[wix-devs] WIP 5433

[Heath Stewart]

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/vsixbootstrapper 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

-----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>
Cc: Heath Stewart <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
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.

https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwixtoolset.org%2Fdevelopment%2Fwips%2F5433-add-&data=02%7C01%7CHeath.Stewart%40microsoft.com%7C6eb3d6472afb43b3be7408d49c77d780%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636305485912326297&sdata=0rqDMm69LlbifWVbFadzFb7Y5aznEa6TUBWUheP%2BBlY%3D&reserved=0
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