You definitely need a bootstrapper. http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com will do.
dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -----Original Message----- From: Cody Gibson [mailto:cgib...@artoftest.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:02 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Need to install 2 products at once Here's my problem: We offer 2 products to our customers. Product A works standalone. Product B relies on product A. Both products are owned by us (meaning we have total control of the source code and the installers). I am responsible for the installers. Currently both ship as .MSI's which are built using WiX. What I'm looking for is some way of having product A automatically installed (with default settings) when the customer goes to install product B. I haven't found a good solution for installing 2 .MSI's at once. According to Windows Installer documentation this is called Concurrent Installation, which is a deprecated, no longer supported feature. I haven't seen in their documentation an explicit statement saying what they replaced it with. Surely someone else has dealt with this type of problem. How did you solve it? Do recommend using Merge Modules? A bootstrapper? Or what? Both products are downloadable from our website. Is there a nice way to use that to our advantage here (though we still have to deal with customers who have machines that are not Internet accessible)? I'm not real keen of the idea of creating a merge module because that would mean I'm basically maintaining two installers for product A, one .MSI for public release and one .MSM just to be included into product B's .MSI. Another drawback I see to using a merge module (it appears I haven't actually tried it yet) is that it would end up showing only product B being installed in the Programs & Features (aka Add/Remove Programs) list instead of both products. I'm open to ideas please. Thanks, Cody ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
