Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-23 Thread Pally Sandher
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Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-22 Thread Chris Lord
ect: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers I was curious to see how other people validate their installers to ensure they install the correct files, registry keys, etc into the proper locations. For example, if somebody on your development team says a file needs to be added to

Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-22 Thread Wilson, Phil
installed as it was supposed to be. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: jnewton [mailto:jonathan.new...@ni.com] Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:54 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers I was curious to see how other people va

Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-20 Thread greenaj
You may check the Windows Installer SDK. You can author your own validation DLL's, called .cub files. You typically would write these in C++. The validations is them called from the command line (msival.exe ?, I forget). This would be how you could add custom validation to your build. The W

Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-20 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
ing this e-mail > -Original Message- > From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 5:02 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers > > a) Get the dev

Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-20 Thread Sascha Beaumont
a) Get the development team to update the WiX code instead of doing it yourself. b) Do it yourself, and verify manually. c) Don't verify anything, trusting in your WiX skills and/or wait for a bug report to roll in when the developer figures out something is wrong. I'm sure others have better solu

[WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-17 Thread jnewton
I was curious to see how other people validate their installers to ensure they install the correct files, registry keys, etc into the proper locations. For example, if somebody on your development team says a file needs to be added to the installer and it needs to be installed into xyz directory,