Re: [WiX-users] Installing https WCF Webservices

2011-08-06 Thread Rob Mensching
I think you and Fredrik would get along quite well. The WiX toolset native codebase uses very few classes but is still C++ code (uses // for comments and other small things not originally supported in C). Why? Because we developed a very consistent style that is used everywhere. That style was

Re: [WiX-users] Installing https WCF Webservices

2011-08-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
For sure, I wouldn't mind getting involved in making some sort of extension. That project doesn't seem to have much activity though. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Installing-https-WCF-Webservices-tp6641855p6648697.html Sent from

Re: [WiX-users] Installing https WCF Webservices

2011-08-03 Thread Rob Mensching
That's true. It's a very quiet project since I've been focused on Burn. Needs someone to push it. On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Nick Ramirez nickra...@hotmail.com wrote: For sure, I wouldn't mind getting involved in making some sort of extension. That project doesn't seem to have much

Re: [WiX-users] Installing https WCF Webservices

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Ibbotson
Ah thats useful all round. (well at least it tells me I didn't miss anything obvious) From my quick look at the extension is rollback the major thing that's wrong with it or are there other problems lurking? Are there restrictions on Visual Studio versions for extensions? Also while the code has

Re: [WiX-users] Installing https WCF Webservices

2011-08-02 Thread Nick Ramirez
We've had quite a bit of hands on experience with this sort of thing lately. In one project, we bound a certificate to a port during the install so that we could use SSL (the same as if you were to go into IIS and set the binding and choose a certificate). In another case, we used ws-security in

Re: [WiX-users] Installing https WCF Webservices

2011-08-02 Thread Rob Mensching
Ug, batch files? It doesn't look like this supports repair and thus won't work for patching or minor upgrades (probably all scenarios you cut). Of course, no error reporting either. A better way is to build a declarative custom action that is reusable. There is already one in WiX-contrib

[WiX-users] Installing https WCF Webservices

2011-08-01 Thread Peter Ibbotson
Has anyone got a set of blog posts that cover installing WCF webservices using WiX? (Ideally for IIS 6, 7 7.5) I need to install some https WCF webservices and after recently doing some manual installs one area that I'm little concerned about is deciding which certificate to use (and what the