Once we're confident that our application works on a particular version of Windows, we may want to prevent users from installing to other unsupported operating systems. Here, we can use a launch condition. Launch conditions evaluate the state of the user's system and then cancel the installation if our requirements aren't met. By checking the operating system version, we can save the end user from trying to use our software on a system it was never intended for.
Add a launch condition that checks the VersionNT property to see what the computer's version of Windows is:
Add a
Conditionelement inside theProductelement. ItsMessageattribute will explain that the current operating system is not supported, as follows:<Condition Message="Only Windows 8 and up is supported"> </Condition>
Add a conditional statement inside that element that compares...