Hey Guys,
Although I cannot commit to a time line right now, I do have the following
plans if all continues as schedule.
1. We are working on hosting the CLR for our team's consumption. If we get
something usable in place that the WiX team will accept then we will hand it
over.
2. Not sure how, or if we will handle this currently, but my thoughts were
to show the passive install UI for .NET. We will be writing that in native
code.
4. I believe the plan is no (as of now), there will not be different entry
points. You will need to detect the system state to figure what you would
like to do. From point #3, however, there is one key you can be set where
you could pass in a command line value you expect as uninstall
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{PRODUCT-GUID}\UninstallString).
Hope this helps,
Brian Rogers
"Intelligence removes complexity." - Me
http://icumove.spaces.live.com
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> jhennessey wrote:
> > 1. I remember reading that burn will allow you to provide a custom UI
> .dll.
> > If this is still the case, can this be a .Net assembly?
>
> Not unless somebody does the work to host the CLR. Burn has to be native
> code so we can support installing .NET.
>
> > 2. Assuming that the answer to number 1 was "yes", will burn first allow
> the
> > installation of prerequisites (like the .Net Framework) before loading
> the
> > UI .dll?
> >
>
> See #1 and add "only if someone makes a CLR host that first shows
> native-only UI to bootstrap .NET."
>
> > 3. Will burn provide built-in functionality to allow the bootstrapper to
> be
> > launched from the Add/Remove programs applet (kind of like how the Visual
> > Studio installer launches its bootstrapper)?
> >
>
> Built-in? No. The right way to do it is by installing your Burn .exe so
> you can write the ARP overrides and service the chainer itself.
>
> > 4. Will burn allow you to specify different UI entrypoints for modify and
> > remove scenarios (or will you just have to code the detection logic
> yourself
> > like in an external UI)?
> >
>
> Dunno.
>
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