Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

The Launch Conditions Editor

The last editor to cover is the Launch Conditions Editor. Most application installers need to check for a set of pre-existing conditions for beginning the setup process. You might only support certain operating systems, or you might require certain other components to be already installed on the target machine. Figure 12.13 shows the Launch Conditions Editor open in the IDE.

Figure 12.13 The Launch Conditions Editor.

If our ContosoCSR application required SQL Server to be pre-installed, we would check for that condition using the Launch Conditions Editor. First, we have to decide what we look for to determine the launch ...