I just wanted to report that writing a BA with .NET 2.0 and WinForms works very well. That was the requirement I just completed and I had no troubles at all with a very complicated BA.
The only drawback was that I was so used to .NET 4 constructs that I felt naked going back to .NET 2.0. :) John Wintellect http://www.wintellect.com +1-877-968-5528 -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 10:31 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What is the purpose of the MbaNetfxPackageId and MbaPreqPackageName variables The managed BA host (MBA) definitely supports .NET 3.5. Remember, you don't use the MBA unless you are writing your BA in managed code. I wrote the WiX toolset's BA in managed code to demonstrate how it can be done and I like .NET Framework 4.0 so I chose to write the BA using it. If you would rather write WinForms on .NET Framework 2.0 it should work just fine. Of course, if you think requiring the .NET Framework to be installed so that your bootstrapper can load is silliness then you can use the Wixstdba (which works supports WinXP SP2+) or write your own in native code. We would never do something as silly as REQUIRE a native application to install the .NET Framework just to use the WiX toolset's bootstrapper, Burn. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote: > On 06-Jul-11 13:26, Roy Chastain wrote: > > Are you trying to tell me that the Burn bootstrapper REQUIRES .NET > > 4.0 to run? > > No, it doesn't require any version of .NET. Obviously, if you want to > use a managed BA, .NET is required and as I said above: > > > note that the current managed BA has only supported > > (tested/validated) .NET 4, not 3.5. > > It might all work just fine but there might also be bugs because of > the different versions. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is > seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
