Re: [WiX-users] Using a Bundle for Prerequisites

2012-06-28 Thread manishshirsat
hii Dave, As you said u are looking for a way to create a boostrapper that checks if the prerequisiites exist, installs any that are missing, and then launches my setup.exe and gets out of the way. You can achieve this by searching the values that let you know about the prerequisiites are

Re: [WiX-users] Using a Bundle for Prerequisites

2012-06-28 Thread David Mannion
Hi Manishshirsat, I actually was able to do the prerequisite checking and it worked like a charm. The part that was very odd to me was that the bundle was registering itself in addition to my main application. So, if the user uninstalled my main application from Add/Remove programs and then

Re: [WiX-users] Using a Bundle for Prerequisites

2012-06-25 Thread David Mannion
. Thanks again, Dave -- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:17:38 -0700 From: Rob Mensching r...@robmensching.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using a Bundle for Prerequisites To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

[WiX-users] Using a Bundle for Prerequisites

2012-06-22 Thread David Mannion
I'm trying to use the Wix Standard Bootstrapper Application to install two system prerequisites before my main application installation, which is already compiled into an Setup.exe. How can I prevent the bundle from being registered as a separate product. I am using the DisableModify and

Re: [WiX-users] Using a Bundle for Prerequisites

2012-06-22 Thread Rob Mensching
As you've found, Burn is not intended to be used this way. The old setupexe/setupbld in WiX v3.5 basically does that. I'm sure there are other things that do this. Not a lot too it. Burn solves the problem of creating a unified installation experience across many installation packages. On Fri,