[WiX-users] Speed vs Stability: Large numbers of Components

2013-01-29 Thread Neil Hayes
I'm in a similar situation with close to 30,000 files to deploy of which perhaps 50 - 100 are DLL's, EXE, OCX etc. I've ended up grouping files together in a component, (with the exception of DLL's etc) sometimes up to 5,000 or 6,000 in one component. I also forced a version number for each fil

Re: [WiX-users] Windows 8 NetFX3.5

2012-08-29 Thread Neil Hayes
I think this probably sums it up, fail deployment until the .NET Framework 3.5 is installed, or deploy without it and rely on the shim prompting for installation. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh975396.aspx Neil ---

Re: [WiX-users] Windows 8 NetFX3.5

2012-08-29 Thread Neil Hayes
Interesting Windows 8 say's (ocsetup /? ) OCSETUP has been deprecated. Please update your scripts to use DISM.exe to add or remove optional components from your system. I see this being a serious problem in deploying software timeously, before I could just install the .NET Framework, now i

[WiX-users] Windows 8 NetFX3.5

2012-08-28 Thread Neil Hayes
I have an installation which has the .NET Framework 3.5 etc. as prerequisites. In the past I've been able to install the .NET Framework by calling the redistributable package. What is the correct approach for Windows 8? Most of my target market does not have internet connectivity. IT department

[WiX-users] Burn - Customized Themes

2012-01-19 Thread Neil Hayes
Looking at the schema for Themes I can add a new page to my WixStdbaThemeXml'd XML as well as add a button to perhaps the install page. How do I tied the new button to an event to display the new page? I require very little extra information from the end user, a couple of entry fields to pass t

[WiX-users] Custom themed bootstrapper

2011-10-05 Thread Neil Hayes
After the discovery of the variable WixStdbaThemeXml from this mailing list I set about looking at my own corporate theme. In my main wxs I set these two variables: My objective is really to set a background image and have the other items overlayed, looking at t

[WiX-users] Customizing the WiX Standard Bootstrapper App

2011-09-29 Thread Neil Hayes
Thank you jhennessey for pointing out my original posting wasn't in the correct sub forum and not on the mailing list. It was suggested I subscribe to the mailing list and repost..so here we are. I've got to the point in the help where it says "To be written". After building, compiling