Hi,

I would like to ask a question if it is possible to create a System Check or a Relationship with BootStraper Manifest Generator, that would check if an application ( exe file ) of a specific version e.g. 1.0.1.0 or higher is installed on PC? The installer we have been working on is supposed to check for the application existence. Unfortunatelly I have no idea how to check if a specific version of an application is installed. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

Hi t_barto,

From my experience, we often use BootStraper Mainfest Generator to add custom prerequisites.
We can check some registries to check if an application is already installed. Please follow this thread:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bmg/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=930

The blog below also provides some ideas, you can search System Checks in it.
http://jcrawfor74.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bootstrap-manifest-generator-how-to-custom-pre-requisites/

Regards,
Aland Li

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Hi t_barto,

From my experience, we often use BootStraper Mainfest Generator to add custom prerequisites.
We can check some registries to check if an application is already installed. Please follow this thread:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bmg/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=930

The blog below also provides some ideas, you can search System Checks in it.
http://jcrawfor74.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bootstrap-manifest-generator-how-to-custom-pre-requisites/

Regards,
Aland Li

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Hi Aland Li,

The information You provided was helpful. We created an External System Check in BootStraper Manifest Generator. The idea of the Check was to run a custom process, that would detect what version of the application is installed and would return specific codes ( 1 - Yes, 0 - No ).

Thanks