Including the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft .NET Framework Language Pack Prerequisites
InstallShield 2016 Express Edition
InstallShield includes InstallShield prerequisites for some versions of the .NET Framework and the .NET Framework language packs. You can include these InstallShield prerequisites in your projects if you want to redistribute these versions of the .NET Framework and the language packs.
Following is a list of the .NET Framework redistributables that are available as InstallShield prerequisites. The associated language pack prerequisites are included if available.
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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5. (One InstallShield prerequisite is for the full package, and one is for the Web package. The Web package is smaller in size, but it requires an Internet connection on the target system at run time.) |
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Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Full, which installs the .NET Framework runtime and associated files that are required to run and develop applications that target the .NET Framework 4. (One InstallShield prerequisite is for the full package, and one is for the Web Download package. The Web Download package is smaller in size, but it requires an Internet connection on the target system at run time.) |
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Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client, which installs the .NET Framework runtime and associated files that are required to run most client applications. (One InstallShield prerequisite is for the full package, and one is for the Web Download package. The Web Download package is smaller in size, but it requires an Internet connection on the target system at run time.) |
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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (One InstallShield prerequisite is for the full package, and one is for the Web Download package. The Web Download package is smaller in size, but it requires an Internet connection on the target system at run time.) |
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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 (This is a Web Download package, which requires an Internet connection on the target system at run time.) |
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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 |
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Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 |
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Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 |
Tip • For information on other versions of the .NET Framework redistributables, see Adding .NET Framework Redistributables to Projects.
These InstallShield prerequisite installations are run in silent mode. Therefore, the language in which the .NET Framework installations are run is not an issue.
The InstallShield prerequisite installations determine if the corresponding version of the .NET Framework is already installed on the target machine by checking the Install or InstallSuccess value data for a particular HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key. For more details, you can click the InstallShield prerequisite in the Redistributables view and note the conditions that are defined in the details pane.
See Also
Adding .NET Framework Redistributables to Projects
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