I'm all ears if you know of anything off the top of your head. The requirement from up on high is to ask questions to determine if the user wants/needs SQLExpress installed locally and afterwards install our database via canned scripts and start our services.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 10:34 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper step conditional execution 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. 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