Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

See below. From: Ricardo Lopes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:36 AM To: Dan Hoeger Cc: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly [John] I didn't know about the IExpress, looks nice, shouldn&#

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

n *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *John Vottero *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:03 AM *To:* Ricardo Lopes; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly We use Wix and the MSBuild GenerateBootstrapper too. We

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

tero Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:03 AM To: Ricardo Lopes; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly We use Wix and the MSBuild GenerateBootstrapper too. We use IExpress.exe to to combine everything into a single executable. IExpress i

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

Lopes Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 5:00 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly Hi, I made a MSI installer using Wix and a bootstrapper using the msbuild

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

I don't use it, so I wouldn't know. Sorry. Rob Ricardo Lopes wrote: > That is what i was thinking, do you know if the bootstrapper generated > by the msbuild GenerateBootstrapper task passes some property to the msi ? > > Thanks. > > On 21/02/07, * Rob Hamflett* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

That is what i was thinking, do you know if the bootstrapper generated by the msbuild GenerateBootstrapper task passes some property to the msi ? Thanks. On 21/02/07, Rob Hamflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's possible to include an MSI with an executable as a resource. The program would th

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

It's possible to include an MSI with an executable as a resource. The program would then need to extract the MSI before running it. A simpler and quicker solution is to add a new property to the MSI call. When your bootstrapper calls the MSI, pass a property like STARTEDFROMBOOTSTRAPPER=1, a

[WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

Hi, I made a MSI installer using Wix and a bootstrapper using the msbuild GenerateBootstrapper task, it creates a setup.exe and a msi file, but the msi can be invoke directly overcoming the checks made by the bootstrapper and there are checks on the bootstrapper that are difficult to include as c