In the underlying complexity, I'm sure SQL 2005 is more complex than
Exchange 2007. The prerequisite detection, user interface, and
installation customization (and how they pass information on to the
MSIs) of all of these Microsoft bootstrappers are amazing. It'd be nice
to have generic forms of each, for sure.
We're looking to wrap all of our products and add-ons into individual
WiX-based MSIs, with an Exchange 2007-style localized bootstrapper as
the CD autorun for installation. I've done some research into companies
that might offer toolkits to do this, but there really are none. It'd
make WiX, and Windows Installer in general, all the better if this sort
of thing was available.
Joel Peterson
Quality Assurance Engineer
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:21 PM
To: Peterson, Joel; David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
I talk to those teams regularly (SQL is more interesting than Exchange,
IMHO). The trick is how to take their very specialized solutions and
make them generic enough to solve all of the different problems we all
face here. That, and often their solutions need to be scaled (down)
such to be more useful by "smaller applications".
From: Peterson, Joel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:58
To: Rob Mensching; David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
Get some examples from the Office, Exchange, and Visual Studio teams,
and you're set. Their bootstrappers are awesome.
Joel Peterson
Quality Assurance Engineer
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Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:04 AM
To: David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
On my todo list. You can see the beginnings of a bootstrapper in WiX
v3. I've actually taken a detour away from that project for a month or
so to get the v2 CustomActions stable so that we can stick a fork in WiX
v2 and call it done. Then I'll go back to the WiX v3 bootstrapper.
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Thielen
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 09:25
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
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.
I wish WIX had this capability...
Thanks - dave
David Thielen
www.windwardreports.com
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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]
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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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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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