Deploying O2003pia.msi (2003 PIAs)

[Andy Stevens]

Hi all,

I've managed to produce an addin which works well.
I've created a version for Office XP (which deploys nicely) and a version
for Office 2003.

Does anyone have any suggestions for deploying the redistributable
O2003pia.msi in a setup project (VS 2003)?

The readme states the following as an option, but I don't know where to
start!

"Wrap the O2003pia.msi in another setup package through Visual Studio or
other Windows Installer aware setup editor."

Any help greatly appreciated,

Regards,

Andy

 

[abhijit_ghawate]

Hi Andy,
I dont know if this is what u r looking for but .....
If ur using setup project (VS 2003) u can add a launch condition to ur setup
project (right click on the setup project in the solution explorer
view>launch conditions to show the Launch Conditions page). The lauch
conditon can be dependant on a search made on the target machine for a
registry entry or a file(u could check if PIA already exist on the machine
here). U can sepcify all of this on the launch Conditions Page under search
Target machine section. If your search property (a variable u can set in the
properties of the search) returns false u can execute the PIA installer by
setting the "InstallURL" property of the launch condition to the location of
the PIA reditributable (O2003pia.msi) which would ideally be distributed with
ur addin installer (msi) in the same folder or a subfolder inside it (just
specify the path accordingly). Hope this helps.