You may check the Windows Installer SDK. You can author your own validation DLL's, called .cub files. You typically would write these in C++. The validations is them called from the command line (msival.exe ?, I forget). This would be how you could add custom validation to your build.
The Wix build should be running some of the more standard validations. Authoring your own custom validation would not be a trivial task. You could at least get by using the MSI automation layer to query the built .MSI package for consistency violations according to your business rules. The automation layer can be used to query the data and it is in the MSI SDK. Regard, greenaj ---- Sascha Beaumont <sascha.beaum...@gmail.com> wrote: > a) Get the development team to update the WiX code instead of doing it > yourself. > b) Do it yourself, and verify manually. > c) Don't verify anything, trusting in your WiX skills and/or wait for > a bug report to roll in when the developer figures out something is > wrong. > > I'm sure others have better solutions, but I haven't found any > substitute for manual testing of installers and then analyzing the log > files when something unexpected happens. > > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:54 AM, jnewton<jonathan.new...@ni.com> wrote: > > > > I was curious to see how other people validate their installers to ensure > > they install the correct files, registry keys, etc into the proper > > locations. For example, if somebody on your development team says a file > > needs to be added to the installer and it needs to be installed into xyz > > directory, how do yall verify it was installed? > > > > I would like to develop some automated test application that determines > > this. > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://n2.nabble.com/How-People-Validate-Their-Installers-tp3278297p3278297.html > > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
