Many of us would have been creating setups for applications<\/a> either using WinForms<\/a> or WPF<\/a> and other such, but we really ignore the fact that users might not have all the prerequisites that our application requires to work.<\/p>\n

Possibilities for that might be one or more as below:<\/p>\n

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1. User do have .NET framework even installed.<\/li>\n
2. Users .NET framework installation is older or newer but not the required one.<\/li>\n
3. For example, user have .NET framework version 3.5 but not 3.5 SP1<\/li>\n
4. You have disabled to check .NET framework exists before application installs so application will not start all after installation, so users frusts and uninstalls your application.<\/li>\n
5. You have enabled to check and install .NET framework along with your application online, but you have ignored the fact that user might have no internet access on their system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
   So what could we do for this ?<\/div>\n

   <\/div>\n

   <\/div>\n

   Solution is to include the .NET framework standalone setup installation in your application setup.<\/strong><\/div>\n

   <\/div>\n

   <\/div>\n

   And steps to install the .NET framework 3.5<\/a> with the application are as follows:<\/div>\n

   Step 1 – Download the combined installation package for the .NET Framework 3.5 from Microsoft download site dotnetfx35.exe<\/a>.
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   Step 2 – After downloading this package, you have to extract the contents by running dotnetfx35.exe \/x<\/code> and it will prompt you with a location to extract the contents to a path.<\/p>\n

   <\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

   Step 3 – Copy the contents of files and folder from {extracted path}\\WCU\\dotNetFramework to C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft<\/a> SDKs\\Windows\\v7.0A\\Bootstrapper<\/a>\\Packages\\DotNetFX35SP1<\/code>
\nplease note that to change ‘Program Files’ to ‘Program Files (x86)’ in above path if working on 64-bit system.<\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

   Step 4 – If you wish to get rid of the build warnings, you can update your PublicKey in the Product.XML with the following value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code>
\nUse this for both of the XPSEPSC* files.
\nProduct.xml is located in ‘DotNetFX35SP1’ directory itself<\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

   Step 5 – In Visual Studio 2010<\/a>, right-click on Setup project > Properties -> Prerequisites -> Select .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 > Below select the option “Download the prerequisites from the same location as my application” > Save changes<\/p>\n

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   Step 6 – And last step is to rebuild the setup project and Test.<\/p>\n

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   Reference links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

   \n
   • Installing .NET Framework 3.5 offline with standard application setup<\/a><\/li>\n
   • Know where .NET Framework 3.5 setup tries to connect to the Internet and avoid them”<\/a><\/li>\n
   • Creating an installable layout for the .NET Framework 3.5<\/a><\/li>\n
   • Visual studio 2010 setup project problems faced..<\/a><\/li>\n
   • VS2008 SP1 – Selecting .NET 3.5 SP1 prerequisite in setup project causes build error<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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