There's much more than that involved. For example, Burn registers itself with ARP and hides the installed product(s). In an instance transform world, this means that: 1) the ARP entry displayed in Control Panel might not be what you expect; 2) only the first instance will be have any ARP entry at all.
-- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer -- ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r) Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Crumbling [mailto:lcrumbl...@kioware.com] Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 8:32 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Instances and Burn If the MSI engine is what's performing the actual transform, and all that the bootstrapper is doing is requesting the operation, does the main issue in implementing the feature really just come down to component detection? I assumed you'd need to be able to detect each possible transform? The MSI engine knows whether a given transform is installed, but is that API exposed? - Lynn -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 5:34 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Instances and Burn Correct. No one has contributed support for instance transforms yet. It's a non-trivial feature request. <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Crumbling [mailto:lcrumbl...@kioware.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 1:42 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Multiple Instances and Burn I've read a lot of threads, all of which seem to burn not yet having support for Instance Transforms. This is a bit of a bummer, as I've already authored the MSI with the transforms, and just need a bootstrapper for [.net, sql ce, target iis website selection (install only), instance selection (removal only)]. As a starting point for this thread, am I correct about the lack of support in burn? If so, I'm going to go the route of using burn purely for the purposes of a UI for manually launching a command line composed of msiexec with a bunch of parameters, unless someone can suggest another approach. - Lynn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
