On 12/5/06, David Thielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I take it I would have to use the VS installer instead of WIX? We can't
do that as we use a lot of WIX functionality that does not exist in the VS
installer.
AFAIK, no you don't have to abandon WiX
check out the following links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/Bootstrapper/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/custom_pkg.asp
hth,
Simon
I wish WIX had this capability…
Thanks - dave
David Thielen
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*From:* Erv Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:12 AM
*To:* David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* RE: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
Visual Studio also includes a bootstrapper that can install your
prerequisites and then launch your setup. It can get the prereqs from your
local CD, or if you are mostly a downloaded product, it can download the
prereqs from the official microsoft site when/if they are needed.
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Michael Osmond
*Sent:* Monday, December 04, 2006 8:33 PM
*To:* David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
Dave,
You could have a look at the "Microsoft Component Installer" (PSetup). It
provides a bootstrap that will install your redistributables and then your
app. The redistributables can be got from local source or the web.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994369.aspx
Michael
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *David Thielen
*Sent:* Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:03 PM
*To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
Hi;
We have had feedback from 4 potential customers that having .NET 2.0 as a
prerequisite with the message taking them to the download made our installer
"too difficult and too complicated" (and note - these are programmers!)
So we need to have installing the .NET framework (and J# redist) as an
automatic part of our install. So my questions are:
1) Is it better to have the redist in our install, or have it that when
they click Next it downloads it and runs it automatically?
2a) If it's include it, anything special we have to do to have this in our
installer?
2b) If it's download and run, how do we set that up to go?
thanks - dave
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