VS2005 & MSDE compatability

[John Keers]

Can anyone tell me if there is a solution to the following problem.

I have an application that uses MSDE, I cant use SQL Express because we
still need to support Windows 98. In VS2003 the bootstrapper plugin allowed
us to install MSDE but now we have changed over to VS2005 there doesnt seem
to be an option to do this. I could probably create an MSI for MSDE but you
can only have one MSI running at any given time and since our setup program
for our application will be running (an MSI) then a conflict would occur
with our setup app.
Any suggestions would be welcome.

[Gary Chang[MSFT]]

Hi John,

I could probably create an MSI for MSDE but you can only
have one MSI running at any given time and since our setup
program for our application will be running (an MSI) then
a conflict would occur with our setup app.

yes, you are right. I suggest you can made that MSDE package as a
prerequisite to youe installation package.
To achieve this in VS2005, you can open your setup project's Property Pages
dialog(right click the setup project node in Solution Explorer, then select
Properties...), click the Prerequisites to invoke the Prerequisites dialog
window, please refer to the following MSDN doc for the details:

Prerequisites Dialog Box
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7tx0bw8y.aspx

Since the MSDE package hasn't been included in the VS2005's Prerequisites
list, you may need to use a third-party utility Bootstrapper Manifest
Generator to generate its package manifest, you can download that utility
in the following link:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/...-7d7c-4f44-a00
9-ea19fc812545
Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
Microsoft Community Support
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