I have a VB.NET WinForms application. I've created the installer wizard for it using the "Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Extension for VS2022" extension.
I've added a .NET 5 prerequisite through the dialog box, but I've encountered a problem. My users are not so tech-savvy, and when the prompt to install .NET comes, it redirects to the dotnet installation page, there are lots of release notes, x86, x64, yada yada. They probably wouldn't understand.
Is there anyway to make the installer use a custom link, so that I could use the direct download link from MSFT's site instead?

Edit: I've read this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334436/adding-custom-prerequsites-to-visual-studio-setup-project
I'm not trying to bootstrap custom prerequisites. I want it to install .NET automatically without the user having to find the installer from the page it opens, download it, install it, then rerun the installer.

CodePudding user response：

I've fixed my problem by running the setup.exe file that is generated.

The setup.msi file does not automatically install prerequisites while setup.exe does. From what I have read it has something to do with msiexec.exe not being able to run multiple instances of one another.