How to include MSDE with Setup of custom applications

I am using VS .NET 2003 Bootstrapper Plug-In to create an
installer that redistribute the .NET Framework 1.1 and
MDAC 2.8 with my application.
How can I include MSDE and provide the switches in order
to install MSDE on clients machine as well?
Thanks
Hi,
Unfortunately, all the auto-install options currently have "issues". I'd
strongly suggest you:
1. Configure the setup.ini file to have your default settings.
2. Get the client to run the setup.exe program to install the MSDE.
HTH,
Greg Low [MVP]
MSDE Manager SQL Tools
www.whitebearconsulting.com
"pankaj banga" <pankaj@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:12f201c4a8db$5d598ab0$a501280a@.phx.gbl...
>I am using VS .NET 2003 Bootstrapper Plug-In to create an
> installer that redistribute the .NET Framework 1.1 and
> MDAC 2.8 with my application.
> How can I include MSDE and provide the switches in order
> to install MSDE on clients machine as well?
> Thanks
|||Thanks HTH,
Then how would I create my tables, stored procs and load
client specific data into tables. Actually I am new to
all this. I read about msde bootstrap installer, are
there issues with it as well?

>--Original Message--
>Hi,
>Unfortunately, all the auto-install options currently
have "issues". I'd
>strongly suggest you:
>1. Configure the setup.ini file to have your default
settings.
>2. Get the client to run the setup.exe program to
install the MSDE.
>HTH,
>--
>Greg Low [MVP]
>MSDE Manager SQL Tools
>www.whitebearconsulting.com
>"pankaj banga" <pankaj@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message[vbcol=seagreen]
>news:12f201c4a8db$5d598ab0$a501280a@.phx.gbl...
an[vbcol=seagreen]
order
>
>.
>
|||hi,
"pankaj banga" <pankaj@.discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel
messaggio news:230901c4a950$1bb0dcb0$a301280a@.phx.gbl
> Thanks HTH,
> Then how would I create my tables, stored procs and load
> client specific data into tables. Actually I am new to
> all this. I read about msde bootstrap installer, are
> there issues with it as well?
>
Microsoft provides a deployment toolkit, in release candidate at the current
time, you can dowload from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
I did not installed it, but I think some database deployment feature are
present... and some drawbacks of this toolkit have been posted here... don't
know the current state and/or the final release...
personally I do deploy apps with a companion tool which will read and
execute DDL scripts as long as INSERT INTO scipts, BCP and so on.. other
ways are backup/restore and sp_attach_db
I already discused these 3 methods of mine in http://tinyurl.com/6ux7p and
http://tinyurl.com/4x8pv ...
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.9.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.55.1
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply
sql