Thanks for the info. I'm sure this "can" be done. I'm trying to work out the best way to move forwards and be able to produce a proof-of-concept that shows it.
If the wix toolset will get me 80% (or more) of the way there then I can most likely hammer away at the remaining small issues until I get them worked out. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gendelman, Yuri Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:38 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Generate MSI during install Hello Phil, You can create 2 separate WiX projects, for a server, and for a client. Than add a Custom Action to the first one (server), which will launch a batch file for compiling and linking the second one (client). MBR, Yuri -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:05:47 -0400 From: "Phil Sayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [WiX-users] Generate MSI during install To: <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'm doing some planning for moving from our existing xcopy based deployment to msi (hopefully with wix) based installs. Our application is written in .net framework 2.0 We have a client & server that need to be deployed with separate MSI's. The server side of the application consists of a bunch of dll files and an IIS hosted remoting server. I'd love to be able to "touch" or "generate" the client MSI as part of the server installation, based on information entered by a network admin as part of the server MSI install. This way the client side of the application would already have server name, ip address, remoting endpoints written into it's config file and the end user woudln't need to enter that info as part of the client install. I'm new to Wix, but I have been lurking on this list for the last 6 months or so. Is this something i can do with Wix? Has anyone done something like this? Thanks Phil ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
