Bob, thanks for the pointer to transforms; that's definitely simpler than what
I was planning to do, but only a little bit. Someday I'll find the time to
RTentireFM. In short, I still need to wrap the installer in another app. *pout*
Christopher, that's basically what my poorly worded question was. Thanks for
stating it more clearly than I did!
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 17:05
To: Bob Arnson; David Reed (MCS - HOUSTON)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Side-by-side installation question
But does WiX support this? InstallShield has a table called
ISProductConfigurationInstance that looks something like InstanceId, Property
Value. By populating this table you tell InstallShield to build and embed
into Storage a series of ProductCode changing transforms. At a minimum I
typcially override atleast 3 properties in each transform: ProductCode,
ProductName and InstanceId.
I also wrote a custom bootstrapper to simplfy servicing the multiple instances
and I write about it here:
http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2006/10/multiple-instance-msis-and.html
If WiX's schema and compiler don't support building and streaming these
transforms ( I never looked so I don't know ) then you can do it as a post
build step like you have to with Visual Studio Deployment Projects. I
recently had a client come to me who had written a Visual Studio Web Deployment
Project and I found that you could make it work with multiple instance by
patching several of the tables, building and streaming the transforms and
using my bootstrapper to service it. I know it's a hack, but that's what
the client wants and the money is good for paying medical bills.
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Reed (MCS - HOUSTON) wrote:
> Can anyone validate/verify that my hard knocks larnin' to be accurate? It
> appears that ProductName and ProductID cannot be modified by manipulating
> properties within WiX to allow multiple instances of the same product.
>
MSI supports multiple product instances using transforms. See
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369528.aspx.
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