Hi, I've been looking at developing a custom managed bootstrapper application, based on the examples in the following articles:
http://wrightthisblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/part-1-of-writing-your-own-net-based.html http://bryanpjohnston.com/2012/09/28/custom-wix-managed-bootstrapper-application/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2011/10/28/introducing-managed-bootstrapper-applications.aspx These seem to use the ManagedBootstrapperApplicationHost, which does a few things around checking for and installing .NET. I'd like to know if I can customize this behaviour (or perhaps even remove it). My understanding of how this works is that there are actually two bootstrappers - an unmanaged one which checks for .NET, and installs it if necessary (but is generally hidden from the developer), and a managed one which is the actual install. This has caused some concerns amongst our team. One of these concerns was the slightly more painful debugging experience, because the process which would get launched is not the 'real' process which we want to debug. There are tricks you can use (Heath Stewart described a way of setting up Global Flags to first break into the first one, F5 to continue, then break into the managed code) but it seemed like it would be simpler if the bootstrapper project could just kick out the managed bootstrapper output on its own without the unmanaged bootstrapper getting in the way (at least for debugging purposes). The second concern was whether we can customize the unmanaged bootstrapper at all, changing the logo, descriptive text, and perhaps also changing the action to show an error rather than installing .NET automatically. Are these things possible? I was thinking that we could build a WixStdBA bootstrapper which calls our managed bootstrapper. Thanks John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/12124-176961-30367-2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
