This is a tool that I think it's fundamental and really useful when you've to
deploy your applications:
Microsoft
Component Installer Software Development Kit (Spring 2005) helps
you deliver the needed Windows component to your customer in order to run your
application. The SDK provides support for installing any or all of the following
components (in the following order):
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
Microsoft DirectX 9.0c for Managed Code
Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 Language Pack
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1
Microsoft ASP.NET Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service
Pack 1
Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0
Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1
The resulting user experience is a
small application they can download and run (or run from a CD). It provides the
user with a simple wizard user interface that has details on the components that
are needed and on the progress of the installation. The customer experience is
already localized for over 20 Windows languages and will auto-detect the system
locale at launch and will adjust its language as appropriate.
The components are easy selectable and on a little package of less than 2MB
you've with you all that you need for a good deploy. Great tool!
