Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread Rob Mensching
] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:43 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle Rob's advice was to use a "Related Bundle" , which would involve creating a bundle.exe for each &q

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread robert_ortega
] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle Rob's advice was to use a "Related Bundle" , which would involve creating a bundle.exe for each "addon", and using the RelatedBundle element in each Bundle to establish the relationships. If you use

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread Phill Hogland
Rob's advice was to use a "Related Bundle" , which would involve creating a bundle.exe for each "addon", and using the RelatedBundle element in each Bundle to establish the relationships. If you use 'Related Bundles' Burn does a lot of work for you tracking not only the install but the uninstall p

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread robert_ortega
bject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle I am not an expert and am still learning this topic, but I think it boils down to: In the "main" bundle preemptively add a line like: In the future add-on, update, or patch, (as indicated) a

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread Phill Hogland
I am not an expert and am still learning this topic, but I think it boils down to: In the "main" bundle preemptively add a line like: In the future add-on, update, or patch, (as indicated) add this to tell it that it is related to the main product. I also set Bundle/@Tag to a unique string in

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread robert_ortega
, September 17, 2014 10:55 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle Related bundles. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there:

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread Rob Mensching
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle Greetings, I have a custom C# bootstrapper application that chains a few MSI's together and installs them. No problems here. However, we plan on introducing

[WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread robert_ortega
Greetings, I have a custom C# bootstrapper application that chains a few MSI's together and installs them. No problems here. However, we plan on introducing other add-ons to our software which are not included in our original bootstrapper app chain. These other add-ons will be MSI's (develop