New Post: Can't get a simple .Net 4 bootstrap to work.

Glad I could help in any way.

I've gone back and tested the VS template and you're right, the example code works fine on my Win 10 development machine which already has Framework 4 installed.

However I've noticed what appears to be a serious issue which you may not have come across:

I've tested the same bootstrapper template exe on a clean Windows 7 virtual PC that doesn't have Framework 4 installed and nothing happen when you run the exe. No windows are visible and there is no tasks running. It simply does not work.

If I manually install framework 4 and try the installer again, then it works fine and the native MSI UI loads.

Alternatively, if I remove the "SilentBoostrapperApplication" line from the example code then it does download framework 4 and then runs the native MSI UI.

In short, if you don't have framework 4 already installed then the SilentBootstrapperApplication option stops the setup.exe from working which defeats the point of having PackageGroupRef("NetFX40Web")

Sorry to be a pain and I hope that makes sense. I