[WiX-users] Burn in the ARP

2013-03-14 Thread Bull, Thomas
I've seen tangential posts regarding this, but no answer quite fit what I was looking for. I have a bootstrapper which will install several prereq's and then my product's MSI. In testing, I noticed that if the product is uninstalled from ARP and then the bootstrapper is run it thinks it is stil

[WiX-users] Adding background to burn theme?

2013-02-07 Thread Bull, Thomas
I am attempting to add an image that will act as a background for each burn page. If I only define the image in one page it will sometimes work, other times the controls on the page will be overwritten by the image. If I add an image to each Page then no controls appear until they receive focu

[WiX-users] Alter Packages in Custom BA? [BURN]

2012-12-11 Thread Bull, Thomas
I am making a custom bootstrapper WPF UI to allow consumers to select which MSIs and specific features within MSIs to install. I think I have my head around how to select features within an MSI by setting Engine.StringVariables["TEMPVAR"] and then setting an MSIProperty to that Burn variable.

[WiX-users] Feature or Chained MSI?

2012-12-05 Thread Bull, Thomas
I am exploring moving a moderate size installer to WiX and I am stumbling through with some good successes thanks to the active support community out there. My application has a large amount (~1gb) of reference data that does not change much from version to version. This data is not required f