Essential Pre-Requirements: Understanding the Basics

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• Introduction
• Registration
• Using Advanced Installer
  • GUI
  • Working with Projects
  • Installer Project
    * Product Information
    * Resources
    * Package Definition
    * Requirements
    * Prerequisites
    * Predefined Prerequisites
    * Prerequisite Installation Tab
    * Prerequisite Files Tab
    * Prerequisite Conditions Tab
    * Chained Package Behavior
    * Edit PseudoFormatted Type Dialog
    * Windows Features
    * Windows Server Roles
    * Specify Builds Tab
    * Launch Conditions
    * Merge Modules
    * User Interface
    * System Changes
    * Server
    * Custom Behavior
  • Patch Project
  • Merge Module Project
  • Updates Configuration Project
  • Windows Store App Project
  • Modification Package Project
  • Optional Package Project
  • Windows Mobile CAB Projects
  • Visual Studio Extension Project
  • Software Installer Wizards - Advanced Installer
  • Visual Studio integration
  • Alternative to AdminStudio/Wise
  • Replace Wise
  • Migrating from Visual Studio Installer
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Shell Integration
  • Command Line
  • Advanced Installer PowerShell Automation Interfaces
• Features and Functionality
• Tutorials
• Samples
• How-tos
• FAQs
• Windows Installer
• Deployment Technologies
• IT Pro
• MSIX
• Video Tutorials
• Advanced Installer Blog
• Table of Contents

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Predefined Prerequisites

In this page you can select predefined prerequisites to be included in your package. You can also set global prerequisite options for the EXE bootstrapper .

Predefined Prerequisites

In the predefined prerequisites list you can simply check the prerequisites you want to include in your package. After they are added in the prerequisites tree control, you can select each prerequisite to modify its settings.

Global Prerequisite Options

These options affect only the EXE setup file and prerequisites included in your package.

Download/extraction folder

Specify the default download or extract folder for prerequisite files. Right-click into this field to insert a reference to a default Windows folder or to Windows Installer properties. This field can also contain environment variables.

Always store prerequisites in MSI database (if applicable)

This option only refers to prerequisites that are scheduled during or after main package (are linked to a feature).

By default, if the package type is EXE, the prerequisites files will be stored in the EXE package. If this option is used, the prerequisites will be stored in MSI database.

Prerequisites that are scheduled before main package are always stored in the EXE package.
Chained prerequisites are always stored to MSI database.
Prerequisites that have LZMA compression option enabled are always stored in the EXE package.

Do not remove prerequisite files

This option prevents the removal of extracted and downloaded prerequisites. It’s useful if you want to allow the end-user to repair or modify the prerequisites software installed by your package.

Check launch conditions before searching for prerequisites

If this option is enabled, the launch conditions that are specified in Launch Conditions page will be checked by the EXE setup before the prerequisites are launched. If at least one launch condition is not met, the installation is stopped.

Hide already installed prerequisites

If this option is checked, already installed prerequisites will not be displayed in the list. Instead, only the missing prerequisites will be shown and selected for install.

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