[wix-devs] .Net 4.7

[Sean Hall]

Installing multiple MBA prereqs is available in v3.9 and later with the
bal:PrereqSupportPackage attribute. In v4.x, it's bal:PrereqPackage.

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> It's available as an .msu.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Rob Mensching
> Sent: Monday, 15 May, 2017 19:24
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> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] .Net 4.7
>
> Well, that is a very poor design on Windows and .NET Frameworks part.
>
> Sean, I forget but is the support for multiple MBA prerequisites working
> in WiX v4? It sounds like we may need to create a permanent/syscomp MSI to
> distribute this file for Microsoft.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
>
>   Rob Mensching
>   CEO
>   FireGiant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Andreas Orzyszek
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 10:56 AM
> To: wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-devs] .Net 4.7
>
> Hi,
>
> I was just looking into creating a PR for the NetFxExtension parts for
> .NET 4.7 but then I read about these details:
>
> .NET Framework 4.7 WPF features take a dependency on D3DCompiler_47.dll.
> This D3DCompiler_47.dll is not present by default in Windows 7 SP1,
> Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 2012 OS platforms. Hence these OS platforms
> require D3DCompiler_47.dll to be installed for .NET Framework
> 4.7 WPF features to work as expected.
>
> I am not sure if the 4.7 stuff can be added like all other versions or if
> I should try to integrate this dll.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andreas
>
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