Hey List! I've just begun the exciting journey of migrating our company's installer from a large, slow NSIS script to a shiny new WiX project, and I was hoping the list could point me towards a few more or let me know about any pitfalls I may encounter. I've done some research & found a few resources, but much of the documentation seems to be a bit out of date or scattered between stackoverflow posts & blog entries, so I was hoping people here might have some suggestions on where to look for the most up to date resources. The scope of this project is pretty large, and will need support for at minimum: -Slight UI customization (we'd prefer a relatively standard UI, but need 1-2 custom checkboxes for launching the readme, & a few other minor things like that. ) -An OEM preinstaller with slightly different behavior -A mixed x86/x64 package - I'm aware I'll have to make separate .msi packages & bundle them with burn. -chaining the VS2010 redistributable packages -chaining a 2nd driver installer
Some stretch goals would be building a web installer & adding a totally custom UI experience, perhaps akin to the VS2012 one (is there a tutorial on how they built that or an example? I'm presently downloading the source for wix to look at their installer files) So far I've found these: http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial - helpful, but somewhat out of date http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/schema_index.htm - helpful, but only if you have some idea what you're looking for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471424/wix-tricks-and-tips - The only best practices list I've seen, with some conflicting advice & sadly locked ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
