On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Christopher Painter
wrote:
> Well, Evil Genius, you clearly no more about installs then myself and Rob
> Mensching combined so knock yourself.
I am not sure where I said I know more about installers?
I freely admit to being a n00b at implementing an installer.
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Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 8:30:59 AM
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From: Rob Mensching
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Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 9:05:13 AM
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One thing to be careful with is pointing to things in "any Microsoft
platform" and saying "Well, Microsoft created this platform so it must be a
good pattern." InstallUtil is not a good thing (for the reasons I pointed to
in the SelfReg table documentation) and it still exists for backwards
compati
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> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Christopher Painter
> wrote:
>> For #4, you are right, it is simple. I can do it i
From: Rune Moberg
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 7:44:06 AM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WCF server cannot connect to the remote database.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Christopher Painter
wrote:
> For #4, you are right, it is sim
s Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WCF server cannot connect to the remote database.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Christopher Painter
wrote:
> For #4, you are right, it is simple. I can do it in one line of XML
> in WiX and let MSI handle the details. For developers I c
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Christopher Painter
wrote:
> For #4, you are right, it is simple. I can do it in one line of XML in WiX
> and
> let MSI handle the details. For developers I can do it in 1 line of .BAT
> using
> the SC command. And, no, your InstallUtil code will not be bett
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Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 4:01:20 AM
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Christopher Painter
wrote:
> 1) Run out of process with no ability to access the MSI handle
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Christopher Painter
wrote:
> 1) Run out of process with no ability to access the MSI handle to query
> tables,
> get/set properties and write to the log. This means they will never be data
> driven and are useless to debug when ( not if ) they fail.
>
> 2) Tat
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From: Rune Moberg
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Sent: Sun, February 13, 2011 2:52:12 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
All of the things you list are essentially SelfReg. SelfReg was deemed a bad
practice for installatin back in the late 1990s. MSI SDK has a list of
reasons why: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371608(VS.85).aspx.
It's rather specific to DLLs but the same applies to anything that registers
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> The Installer class is an anti-pattern in setup. You shouldn't use it for
> anything.
Could you expand on this?
Speaking purely as an end-user, I will make the following observations:
1) Windows services should be able to be installed usin
The Installer class is an anti-pattern in setup. You shouldn't use it for
anything.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Rune Moberg wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Thai-Hoa Nguyen
> wrote:
> > A way to solve this, I no longer use Wix / ServiceInstall. I used
> InstallUtil.exe instead. T
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Thai-Hoa Nguyen wrote:
> A way to solve this, I no longer use Wix / ServiceInstall. I used
> InstallUtil.exe instead. Then the database connection issue goes away.
> I'm wondering if there is another way to register the WCF service hosted by
> the windows servic
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