winforms - Check if prerequisites are installed before installing a windows installer package

Question

I have a .Net WinForms application developed on .Net 4.0. (windows installer package). The application is dependent on SAP crystal report runtime and MS Access runtime. I need to check if these two prerequisites are installed on the user machine, if not then exit the installer with a dialog box saying installation failed due to missing prerequisites.

[Edit] The image below highlights the type of installer project that I'm working on. It is a old legacy application.

[Edit 2] Here I have created "Search Target Machine" and created "Add Registry Search" - "Search for Crystal Report Runtime"

And created a new "Launch Conditions" under "Launch Conditions" called as "CrystalReportRuntimeInstalled". Somehow this condition is always evaluating to false even when the software is installed. What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

So the way i had to check the registry value was to remove the name "CRRuntime32Version" from RegKey and add it to the "Value" section in the properties of Registry Search as shown in below image.

Similarly i created two Registry Search for Microsoft Access Runtime 2013.

Note: I created two different Registry Search based on bitness of a machine.

And modified the "Launch Condition" as shown below.

Here is the complete "Condition" value set for Microsoft Access Runtime 2013. If there is a better way of checking then please let me know.

After doing these changes i built the setup package. Uninstalled the prerequisites and the setup package from my target machine. And while trying to install the set up package got the prompt as shown below.