How can one check for a binary in the GAC in a WiX installer?

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Published on 2012-08-28T21:37:00Z Indexed on 2012/08/28 21:38 UTC
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I have an application which depends on the Team Foundation Server "Object Model", and looks for such binaries in the GAC. This means that clients of the app need to install Visual Studio, or the standalone TFS object model in order to use the application.

I would like the installer to detect that the TFS bits aren't installed, and fail to install appropriately if they are not.

Is such a thing possible?

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