Re: [WiX-users] .NET config best practices

2012-01-25 Thread rsmart8452
staller XML toolset.; Reply-To: chr...@iswix.com, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] .NET config best practices Sadly this is a huge huge hole / disconnect between how MSI works and how XML works. MSI treats a Registry Value

Re: [WiX-users] .NET config best practices

2012-01-25 Thread John Cooper
3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: jhennessey [mailto:jack.hennes...@hyland.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:00 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] .NET config best practices My suggestion is that you store this informati

Re: [WiX-users] .NET config best practices

2012-01-24 Thread jhennessey
My suggestion is that you store this information in some soft of database and have the application (or a configuration application ) manage the settings. I think you'll find it difficult to be able to try and save / merge all this data as time goes on. -- View this message in context: http://wind

Re: [WiX-users] .NET config best practices

2012-01-24 Thread Christopher Painter
sts/2010/5/2/The-WiX-toolsets-Remember-Proper ty-pattern ) but it really doesn't scale to an application driven but boatloads of XML. From: "Richard Martin" Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:15 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Su

[WiX-users] .NET config best practices

2012-01-24 Thread Richard Martin
I'm confused about best practices to use when deploying and maintaining .NET *.config files via MSI. Our app uses the UnityContainer to manage type injection and type configuration, some of which is environmental, meaning type config changes at each customer site. This Unity configuration is stored