Unless the 3rd party installer is an MSI (which from your previous e-mails, it appears they're executables), Burn won't do that regardless.
If it is an MSI you can set the Visible attribute on the MsiPackage element to yes & it won't do it either.
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Thank David yes I agree with what your saying. I am a bit concerned the 3rd party wouldn't like our bundle 'wrapping' and hiding their ARP entry. Is it possible to only hide the bundles entry?
dotNetInstaller looks good. (I was worried it was C# but the bootstrapper element is C++) . Ta
Post by David WatsonHi,
Experience has taught that the best experience for the user and for the developer and the support organisation is to follow the way that the burn bundle works, it has been very carefully designed.
Fire and forget bootstrappers are an alternative (I used to use this many years ago http://dblock.github.io/dotnetinstaller/) and are still widely used.
A single point of entry in ARP that allows your user to control the contents of the bundle is much simpler to support than a whole array of packages.
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Sent: 09 July 2015 10:06
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrap conditioned on OSbittage
Well I only need to install one 3rd party installer based on os bittage.
On x64- install a_64.exe else install a_32.exe I don't require downloader, and chainer engine for that.
If I can use the burn chainer to do this AND get an effectively 'invisible' ARP for the un-avoidable bundle that would be 'ok'. If this is possible I'd like to know how. But am also looking for alternatives to WiX's current offering and thought this would be an ok place to ask, since the experience level here is so high!.
Thanks for your help on this.
Post by Hoover, JacobMy first question would be "why". What do you need to do that you can't at least allow your bundle be in the chain and let burn do its work before deferring to your final exe installer?
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 7:41 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrap conditioned on OSbittage
Sorry guys can I get some advise on this one please?
I realise burn can't 'fire and forget' see
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2013/07/05/burn-zero-one-or-n/
but what (free) methods are there available to do this? Can anyone reccommend something?
Alternatively is it possible to bundle (and conditionalise) the exes but hide the bundle's ARP entry and expose the third party exes ARP entries? If so could the user could use that to repair/uninstall so it effectively wouldn't appear that the package had been 'bundled'?
Many Thanks
Post by Matt O'ConnellI've got a third party exe with 2 versions to bootstrap based on OS
bittage, our current setup code only does this for MSIs. I've found
how to do this with burn bundle but don't need the bundleness of it
as per this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30010837/i-dont-want-install-a-bo
o t strapper-project-itself What would you guys recommend for this
use case?
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