Re: [WiX-users] Multiple instance support

2008-09-29 Thread shawny
Rob Hamflett wrote: It can be done as long as the ProductCode is different for each instance, but why would you want to? Rob I think a perfect scenario for using instances is when you have a single product that must be installed independently for individual clients. So lets say I

Re: [WiX-users] Wix multiple installs

2008-09-29 Thread shawny
chrpai wrote: Actually this is possible with multiple instance transforms if you follow a few simple design guides. I discuss it in detail on my blog. InstallShield has custom tables to teach the build engine to generate and embed these tables and I've recently written some XML

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple instance support

2008-09-29 Thread shawny
Rob Mensching-2 wrote: WiX supports all of the things the Windows Installer supports. Multi-instance is supported by the Instance element. Also, to be precise the issues you are struggling with is whether the *Windows Installer* is the right engine for your installation. The WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Instance Transforms Walkthrough, Proposed Simple Addition to WiX to Make Them Easier

2008-09-16 Thread shawny
This is great and exactly along the lines of what I'm trying to do. Can you post the whole wix file? And how have you approached the instance issue in respect to having to declare MyInstance1, MyInstance2, etc in the project? Is there a way to dynamically generate that? - Dont believe