"Folks like me," meaning people who have minuscule experience programming in
VBScript or C++. I pretty much started learning to program in C# back in
2002, graduated last year, and am currently working as a C#/ASP.NET
developer. Of course I could embark on a journey to learn C++, but I think
the rest of the world is moving to .NET, especially with the advent of C#
3.0 (LINQ), CLR 3.5, etc. I rather spend time on exploring new features of
C# 3.0 and CLR 3.5.
I am still a WIX newbie by any means - I hope I didn't offend you by saying
'people like me' :) In essence what I was trying to say is that folks who
excel in C# will be able to exploit WIX's features to a greater extent. Plus
I think if this happens, many developers will start adopting WIX right away.
I still have a few colleagues who don't want to use just because they can't
pass values read from a WIX User dialog to a C# .dll. One (hypothetical)
example most people would put this functionality to use is writing their own
custom SQL connection strings using the SqlConnectionStringBuilder.
On 3/19/07, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I haven't blogged it. This one requires more research that my recent
"avoid COM advertisement" entry because I haven't lived it closely. I got
enough reports of trickiness with managed CustomActions to just stay away.
The root issue comes down to having the "wrong" version of the .NET
Framework loaded. For example, let's say you have a 1.1 CustomAction but
need to install a 2.0 Framework assembly to the GAC. My understanding was
that the easy/obvious way to use the 1.1 CustomAction caused the 1.1.
Framework to be loaded and that caused the 2.0 Framework install to fail
later (because the 1.1. Framework won't understand it).
Again, the details are fuzzy because I haven't stepped through the
debugger on this issue myself.
Basically, it comes down to the fact that the Windows Installer team needs
to look at what managed CustomActions mean and do the right thing when
looking at the complete picture. They know things about the all the
different ways the Windows Installer gets invoked that you and I would
struggle to think of. For example, what happens if you had a Shell
Extension written in managed code then did faulted in an MSI via Extension
advertisement? Do all the correct .NET Frameworks get loaded? Are you
going to test it? <smile/>
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Kaplan
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:43 PM
To: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C# .dll
Hi Rob,
Would you care to elaborate on this part a bit? If you already blogged
it,
I apologize. I've followed the evolution of this issue for a while now
and
I am always curious to learn more about it. To my knowledge, I don't
remember you or anyone else discussing any specific issues regarding
loaded
the CLR into the installer process.
I'm definitely of the opinion that these things are best avoided for now
due
to the lack of support for it at the WI level. On the other hand, I also
believe it is just a matter of time before this needs to happen in a fully
supported way. Basically, I'm trying to understand what the solution
might
look like in order to overcome some of the more subtle issues. What's so
"neat"? :)
Thanks!
Joe K.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Mensching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Levi Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dhaval Patel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C# .dll
More importantly, the Windows Installer doesn't support it today. There
are
actually "neat" problems you can introduce by loading the .NET Framework
into the Windows Installer process.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi Wilson
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:40 AM
To: Dhaval Patel
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C# .dll
I don't know for certain, but my guess would be that there's no guarantee
that the .NET Framework has been installed on the client.
On 3/16/07, Dhaval Patel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Will WIX 3.0 be adding the capability to call C# .dll files? If not,
WHY????? :)
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