Visualstudio-docs: Where is this Bootstrapper Manifest Generator???

[miguelguzman]

I can't find the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator referred to by this article. Please, update!!!

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• Content: Creating Bootstrapper Packages - Visual Studio
• Content Source: docs/deployment/creating-bootstrapper-packages.md
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[Mikejo5000]

@miguelguzman Sorry for the slow response. I'm looking into it.

[Mikejo5000]

@miguelguzman So, the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator is a quite old legacy tool, and looks like it's no longer available. Instead, you need to manually create the bootstrapper manifest:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/deployment/how-to-create-a-product-manifest
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/deployment/how-to-create-a-product-manifest

I'll update the docs.

[johnkellyjr]

This is useless. The Bootstrap Manifest Generator might be old, but Windows Installer needs it because you can't just copy any MS redist to a project without the public key. We don't need to know how to make a manifest file. We need to be able to use it to solve: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/ded089cc-a849-4dc6-a4ca-e85b75b301f6/bootstrapper-public-key-for-net-45-runtime-doesnt-match?forum=msbuild

[TroySchmidt]

The documentation currently recommended way is for us to be bundling Windows install packages directly into our installer projects. Instead of having it reference them directly from the Windows site. That leads to multiple sources of truth and install package bloat. All we really need is instructions on how to generator or otherwise find the publickey given any ID like at https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53164... what is that publickey?

[Mikejo5000]

I'll ask about this.