A contractor on my project today needed help installing ACA.NET 4.0. Apparently, the Developer edition does not install without Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed.
This contractor did not have 2003, nor does he need it at this point in time. I was able to guide him through installing it successfully. Here's how:
Requirements:
- ACA.NET 4.0
- Orca MSI Editor (available in the Windows SDK installation)
- A computer :)
Once you've downloaded and installed the Orca MSI editor, find the MSI package for ACA.NET 4.0 Developer Edition. Right click the install package and click "Edit with Orca". You should see the following window:
Now find and click on the table called LaunchCondition. Locate the Condition called "Installed OR VSNET_INSTALLED". You may delete this record (click on it and press Delete or right click and click "Drop Row").
Save*, Close Orca, and run your MSI. You should be good to go! Any questions, feel free to leave a comment.
-Joe
P.S. Does anyone know if ACA.NET 4.1 has the same dependency on VS.NET 2003? If so, could you let me know (post a comment)? Thanks!
*If using Orca on downloaded packages you may want to use Save As... and save with a different name, thus avoiding the need to redownload in the event you have to start over.