[WiX-users] Installing Windows Features with Burn

[Neil Sleightholm]

This has come up a couple of times recently so here is my solution.

Create a stub application to run ocsetup e.g.:

namespace OcsRunner
{
    using System;
    using System.Diagnostics;

    public class Program
    {
        public static int Main(string[] args)
        {
            var startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();

            startInfo.FileName = "ocsetup.exe";
            startInfo.Arguments = String.Join(" ", args) + " /norestart /quiet";
            startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
            startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;

            var p = new Process();
            p.StartInfo = startInfo;
            p.Start();
            p.WaitForExit();

            return p.ExitCode;
        }
    }
}

Call this from your bundle like this:

<?define Win2k8ServerR2 = (VersionNT = v6.1 AND NOT (NTProductType = 1)) ?>

  <Fragment>
    <util:RegistrySearch Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Net Framework 
Setup\NDP\v3.5" Value="Version" Variable="Netfx35Version" />
      <!-- Use Ocsetup on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2008 R2 -->
      <ExePackage Id="NetFx35OcsSetup"
        DisplayName=".NET Framework 3.5"
        Cache="no"
        Compressed="yes"
        PerMachine="yes"
        Permanent="yes"
        Vital="yes"
        Name="Redist\OcsRunner.exe"
        SourceFile="Packages\OcsRunner.exe"
        InstallCommand="NetFx3"
        DetectCondition="Netfx35Version AND (Netfx35Version &gt;= v3.5.30729.1)"
        InstallCondition="(VersionNT &gt;= v6.2) OR $(var.Win2k8ServerR2)">
        <ExitCode Value ="3010" Behavior="forceReboot" />
      </ExePackage>
  </Fragment>

This example installs .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 8 but you 
can replace the InstallCommand and DetectCondition to install other features.

Neil

Neil Sleightholm
X2 Systems Limited
n...@x2systems.com<mailto:n...@x2systems.com>

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