Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

of actually use some kind of setup.exe bootstrapper. I have never purchased any boxed software, for example, and launched an msi directly. The setup.exe can detect if a minor upgrade needs to be launched and adjust the command line accordingly. -Original Message- From: Adam Connelly [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

I'm keen to avoid doing that since it means creating the bootstrapper. It just doesn't seem quite right to me to have to do that. Thanks for the suggestion, but I think for now I'll stick to changing the product Id. Do you know if there's any undesirable side effects to doing this? Cheers,

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

18:04 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding? Product/@Id=* -Original Message- From: Adam Connelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 06:24

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

The project I'm working on at the moment uses a build server to automatically build our installers, etc. As part of this, it provides the version number to the installer. Therefore, every publish we do (and in fact every checkin of source) is a different version of the product. This means

[WiX-users] Basing a dialog sequence on WixUI_Minimal

Hi, I'm building an installer and it was going good until I wanted to add a new dialog. I now want my installer to be able to install some extensions into a third party application directory, and therefore want to have a dialog that allows users to specify the installation directory. I'm

[WiX-users] Database selection dialog

Hi, Just wondering if Wix has anything built in that allows a user to select an Sql server database (with windows / sql authentication, etc). I'm sure I've seen this in installs before (something similar to the connect dialog in management studio). If not, I take it that I have to write

Re: [WiX-users] Database selection dialog

. Chris On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Adam Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just wondering if Wix has anything built in that allows a user to select an Sql server database (with windows / sql authentication, etc). I'm sure I've seen this in installs before (something similar

Re: [WiX-users] Automatically setting version number

? ?define Version = 1.23.4 ? ?endif ? Product Id=* Version=$(var.Version) etc... Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Adam Connelly Sent: Fri 18/07/2008 11:30 To: wix

[WiX-users] Wix and MSBuild

Hi, I currently trying to add a task into my MSBuild file that will create the various MSI files needed for the project. I've got the following file structure: Root/ Build.xml Code/ Deploy/ ProjA ProjB Installs/ ProjA.wxs Sorry if that's not amazingly clear.

Re: [WiX-users] Wix and MSBuild

I actually sorted the problem (a typo :(). I would still be interested to find out how others structure their projects. Adam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Connelly Sent: 17 July 2008 11:19 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Wix and MSBuild

] On Behalf Of Adam Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:29 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix and MSBuild I actually sorted the problem (a typo :(). I would still be interested to find out how others structure