David,
For #1: The UI is _not_ configurable (with the exception of the title of the
dialog boxes).
The best way to structure this is to create a Self Extracting EXE that holds
the Setup.exe and your MSI. Configure the Self Extracting EXE to run
Setup.EXE when it is unpacked. ChilkatSoft.com offers a free tool to do
this:
http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ChilkatSfx.asp
The also offer a component you can use that offers a few more options.
For #2: In the GenerateBootstrapper element there is a Culture and
FallbackCulture attributes. These control the language. If you examine the
following directories:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages
you will see under each directory, like dotnetfx, a sub directory titled
"en" (if you're using english). If you examine the Package.xml file you'll
see the localized strings and the url's for the actual downloads.
It's a good question where/how to get the other languages (I don't know...
you could "brute force it" by installing VS2005 in a virtual PC in all the
languages you need).
If you need more than one language you will need to generate more than one
Setup.exe. It _ought_ to be simple enough to stuff each Setup.exe in a
subdirectory by culture (so you end up with en\Setup.exe, es\Setup.exe,
fr\Setup.exe and so on). You would then need a quick and dirty front end
that offers a "please pick language" facility and then invokes the
appropriate setup. Or you could just have separate downloads for each
language.
#3 and #4 are not handled by the GenerateBootstrapper at all. Generally
these sort of requirements are handled by your actual MSI. The general
scheme is to detect whether or not a requirement has been met and if not
display a message say "missing component X". For an improved user experience
you could show a single dialog that lists all the required components and
whether or not they are present (only show the dialog if at least one is
missing).
Detecting IIS is fairly easy in v3:
link with WixIIsExtension.dll and then the following "just works":
<PropertyRef Id="IISMAJORVERSION"/>
<Condition Message="IIS version 5 or 6 must be installed
([IISMAJORVERSION])">
Installed OR (IISMAJORVERSION = "#5" OR IISMAJORVERSION = "#6")
</Condition>
Not sure about Wix v2.
Hotfixes might not be too bad to detect if they show up in Add/Remove
Programs. If you can determine thee upgradecode/productcode for each hot
fix, then the <Upgrade> elements should be able to help... make sure
OnlyDetect is set though. Take a gawk at:
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php
Regards,
Rob
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Thielen
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:15 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] bootstrapper - final questions (I think)
First off - THANK YOU very much to everyone who helped and in particular Erv
Walter.
I think I have it working. A couple of questions:
1. If all the prerequisites exist and I use ApplicationUrl what happens
is a window pops up for a split second, goes away, and then nothing while it
is downloading. Then our program pops up. Is there some way to get a message
while this is happening, preferably with a status bar? Otherwise people are
going to think it just went away - especially if their download speed is
slow.
1. Note - this is only an issue if all prerequisites are already
installed. If a prerequisite needs to be installed then this download will
show with a status bar.
2. If that cannot be done, what's the best way to structure this? It
seems to me it is have a MSI that holds setup.exe and our MSI, it installs
both, runs setup.exe and it calls the other MSI locally at the end. But this
means we then have 2 MSIs and that's ugly. Any other approaches?
2. Any idea what to put in for the .NET 2.0 and J# 2.0 language packs?
3. Any idea what to put in to get the Office hotfixes (listed at
http://www.windwardreports.com/office_hotfix.htm) to install? Two of them
for Word 200/2002/2003 and one for Word 2003 only.
4. Any idea how to make IIS a prerequisite (sort-of essential for an
ASP.NET app).
Thanks - dave
David Thielen
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