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    copied!<p>I would like to create an installer for a Java application using Visual Studio 2008 Installer</p> <p>I have followed the instructions for creating a prerequisite using the tool Bootstrapper Manifest Generator.<br> <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee335701.aspx" rel="nofollow">How to: Create a Product Manifest</a></p> <p>I want to create a prerequisite that will install Java if not present on the machine.</p> <p>To do so, I check the registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\CurrentVersion</p> <p>And I test if the CurrentVersion is >= 1.7.</p> <p>The product.xml generated is the following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;Product ProductCode="Java1.7" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/2004/01/bootstrapper"&gt; &lt;PackageFiles CopyAllPackageFiles="false"&gt; &lt;PackageFile Name="jre-7u45-windows-x64.exe" /&gt; &lt;/PackageFiles&gt; &lt;InstallChecks&gt; &lt;RegistryCheck Property="Java_Version" Key="HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment" Value="CurrentVersion" /&gt; &lt;/InstallChecks&gt; &lt;Commands Reboot="Defer"&gt; &lt;Command PackageFile="jre-7u45-windows-x64.exe"&gt; &lt;InstallConditions&gt; &lt;BypassIf Property="Java_Version" Compare="VersionGreaterThanOrEqualTo" Value="1.7" /&gt; &lt;/InstallConditions&gt; &lt;ExitCodes&gt; &lt;ExitCode Value="0" Result="Success" /&gt; &lt;ExitCode Value="3010" Result="Success" /&gt; &lt;DefaultExitCode Result="Fail" String="Anunexpectedexitcodewasr" FormatMessageFromSystem="true" /&gt; &lt;/ExitCodes&gt; &lt;/Command&gt; &lt;/Commands&gt; &lt;/Product&gt; </code></pre> <p>I generate the installer using this prerequisite (VS 2008), but if I run the installer on a Machine with the Java already installed, the installer asks me to install Java!</p> <p>The ByPassIf instructions is ignored for some reasons. I have checked whether the registry key does exist obviously ...</p> <p>Any Idea?</p>
 

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