Re: [WiX-users] Advice on using remote RemotePayload properly

2013-03-31 Thread Rob Mensching
No. By default the Bundle is Compressed='yes'. If you want all your packages to not be contained in the Bundle change that to Bundle/@Compressed='no'. You can now go back and mark individual XxxPackages Compressed='yes'. Or you can do it the other way around and leave the Bundle compressed but mark

Re: [WiX-users] Advice Needed / Package Custom Config File

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
of each MSI produced. The Wix help has sections on creating builds that will help so do have a look in there. -Original Message- From: Greg Deward [mailto:greg.dew...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 January 2013 12:44 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-us

Re: [WiX-users] Advice Needed / Package Custom Config File

2013-01-29 Thread Greg Deward
Unfortunately, based on our current requirements, we must not prompt the user in any way nor may we require them to download a second file. Our client has requested that certain customer-specific variables be known by the application during install. The application must supply these variables

Re: [WiX-users] Advice Needed / Package Custom Config File

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
If your MSI packages are always the same apart from that single configuration file, one way to do it would be to exclude file from the MSI. Then create a single, static MSI and let the application download the config file at runtime and configure itself, if it hasn't already done so. This would be

Re: [WiX-users] Advice

2010-05-26 Thread Blair
You could try adding a custom action that adds (temporary) rows to the appropriate tables for the built-in actions that setup webservices. Bob called them "semi-custom actions". (http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/07/01/semi-custom-actions/) Just make sure that you save and/or compute somehow the info

Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted

2009-03-18 Thread Rob Mensching
In order to focus on finishing WiX v3, ClickThrough has been pushed to WiX v4. Lots of good ideas in there that just aren't baked enough yet to be fully useful. Rob Series wrote: > Thanks to Neil for his comments. I was actually asking about both Click > Through and Click Once. Unfortunately ou

Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted

2009-03-06 Thread Rob Series
Thanks to Neil for his comments. I was actually asking about both Click Through and Click Once. Unfortunately our server runs Apache, so I don't think I can use Click Once and it looks like its a bit premature to move to Click Through. For the moment I think we will stay with our home grown solutio

Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted

2009-03-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Bob Arnson wrote: > ClickOnce is a WiX/MSI solution for the same scope of problem that > ClickOnce aims to solve. > Click*Through* is a WiX/MSI solution for the same scope of problem that ClickOnce aims to solve. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted

2009-03-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Neil Sleightholm wrote: > I was under the impression that ClickThrough was an implementation of > ClickOnce but I may be wrong. > ClickOnce is a WiX/MSI solution for the same scope of problem that ClickOnce aims to solve. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted

2009-03-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I was under the impression that ClickThrough was an implementation of ClickOnce but I may be wrong. Neil -Original Message- From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent: 05 March 2009 18:38 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted

2009-03-05 Thread Phil Sayers
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:17 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted I have a similar application to yours although we don't deliver across the web but internally from a server installed on

Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted

2009-03-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I have a similar application to yours although we don't deliver across the web but internally from a server installed on the client site. There is some information on using clickonce with VB6 here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa697430(VS.80).aspx, I got something to work but it wasn't at