Chris Smith - Generic Bootstrapper in Visual Studio 2005 | TheChannel9Team

littleguru
<3 Seattle

This bootstrapper is a nice feature. Is there also away to have the prerequisites build into the setup.exe? I saw that it was lying in subdir, but can I also bundle all together to have one file to ship?

leighsword
LeighSword

the world's greatest bootstrapper(or click once) is a simple application that's able to download their depends(a file list) at runtime.

"it's just going to... crashed.", funny, never mind.

Steve411

I love it when it crashes! Nice video!

Manip

So Microsoft has ripped off 'make' and are calling it a highly confusing (and conflicting) name just for kicks. I mean a bootstrapper is already a thing, you can't re-define it!

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

littleguru wrote:
This bootstrapper is a nice feature. Is there also away to have the prerequisites build into the setup.exe? I saw that it was lying in subdir, but can I also bundle all together to have one file to ship?

You can't build the redists into setup.exe but you can still just ship one file if you use the homesite feature (download the pre-reqs from the package author location) or a components URL (put all the packages in a seperate location from the bootstrapper). With these, all you have to do is ship the bootstrapper and it will dowload all the prerequisites it needs.

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

Manip wrote:
So Microsoft has ripped off 'make' and are calling it a highly confusing (and conflicting) name just for kicks. I mean a bootstrapper is already a thing, you can't re-define it!

How is this like make at all? Make is a build script tool. Sure people have overloaded it to install after building but it doesn't download and install prerquisite packages before installing.

Am I missing something?

dotnetjunkie

This is very nice!

Should have been available a few years ago already though... Man, sure would have made life much easier! Smiley

@Orbit86: stop bugging us with your Longhorn obsession please, there are far more important things with higher priority now.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Sampy wrote:

littleguru wrote: This bootstrapper is a nice feature. Is there also away to have the prerequisites build into the setup.exe? I saw that it was lying in subdir, but can I also bundle all together to have one file to ship?

You can't build the redists into setup.exe but you can still just ship one file if you use the homesite feature (download the pre-reqs from the package author location) or a components URL (put all the packages in a seperate location from the bootstrapper). With these, all you have to do is ship the bootstrapper and it will dowload all the prerequisites it needs.

You should include a feature where all the stuff can be bundled into one file. I mean all the prerequisits are bundled with the setup in one file.

That's required very often. There is people (and companies) out there not letting setup go to the internet and download some files from somewhere.

But the tool is quite cool. I like the possibility to create own setup bootstrapper.

Mr. Smith

Steve411 wrote:
I love it when it crashes! Nice video!

We thought about editing the video, but figured the more 'candid' demo would be best. Note however that that bug is already fixed in the latest CTP release.