Specifying the Location for Setup Prerequisites at the Release Level

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A setup prerequisite is a base application or component that must be installed on the target machine before your application can be installed. The Redistributables view is where you add setup prerequisites to your project.

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To specify where all of the setup prerequisites should be located for a release, do one of the following:

Use the Setup Prerequisite panel of the Release Wizard.

In the Releases view, select the release. Then set the Setup Prerequisites Location property to the appropriate option.

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To specify different locations for each setup prerequisite:

In the Redistributables view, specify the appropriate location for each setup prerequisite. For more information, see Specifying a Location for a Specific Setup Prerequisite.

Open the Releases view.

Select the release that you want to build.

Set the Setup Prerequisites Location property to Follow Individual Selections.

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As an alternative, you can select the Follow Individual Selections option in the Setup Prerequisite panel of the Release Wizard.

Note that if a setup prerequisite is added to a project as a dependency of another prerequisite, the location for the prerequisite dependency follows the location setting of the prerequisite that requires it.

If you build a release that includes setup prerequisites and both of the following are true, one or more build errors may be generated:

You specify for the setup prerequisites location 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).

The prerequisite files are not on your computer.

To eliminate the build errors, remove the prerequisite from your project, download the prerequisite from the Internet to your computer, or change the setup prerequisites location for the release to the download option; then rebuild the release.