Windows Installer Woes

Wednesday, 15 October 2008 23:44 by shawny
I have been tasked with creating an installer that meets the following requirements: 1.  Must be able to support multiple instances. 2.  Must be able to be deployed using the standard deployment model. 3.  Must create and name a website dynamically and unqiue applicat... [More]

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Multiple Instance Web Application Installer in Wix

Monday, 29 September 2008 01:46 by shawny
I think a perfect scenario for using instances is when you have a single product that must be installed independently for individual clients.  So lets say I have a web project consisting of a web service.  This project will have its own web.config, global.asax, etc.  The docs state th... [More]

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WIX: Windows XML Installer

Monday, 22 September 2008 00:06 by shawny
I have been working over the past month to create a reusable installer using the Windows XML Installer for .Net (known as WiX).  It is amazingly easy to create installer packages using WiX and it supports scripting and execution from the command-line and also from a customized GUI interfac... [More]

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