Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-23 Thread Pally Sandher
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Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-22 Thread Chris Lord
I run it...plain and simple. I have a dedicated machine with removable drives that I can image to a base setup of Win2000, Win XP, Vista and a Win 7 install will be added in the near future. >From there, I can test a clean install, or I can install a previous version and make sure it gets upgr

Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-22 Thread Wilson, Phil
I don't know that they do! How do you automate that a developer says "this file should be installed to that location"? There's no way to automate that unless you have some tool that records it, and that tool is basically WiX. You could have another pretty GUI tool that records what developers sa

Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-20 Thread greenaj
You may check the Windows Installer SDK. You can author your own validation DLL's, called .cub files. You typically would write these in C++. The validations is them called from the command line (msival.exe ?, I forget). This would be how you could add custom validation to your build. The W

Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-20 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
ing this e-mail > -Original Message- > From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 5:02 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers > > a) Get the dev

Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers

2009-07-20 Thread Sascha Beaumont
a) Get the development team to update the WiX code instead of doing it yourself. b) Do it yourself, and verify manually. c) Don't verify anything, trusting in your WiX skills and/or wait for a bug report to roll in when the developer figures out something is wrong. I'm sure others have better solu