Thank you for your reply. I will try the way as you mentioned to transform the ism to xml formation.
You are right. Probably I need to rewrite the installer by using Wix. The ISM is only used for reference. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Juni 2009 14:23 An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] How to transfer data from InstallShieldinstallationpackage to Wix installation InstallShield ISM ( MSI backwards ) are stored in either Binary (MSI) format or XML format ( DTD format, a transformed representation of the MSI schema ) You can set the format used in the project settings of InstallShield or use the programs msi2xml and xml2msi (sourceforge) to convert back and forth. But honestly, WiX and InstallShield are so different, you aren't going to accomplish a meaningful translation with only automation. You should probably approach this as a complete rewrite of your current installer. Programs like heat and dark will assist. --- On Tue, 6/9/09, Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) <chunyan.ji...@ge.com> wrote: > From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) <chunyan.ji...@ge.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to transfer data from > InstallShieldinstallation package to Wix installation > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 6:03 AM > Hi Neil, > > Thanks for your tips. The InstallShield package is .ism file. Is there > some possible to transferm .ism file to .xml or some other format? > > Regards, > > Chunyan > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Juni 2009 12:08 > An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] How to transfer data from > InstallShieldinstallation package to Wix installation > > Take a look at the tool "dark", it turns an MSI into WiX source. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com] > Sent: 09 June 2009 10:53 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] How to transfer data from InstallShield > installation package to Wix installation > > Hi Wix-users, > > I would like to move the installation from InstallShield to Wix. > However, the installation package is very big, several hundreds files > inside the package. Manuelly input all the file source to Wix project > will be time consuming. 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