[wix-devs] WIP 5433

Wed Jun 7 17:53:28 PDT 2017

Thank you!

On 08-Jun-2017 4:22 AM, "Heath Stewart" <Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com> wrote:

> You should not extract directly to the VS install root. If required
> components are missing, devenv.exe may crash (depending on load order of
> your extension). If you counter that by installing required components,
> you’re doing what VSIXInstaller.exe does but we have various error handling
> and telemetry to improve issues as they arise. Rather than work around
> whatever issues you had, please report them so they can be fixed.
>
>
>
> My opinion on displaying the EULA is irrelevant. Our requirements and
> recommendations are outlined in our administrative deployment guide. Users
> must have valid licenses to use VS (any edition), nor can Community be
> installed in corporate environments (basically, all the stuff called out in
> the EULA). Having your installer call into a downloaded bootstrapper like
> that may be in violation of the EULA you are bypassing. I suggest you work
> with Visual Studio custom support at https://www.visualstudio.com/
> vs/support/ if that is your planned route.
>
>
>
> As to how this feature should work, I outlined that in the WIP and this
> thread a short time ago. It’s not clear from GitHub if someone else is
> planning on implementing that or if I should, but it still won’t solve the
> problem – nor do we have any plans to handle – where an extension requires
> some not-installed-component that would install an MSI. Right now, the plan
> is that if there are no instance that already have required components
> installed and the package is vital (default), we’d fail the install. I.e.
> it will still use VSIXInstaller.exe (the only supported method for
> installing an extension), but would effectively not install any components
> (because they’re already installed).
>
>
>
> *Heath Stewart*
>
> Visual Studio, Microsoft
>
> http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths
>
>
>
> *From:* kaveeshd at gmail.com [mailto:kaveeshd at gmail.com] * On Behalf Of *Kaveesh
> Dashora
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 7, 2017 11:12 AM
> *To:* Heath Stewart <Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com>
> *Cc:* WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> *Subject:* RE: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
>
>
> I have had issues with installing VSIX with VSIXInstaller on certain
> customer environments, as a solution to it we started deploying the VSIX
> content directly to the VS extensions folder. This being the reason I am
> not too keen to use VSIXInstaller
>
>
>
> Now, the other option which I have to install the missing components is to
> use the visual studio installer. To use that I will be downloading the
> visual studio installer from the following link
>
>
>
> https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_enterprise.exe
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>
>
>
> As I am using the Microsoft installer through command line, it will be
> skipping the EULA displayed by the Visual Studio installer. I am not sure
> how should I handle this, I need your opinion on that.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kaveesh
>
>
>
>
>
> On 07-Jun-2017 11:20 PM, "Heath Stewart" <Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> There is no way to get the process, no. You also don’t need to install
> missing dependencies yourself. VSIXInstaller.exe already does that, which
> is the problem when invoked from within an MSI via the VsixPackage element
> support.
>
>
>
> #2 isn’t really a question, so I’m not sure how to respond. Can you
> clarify the problem?
>
>
>
> *Heath Stewart*
>
> Visual Studio, Microsoft
>
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> *From:* kaveeshd at gmail.com [mailto:kaveeshd at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Kaveesh
> Dashora
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 7, 2017 6:10 AM
> *To:* Heath Stewart <Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com>
> *Cc:* WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
>
>
> Hi Heath,
>
>
>
> I had a look at the link for command line installation of visual studio.
>
>
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/use-
> command-line-parameters-to-install-visual-studio
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>
>
> I plan to have the following.
>
>
>
> 1. Detect Visual Studio Versions and find out their components
>
> 2. Compare and find out the components which are missing from the
> vsixmanifest
>
> 3. In a case there are missing components from the selected Visual Studio,
> during the installation the visual studio installer will be downloaded and
> the missing components will be installed through a silent execution.
>
> 4. Once point 4 succeeds, the vs extension will be installed in visual
> studio.
>
>
>
> All the above will happen through a custom burn hi.
>
>
>
> I have a few questions,
>
>
>
> 1. I was not able to find a way to retrieve the installation
> progress/status from the vs installer when it is running in silent mode. Is
> there a way to get the current progress of the installation.
>
> 2. As I will be downloading the vs installer and running it silently, will
> I need to show the Microsoft EULA. As the user already has visual studio
> installed the user would have already accepted the EULA.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kaveesh
>
>
>
>
>
> On 03-Jun-2017 7:11 AM, "Heath Stewart" <heaths at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> I actually talked with management and will work on cleaning up the XML doc
> comments for our OM library and get it published on NuGet which will help
> with parsing the dependencies.
>
>
> From: Rob Mensching<mailto:rob at firegiant.com>
>
> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 10:38 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List<mailto:wix-devs at lists.
> wixtoolset.org>; Bob Arnson<mailto:bob at firegiant.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
> This thread seemed to stall so some thoughts:
>
> 1. "For end users before 15.2, you can't support both 15+ and 14-
> simultaneously without scheduling multiple sets of custom actions at
> install time. Not sure whether you'd just send an error or warning message
> through the pipe or stop with an error. My plan was to log a warning and
> continue."
>
> I think the situation should be logged clearly and the Vital bit should
> control whether it is an error or warning.
>
> 2. "If you don't want to take advantage of this undocumented schema,
> probably just have them author it in a new table as I called out in the
> WIP."
>
> I'm torn on this one. Automatically calculating the dependencies is really
> nice but explicit authoring seems a reasonable trade off if it helps get
> the feature complete. As for reading the undocumented file format (if
> automatic calculating dependencies is the way to go), I'm not worried about
> if you're not worried about it. <smile/>
>
> Are there any other open issues?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Heath Stewart
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 11:05 AM
> To: Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com>; WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <
> wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
> That is correct. I meant to mention that in my details below (hence either
> allowing them to be authored or harvested). That would facilitate the
> "already installed" mode of install for VSIXes. If no instances are found
> with all required dependencies, you could pipe a warning message (to prompt
> for bare MSIs) much like I did for the ref-counting features years back,
> such that a silent install just defaults to continuing - unless the
> VsixPackage is marked vital, in which case probably fail since it would be
> akin to not being able to install a file, service, etc. because
> requirements aren't meant.
>
> If you don't want to take a dependency on undocumented formats, I could
> ask about releasing the nuget package we already build for internal
> purposes that contains our OM. Since VSIXes are OPC, the
> System.IO.Packaging namespace is already public and you could use that to
> extract catalog.json and load that into our OM to get dependencies if you'd
> prefer. I can't promise anything, and we'd almost definitely have to clean
> up comments.
>
> From: Bob Arnson<mailto:bob at firegiant.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 9:01 AM
> To: Heath Stewart<mailto:heaths at outlook.com>; WiX Toolset Developer
> Mailing List<mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: RE: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
> If an extension had a dependency on anything other than core, is it
> possible to detect whether the extension "should" install (without
> potentially invoking a concurrent MSI installation)? It looks like
> ISetupPackageReference is as close as we get to detecting installed
> workloads/components. Is that right?
>
>
> From: Heath Stewart [mailto:heaths at outlook.com]
> Sent: Friday, 26 May, 2017 11:35
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>;
> Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com>
> Subject: RE: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
> @Bob Arnson<mailto:bob at firegiant.com> had asked on GitHub but I'll
> explain here so we can discuss / plan on wix-devs. I can try to work on it
> while I'm out on "vacation" next week, or someone else can take over. What
> free time I've had has been filled more with vswhere and the vssetup
> powershell cmdlets that the likes of cmake, boost, et. al. needed.
> Vsixbootstrapper existed as a backstop for wix but some people don't want
> bundles for their current single-MSI solutions.
>
> So...
>
> I asked those who own VSIXInstaller make a change that let callers pass no
> only the old /skuVersion and /skuName parameters for 14- support, but also
> the /instanceIds parameters for 15+ - that's all in one call. Without that,
> you'd need to schedule multiple calls for each SKU found (old and new) at
> install time. (And that would affect all methods of calling it - not just
> via MSI / WIX CA.) For example, if you specified /instanceIds 14- would not
> be updated at all.
>
> That changed shipped in 15.2. So with the query API 1.9 or newer (i.e.
> RTW), you would enumerate instances. On any one of them, get the
> "enginePath" (ISetupInstance2::GetEnginePath). That will point to
> VSIXInstaller. If it's version is 15.0.26209.1 or newer, you will be able
> to use it. Set the VSIXInstaller path property we already use to that path.
>
> At build, harvest (or allow for authoring of) the dependency workload
> and/or component IDs for <vs:VsixPackage>s. As you know, the VSIX is an OPC
> in just a ZIP container. Get the "catalog.json" from the root, and find in
> the "packages" array the 1 component (type: component) marked "extension":
> true. It's dependencies not in the catalog.json are dependencies on VS (or
> any 2017 product installed via the installer, really). If you don't want to
> take advantage of this undocumented schema, probably just have them author
> it in a new table as I called out in the WIP.
>
> At runtime with that information, while you're enumerate instances above
> find all the instance IDs (ISetupInstance::GetInstanceId) that have those
> dependencies. Pass those as a comma separate list to /instanceIds:[list].
> If the <vs:VsixPackage> also has a skuName and/or skuVersion (I believe
> both or none are required), pass those as well. One could - though it might
> add confusion - translate skuNames like "enterprise" to product IDs for 15+
> like "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Enterprise", but I'm not sure how
> worth it that would be. Don't think I've ever seen authoring that used
> those attributes.
>
> This mode was the "install into instances with stuff already installed".
> If you wanted to enable "install-on-demand" mode, you wouldn't enumerate
> instances and just let VSIXInstaller.exe do its double-click-to-run code.
> The problem, though, is that if any dependencies try to install another
> MSI, it will fail and require the end user to repair VS (basically,
> complete the install) in the VS2017 Installer (codename "Willow", which has
> been out there for a while).
>
> For end users before 15.2, you can't support both 15+ and 14-
> simultaneously without scheduling multiple sets of custom actions at
> install time. Not sure whether you'd just send an error or warning message
> through the pipe or stop with an error. My plan was to log a warning and
> continue.
>
> From: Rob Mensching<mailto:rob at firegiant.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 8:02 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List<mailto:wix-devs at lists.
> wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
> That sounds right.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Christopher Painter
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 6:01 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org
> <mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
> Brining this back to a more wix-devs related topic....
>
> I was doing some testing and I wanted to see how things would go on a
> minimalist installation of 2017 Update 2.  I didn't select any optional
> workloads just the core ide feature.    Then I installed WiX  / Votive 2017
> / IsWiX and all of the WiX project templates fail to construct with the
> error message
>
> Could not load assembly ... Microsoft.VisualStudio.TemplateWizardInterface
> version 8.0..........
>
> This might be something we (I basically use WiX templates as my building
> block for my templates) need to call out as a dependency in our vsix
> manifest.
>
>
>
>
> From: Christopher Painter
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:44 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org
> <mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
>
> I think I would be inclined to detect and block only.   Could you allow
> installation and then detect missing workloads when the extension
> initializes?
>
> ________________________________
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-
> devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-devs-bounces@
> lists.wixtoolset.org%3cmailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org>>> on
> behalf of Kaveesh Dashora <kaveeshd at googlemail.com<mailto:
> kaveeshd at googlemail.com<mailto:kaveeshd at googlemail.com%3cmailto:kaveeshd@
> googlemail.com>>>
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 10:30 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
>
> Thanks Christopher,
>
> The issue which I have is not related to installing the extension. Even I
> deploy to the VS Extensions folder. And call devenv /updateconfiguration.
>
> The issue which I have is how do I detect and install the missing
> workloads/components. I was able to use the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Configuration.Interop
> assembly to detect the visual studio versions and their components (thanks
> to Heath for that).
>
> I am struggling with how would I install the required workloads/components
> if they are missing.
>
> On 18-May-2017 7:24 PM, "Christopher Painter" <chrpai at iswix.com<mailto:
> chrpai at iswix.com<mailto:chrpai at iswix.com%3cmailto:chrpai at iswix.com>>>
> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I'm using the new functionality in WiX 3.11 for IsWiX 4.11 and
> > it works quite well.  I use VSIX but deployed via MSI.  The changes
> > for me in
> > 2017 were:
> >
> >
> > VS2017 requires use of COM interface to determine location.  WiX 3.11
> > VSExtension *IS* handling this for me nicely.  Thanks guys for making
> > the best of it.
> >
> >
> > VS2017 no longer recognizes ZIP files placed in the ProjectTemplates
> > directory.  I had to refactor so that the ZIPs were items in my VSIX
> > manifest and deployed underneath the extensions directory structure.
> >
> >
> > I deploy the files to [INSTALLLOCATION]\Templates  and then use CopyFile
> > elements to clone them to the different VS directories.   I then call
> > Devenv /setup (VSEtension)  to get them all registered.
> >
> >
> > I like this approach because I can use a single MSI without a
> > bootstrapper and without multiple VSIX download/installs  to
> > distribute my core application and  extensions for all supported
> > versions of VS in a single MSI.
> >
> >
> > Bootstrappers are cool but I don't want one if I don't need one.
> >
> >
> >
> > PropertyRef and CustomActionRef:
> >
> > https://github.com/iswix-llc/iswix/blob/master/Source/
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> > Installer/IsWiX/Code/Product.wxs
> >
> >
> > ProgressText for the CustomActionRef:
> >
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> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: wix-devs
> > <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.w
> <mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org%3cmailto:
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> on behalf of Kaveesh Dashora
> > <kaveeshd at googlemail.com<mailto:kaveeshd at googlemail.com<mailto:kaveesh
> > d at googlemail.com%3cmailto:kaveeshd at googlemail.com>>>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:48 AM
> > To: Heath Stewart
> > Cc: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List; Kaveesh Dashora
> > Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
> >
> > Thank you... I will look into it and let you know if I have more
> > questions
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kaveesh
> >
> > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 2:22 AM, Heath Stewart <
> > Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com<mailto:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com<mailto:
> > Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com%3cmailto:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com>>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > We do document that at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
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> >
> > > us/visualstudio/install/use-command-line-parameters-to-
> > > install-visual-studio but you're back to the same problem: if any
> > > workloads or components install MSIs (we still have a large number
> > > of
> > them,
> > > though most were reduced to our newer VSIX format), the operation
> > > will
> > fail
> > > because MSIs can't install concurrently. So you wouldn't be able to
> > invoke
> > > the installer via your MSI. You'd have to have a utility EXE as part
> > > of your chain that would do that - and for whatever instances the
> > > user would want (instance include SxS installations of a particular
> > > major release
> > like
> > > VS2017 / 15.x, or even different major releases like 15.x and 16.x).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *Heath Stewart*
> > >
> > > Visual Studio, Microsoft
> > >
> > > http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths
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> > Setup & Install by Heath Stewart | About Windows Installer, the .NET
> > Framework, and Visual Studio.<http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths
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> > About Windows Installer, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio.
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *From:* kaveeshd at gmail.com<mailto:kaveeshd at gmail.com>
> > > [mailto:kaveeshd at gmail.com] * On Behalf Of
> > *Kaveesh
> > > Dashora
> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 17, 2017 1:31 AM
> > > *To:* WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List
> > > <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org<
> > > mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org%3cmailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtool
> > > set.org
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> >>
> > > >
> > > *Cc:* Rob Mensching
> > > <rob at firegiant.com<mailto:rob at firegiant.com<mailto:rob at firegiant.com
> > > %3cmailto:rob at firegiant.com>>>;
> > > Heath Stewart <
> > > Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com<mailto:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com<mailt
> > > o:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com%3cmailto:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com>>
> > > >
> > > *Subject:* Re: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > For our MSI's we haven''t been using the VSIXInstaller. We deploy
> > > the
> > VSIX
> > > contents directly to the Visual Studio Extensions folder.
> > >
> > > We had an issue with some of our customers, they were not able to
> > > install the product with the VSIXInstaller.
> > >
> > > And then had to move to the non VSIXInstaller way.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there any other way to install the necessary workloads/components
> > other
> > > than VSIXInstaller through the MSI?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Heath Stewart <
> > > Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com<mailto:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com<mailto:
> Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com%3cmailto:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com>>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, detection is implemented with almost all the old properties
> > > supported, but install is not. We will not be able to support
> > > installing VSIXes that might cause MSIs to be installed (basically,
> > > VSIXes could
> > only
> > > reliably depend on the CoreEditor workload since all that has to be
> > > installed at the very least). For that, see
> > https://github.com/Microsoft/
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> > > to effectively install the VSIX as a separate package via Burn
> directly.
> > >
> > > I'm finding if/when the necessary support in the VSIXInstaller.exe
> > > itself went public, but I can say that we will require all
> > > dependency workloads
> > to
> > > be installed or fail the VSIX (which if the associated File is
> > > vital,
> > will
> > > fail the install). This is because MSIs can't be installed
> > > concurrently, and we can join sessions as a chained install because
> > > they cross process boundaries.
> > >
> > > Heath Stewart
> > > Visual Studio, Microsoft
> > > http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob at firegiant.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 9:23 AM
> > > To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List
> > > <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org<
> > > mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org%3cmailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtool
> > > set.org
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> > > >
> > > Cc: Heath Stewart
> > > <Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com<mailto:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com<mail
> > > to:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com%3cmailto:Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com>
> > > >>
> > > Subject: RE: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
> > >
> > > IIRC, detect is implemented. Install is dependent on changes from
> > > Visual Studio team. Heath would know latest status.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
> > > Behalf Of Kaveesh Dashora
> > > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 10:44 PM
> > > To:
> > > wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org<m
> > > ailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org%3cmailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtools
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> > > Subject: [wix-devs] WIP 5433
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am not sure if this is a wix-devs question.
> > >
> > > I was just going through WIP 5433 - Add support to detect and
> > > install
> > VSIX
> > > packages into VS2017.
> > >
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> > > support-to-detect-and-install-vsix-packages-into-vs15/
> > >
> > > Has this been implemented in WiX 3.11? If yes is there a
> > > documentation which I can use for my installer?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Kaveesh
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