Interesting package discovered on GotDotNet: the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator.
The Bootstrapper in Visual Studio 2005 allows developers to add components to be redistributed along with their applications, allowing a single starting point to install applications and their prerequisites. For example, users can now run a single setup.exe that will install the .NET Frameworks, SQL Server Express, and your application over the web, from a CD, or from a UNC path.
This tool makes it much easier to add your own prerequisites to the bootstrapper.
The initial release contains the following features:
* Ability to create Bootstrapper Packages for Visual Studio 2005 (Beta 1)
* Works on the .NET Frameworks SDK v2.0 (Beta 1)
* Ability to create MSBuild project files for building a Boostrapper, and build them.
Really interesting!