MSINEWINSTANCE is certainly required during install, so you could define the MsiProperty value as a variable that is 1 if the package is not already installed and 0 otherwise. But this does seem like a better fit as an actual Burn feature where instanced products are installed with this property set automatically or by user action.
Heath Stewart VS Pro Deployment Experience, Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 4:20 PM To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list Cc: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Creating MultiTransform msi using wix. What happens if you use a burn variable for the value of the msiproperty Element. Then you can give it a value of 0 for repair and remove. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:56 PM, "jeamis" <jonathan.a...@intergraph.com> wrote: > I figured out why we are having to use MSINEWINSTANCE=1 to install. Which > is killing us on Uninstall and repair etc.... WIX InstanceTransforms. > Microsoft doesn't think this should be required to install. But I cannot > install one transform without it. And then in wix I cannot uninstall > or repair if I use the MSINEWINSTANCE setting in my bootstrapper. > > So the idea is to install our msi passing in the application information > needed to register the objects for the application that is using our msi. > But currently we have InstanceTransform table defined. > > Can you create a multitransform msi with using InstanceTransforms? If I > remove the InstanceTransform table will this do the trick? One of the > requirements is mulitple applications that would use our msi should be able > to install on one machine. Will not having the instance transform table > cause an issue? (I am thinking yes.) > > Since I am new to Wix/Installer, I am wondering how that is done? The > Instance element requires ProductCode. I don't want to supply a > product code...I want the application using our msi to handle it's > product code, I am hoping that there is some means that the > application bootstrapper can own the msi in some way. > > > In Wix, I see there is a InstanceTransform and I don't want to redefine that > productcode. I am told by Microsoft that it is possible to have > multitransform msi that does not change the productcode. > > Well, anyone have any ideas I would love it. > > > > ----- > - jon > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Creating > -MultiTransform-msi-using-wix-tp7584138.html > Sent from the wix-devs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The > Forrester > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in > the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right > partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-devs mailing list > WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
