Thank you, but my user base can install click-once prerequisites. Security is not the problem today. The problem is that the 3rd party redistributable is in the form of a setup.exe, with accompanying supporting sub-directories and multiple .msi files. I need to take all the files together, package them, deliver them, and then execute the setup.exe silently from my own installer. I would be ok on my own if the 3rd party files were embedded in a single file, but they are not.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you, Andy Moyer -----Original Message----- From: Marek Mielcarek [mailto:mmielca...@actuate.com] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 6:55 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] simple re-packaging of a 3rd party redistributable -- fixed link to screen shot I am sorry, I hit "sent" before finishing the answer. A vanilla/plain version of your problem goes like trhis: "how to install a 3rd party distributable using click-once deployment". As I already pointed before, this is is security issue. You can deliver (virtually) any binary to users host but you need user with "admin" privilege to execute successful installation. Provided your 3rd party piece is available as msi or exe or zip you do not need wix to re-wrap it msi. Instead you can easily push it to client-side as embedded resource that you write to local folder at execution time. After that you can launch that (locally saved) resource but as soon as you do that your user has to be admin to succeed. This is the essential explanation of your problem and, if I correctly understand it, you do not even need wix and Your challenge is related to security. Thanks Original Message From: Moyer, Andy Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 21:12 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Reply To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] simple re-packaging of a 3rd party redistributable -- fixed link to screen shot Hi All, Sorry about the link on my previous email. This one should work. Please, I need help. I have a 3rd party redistributable on which my vb.net 2012 application is dependent. I've attached a link to a screen shot of the files that make up the redistributable. Screen capture: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=CA08CB94DCE2E3E7%211376 The point of the link is to show that the payload is a setup.exe with supporting folders and files, that the setup.exe depends on, i.e. it is not a single setup.exe file, it is with dependent directories and files, and that's where I get lost. The 3rd party redistributable fully supports a silent install, I've tested it with a command prompt. Ultimately, I deploy my apps with click-once, so my goal is to bundle this 3rd party redist as a prerequisite to my click-once app-I can handle that on my own once I have a tidy bundle. What I need help with is, how can I make an .msi or .exe that bundles up all the files shown in the attached screen shot, such that when the new .msi or .exe is ran, it invokes the payload setup.exe (the 3rd party redist) with command line args that will make it run silently. (please not the setup.exe needs the rest of the files shown to run properly.) I really need help with this, I'm trying to deploy an app I've been working on for a while and now I've lost another week because I can't put together a seamless installer for this 3rd party redist. To sum it up another way, I want to wrap the 3rd party redist (shown in the attached screen shot) within my own windows installer package, such that the 3rd party redist is installed silently as part of my own windows installer package. Thank you very much, Andy Moyer _____________________________ This message, including any attachments, may include privileged, confidential and/or inside information. Any distribution or use of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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