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How to create a small setup program with ODBC install

Hi,

I like to create a small Setup Program that also checks and if need install the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB driver.
Any other parts are simple, a .NET 3.5 Assembly and the ACCDB itself.
As I like to offer it for free I'm not willing to spend much money for a Install-Software.
And as I'm not familiar with e.g. INNO SETUP I don't like to spend to much time with creating setup scripts.

So any ideas how to create my setup?

Thanks

Andre

w00te

You can make a small C# application capable of setting up your real application. It can call any installers you want (via web links, or download the driver exe's yourself and put them in your project directory) via name. At the end just tell it to call your main applicaiton installer just like they did here.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/576457/visual-studio-setup-and-deployment-create-package-with-optional-components
(for all the EE people here, yes I hate referencing SO :P )
-w00te

andre72

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I think this is not really what I'm looking for.

I doesn't need the abilty to let the user choose anything and I don't like to include the 25MB Setup of the ODBC to just run the setup program while installing.
Yes I see you can also DL the 25MB and install it if need for but I think the driver itself if much smaller and there're only some registry keys needed to install, isn't it?

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andre72

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Still will have a look at Inno Setup as no other solution available :-)