Re: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

2014-11-19 Thread Tunney, Stephen
lto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: November-19-14 1:36 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage Today: patching. Future: ? _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegian

Re: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

2014-11-19 Thread John Cooper
henry.com -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:32 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage Hello Everyone and good day, As part of our automated build process I ba

Re: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

2014-11-19 Thread Rob Mensching
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage Hello Everyone and good day, As part of our automated build process I back up all generated .wixpdb files. I'm just wondering how useful these are when debugging a crash or hang of an MSI when given a dump file

[WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

2014-11-19 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hello Everyone and good day, As part of our automated build process I back up all generated .wixpdb files. I'm just wondering how useful these are when debugging a crash or hang of an MSI when given a dump file from a customer. Can they be used at all? I need the .wixpdb files for generating

Re: [WiX-users] WIXPDB: Good place for common functionality?

2011-03-03 Thread John Robbins
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIXPDB: Good place for common functionality? It sounds like what you actually want is a .wixlib. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:12 AM, John Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on an install system that has seven different web sites in

Re: [WiX-users] WIXPDB: Good place for common functionality?

2011-03-03 Thread Rob Mensching
It sounds like what you actually want is a .wixlib. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:12 AM, John Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on an install system that has seven different web sites in it. > I have a lot of common functionality (App Pools, etc.) and I was thinking of > putting that common functi

[WiX-users] WIXPDB: Good place for common functionality?

2011-03-03 Thread John Robbins
Hi, I'm working on an install system that has seven different web sites in it. I have a lot of common functionality (App Pools, etc.) and I was thinking of putting that common functionality in .WIXPDB files to treat those common pieces like a C++ library. I've done some quick prototypes and eve

Re: [WiX-users] wixpdb

2007-11-08 Thread Peter Marcu
on your build environment or source structure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:55 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] wixpdb When creating patches... Does the wixpdb method

[WiX-users] wixpdb

2007-11-08 Thread Nick
When creating patches... Does the wixpdb method compare the binaries from the two .msi files? Or, does it compare the files as they are on the disk? (My preference is for using .msi files due to project archiving and other such things). If it compares the files as they are on the disk, is it wi