Re: [WiX-users] Detecting Which version of SQL is installed

e? lower performance...but this is a demo version right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Eden Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 10:05 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Detecting Which version of SQL is

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting Which version of SQL is installed

Thanks for the prompt replies, much appreciated. I guess I should have mentioned why I wanted to install a database and why I wanted to avoid user interaction if possible, and that is because i want to install a 'demo' which just works out of the box. The more questions I ask, the more intimidatin

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting Which version of SQL is installed

has to do a bit more work in exchange for this flexibility. Kelly "Ben Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/24/2007 02:42 PM To "Frank Eden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject Re: [WiX-users] Detecting Which versio

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting Which version of SQL is installed

I would guess you'd have to write a custom action to investigate what they had installed and set it to a variable (like you suggested). However, just because someone has Sql Server or Sql Express doesn't guarantee that it will just be [COMPUTERNAME] or [COMPUTERNAME]\SQLEXPRESS. You can install ei

[WiX-users] Detecting Which version of SQL is installed

I am installing a database on the target machine using SqlDatabase My difficulty is that I do not know whether the end-user has SQLExpress or SQL installed, so I dont know whether to use Server='[%COMPUTERNAME]\SQLEXPRESS' or Server='[%COMPUTERNAME]' Im thinking I should be able to detect whic