Installing Guidance package for both VS2005 and VS2008

Question

Hi

I have developed a Guidance Package for use with VS2005 and it works and installs fine. There is now a requirement to use the Guidance Package on VS2008. Some users in our company will be running either VS2005 or VS2008 and some users will be running both VS2005 and VS2008.

My question is can I use a single MSI to register my Guidance Package with both VS2005 and VS2008 e.g. add 2 custom actions for Install,
1) The first action to register with 8.0 Hive i.e. /Hive=8.0 /Configuration="[TARGETDIR]MyGuidancePackage.xml"
2) The second action to register with 9.0 Hive i.e. /Hive=9.0 /Configuration="[TARGETDIR]MyGuidancePackage.xml"

Would this work or will I need one MSI for VS2005 and a seperate MSI for VS2008

Thanks

 

 

Answer 1

Hi Kevin,

It should works, the only thing that you have to do is just change the /Hive parameter.

-jose.

---

Jose Escrich - weblogs.asp.net/jescrich