InstallShield 11.5: Need to Disable .NET 1.1 Setup

[Computer Guru]

Hi!
I am a software devoloper, and I am trying to setup InstallShield 11.5 on Windows Vista, which is unfortunately my only OS at the moment.
I am not asking for you to rewrite/make compatible anything, I just have a simple question:

Upon launching setup.exe, it goes through the motions, and then it tries to install that .NET 1.1 framework. The only problem is, in Vista (build 5270), .NET 1.1 has been completely replaced by .NET 2.0. .NET 1.1 cannot even install, so setup fails.

I need to somehow disable certain dependencies of installshield1150.exe
Can you please guide me through either extracting the real setup.exe msi (administrative install is no help here), or disabling certain prerequisites?

I have already approached Microsoft, and they informed under no uncertain terms that it is plain impossible to install .NET 1.1 on Windows Vista, even when it is finally released.

Thank you,
Computer Guru
CEO
NeoSmart Technologies
http://neosmart.net/

[Computer Guru]

Please??? :cool:

[soubra_s]

Hi Guru,

If you go to the Releases section and go to ".NET Framework Version" and set that to 2.0.

I was under the impression that it would then be the version of the framework that it would look for and try and install.

Thanks
Sam

[Computer Guru]

So I will need to modify the installshield MSI on another PC, right?
Thanks! :)

[MichaelU]

Yeah I think your best bet will be to get an uncompressed setup somehow - administrative installs (setup.exe /a) are generally the best choice; if that fails on the Vista machine try running it on an XP or 2003 machine with .NET 1.1 - and then run the MSI without the setup.exe. As we assume the setup.exe will run and do install prerequisites with it, it's uncertain exactly what the results will be when you do not use it. As you can imagine we are looking rather closely at Vista for our future releases, so I would expect to see a resolution to this before Vista comes out.