Thanks Peter, and will surely take care in future.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:18 PM, wrote:
> Send WiX-users mailing list submissions to
>wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>wix-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>wix-users-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of WiX-users digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: Install package using multiple solutions (Peter Shirtcliffe)
> 2. Using the same .exe file for different services in oneMSI?
> (Stefan Kuhr)
> 3. Check the checkbox programmatically (Rahul Ramesh Ekbote)
> 4. Re: Installing WiX library to different location, recalling
> location on modify/uninstall (Sean Dockery)
> 5. Re: Wix bootstrapper issues (Alexander Kriv?cs Schr?der)
>
>
> --
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:09:01 +0100
> From: "Peter Shirtcliffe"
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install package using multiple solutions
> To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset."
>
> Message-ID:
>
> <8701d1480741164db71e42643c4a489f03811...@emeamail0305.global.sdl.corp>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Please send all replies to the mailing list so that everyone can benefit
> from
> the answers and other people can offer help.
>
>
>
> You can create a single Wix project that will include the code from both
> solutions. Add a new Wix MSI project to the "main" solution (whichever that
> is).
>
> Add the files created by both solutions into the .wxs file that is
> automatically created. Make sure that the Wix project is last in the
> solution's build order.
>
>
>
>
>
> Solution ABC:
>
> 80 code projects
>
> 1 Wix project that outputs an MSI
>
>Product.wxs
>
>
>
> Solution XYZ:
>
> 40 code projects
>
>
>
> The product.wxs file will include many components:- some components will
> have
> file elements where the Source attribute is pointing to the files created
> by
> the XYZ solution and some components will have file elements where the
> source
> attribute is pointing to files created by the ABC solution.
>
>
>
> For example:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ...
>
>
>
> The procedure is the same as for creating 1 solution containing 1 Wix
> project. The difference is that some of your file elements will have source
> attribute paths that point to files in the other solution.
>
>
>
> This isn't the only way to do this, or the best, but it's simple.
>
>
>
> From: Divyesh Ajmera [mailto:ajmera.divy...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 27 June 2011 11:50
> To: Peter Shirtcliffe
> Subject: Install package using multiple solutions
>
>
>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Sorry for a direct mail, i read your solution and tried to understand it a
> bit, but dint succeed much.
> here is my actual scenario:
>
> I have two solutions, say abc.sln and xzy.sln
> abc.sln has some 80 projects and xyz.sln has some 40+ projects.
>
> Now what i want is to create a installation package using WIX project on VS
> 2010, using IDE, this package must include these both solutions and also
> their respective projects.
> what i have learned from studying is for single project we have to create a
> .wxs file satisfying the schema and build the WIX project, it takes care
> about creating .wixproj and .wixobj
> but have no idea about doing the same for two solutions.
> As per i know, it has to be done using .wxs file, but if uyou have some
> other
> solution, kindly share.
>
> kindly help in this respect.
> Also it wolud be very helpful if you have any sample doing the same or any
> link where i can get a reference.
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Divyesh Ajmera
>
> M: +91 81479 87986
>
> +91 76762 48064
>
>
>
> E-mail: ajmera.divy...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> http://www.sdl.com/sdl-vision";>http://www.sdl.com/images/email_new_logo.png"; alt="www.sdl.com/sdl-vision"
> border="0"/>
>
> http://www.sdl.com/sdl-vision";
> style="color:005740; font-we
