Well no one has replied to this - which is sort of good, as I discovered what [stupid] thing I was doing !!
I temporarily put my "developers hat" on for a while instead of my "installers hat" and thought that as I had multiple msi projects all doing a similar thing ( writing different values to the ini file ) - I thought I'd combine them all into one and just pass in parameters telling it what & when to put in the ini file. This is what you'd do, if you were writing a non-installer program, but obviously here we are doing installers - and thus the second time I ran the msi ( to put different values in the ini file ) - Windows Installer obviously says ... "erm ... you have already installed this msi, so I ain't gonna run it again" - so it doesn't and thus the parameters passed in the second time, never make it to the ini file .... DOH !!!! The reason in my example, why the ini file is never created, is because the combined msi had already been run ( damn done it again - I should say "installed" ) via a completely different setup.exe to write entries into the MyStuff.ini file on the network, so when ClientSetup.exe tries running it, it doesn't get installed/run a second time. Sorry if I wasted anyone's time thinking about this issue ! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WiX-Burn-Chain-multiple-packages-writing-to-same-ini-file-tp7599148p7599150.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
