The Windows Installer is owned by Windows. You'd need need to get hired by Microsoft and work for the Windows Installer team to build this functionality into the Windows Installer? Burn is a bootstrapper/chainer that is part of the WiX toolset ( http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/7/14/Lets-talk-about-Burn). Downloading is already part of it. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any plans to build this in? > > If you can send me some pointers in the right direction I might give a go > myself > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> > wrote: > > The Windows Installer doesn't support doing that natively. This is one > (of > > several things) that Burn is for. > > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> Good evening, > >> > >> How do I download packages automatically (showing progress bar) during > >> install? > >> > >> (I've done this using NSIS, just wondering if it's possible in WiX) > >> > >> Thanks for all suggestions, > >> > >> Alec Taylor > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> WiX-users mailing list > >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > Learn about the latest advances in developing for the > BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. > See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 > _______________________________________________ > 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 the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
