VS.NET Deployment Project Help

CodeSmith has dependancies on EnvDTE, Extensibility, and Office.  These files should be installed in the users GAC already since I do a check to make sure that VS.NET 2003 is installed (this seems to work).  The problem is that I'm running into people that have VS.NET installed but don't have these files in their GAC.  I don't believe it's a good practice to include these files in the installation, but how else am I supposed to ensure that my installer works correctly?  Does anyone have any experience with this?  Your help is appreciated.

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  • I haven't been in that situation but you could check whether these assemblies are in the GAC or not and if not, just put them in the GAC with your installer. Or you could add them directly in the GAC whether or not they were already there (it may be simpler).





    I'm interested in the solution to this problem, could you tell me how you solved this when you do ?

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