Here is an article I wrote last year using ISHNMET.
http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2006/10/multiple-instance-msis-and.html
Basically ISHNMET automatically handles creating and streaming the instance
transform but I had to roll my own custom bootstrapper to `automagically`
handle servicing via a `install new or service existing` pattern that could
also handle small updates / minor upgrades. I've not gotten around to
implementing the ability to handle Major upgrades.
Sebastian Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
WiX cannot create Transform files. Yet. Rob? :-)
You will need to use another tool to create the transform files. MSDN
also has an article "Authoring Multiple Instances with Instance
Transforms" (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa367797.aspx)
which contains a list of what to actually include in the transforms
and what the original .msi has to concider.
Unfortunally it's not just a switch as is in the old setup days
(http://community.installshield.com/showthread.php?t=170406).
Best regards,
Sebastian Brand
Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com
On Jul 20, 2007, at 9:32 AM, md5hans wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I want my be able to run my installion several times on the same
> computer
> but with different input parameters. I have search the forum and
> found a
> couple of postings were "Multiple Instances with Instance
> Transforms" were
> suggested. Have anyony tries this? could anyone post an example? I
> have read
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa369528.aspx (Installing
> Multiple
> Instances with Instance Transforms) but I did not understan how
> this can be
> done in WIX
>
> What I want to accomplish is that the user can at install time give a
> directory path and that will control where the files shall be
> installed. In
> some cases the user want to run the installtion again but with
> another path
> (the same files will obviously be installed).
>
> My installation is more of an uppgrade installtion (it does not
> install a
> .exe) but were the same files included in the upgrade is usefull
> for more
> than one "part" of the installation that I want to uppgrade.
>
> /Hans
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