Re: [WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent

2008-08-04 Thread Buddell, James
ubject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent Interesting, I'd never noticed that FeatureParent automation property before. Unless I'm missing something, this looks like a rare case where the MSI automation interface exposes functionality that is NOT directly exposed by the Win32 APIs. Still i

Re: [WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent

2008-08-01 Thread Jason Ginchereau
D] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Powell, Simon Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:51 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent But, its supported by the Installer Object of the Automation Interface. Straight from the Windows Ins

Re: [WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent

2008-08-01 Thread Bob Arnson
Powell, Simon wrote: > But, its supported by the Installer Object of the Automation Interface. > If the raw MSI API supports that information, DTF could. But if the Installer object is using private data that isn't otherwise exposed, DTF wouldn't have a way to get it. -- sig://boB http://j

Re: [WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent

2008-08-01 Thread Powell, Simon
bject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent Buddell, James wrote: > I'm using DTF but cannot find an implementation of the > Installer.FeatureParent property. If the MSI API doesn't expose the information, DTF doesn't either. I doubt the feature parent/child information is pe

Re: [WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent

2008-07-31 Thread Bob Arnson
Buddell, James wrote: > I'm using DTF but cannot find an implementation of the > Installer.FeatureParent property. If the MSI API doesn't expose the information, DTF doesn't either. I doubt the feature parent/child information is persisted outside the .msi package; in the end, MSI installs a li

[WiX-users] DTF FeatureParent

2008-07-31 Thread Buddell, James
Hi all, I'm using DTF but cannot find an implementation of the Installer.FeatureParent property. I can work around this by opening a session on the product and querying the Feature table, but would rather not as starting the session is very slow and I am enumerating a number of apps. I can see th