Re: [WiX-users] Burn - ExePackage/@SourceFile - How to set to a dynamic path

2015-01-26 Thread Phill Hogland
I am also learning these details, but I have seen this come up previously in the forum. http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Bootstrapper-config-file-Answer-file-td7593918.html#a7593920 http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Runtime-configurable-Bur

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - ExePackage/@SourceFile - How to set to a dynamic path

2015-01-26 Thread ronif
Hi Phill, Thanks for your answer. what do you mean by 'custom action' type behavior? the only thing I'm trying to do is run an exe, and the exe's path depends on 2 variables (windows folder, and versionNT). Why can't I do this in Burn? why does the path have to be predefined? I don't understand th

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - ExePackage/@SourceFile - How to set to a dynamic path

2015-01-26 Thread Phill Hogland
It looks like you are trying to do 'custom action' type behavior in the bundle chain, which is not really what the ExePackage is for. The ExePackage must be available at build time, so that a thumb print of the package can be embedded in the bundle for security reasons, as I understand it. Custom

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - ExePackage/@SourceFile - How to set to a dynamic path

2015-01-26 Thread ronif
any ideas someone? shouldn't this be relatively simple? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-ExePackage-SourceFile-How-to-set-to-a-dynamic-path-tp7598962p7599001.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[WiX-users] Burn - ExePackage/@SourceFile - How to set to a dynamic path

2015-01-22 Thread ronif
Hi, I need to set a path to an exe dynamically (depending on .Net version), and I don't know how (tried using wix/burn variables). I'm also trying to use burn built-in variables ([WindowsFolder] and [VersionNT]). no success. my code: I keep getting errors where