Hi everyone, Can the WiX tools (e.g. candle, light, torch) be used within a WCF service method? Or is there some limitation or gotcha I should be aware of? I am wanting to answer an architectural question some of us had about the future of my "InstallerBuilder" (hereafter, IB) front end. This is basically a way to enforce installations of the right sort for of our environments; IB builds a WXS file behind the scenes using some user choice but enforces all the other constraints. Since to allow various teams to use IB and yet not stomp on each other's work easily we decided to temporarily (?) use mutexes and a commonly installed copy (w/ WiX, of course) on a small file-sharing type server that folks would log onto to use. This does not scale too well, and so we wondered if we could, long term, turn some of IB (like the creation of WXS files and the compile and link stages) into a bunch of WCF services that could be called from a front end on each machine.
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