Needs to be downloaded is specified in the Location column for the setup prerequisite that you added to your project, that prerequisite is not installed on your computer. You can download the prerequisite from the Internet to your computer if you would like to include it in your project. If you build a release without first downloading one or more required prerequisites, and if you specify that the prerequisites should be extracted from Setup.exe or copied from the source media (instead of being downloaded from the Web to the end user's computer), one or more build errors may be generated. To eliminate the build errors, remove the prerequisite from your project, download it to your computer, or change the setup prerequisites location for the release to the download option; then rebuild the release.