Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
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Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
Yy!!! I got it to work. ;) I found the Wix 3.0 setup. Oh... Now I'm diving into new dark waters. Lol -Original Message- From: ryebank [mailto:ja...@ryebank.co.uk] Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 11:43 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Fa

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread Pally Sandher
] Sent: 11 May 2009 16:43 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > > > I just installed the 3.0.5217 build of Wix 3 as well as all of the > files you mentionmed.. No luck. :( > > Yes - I mentioned that as when y

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > > > I just installed the 3.0.5217 build of Wix 3 as well as all of the > files you mentionmed.. No luck. :( > > Yes - I mentioned that as when you said you could not get it to install I did this: 1. Loaded up my V

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread ryebank
MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > > > I just installed the 3.0.5217 build of Wix 3 as well as all of the files > you mentionmed.. No luck. :( > > Yes - I mentioned that as when you said you could not get it to install I did this: 1. Loaded up my VMWare "Installer Test XP" VM - this is a base Wi

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
I just installed the 3.0.5217 build of Wix 3 as well as all of the files you mentionmed.. No luck. :( -Original Message- From: ryebank [mailto:ja...@ryebank.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:14 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory MacDiarmid

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
Does the 3.0.5217 build of Wix recognize the VS 2008 shell and install to it? -Original Message- From: ryebank [mailto:ja...@ryebank.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:14 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > &

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
Ok.. Just installed this ProjectAggregator2.msi thingy and it doesn't seem to do anything. -Original Message- From: ryebank [mailto:ja...@ryebank.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 6:43 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory MacDiarmid, Ja

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-11 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
ProjectAggregator2.msi? Ummm, no... Hmmm, let me try that and see what happens. :) -Original Message- From: ryebank [mailto:ja...@ryebank.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 6:43 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory MacDiarmid, James D wrote

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread ryebank
MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > > Ok.. I have the shell installed but I don't see how to use Wix with it. > I tried to install Votive but it said it had to be a full version of VS > to install. Gr > Are you sure you got the right package - I have just installed into a test virtual mach

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread ryebank
MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > > > Ok.. I have the shell installed but I don't see how to use Wix with it. > I tried to install Votive but it said it had to be a full version of VS > to install. Gr > > I can't recall hitting that problem - mine is definitely installed OK with Votive

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > > Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of time to learn it on those > terms and we don't have Visual Studio, so I'm kind of stuck between a > rock and a hard place. > We

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread ryebank
MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > > Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of time to learn it on those > terms and we don't have Visual Studio, so I'm kind of stuck between a > rock and a hard place. > Well ... you don't need to buy Visual Studio at all - I use Wix very successfully with the Visu

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread Phil Sayers
, May 08, 2009 2:41 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory Ok.. I got as far as the screenshot and noticed #Dev is for C#, vb.net, etc, which we do none of the above, so that's not going to work for us either. Thanks for th

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread Madden, William
: [WiX-users] MSI Factory Ok.. I got as far as the screenshot and noticed #Dev is for C#, vb.net, etc, which we do none of the above, so that's not going to work for us either. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. -Original Message- From: Madden, William [mailto:william.mad...@sag

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
ay 08, 2009 12:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory James, I am not a fan of the output of most of the third party tools we evaluated for WiX 3.0 development. However since it sounds like you don't have Visual Studio you may want

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
over the UIscreen where you choice the setup type. Jim -Original Message- From: Madden, William [mailto:william.mad...@sage.com] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 12:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory James, I am not a fan of

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread Madden, William
Bill. -Original Message- From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:26 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory I'm using the bootstrapper from MSI Factory, but that's i

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-07 Thread Sascha Beaumont
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Bakkebo [mailto:bbakk...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:38 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory > > Hi James, just my two cents here... I had used a tri

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-06 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory Hi James, just my two cents here... I had used a trial of MSI Factory(wix version) a long time ago when wix was around 2.0, but then I opted to learn wix instead with the help of WixEdit at first. Bottom

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-06 Thread Brian Bakkebo
Hi James, just my two cents here... I had used a trial of MSI Factory(wix version) a long time ago when wix was around 2.0, but then I opted to learn wix instead with the help of WixEdit at first. Bottom line is once I learned Wix I found I dont need msi factory or wixAware, IMHO. Perhaps these p

[WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-05 Thread MacDiarmid, James D
Does anyone use MSI Factory or WixAware to build their installs? I've been evaluating WixAware and I like the interface, however it's still very buggy. I'd like to see if there are any other "front ends" available that support Wix 2.0 and/or Wix 3.0. I recently found MSI Factory and have starte