Entirely too complicated! In one blog article they say windows isn't a ship vehicle for .NET and in another blog article they say that they took it out to keep the size of the foot print to a minimum. Which is it?
Fortunately I don't have to worry about this right now. I can just author a LaunchCondition as all of my deliverables to the SCCM team are single MSI's with no prereq handling. That's someone else's nightmare to deal with. I just do Launch Condition checks. ---------------------------------------- From: "Martin Hueser" <hue...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:49 AM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Windows 8 NetFX3.5 Hi, this might be of some help: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/05/14/windows-8-and-net-fram ework-3-5.aspx Martin On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Neil Hayes <neil.ha...@syspro.com> wrote: > I have an installation which has the .NET Framework 3.5 etc. as > prerequisites. > > In the past I've been able to install the .NET Framework by calling the > redistributable package. > > What is the correct approach for Windows 8? > > Most of my target market does not have internet connectivity. IT > departments install machines then pass them out to the users. There are no > ISO images of the Windows 8 install or folders that I'm aware of on users > machines that enable me to call "dism /online /enable-feature > /featurename:NetFx3 /all /source:<Win8Source>\sources\sxs" as the source is > held with the IT departments. > > Should I just fail the install as I can't install the prerequisite? > Or have I got the wrong approach. > > Neil > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
