Re: [WiX-users] General Wix questions

2009-04-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Sascha Beaumont wrote: > For a beginner I would highly recommend > reading "The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer" (you should be > able to find it on Amazon) and then referencing MSI45.chm (from the > Windows Installer 4.5 SDK) and WIX.chm (from Wix 3.0) when developing > your installation.

Re: [WiX-users] General Wix questions

2009-04-02 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, exactly. Sascha Beaumont wrote: > Hi Louis, > > I'm a relatively "new" WiX user (only a month or two) and I was > thinking along the same lines when I first took a look at WiX for use > in our projects last year. The main thing is that InstallShield > doesn't require an understanding of MSI t

Re: [WiX-users] General Wix questions

2009-03-30 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Hi Louis, I'm a relatively "new" WiX user (only a month or two) and I was thinking along the same lines when I first took a look at WiX for use in our projects last year. The main thing is that InstallShield doesn't require an understanding of MSI technology to create MSI based installers. WiX doe

Re: [WiX-users] General Wix questions

2009-03-28 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Louis, Unfortunately this product takes the shape of most other open source projects. There is no formalized support because no one gets paid to do this work. The contributions and support are only as good as the community. I found this to be much the same as when I was using InstallShield as

[WiX-users] General Wix questions

2009-03-27 Thread Louis elston
>From the tutorial."This toolset requires .NET Framework 1.1 and its Service Pack", and "does not require any extra framework to be installed on the target system". Why just framework 1.1, Why not a more recent version? Are there problems with WiX that might be eliminated if using a higher versio