Hello, I'm working on an installer that requires numerous roles and features to be enabled. If those components are not available, the system, consisting of web applications, MSMQ, and SMTP server will fail to install, never mind run.
Does WIX 3.6 support checking whether a Windows feature is installed? If not, what is the most appropriate manner to implement such a check? What comes to mind is to create a WIX extension, with a custom action that reads a MSI table to check whether the feature is available or not and fail with an appropriate message when its not. Are there tutorials showing how to write a sample WIX extension? However, if one were to chain several such MSIs together, isn't it perhaps more appropriate that such checking be done by bootstrapper created using burn? If that is the case, are there any tutorials/samples how to check for prerequisites without checking the registry? In this case we can use WMI to query Win23_ServerFeature whether a feature/role is installed or not. Thanks, Werner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
