Setup.exe installing prerequisites even if they are preinstalled

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I am deploying a .NET application with .NET Framework 4.0 and VS 2010 C++ redistributable as prerequisites.

When the setup.exe runs in a machine with the prerequisites satisfied the bootstrapper install them again.

Is this a known issue? and what's the correct way to solve it?

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Does it actually reinstall them? In the runtime case at least it needs to updating an install reference count so that the runtime doesn't get uninstalled with someone else's application - I'm not sure how .NET handles this as I expect it'd survive the uninstall. – Rup
I've had issues where it wants to install the .NET 4 CL when i need the .NET 4 and it keeps installing the Cl over and over (until i visit microsoft.com/net/ and get the full package). But that's the extent of my issues. – Brad Christie
What conditions are being used for the redistributables? – user624746
possible duplicate of Visual C++ 2010 Runtime Libraries prerequisite keeps popping up on a VS 2010 created installer – wimh

1 Answers

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The solution is to edit the bootstrapper product.xml file to contain the correct product code for the Visual Studio C++ Redistributable.

See the post below which contains the steps to fix this:

Visual C++ 2010 Runtime Libraries prerequisite keeps popping up on a VS 2010 created installer