Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions

2010-04-21 Thread Mark Modrall
Mark -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:08 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions 0. Nothing wrong with WiX v2.0. Now InstallUtil, that's a big pr

Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions

2010-04-21 Thread Alexander Shevchuk (Volt)
o whatever InstallUtil is doing using native MSI/WiX custom actions. Alex -Original Message- From: Mark Modrall [mailto:mmodr...@mzinga.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:49 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 qu

Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions

2010-04-21 Thread Mark Modrall
ssage- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:08 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions 0. Nothing wrong with WiX v2.0. Now InstallUtil, that's a big problem. 1. Assembli

Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions

2010-04-20 Thread Rob Mensching
0. Nothing wrong with WiX v2.0. Now InstallUtil, that's a big problem. 1. Assemblies are not committed to the GAC until InstallFinalize. Thus, you cannot depend on them during your install. 2. Nothing built into the Preprocessor about MSBuild or VS. You need to push the values down from VS or MS

[WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Modrall
I know I know... I shouldn't even be using it... But I inherited this old hairball when I got here and no one has wanted to spend the time to upgrade. I tried to make a quick new installer using our already-written merge modules but I ran into a couple of odd quirks... 1) One merge modu