How to check if SQL Shared Management Objects is already installed ?

Hi,

Our product requires SQL Shared Management Objects to be installed on customer's machine to work.

So, in our WiX setup for our product msi, we need :

1) Check is SSMO is already installed.

   Question: Is there a reliable way to determine if SSMO is already installed. I am hoping there would be a registry key that I could search up. Is this key in different locations for x86/x64/WoW SSMO installations?

2) If SSMO is already installed, how can I determine its version ? (again hoping the version information can be queried from registry).

3) As part of our setup in WiX, can I pull in the installation of SSMO redist. Would love to see some similar sample using WiX.

Thanks,

Sameer

to redist SSMO or tell the customer to install SSMO first.

WiX setup of our product needs SQL Shared Management Objects to be installed.