hi guys, thanks for that, we will look into the setupbld options for bootstrapping
yes the protocol handler is just registry keys, i couldnt find a clean example of creating registry keys within registry keys int the tutorial. cheers, barry Re: [WiX-users] installing Outlook Primary Interop Assemblies From: Rob Mensching <rob.mensch...@mi...> - 2009-01-15 15:57 1. That's exactly what setupbld was designed for. It doesn't support many more scenarios than that today. In WiX v3.5 burn will be much more powerful. 2. Isn't a protocol handler just a set of registry keys? You just use the RegistryKey/RegistryValue elements to write the keys based on MSDN, right? -----Original Message----- From: Rainer Stropek [mailto:rai...@so...] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 23:32 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] installing Outlook Primary Interop Assemblies Hi Barry! I had a similar problem with the Outlook PIA (in my case version 2007). I solved it by building a bootstrapper that firstly installs the PIA and then our application. It works fine! Here is how you can do it: 1. Get the Office PIA Redistributable (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=59DAEBAA-BED4-4282 -A28C-B864D8BFA513&displaylang=en) 2. Extract the o2007PIA.msi file 3. Create the msi file for you app 4. Create the bootstrapper (e.g. in a post-build event): "c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\setupbld.exe" -out "$(TargetDir)MyInstaller.exe" -mcs "$(ProjectDir)Chained_Msi\o2007pia.msi" -mcs "$(TargetPath)" -setup "c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\setup.exe" -title MyApp If Office PIA is not available on the computer on which you install the resulting exe, it will be installed. If it is already there the Office Redist will note that and do nothing. Unfortunately I cannot help with the custom protocol handler, sorry. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Rainer. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Barry Larkin <barrylar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi There, > I am looking into using WIX instead of the standard windows setup and > deployment project for the deployment of a solution to one of our clients > in work. > (The appication interacts with outlook using the outlook interop assemblies > and is written in c# VS.NET 2005). > > I have read through the tutorial and I have installed WIX 3. > > the application i want to install will need to > 1. check for the .net framework and install if version not present. > 2. check for office 2003/xp PIA assemblies and install of not present > 3. add a custom protol handler to the registry > > Can anyone point me in the right direction for information on creating some > kind of bootstrap installer for .net and the PIA asssemblies. > > Also i am having some difficulties with creating nested registry entries. i > cannot seem to get the correct syntax for creating registry keys within > registry keys > > my application needs to define a custom protocol handler in the registry: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914(VS.85).aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914%28VS.85%29.aspx> > if anyone could show me how to create these registry enties using wix i > would be very grateful! > > Kind regards, > Barry > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
