Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
il Me - Original Message From: pcristini To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 3:41:02 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information This will work perfectly! Thanks Neil. Chris your points are completely valid; unfortunately at this point in the applicat

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-28 Thread pcristini
This will work perfectly! Thanks Neil. Chris your points are completely valid; unfortunately at this point in the application's life cycle it hasn't matured enough to have full-blown plugin management/detection and relies solely on entries in the app.config. This is planned to be fixed in the f

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-28 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Have you considered binder variables: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/light.htm (if your assembly is not in the GAC you will need set File/@AssemblyApplication). Neil -Original Message- From: pcristini [mailto:pcrist...@paretoplatform.com] Sent: 27 September 2010 21:24 To: wix-use

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Adam Langley
This is something that I have actually done a fair bit of recently. You can use AssemblyName name = AssemblyName.Load(string assemblyFile) to retrieve the strong-name attributes of an assembly. The runtime will load the DLL temporarily, then release it immediately. However, I far prefer to go the

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
--- Original Message From: pcristini To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 5:59:12 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information Its not so much a dumping off, as just making the user install/setup experience more seamless. Our application can ship with

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
27, 2010 5:59:12 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information Its not so much a dumping off, as just making the user install/setup experience more seamless. Our application can ship with different plugins. If the user selects to have one of the plugins installed we would like for the

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
ussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information That would be way easier to accomplish using Reflection and Linq to XML in C#/.NET code. Still, I'm not sure how this is a WiX / Installer problem.  It sounds more like your application is usi

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread pcristini
Its not so much a dumping off, as just making the user install/setup experience more seamless. Our application can ship with different plugins. If the user selects to have one of the plugins installed we would like for the installer to build the associated config entries which would enable it in t

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
eral discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 4:39:04 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information That's this kind of thing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/junfeng/archive/2005/10/05/477247.aspx Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: pcri

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
That's this kind of thing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/junfeng/archive/2005/10/05/477247.aspx Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: pcristini [mailto:pcrist...@paretoplatform.com] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Reading Ass