I am creating an MSI using WIX script. There are prerequisites to install the product that we have bundled in this MSI; user needs to have some components installed on the machine. There is a separate MSI for those components. It is nothing but an MSI of different product. User needs to install this product then only user will be able to carry out installation using our MSI that we are preparing. To resolve this problem we are detecting required components (product) are installed or not. After detecting components, our MSI should be able to invoke MSI to install required components. I want to bundle MSI to install components and want to invoke from my MSI if requires. I have not done such things before and want some help from you. Please provide me some pointers to implement this. I know that we can not have two MSI instances running at a time.
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Nested MSI
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Amol_MSI
, Jan 01 2008 07:42
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Posted 02 January 2008 - 11:58
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Posted 03 January 2008 - 18:44
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Posted 04 January 2008 - 11:06
QUOTE (Stefan Krueger @ 2008-01-03 18:44) |
Please read also about the risks with nested instalaltions: http://msdn2.microso...y/aa368010.aspx |
..particularly as the warnings therein are subtly different to those in the original article, where the word 'nested' changes to 'concurrent'. That makes all the difference.
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Posted 08 January 2008 - 16:44
Particularly because of the paragraph calling nested installations "deprecated":
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Concurrent Installations, also called Nested Installations, is a deprecated feature of the Windows Installer. Applications installed with concurrent installations can eventually fail because they are difficult for customers to service correctly. Do not use concurrent installations to install products that are intended to be released to the public. |
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