I thinks it's learning to use the API of C++ burn that’s the hurdle. Especially since an installer is fairly important to get right. I've been putting off creating a custom BA because of lack of docs. Eventually I will and at that time I can provide a tutorial if it's still useful. Even with a tutorial there is a lot of info and best practices that you miss. Creating installers is a small part of my job unfortunately.
But I can understand why Rob encourages contributors to code/docs it wouldn't be economic to produce a book I think. Wes -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: September-18-13 4:42 PM To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? On my 5 year old machine it takes 5 minutes to build all of the WiX toolset source. That isn't *that* long is it? Seems like a reasonable amount of time to build a project of our size. There is documentation in the WiX.chm with instructions how to build. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu> wrote: > Is there a tutorial somewhere on where to get the stock BA's source, > and how to make various changes to it? The only tutorial I found > involved cracking open Visual Studio, and seemed to involve > recompiling the whole source and...yeah, a big hurdle to jump. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 15:25 > To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? > > The stock BA is open source. You don't need to start from scratch, > just modify the stock one. > > -- > Nicolás > > 2013/9/18 Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu>: > > It just seems like going from the stock BA to rolling your own > > custom BA > just to either get rid of the UI or add a single text box, radio > button, or window/step seems extremely costly in time and effort for > what seems like a minor modification. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:40 > > To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML > toolset. > > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? > > > > I believe the mantra is don't use installer UI's, use a BA UI. As > such, if you need a custom UI then generate a BA to give the look and > feel that you want. The reasoning behind having a BA UI is so you can > have a single unified installation experience. Having a chain of 5 > MSI's all exposing their own UI's would result in a choppy and subpar user > experience. > > > > That being said, WiX is open source, so anyone is free to > > contribute > enhancements. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:31 AM > > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? > > > > There seems to be a lot of demand for more control over installer > > and > bootstrapper UIs. Just out of curiosity, is this being worked on for > future WiX releases? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:27 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Bootstrapper -- Can it be UI-less? > > > > Yes. You'd need to create a custom BA. > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:27 AM, nkshirsagar <nkshirsa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Rob and others on the mailing list! > >> > >> I'm wondering the same thing. I have a minimal UI msi that I've > >> customised slightly with logos and banners. I want this UI to run > >> immediately instead of the first screen that the botstrapper UI shows. > >> (licence agreement, etc). > >> The licence agreement gets shown twice as that screen is already in > >> my MSI UI. All I need the bootstrapper for, is to install .net 4.5 > >> if its not already present and then kick off my msi. > >> > >> Is there any way to achieve this ? > >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just > $49.99! > 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, > SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. 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