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content  .NET Installer that automatically installs MSDE  By ,
26 Jul 2008 Rate this: Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
Often programmers want to build a single installer package that
can install the application along with prerequisites and
database. Fortunately for database, programmers can use MSDE
which can be distributed along with your application, but MSDE
lacks user interface so to configure it often we need to use
command line.   This is the scenario:    1. A programmer wants a
single package that automatically installs .NET Framework and
then installs MSDE and uses the database for the application
that a programmer writes.   2. In this tutorial, the
installation will create a new database instance, with a name
specified by the programmer, and it can detect whether this
instance exists and as for removal, so for safety programmer
just create a unique database instance name.   3. The library
then automatically attaches the database to thi