MSBuild GenerateBootstrapper for Office Compatibility Pack?

[David Thielen]

Hi;



Is there a bootstrapper task for the Office Compatibility Pack
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en)
where it will download and install it if the user has Office 2000/2002/2003
installed? Like it does for the J# redist?


thanks - dave


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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

Microsoft hasn't released the bootstrapper for Microsoft Office
Compatibility Pack. I will send an email to the Office team, to see if they
have such a plan.

The following is some information about how to make a bootstrapper by
ourselves in case that Office team says 'no':

MSDN article Authoring a Custom Bootstrapper Package for Visual Studio 2005
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730839(VS.80).aspx
This article discusses how to integrate a custom application prerequisite
into the Visual Studio 2005 Bootstrapper, allowing developers to deploy the
prerequisite with their applications.

Bootstrapper Manifest Generator
http://www.codeplex.com/bmg
This is a tool for creating bootstrapper packages and for building
bootstrappers using Visual Studio or the .NET Framework
Here is a guide for the tool:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/Add_Custom_Prerequisite.aspx

If you have any other concerns or questions, please feel free to let me
know.

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[David Thielen]

Thank you for passing on the question. We tried to make a bootstrapper that
would download only if needed but gave up after several weeks of one person
working on it fulltime. There's just too much that is not clearly documented.

In the case of the office hotfixes, they weren't working and we opened an
incident report and it took Microsoft support 3 months and 4 teams to get it
working. And that was on one they had already created.

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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

According to Office team's feedback, they do not have a plan for the Office
Compatibility Pack bootstrapper.

I understand that you are frustrated by the complexity of making a
bootstrapper for Office Compatibility Pack. I will try my best to help you
out.

Would you let me know the type of your setup project? Is it a Visual Studio
Setup Project or a setup project builtup via Windows SDK tools?

If it is a VS Setup Project, please refer to the MSDN article
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730839.aspx
Some sample Bootstrapper Packages for .NET Framework, SQL Express, etc can
be found in the following directory if Windows SDK is installed
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages

If it is developed by hardcoding, I think the sample from the below link
may help:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BF253CFD-1EFC-4FC5-
BA7E-6A6F21403495&displaylang=en
Download Setup.exe Boostrapper Sample Source Code
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=40&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&Src
CategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=bf253cfd-1efc-4fc5-ba7e-6a6f21403495&u=http%3a%2f%2f
go.microsoft.com%2ffwlink%2f%3flinkid%3d6302

Would you let me know the concrete problem that you encountered when
developing the bootstrapper?

By the way, we can extract the files contained in the EXE from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-
8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en using the /extract switch. The available
switches are documented in the KB article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912203/en-us.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

I am writing to check the status of the issue. The Office team confirmed
that Microsoft has no plan to release a bootstrapper for the compatibility
pack. Would you let me know the concrete problem that you encountered when
developing the bootstrapper?

Have a great day!

Regards,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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