Note, you can start by simplifying your application as much as possible. I'm not being flippant and I know that there are a great many platform technologies (many produced by Microsoft) that require special registration. However, if you factor out all of that registration, how complicated is your application? CustomActions? Why? Etc, etc.
Right now, I'm working hard on an application that requires no registration to execute and handle itself correctly. I have to write a registry key to be activated via IE but my application will work fine without it (overall scenario is less useful, but application is safe). How far is your application from that ideal? Sorry, I'm not speaking about you in particular, Fredrich, just "applications" in general. If apps all start trending toward simple then when the platforms finally get there (and they are *starting* to, .NET is making things better... after itself is installed) the world could be a better place. <smile/> PS: Inf files? Who still writes to inf files? <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Friedrich Dominicus Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 23:12 To: Kelly Leahy Cc: Neil Enns; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Create EXE wrapper around my MSI? Kelly Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Friedrich, > I understand your pain, but I'm not a member of the WiX team, I'm > not an employee of MS, and I have no involvement with the MSI team, I wrote it's not a personal attack, but the fact that we always have to use "may work that way", "I think" just means it's totally undocumented and left to "luck" if you got it or not. And it's a milestone in wasting programmers time. But hey, I guess MS will be very happy to send you specialists for just 1000 $ /h. to build your installer... The always claim to be on the "simple" side, but hey no it's not good to just have a directory on a CD ROM copy it over and just run it. No it has to do the following 1) add a bazzillion entries to the registry 2) just have to replace just a few system DLLs 3) just have to write few dozens .inf files 4) just write a few hundred Custom actions but frown upon them a year or so later 5) etc. I'm sorry, but this really gets on my nerves. but has nothing to do with wix of course. Regards Friedrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
