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From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com]
Sent: March-04-14 10:51 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSU / raw cab
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Sent: March-04-14 10:50 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSU / raw cab
FYI - One strategy to learn that I have used is, a) I download the Wix 3.8
source tree, and b) when trying to do a particular task, I use Notepad++
Find-in-Files pointed
...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 9:31 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSU / raw cab
Thanks for the input, Phill. I fear am fighting an uphill battle on this. WiX
is new to people (including our installation team
FYI - One strategy to learn that I have used is, a) I download the Wix 3.8
source tree, and b) when trying to do a particular task, I use Notepad++
Find-in-Files pointed at the Wix 3.8 source tree to search for similar
details to what I am trying to learn. This has helped me understand both
the C#
I'm still pretty new to wix, msi, and C#/wpf also, having come from a
C++/Installscript background. I felt overwhelmed for the first several
months, but persistence pays off. As I study the source code and the
schemas things start to make more sense. I think it will be worth the
struggle.
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I do not really know the answer to your latest questions. In a wix context I
think I would use the Wix:MsuPackage and let it handle those details (but I
have not had the ocassion to do that yet). I have previously installed msu
packages in a non-wix setup using wusa.exe "package-name.msu" /quiet
0:28 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSU / raw cab
I do not really know the answer to your latest questions. In a wix context I
think I would use the Wix:MsuPackage and let it handle those details (but I
have not had the ocassion to do that yet). I have previously
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From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com]
Sent: March-04-14 9:28 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSU / raw cab
More information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/03/11/8163455.aspx
More information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/03/11/8163455.aspx
You might run into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928636
I appreciated the information posted in another thread on this general issue
about the Wix::MsuPackage element.
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My "OS update" colleagues are telling me I can just install a raw CAB of
updates (hotfixes, etc.) and somehow use pkgmgr correctly (transactionally,
removably, etc.) without an MSU. Is this really the case? I cannot see this
anywhere at Microsoft or in the WiX documentation. All the hotfix stuff
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