Hi,
I'm trying to recreate an old installshield installer with WiX (I'm still new
to both WiX and Windows Installer). The idea is that the 'core' platform and
the 'apps' section of our program will be split into essentially two serperate
programs with the 'core' part being a prerequisite to install the 'apps'. This
is being done so that each part can be upgraded and patched on its own schedule.
At the moment i'm thinking the only way for this to happen is to have a
seperate msi for each part so obviously I need some kind of bootstrapper or
chainer.
I keep reading that MsiEmbeddedChainer in MSI 4.5 supports chaining multiple
msi's but I can't really find any useful documentation approaching from the WiX
side of things.
Ideally I'd like for the end-user to only see one install process (would be
nice if status message's/overall UI could be controlled). I hear this could be
something to do with 'MsiSetExternalUI' but again, don't know how to approach
this from the WiX side of things.
My questions are:
1) Does EmbeddedChainer suit what I want?
2) If so, is there any examples anywhere of how to use it. Does it need custom
actions or do you literally just pass in another msi (can it even take in
msi's?)
Cheers guys.
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