Here's my reply to an earlier thread, "Execute an MSI within an MSI":
You can, but not in a very nice way. You can run pretty much anything as an arbitrary custom action. I think there was a custom action for running another MSI file, but this might have been removed. The problem is that only one installation can run the server-side script that actually makes changes to the system. This means you have to schedule the second MSI outside this part of the installation, which in turn means you've lost all hope of performing a full, proper rollback if things go wrong. This is why most stuff like this is done with a bootstrapper, so that you can check if each installation succeeded or not before proceeding with the next one. Rob Damien Karkinsky wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to run an msi file from within WiX to install a third > party component that only comes as an msi > > Dom > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
