Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-11 Thread Christopher Painter
: Umeshj Subject: Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 11:47 PM A general solution to avoiding 'ugly DOS windows' is to use CAQuietExec from WixUtilExtension. -- View this message in context: http://windows-ins

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread Umeshj
A general solution to avoiding 'ugly DOS windows' is to use CAQuietExec from WixUtilExtension. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/InstallUtil-exe-alternatives-tp6349071p6350583.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread Christopher Painter
t tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 5/10/11, vatson wrote: From: vatson Subject: Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 3:26 PM Hi, Thanks for your response. Th

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread vatson
Hi, Thanks for your response. The DTF option looks pretty interesting, based on your blog post. If my understanding is correct, can i simply replace the RunInstaller attribute that I currently have in my assemblies with the CustomAction attribute, and then use DTF to convert it into CA's the MSI c

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread Christopher Painter
Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 5/10/11, Skildum, Mathew wrote: From: Skildum, Mathew Subject: Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives To: "General discussion for Window

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread Christopher Painter
  Two things:   1) You should never have custom actions for things that Windows Installer can do natively.   If you have install actions for creating and starting services, that is wrong.  Use the ServiceInstall/ServiceControl tables instead.  Same goes for registering Dll's, creatin shortcuts,

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread Skildum, Mathew
There is no runtime or build time solution to replace installutil.exe. The only options are to extract the registry entries that are created and include them in the project or running installutil.exe at runtime. The best option is to extract the registry either by having InstallUtil create a r