Post install processes aren't as professional as during-install processes.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:24 PM, John Bergman
wrote:
> What types of things are you needing to download? What about a post-install
> process that downloads what you need, perhaps something similar to NuGet?
>
> -Orig
What you seem to be asking for is a the ability to start an installation and
have it download some or all of the installation modules as needed.
This functionality is available in burn the new bootstrapper/chainer
technology in wix 3.6. You can split your installation up into several
headless MSIs
In my Wix file I have a component with a file as the key path and then
various registry keys, one write the version number.
When I create a patch, the file may not have changed but I still need to
update the version number in the registry.
How can I do this - I know if my install package is corre
If it were me, I'd put the registry key with the main exe for the product and
increment the build number of the exe's version resource in each build. That
way the registry key and the file key path would be rewritten during an
update.
This is assuming you can't read the version number from the msi
Eliminating the registry key would be high on my list of priorities also.
I wonder what purpose it serves and consider refactoring .
From: "Peter Shirtcliffe"
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:40 AM
To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML
Hi All,
I have created two cumulative patches (say patch1 and patch2 where patch2
supersedes patch1) with an additional custom action in patch2. I defined custom
actions in wix script file in following manner:
Patch1: Contains custom action that runs only on patch un-installation and code
in p
I cannot remove the registry key, it's required for version checking and
remote software update checks.
So I need a way to update it when applying a patch.
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com]
Sent: 22 September 2011 15:50
To: General discussion for Windo
Can you open up the msi in Inst-Ed or orca or something similar, view patch1
with it and note the sequence number of the custom action in the install
execute sequence. Then do the same for the second patch.
Judging from the error message these two numbers will be different
(presumably because of
I have never experienced this scenario because we have an automated deployment
and smoke test suite that executes immediately after a build. Things that are
not tested by our automated smoke test are tested by our QA people who test
installers built by our automated build. They uncover anything
Hi,
I'm compiling some merge modules in Visual Studio and getting no ICE errors,
even though I get ICE errors when validating the resulting msm in Orca. The
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa372423(v=vs.85).aspx
Using Internal Consistency Evaluators page on MSDN talks ab
Again, thanks for all the tips.
I'm setting my .wixproj project up now and have gotten to the point where I
need to pass the version number from the TFS build in. You said it "takes a
little bit more work": how did you end up doing that?
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Painter [ma
I created a custom Activity that created a Wix Include file. I had it just
write the file new each time. The contents of our file looks like this
Then I just included it in all the wix markup to use it. Its pretty straight
forward. I probably wrote more to the file tha
Hello,
Is there a way in WIX (2.0) how to enforce z-order of Controls displayed on a
Dialog?
While designing a MSI dialog, I came upon a situation where the GroupBox
control is partially hiding a RadioButton Control. This goes away once I hover
over the radio buttons but reappears every time th
Hi,
Just to throw out an alternative way of getting the TFS build number into you
version data here's how I did it:
http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2009/11/09/tfs-2010-build-number-and-assembly-file-versions-completely-in-sync-with-only-msbuild-4-0.aspx
http://www.wintellect.
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