Other then being allowing WiX to dogfood Burn, what benefit does the WiX installer even gain from using Burn? I thought the old Mondo UI looked just fine and it was a simpler 1 MSI story to boot. My experience with the Burn based WiX installers is that user experience is inferior relative to what it was. It doesn't seem like to me that WiX.msi needed any of the capabilities of Burn as it doesn't do things like install the .NET framework for you or chain multiple packages together.
Personally, I still want my Visual Studio in ISO format and when SP1 comes out I'd appreciate a service release that contains it. I get sick of spending 20 minutes to install Visual Studio and 60 minutes to patch it. ---------------------------------------- From: "Bruce Cran" <br...@cran.org.uk> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 8:43 AM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wow! On 05/03/2012 14:01, keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca wrote: > The below news is somewhat distressing for those of us who have no Internet connection at all on our development workstations and have to use others (non-development machines) to get such access. Is downloading the /layout way and then (say) moving a directory or something going to work, or does /layout change other things (registry)? If it is going to work, will the procedure be well documented? If not, what do you propose people in my sort of situation to do? > > (And if Visual Studio 2011 works either of those ways we're going to be in a world of hurt here ...) As I understand it, /layout does nothing more than grab a copy of the files for offline use - for example the WDK 8 beta comes as a .zip that looks like it's been created by running /layout since there's wdksetup.exe and an 'Installers' directory. If you rename the directory, wdksetup.exe goes online to fetch the files. Of course it doesn't help if you want to do the download using your Mac. -- Bruce Cran ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
