Hi all, I've been successfully using WiX for a long time now and I'm very happy with it. Many thanks for all the effort you are putting into this project.
Currently I'm using WiX together with a standard Visual Studio bootstrapper for .NET and other prerequisites. I want to replace this with Burn which seems to be a very nice solution. All is working very good and using Burn is mostly straightforward. But one thing bothers me: There seems to be no standard way for dealing with files in use and especially together with the restart manager. Burn will by default always trigger a restart/ask for restarting if something is in use. For normal applications this is very annoying for users. Additionally if I remember correctly there was a Windows logo requirement which disallows this practice. Therefore I'm currently trying to extend the standard bootstrapper application (unmanaged) with "files in use" and restart manager capabilities. My current understanding is that this is not possible for an bootstrapper application without changing the engine. E.g. it seems OnExecuteFilesInUse() is never called for MSI packages; not even thinking about the Windows installer message INSTALLMESSAGE_RMFILESINUSE for using restart manager. I'm no windows installer or WiX guru, but when looking at the Burn source there is no message filter added for either INSTALLLOG_FILESINUSE or (if supported by the installer version) INSTALLLOGMODE_RMFILESINUSE when the external UI is initialized. But I might be missing something here. I've started playing around with the Burn 3.7 source (because it's using MSBuild only) and got the messages working, but there are other side effects. E.g. the engine will always suppress results from the UI trying to pass only expected values back to the installer; but in case of the restart manager there are more possibilities which are not included into the message. I just wanted to ask what the plans are for supporting this functionality or if I'm totally going into the wrong direction and there is an obvious solution I'm not aware of. Thanks for reading! Yours sincerely, Georg von Kries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
