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This page is the new home of Bootstrapper Manifest Generator.

This tool is a set of tools for working with the Pre-requisite bootstrapper in Visual Studio that is used by Setup Projects and ClickOnce. There are projects to enable you to create your own "packages" to add additional pre-requisite installers to Visual Studio, and also to build a stand alone bootstrapper using MSBuild.

You should download the version that matches the version of Visual Studio you are using.

Nov 17th, 2008 - Bootstrapper Manifest Generator for Visual Studio 2008 Released

BMG for VS 2008 has just been released.
In addition to bug fixes and updates required to run correctly on VS 2008, several new features have been added:

  • A new downloader in the MSBuild projects that makes it easy to download any missing redist files that have a Homesite link. This will work especially well for people who have downloaded the Visual Studio Express products.

    • (New since the Beta) The new downloader is also capable of handling .NET Frameworks 3.5 and .NET Frameworks 3.5 SP1, extracting the downloaded files and updating the product.xml for the SP1 package according to the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 readme.

  • When a package is selected in MSBuild projects, dependent and included packages are selected or deselected automatically, making it easier to build a complete and optimized bootstrapper.

Installation Information
If you have the Beta version already installed, just download and run the new installer, and your installation should be upgraded to the final release version.
Last edited Nov 18 2008 at 2:05 AM  by DavidGuyer, version 4
Comments
Stoune wrote  Sep 15 2010 at 5:19 PM  
I'm not able to do anything on Windows 7 x64. It constantly throws exceptions. I can't imagine how such bad designed product can pass QA.

TimDodd wrote  Sep 21 2010 at 2:06 PM  
Do you have all the required SDK's?

BrianA wrote  Oct 8 2010 at 8:58 PM  
BMG.exe (Bootstrapper Manifest Generator) cannot run in 64bit mode. Update the bmg.exe to force 32bit.

Run VS Command Prompt as Administrator:
corflags /32BIT+ "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Bootstrapper Manifest Generator for VS2008\BMG.exe"

robinhsanner wrote  Nov 14 2010 at 4:54 AM  
Any chance we can get the source code of this so we can fix it?

Desperado wrote  Nov 29 2010 at 10:10 PM  
I´m working with VS 2010 , and i can't use the tool (BMG). Even after use the corflags, well it throws less exceptions but still inoperative, it broke when i try to add a relationship, try to include a msi file, but when hit browse button...it failed. :(

zing wrote  Dec 13 2010 at 11:41 PM  
I am getting a Error when trying to download the Bootstrapper Manifest gen.msi

VirusName: "McAfeeGW: Heuristic.BehavesLike.Exploit.OLE2.CodeExec.NLJH"
Url: "http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=bmg%26DownloadId=3822"
File: "http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=bmg&DownloadId=3822"
File type: "application/x-ole2"

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