WIX Office Detection Extension

Question

I am currently writing a WIX Installer which has a few dependencies on other products being installed. It is in C# and requires the following dependencies

• Office 2010 (including Excel/Word)
• .NET Framework 3.5

Now for the .NET Framework i can use WixNetFxExtension in wix to say

<PropertyRef Id="NETFRAMEWORK35_SP_LEVEL"/>

and then reference this property in a Condition.

Is there a similar Extension to do this for different versions of Office or their individual Files like Word etc.

I know i can use Custom Actions to do this, but I want a simple was to do this rather than creating my own Custom Actions?

Answer 1

Using the answer given by @Ciprian, you could simply set a property, then have a launch condition based on the property.

<Property Id="OFFICEPATH">
  <RegistrySearch Id="OfficeReg" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\InstallRoot" Name="Path" Type="raw" />
</Property>

<Condition Message="This application requires Microsoft Office. Please install Office then run this installer again.">
      <![CDATA[Installed OR (OFFICEPATH)]]>
    </Condition>