[wix-devs] WIP 5433

[Kaveesh Dashora]

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>
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/
> 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.
>
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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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