You could modify the maintenance UI experience to have an option for creating additional database instances which would then execute your script again but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be simpler to just write a small application utility and put it in the start menu to allow a user to perform database management functions like creating additional named database instances.
How do you feel about that? --- On Wed, 7/23/08, Daniel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Daniel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Installs without Un-Install? > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 1:28 AM > Hi Christopher, > > I need multiple instances only of the database. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > > > Message: 9 > > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:31:10 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Christopher Painter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Installs without > Un-Install? > > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML > toolset." > > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Windows Installer supports multiple instance > installation, but the question > > I have is do you need multiple instances of your > product or only multiple > > instances of your database? > > > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering > Blog > > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good > thread that deserves > > attention? E-Mail Me > > > > > > --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Daniel Zak > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Daniel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [WiX-users] Multiple Installs without > Un-Install? > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 11:51 PM > > > Hello, > > > > > > I created a script to install an SQL Server > database. A > > > user needs to be > > > able to run the script multiple times to install > multiple > > > databases. > > > However, the script requires the user to first > un-install > > > the product (which > > > does not delete the database) before being able > to install > > > a new database. > > > > > > Is there anything I can do to avoid requiring the > user to > > > explicitly > > > un-install the product? > > > > > > I included an extract of the script as a text > file. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Daniel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move > Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK > & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
