Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedChainer and Bootstrappers

2008-03-10 Thread Bob Arnson
richbain wrote: > Thanks for your reply, but i'm still stuck. > Would you be able to show me the steps involved? As I said originally I'm > still pretty new to all WiX (and Windows Installer) so I'm not really > following. Should I be using the chainer that ships with WiX? > Also how does a single

Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedChainer and Bootstrappers

2008-03-10 Thread richbain
>>Yes, you need a custom action -- one that implements a chainer. MSI 4.5 >>provides the infrastructure for a chainer (with better support for a >>clean multi-package transaction) but not a chainer itself. Thanks for your reply, but i'm still stuck. Would you be able to show me the steps involv

Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedChainer and Bootstrappers

2008-03-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Richard Bain wrote: 1) Does EmbeddedChainer suit what I want? Yes but... 2) If so, is there any examples anywhere of how to use it. Does it need custom actions or do you literally just pass in another msi (can it even take in msi's?) Yes, you need a custom action -- one that implements a c

[WiX-users] EmbeddedChainer and Bootstrappers

2008-03-05 Thread Richard Bain
Hi, I'm trying to recreate an old installshield installer with WiX (I'm still new to both WiX and Windows Installer). The idea is that the 'core' platform and the 'apps' section of our program will be split into essentially two serperate programs with the 'core' part being a prerequisite to ins