Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection &questions -Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Holmgren Mathias
> Are you certain you want hard references to Excel's primary interop > assemblies (PIA)? > Generally, you only reference the PIA during development. > Once development is complete you should remove the PIA reference and > change > the type of the Excel application class to 'object'. Yeah I know w

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection & questions -Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Shannon Barber
as.holmg...@six.se] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 4:57 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection & questions -Specificscenario requirements Good stuff, thanks again. Only one thing I still haven't figured out from your ans

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection & questions-Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Holmgren Mathias
Good ideas. In our WiX app installation I already detect Excel-version like this: ...and then install the corresponding Excel-interop assemblies using conditional hidden feature elements: EXCELVERS = "Excel.Application.10" ...etc So you are saying just re-launching our

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection & questions -Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Don Benson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Holmgren Mathias wrote: > Good stuff, thanks again. > > We have an application DLL that is our code, which comes in three > different flavors (one for each Office-version we support). This is > necessary because it has to reference the corresponding Excel-assembly.

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection & questions -Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Holmgren Mathias
Good stuff, thanks again. Only one thing I still haven't figured out from your answer. Guess my description was a bit fuzzy on that bit. We have an application DLL that is our code, which comes in three different flavors (one for each Office-version we support). This is necessary because it has t

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection & questions - Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-12 Thread Don Benson
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Holmgren Mathias wrote: > I just want uninstall to remove all application components (ie > exe+interop dll), regardless if those components where installed at > first install (primary scenario) or in a second "module" install > according to the secondary scenario

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection & questions - Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-12 Thread Holmgren Mathias
Thanks for the good feedback Don! My questions and comments inline, > Removal: It sounds like you are asking the removal of your app to remove > the prerequisites that the bootstrapper installed. Bootstrappers are not > designed to do this because it is a bad idea. Other programs may need > these