Re: [WiX-users] Changing product name at install time
No. The ProductName property is immutable once the installer begins. You'd have to do something like asking for the name before starting the install and then dynamically generate and apply a transform for installation. Hi, would anyone have any examples of this? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 31 August 2012 03:13 To: chr...@iswix.com; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Changing product name at install time You can in Bundles though. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@iswix.comwrote: No. The ProductName property is immutable once the installer begins. You'd have to do something like asking for the name before starting the install and then dynamically generate and apply a transform for installation. From: Jain, Mukesh mukeshj...@kpmg.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 5:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Changing product name at install time Can we change product name at install time? Thanks, Mukesh ANY TAX ADVICE IN THIS COMMUNICATION IS NOT INTENDED OR WRITTEN BY KPMG TO BE USED, AND CANNOT BE USED, BY A CLIENT OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF (I) AVOIDING PENALTIES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED ON ANY TAXPAYER OR (ii) PROMOTING, MARKETING OR RECOMMENDING TO ANOTHER PARTY ANY MATTERS ADDRESSED HEREIN. *** Any advice in this communication is limited to the conclusions specifically set forth herein and is based on the completeness and accuracy of the stated facts, assumptions and/or representations included. In rendering our advice, we may consider tax authorities that are subject to change, retroactively and/or prospectively, and any such changes could affect the validity of our advice. We will not update our advice for subsequent changes or modifications to the laws and regulations, or to the judicial and administrative interpretations thereof. The advice or other information in this document was prepared for the sole benefit of KPMG's client and may not be relied upon by any other person or organization. KPMG accepts no responsibility or liability in respect of this document to any person or organization other than KPMG's client. ** * The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. ** * -- -- -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has
Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade changes requirement
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:03:02 -0400 From: mukeshj...@kpmg.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade changes requirement What changes we need to do for Major Upgrade Example - Product Code, Package Code, version etc... ?? There's a section in the WiX help file called 'How To: Implement a Major Upgrade In Your Installer' which I found very useful. Also the MSDN section is good for background: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa369786.aspx Pete -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Changing product name at install time
That's not what I've found. I've got a custom action running which changes our ProductName at install time in WiX 3.5. It is one our first actions in our InstallExecuteSequence and seems to work. All the Actions before it need to not reference [ProductName] or else get the 'wrong' result. Can you think of something wrong with this or is this not good practice for some reason? On 30/08/2012 23:26, Christopher Painter wrote: No. The ProductName property is immutable once the installer begins. You'd have to do something like asking for the name before starting the install and then dynamically generate and apply a transform for installation. From: Jain, Mukesh mukeshj...@kpmg.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 5:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Changing product name at install time Can we change product name at install time? Thanks, Mukesh ANY TAX ADVICE IN THIS COMMUNICATION IS NOT INTENDED OR WRITTEN BY KPMG TO BE USED, AND CANNOT BE USED, BY A CLIENT OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF (I) AVOIDING PENALTIES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED ON ANY TAXPAYER OR (ii) PROMOTING, MARKETING OR RECOMMENDING TO ANOTHER PARTY ANY MATTERS ADDRESSED HEREIN. *** Any advice in this communication is limited to the conclusions specifically set forth herein and is based on the completeness and accuracy of the stated facts, assumptions and/or representations included. In rendering our advice, we may consider tax authorities that are subject to change, retroactively and/or prospectively, and any such changes could affect the validity of our advice. We will not update our advice for subsequent changes or modifications to the laws and regulations, or to the judicial and administrative interpretations thereof. The advice or other information in this document was prepared for the sole benefit of KPMG's client and may not be relied upon by any other person or organization. KPMG accepts no responsibility or liability in respect of this document to any person or organization other than KPMG's client. *** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. *** -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer
Hi, I've thought about this a great deal and would like to know some of your opinions. I'm creating many installers for our company but we don't know some of the names of the products etc at build time. I was thinking of creating one generic installer and have the many transform files that would handle the names, distributor name, version and adding files to be installed etc. Would like to know if this would be a good idea or not? Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Changing product name at install time
I remember looking at this many years ago and the observation and consensus was that you couldn't change it. That MSI read it in when it initialized and that was that. Maybe it does warrant reexamining as it'd be useful in multiple instance scenarios (think named instances ). I know the MSDN help topic (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370857(v=vs.85).a spx) says: This property can be changed by a transform. Knowing how horribly cryptic the SDK is, the translation has always been can be only changed as it would otherwise be pointless to mention that something can be changed by a transform. Because, well, duh, nearly anything can be changed by a transform. From: Matt O'Connell techsupport...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 4:47 AM To: chr...@iswix.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Changing product name at install time That's not what I've found. I've got a custom action running which changes our ProductName at install time in WiX 3.5. It is one our first actions in our InstallExecuteSequence and seems to work. All the Actions before it need to not reference [ProductName] or else get the 'wrong' result. Can you think of something wrong with this or is this not good practice for some reason? On 30/08/2012 23:26, Christopher Painter wrote: No. The ProductName property is immutable once the installer begins. You'd have to do something like asking for the name before starting the install and then dynamically generate and apply a transform for installation. From: Jain, Mukesh mukeshj...@kpmg.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 5:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Changing product name at install time Can we change product name at install time? Thanks, Mukesh ANY TAX ADVICE IN THIS COMMUNICATION IS NOT INTENDED OR WRITTEN BY KPMG TO BE USED, AND CANNOT BE USED, BY A CLIENT OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF (I) AVOIDING PENALTIES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED ON ANY TAXPAYER OR (ii) PROMOTING, MARKETING OR RECOMMENDING TO ANOTHER PARTY ANY MATTERS ADDRESSED HEREIN. *** Any advice in this communication is limited to the conclusions specifically set forth herein and is based on the completeness and accuracy of the stated facts, assumptions and/or representations included. In rendering our advice, we may consider tax authorities that are subject to change, retroactively and/or prospectively, and any such changes could affect the validity of our advice. We will not update our advice for subsequent changes or modifications to the laws and regulations, or to the judicial and administrative interpretations thereof. The advice or other information in this document was prepared for the sole benefit of KPMG's client and may not be relied upon by any other person or organization. KPMG accepts no responsibility or liability in respect of this document to any person or organization other than KPMG's client. *** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. *** -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer
Are you NC1 on Stack Overflow? From: Natalie Carr natalie.c...@measuresoft.com Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 4:50 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer Hi, I've thought about this a great deal and would like to know some of your opinions. I'm creating many installers for our company but we don't know some of the names of the products etc at build time. I was thinking of creating one generic installer and have the many transform files that would handle the names, distributor name, version and adding files to be installed etc. Would like to know if this would be a good idea or not? Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer
That's me. I'm hoping to recreate what you advised me to do and propose this as it is a far better option that what I have currently and leaves the installers to be easily modified for future products. Thanks -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: 31 August 2012 13:26 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer Are you NC1 on Stack Overflow? From: Natalie Carr natalie.c...@measuresoft.com Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 4:50 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer Hi, I've thought about this a great deal and would like to know some of your opinions. I'm creating many installers for our company but we don't know some of the names of the products etc at build time. I was thinking of creating one generic installer and have the many transform files that would handle the names, distributor name, version and adding files to be installed etc. Would like to know if this would be a good idea or not? Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer
I've found it conceptually much simpler (at least at first glance - we're just entering beta) to build a front end that generates the WXS files on the fly for various things we install (though keeping track of DirectoryRefs and such is a pain) and then calls the WiX tools behind the scenes for the user. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: August-31-12 5:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer Hi, I've thought about this a great deal and would like to know some of your opinions. I'm creating many installers for our company but we don't know some of the names of the products etc at build time. I was thinking of creating one generic installer and have the many transform files that would handle the names, distributor name, version and adding files to be installed etc. Would like to know if this would be a good idea or not? Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] dtf in Wix 3.7
See: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2012/8/21/Enter-WiX-v3.7-toolset under New Build System On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Sean Farrow sean.far...@seanfarrow.co.ukwrote: Hi: The dtf.chm is in the source zip for 3.7, but does not seem to be in the 3.7 install or the binary zip, is this being deprecated? If yes in favour of what? Cheers Sean. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer
I may not fully understand your requirements but I would not push work that can be done at build time to install time. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:14 AM, keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca wrote: I've found it conceptually much simpler (at least at first glance - we're just entering beta) to build a front end that generates the WXS files on the fly for various things we install (though keeping track of DirectoryRefs and such is a pain) and then calls the WiX tools behind the scenes for the user. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: August-31-12 5:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer Hi, I've thought about this a great deal and would like to know some of your opinions. I'm creating many installers for our company but we don't know some of the names of the products etc at build time. I was thinking of creating one generic installer and have the many transform files that would handle the names, distributor name, version and adding files to be installed etc. Would like to know if this would be a good idea or not? Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer
Hi, yes I am just going to use transforms to change product name, manufacturer name, etc. Is there issues between GUID's in transforms? Thanks Rob -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 31 August 2012 15:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer I may not fully understand your requirements but I would not push work that can be done at build time to install time. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:14 AM, keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca wrote: I've found it conceptually much simpler (at least at first glance - we're just entering beta) to build a front end that generates the WXS files on the fly for various things we install (though keeping track of DirectoryRefs and such is a pain) and then calls the WiX tools behind the scenes for the user. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: August-31-12 5:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer Hi, I've thought about this a great deal and would like to know some of your opinions. I'm creating many installers for our company but we don't know some of the names of the products etc at build time. I was thinking of creating one generic installer and have the many transform files that would handle the names, distributor name, version and adding files to be installed etc. Would like to know if this would be a good idea or not? Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer
Assuming you want them to be able to install multiple instances of the same MSI with different destination folders, then you would want to look at the MultiInstance=yes attribute on components. I know I had suggested a patch a while back to allow for some better handing (http://wix.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/jchoover/Instances ) though I don't think this was ever implemented in the mainline as multi-instancing is fairly uncommon and the demand was low. -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 11:22 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer Hi, yes I am just going to use transforms to change product name, manufacturer name, etc. Is there issues between GUID's in transforms? Thanks Rob -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 31 August 2012 15:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer I may not fully understand your requirements but I would not push work that can be done at build time to install time. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:14 AM, keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca wrote: I've found it conceptually much simpler (at least at first glance - we're just entering beta) to build a front end that generates the WXS files on the fly for various things we install (though keeping track of DirectoryRefs and such is a pain) and then calls the WiX tools behind the scenes for the user. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: August-31-12 5:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Transforms and 1 generic installer Hi, I've thought about this a great deal and would like to know some of your opinions. I'm creating many installers for our company but we don't know some of the names of the products etc at build time. I was thinking of creating one generic installer and have the many transform files that would handle the names, distributor name, version and adding files to be installed etc. Would like to know if this would be a good idea or not? Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
