Validation works for us but you did mention that the Windows Installer service
was disabled which I guess accounts for this - do you know why this would be
disabled?
I am not sticking up for TFS, it has some good points but in general I believe
there are much better alternatives.
Personally I'd go for (a) - I have had to do something similar for an old WISE
authored product.
Can you run the uninstall on the MSI and then run the exe to do the final
clean-up? You could then author the bundle as normal for the MSI/TRANSFORM/MSP
and the write a custom exe or msi to just
Ya, and I know plenty of developers who believe NSIS is a better solution
then WiX / MSI. That cynical comment aside, sure TFS is not the best in
terms of feature by feature comparison.
I've been using TFS since 2006 and IMO if you are a Visual Studio shop with
a mature, established process,
Since two people have already noted this is really hackish, I think the way
to get a) is:
1. Mark the MsiPackage/@Permanent='yes'. That will prevent uninstall.
2. Make the ExePackage/@DetectCondition true even though the MSI is not yet
installed. That way Burn thinks there is nothing to do on
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sure
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: March-01-13 6:09 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] sql ce deployment
Steven, would you be interested in contributing the SQL CE
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Here is what I use to install .NET and MainInstall:
Chain
PackageGroupRef Id=Netfx4Full/
MsiPackage Id=MainInstall
DisplayName=$(var.ProductName)
SourceFile=$(var.OutDir)MYCORP_Setup.msi
Thanks, this led me to the correct answer for me:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jslwin/
Hopefully it works for anyone else trying to do the same thing!
Alain
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com]
Sent: February 18, 2013 12:37
To: General discussion
Thanks Guys.
It kind of reminds me of my last interview
Would you, can you, repackage an MSI?
Well, the text book answer is No; that's what transforms are for.
However, just because someone created an installer using MSI doesn't mean
they didn't do such a horrible job that sometimes
I hope they at least get a bug and are regularly told what they are doing
is wrong from all of their customers. I know no other option but peer
pressure and (possibly empty) threat of moving to a competitor's product
that *does* install sanely.
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Christopher Painter
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