Re: [WiX-users] Chained Installation

2014-04-25 Thread Phill Hogland
If the bundle determines that a package should be installed, then it downloads the package to a local folder and installs it. You can specify whether you want the package cached locally, but the recommended practice (as I have read elsewhere) is to leave the cache attribute unspecified and let bur

Re: [WiX-users] Chained Installation

2014-04-25 Thread Prantik Sarmah
Hi Phill, When I use the DownloadUrl attribute, does the chainedproduct.msi get actully downloaded to the user's machine or is it installed from the remote location? Thanks & Regards, Prantik Sarmah On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Prantik Sarmah < prantik.sar...@grapecity.com> wrote: > Than

Re: [WiX-users] chained installation

2014-04-23 Thread Phill Hogland
I am in the process of doing a similar conversion, and am very happy with the wix model of moving the UI to the bootstrapper application and having smaller MSI packages for each application (or feature), chained. So I can add my 2 cents, and others can provide more details. When you use the Cha

Re: [WiX-users] Chained Installation

2014-04-21 Thread Prantik Sarmah
Thank you. It works now. Thanks & Regards, Prantik Sarmah On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Phill Hogland wrote: > Use something along these lines: > Vital='yes' > Compressed='no' > DownloadUrl="http://10.64.2.42/t/Products/{2}"; >

Re: [WiX-users] Chained Installation

2014-04-21 Thread Phill Hogland
Use something along these lines: http://10.64.2.42/t/Products/{2}"; SourceFile='path_to_I1\I1.msi' InstallCondition='evaluatetes_to_1 = 1' > SourcePath is the location of your package at build time. DownloadURL is the location where you