Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-27 Thread Hoover, Jacob
oolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization > In theory, you should be able to pass UserLanguageID or > SystemLanguageID as a MsiProperty to apply a transform to a MSI > package. This was my idea. But the question was about a pointer to information how to do

Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-27 Thread Helge Kruse
> In theory, you should be able to pass UserLanguageID or > SystemLanguageID as a MsiProperty to apply a transform to a > MSI package. This was my idea. But the question was about a pointer to information how to do this. Can similar be read in any example project? Regards Helge -

Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-26 Thread Hoover, Jacob
s Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization It is still early days for the BAs of the world. You can write all your UI in pure XML if you want to use the wixstdba. That's how it decides what to display on the screen, although it is limited in the

Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-26 Thread Rob Mensching
It is still early days for the BAs of the world. You can write all your UI in pure XML if you want to use the wixstdba. That's how it decides what to display on the screen, although it is limited in the controls it actually interacts with. The wixstdba shows one example in native code, and the Wix

Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-26 Thread Helge Kruse
Well, it's a bit strange when I just entered all my UI in the MSI installer declarative as XML and have now to write a native application with the UI. But if it is the way to go I will follow it. The documentaion (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/bootstrapper_application.htm) tells me that m

Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Burn does show any UI. Localization is purely a function of the BootstrapperApplication you choose to use. On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Helge Kruse wrote: > Are there any blogs or other publications that a beginner of burn > should read before the WiX 3.6 edition of Nick Ramirez's book is >

Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-25 Thread Helge Kruse
Are there any blogs or other publications that a beginner of burn should read before the WiX 3.6 edition of Nick Ramirez's book is delivered? Regards Helge 2013/2/23 Helge Kruse : > Hello, > > I use WiX before, but am completely unexperienced with burn. > > I have build localized .msi packages. I

[WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-23 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I use WiX before, but am completely unexperienced with burn. I have build localized .msi packages. I have further read that one can build a transform (mst) that is more-or-less a diff file between the localized .msi packages and run msiexec with command line arguments that will combine