[wix-users] Simple MSI to copy files

[Drummond, Jeffrey]

Hello:

We are using WIX with MSBuild to build our web and Windows .msis.
The BuildServerConfigurations.targets file for those web and Windows
.msis is large and complex.

For the task I have before me, creating an MSI that deploys an assembly and a config file
to a specific directory, is the simple solution to create another targets file and
have the TFSBuild.proj file for the simple MSI to point to that?

And can anyone provide an example of a simple targets files like that?

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Douglas, Keith (STATCAN/STATCAN)
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 5:01 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Simple MSI to copy files

Indeed - we often deploy remote user documentation via MSI too, built in with exactly the same principles as any of our software packages proper.



Keith Douglas

Programmer Analyst, Collection Systems Division Statistics Canada / Government of Canada Keith.Douglas at canada.ca / Tel : 613-854-5589

Programmeur analyste, Division des systèmes de collecte Statistique Canada / Gouvernenment du Canada Keith.Douglas at canada.ca / Tél :613-854-5589


-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Hoover, Jacob
Sent: February-22-16 4:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Simple MSI to copy files

It doesn't matter what you are delivering... Don't get confused by "application", you can create a MSI which installs a text file to your desktop.

http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/ has several good links on the right side of the page.


-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Drummond, Jeffrey
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 3:14 PM
To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-users] Simple MSI to copy files

Hello:

We have WIX scripts in place for building our web and Windows MSIs.
I am just moving into the role of working with WIX and the builds.

I need to create an MSI which does not install an application, but instead simply copies a couple of assemblies and a config file into a destination directory.

Where do I begin?

Thanks.

Jeff Drummond  | Application Developer, Technology Architecture | Chase Paymentech
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