Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-05-01 Thread Neil Sleightholm
XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites The software I am installing is pretty complex. One of the MSI's creates 60 databases, and executes about 30Mb of SQL scripts. Verifying a working connection to SQL is a must, and I have since realized that installing as a prerequ

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-05-01 Thread Nick Miller
lto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 1:47 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites I have to say this seems like an odd requirement, I have an application that needs SQL Express and I have structure the BA to detect SQ

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-04-30 Thread Neil Sleightholm
iller [mailto:nmil...@livetechnology.com] Sent: 30 April 2013 22:05 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites Hi All, Is there a way to define prerequisites that need to be installed before the BA loads?

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-04-30 Thread Nick Miller
Thanks, I'll take a look -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:21 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites The mbapreq does this for BA's written

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Mensching
The mbapreq does this for BA's written in managed code. It's not simple but you can see how it works in the code under src\ext\BalExtension\mba\host and src\ext\BalExtension\wixstdba On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Nick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to define prerequisites that nee

[WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-04-30 Thread Nick Miller
Hi All, Is there a way to define prerequisites that need to be installed before the BA loads? For example, I want burn to install SQL express before loading the bootstrapper application. The reason for this is my BA checks SQL connectivity before beginning the install process. I need to make

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-14 Thread Rob Mensching
g] > Sent: 05 February 2013 20:46 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and > the Server Manager requirement > > For me, running dism.exe only worked if I put in the full path. Not sure &g

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
...@outercurve.org] Sent: 05 February 2013 20:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement For me, running dism.exe only worked if I put in the full path. Not sure why that is

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-05 Thread Eric Schultz
From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] > Sent: 04 February 2013 22:09 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and > the Server Manager requirement > > Depending on C:\Windows\system

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
DCIM should be on the path so adding C:\Windows\system32 shouldn't be necessary. -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: 04 February 2013 22:09 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequi

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Depending on C:\Windows\system32 would break on non-default installs... -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 3:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Cool thanks :) -Original Message- From: Eric Schultz [mailto:eschu...@outercurve.org] Sent: February-04-13 4:30 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement All, I&#x

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Because burn will only run exes packaged in a release. It won't run arbitrary exes. -Original Message- From: Marc Fauser [mailto:marc.fau...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 February 2013 21:37 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisit

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Marc Fauser
On 2013-02-04 22:29, Eric Schultz wrote: > All, > > I've created a simple ExeRunner application that can be embedded into your > bundle and then be called to run a command on the destination computer. To > install .NET Framework 3.5 and less on Win 8, the entire command line would > be: > > ExeRunn

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Eric Schultz
gt; p.WaitForExit(); > > > > return p.ExitCode; > > } > > } > > } > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Neil > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Hans ter Horst [mailto:hoshis...@gmail.com] >

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-01 Thread Hans ter Horst
var p = new Process(); > p.StartInfo = startInfo; > p.Start(); > p.WaitForExit(); > > return p.ExitCode; > } > } > } > > Hope this helps. > > Neil > > -----Original Message- > From: Hans ter Horst [ma

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-31 Thread Neil Sleightholm
2013 07:17 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement I didn't see an answer regarding this question and I'm sort of stuck on this. Does anybody have an idea how to han

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-31 Thread Rob Mensching
I think someone created a custom exe to handle this scenario in the archives. Be nice to have a more ideal solution built in but no one has coded that yet. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > I didn't see an answer regarding this question and I'm sort of stuck on > this. Do

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-31 Thread Hans ter Horst
I didn't see an answer regarding this question and I'm sort of stuck on this. Does anybody have an idea how to handle the different way Windows 2012 Server behaves if a prerequisite is defined as a server feature? Thanks, Hans On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > Hello, >

[WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-30 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, My program has a .NET 3.5 prerequisite and I have used Burn and the standard code successfully on Windows Server 2008 SP2. On Windows Server 2012 however, .NET 3.5 and many other prerequisites need to be installed via the Server Manager as features instead and cannot be installed via an MSI

Re: [WiX-users] BURN Prerequisites Detection Issue

2012-10-13 Thread Rob Mensching
If you have a BA that only uses NETFX v3.5, then you need to ensure that v3.5 is installed. Otherwise, you need to say that your BA can use NETFX v3.5 and/or NETFX 4. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Javier Ibanez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing a bundle with a custom BA compiled with .NET 3.5. I ha

[WiX-users] BURN Prerequisites Detection Issue

2012-10-11 Thread Javier Ibanez
Hi, I'm writing a bundle with a custom BA compiled with .NET 3.5. I have added the right supported frameworks in the config file (v2.0.50727) and I'm using WixNetFxExtension to install 4.0 if 3.5 is not installed. I run the following test: 1) On a Win7 machine with 3.5.1 installed, I disabled