August 2, 2005 at 9:17 am
August 2, 2005 at 9:58 am
Nevermind. Here is the response I got from a MS representative.
"There's still some licensing stuff to be worked out but you will be able to
put the self-extracting CAB file on your release and call the Express setup
from your setup. Once all the legal stuff has been worked out we will
release more instructions on how it works. Your other alternative is to put
a link to the download site in your setup. This is what the Visual Studio
Express editions do."
August 3, 2005 at 4:53 pm
IIRC when you build the 'deployment project' within VS2005 you get the option to include SSEx as part of it. Sorry I'm not being more specific - haven't got it in front of me right now.
August 12, 2005 at 10:52 am
Sorry it's taken me a while to update this, but I've found it now - it's not exactly easy to find . . .
In solution explorer, rt-click your setup project and select 'properties'
In the middle of the configuration dialog which appears, titled <your project> Property Pages, is a blank text box labelled 'Prerequisites URL:' and to the right of this, a button labelled 'Settings'. Click this button, and select whatever you want installed.
The SQL Server Express install is configured by the file at
'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper\Packages\SqlExpress\en\package.xml
so you can edit this to switch network access on, change sa password, use SQL authentication etc etc., before building your setup project.
Hope this helps!
August 12, 2005 at 10:58 am
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