There is instancing support made available through WiX, but you have to predetermine the number of instances you support (it isn't an unlimited number) and the ProductCodes have to be manually updated in your authoring. The feature is called "instance transforms".
The MSDN documentation starts here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa369523.aspx. In WiX, you implement this using the InstanceTransforms (and Instance) elements. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:28 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Purposefully Installing Multiple Instances of an MSI I don't think you can do that without having multiple installs. That is how SQL2005 worked, each install was its own msi (all 64 of them IIRC). Neil -----Original Message----- From: John Cooper (Volt) [mailto:a-jc...@microsoft.com] Sent: 28 July 2010 00:38 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Purposefully Installing Multiple Instances of an MSI My team wants the capability to install multiple copies of an MSI on a given host with different tags appended to the ProductName (so the configuration specialist can identify different instances in the Control Panel. Obviously, I'd have to turn off detection of older or newer MSI's. How best to get a Tag appended to ProductName after the MSI has been compiled? -- John M. Cooper Volt at Microsoft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
