1. Personally, I think moving all of the UI from the MSI to the Bundle is going to be the best option going forward. MSI UI is not advancing and if you're in Bundle it's better to have a seamless user experience that Burn can offer. This is obviously just my opinion.
2. I do think Burn should correctly support showing MSI internal UI from the Bundle for those people that do not share my opinion above. <smile/> It is obviously more complicated than any of us expected and still needs more work. So, bugs should be filed when things don't work (and I think you've done that once or twice. Thank you.). The only real question is who is going to fix the bugs. Since I hold opinion #1 fixing those bugs is not high on my personal list of things to fix in the WiX toolset. That means if you're counting on me to personally fix those bugs in my volunteer hours on the WiX toolset, you might be waiting for a while. But I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone else from taking the bugs and working with the wix-devs to implement proper fixes (we can't take hacks or partial solutions that destabilize Burn, of course). On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Christopher West C < christopher.c.w...@ericsson.com> wrote: > OK, thank you for the information. > > I would like to get your thoughts on the following. For future releases > of Wix(Wix 3.8?), do you envision Burn being updated to fully support > DisplayInternalUI? Or is the real intent of Burn that the UI of the MSI > should not be used, and that the UI should be created outside of the MSI > and displayed to the user before the chained MSI's? And that any user > inputs made in the previously displayed UI's that are needed during the MSI > execution should then be passed into the MSI's as properties? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 9:40 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to modify MSI from the custom bootstrapper > > Ahh, yeah, that makes sense. I think this is another of those cases like > the progress bar not showing correctly for DisplayInternalUI='yes' on > MsiPackages that isn't handled well in Burn today. As you've undoubtedly > noted showing internal UI from Burn was not a high priority item in the > initial release of Burn. The DisplayInternalUI was added late and covers > only the most basic of scenarios. > > I think more work is necessary in Burn to really get DisplayInternalUI > fully supported. > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Christopher West C < > christopher.c.w...@ericsson.com> wrote: > > > In OnPlanPackageBegin, the value of the State is already set to "Present" > > when the event is invoked. So the question is, what value do I change > > it to in order to have the MSI run and for the MSI's UI to be > > displayed? I tried setting the State to RequestState.Repair, and > > while this did run the MSI, the MSI's UI did not display. This made > > sense to me because if I install the MSI directly and run repair from > > ARP, the MSI's UI does not display. > > > > So the question is, what State value do I set in OnPlanPackageBegin to > > run the previously installed MSI and for the MSI's UI to display? > > Again, note that if I install the .msi directly, I am able to display > > the MSI's UI from the ARP via the change button. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:07 AM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to modify MSI from the custom > > bootstrapper > > > > If you want to force a package to run during modify, change the > > requested state in OnPlanPackageBegin(). The default will be a no-op. > > > > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Christopher West C < > > christopher.c.w...@ericsson.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > I would like to have my custom bootstrapper allow for an installed > > > MSI to be modified via the MSI's UI. If I install the .msi > > > directly, I am able to do this from the ARP via the change button. > > > I tried to accomplish this same behavior via my custom bootstrapper. > > > In my custom bootstrapper, I tried calling the > > > "Bootstrapper.Engine.Plan(LaunchAction.Modify)", but the MSI was not > ran. > > > The relevant section of the log file is below. > > > > > > [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i200: Plan begin, 2 packages, action: > > > Modify > > > [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]w321: Skipping dependency > > > registration on package with no dependency providers: Netfx4Full > > > [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i201: Planned package: Netfx4Full, > state: > > > Present, default requested: Present, ba requested: Present, execute: > > > None, > > > rollback: None, cache: No, uncache: No, dependency: None > > > [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i201: Planned package: > > > CBADummyInstallerPackageId, state: Present, default requested: > > > Present, ba > > > requested: Present, execute: None, rollback: None, cache: No, uncache: > > > No, > > > dependency: Register > > > [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i299: Plan complete, result: 0x0 > > > [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i300: Apply begin > > > [13490:74E0][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i360: Creating a system restore point. > > > [13490:74E0][2013-05-08T19:34:47]i361: Created a system restore point. > > > [13490:74E0][2013-05-08T19:34:47]i323: Registering package > > > dependency > > > provider: {789E60DC-2AB4-4757-8C64-B515361D9F67}, version: 1.0.0.2, > > > package: CBADummyInstallerPackageId > > > [13490:74E0][2013-05-08T19:34:47]i325: Registering dependency: > > > {08179914-7fc1-4a0e-b057-df466f422a7d} on package provider: > > > {789E60DC-2AB4-4757-8C64-B515361D9F67}, package: > > > CBADummyInstallerPackageId > > > [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:47]i399: Apply complete, result: 0x0, > > > restart: None, ba requested restart: No > > > > > > > > > Is there something else that I need to set to have it run the > > > previously installed MSI and display the MSI's UI? > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > -------- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph > > > Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > > > applications. 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