You'd probably need a custom BA to do all that. There are probably easier ways to accomplish what you are trying to do as well.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Tunney, Stephen <stephen.tun...@nuance.com>wrote: > Hello oh great and powerful Rob :) It is a pleasure to get an email from > you. > > I've been working with a bootstrapper project but I'm curious as to how I > can have the chained EXE project inspect the registry AFTER the initial > call to my product MSI has completed. > > I think that my bootstrapper will work like this: > > 1) Call product MSI with a property that asks all of the questions and > copies all files/registry items to disk > 2) Conditionally call SQLExpress based on a stored property or registry > entry > 3) Call repair on my original MSI to have the services started and the db > scripts executed > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 12:00 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper step conditional execution > > Burn can handle that very easily. > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Tunney, Stephen > <stephen.tun...@nuance.com>wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I think it has been quite a few years since I've posted a question to > > this forum. I have moved to a new company and I am getting them out > > of InstallShield hell :) > > > > My boss has come to me with a unique requirement for our installer. > > We would like to wrap a "demo" mode into our core installer. This > > demo mode will be chosen from the main UI and with it an instance of > > SQLEXPRESS will be installed AFTER UI interactions have completed if > > it does not already exist. > > > > So basically I want the execution of an exe package to be driven by > > the value of a property or registry value modified by the msi package > > executed successfully before it. > > > > Does anyone have any thoughts of how to do this? Basically it is a > > conditional prerequisite :) > > > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL > > 2012, more! > > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft > > technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours > > of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and > save! > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.c > > lktrk _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft > technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of > step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
