[wix-users] Burn Bootstrapper Console Output

[Sean Hall]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35890407/managed-ba-commandline-issue

I would ignore the quiet flag with the Help LaunchAction since there is no
reason to non-interactively use the Help action.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Artur Ampilogov via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to show help page when the bundle runs with `/?` or `-?` argument.
> Burn passes LaunchAction.Help to the LaunchAction property, which is great.
>
> The problem is to write the message to the console when a user runs the
> setup.exe in the silent mode, e.g. `setup.exe -q’. Silent mode actually
> runs out immediately, i.e. returns console command and runs setup in the
> background process. It’s possible to run ‘start /wait setup.exe -q` without
> immediate return.
>
> Two answers are mentioned about these feature:
> http://lists.wixtoolset.org/pipermail/wix-users-
> wixtoolset.org/2015-November/000861.html
> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.
> com/Burn-Console-Output-td7585792.html
>
>
> At the same time it is possible to attach .NET managed app to the parent
> console window via AttachConsole(-1).
> Example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/807998/how-do-i-
> create-a-c-sharp-app-that-decides-itself-whether-to-show-as-a-console-o
> Burn setup.exe is a special project and I cannot attach to the window or
> path the handle of the new console back to burn, then write to it.
>
>
> Is there any other convenient way to show the users in quite mode possible
> arguments, maybe even log output to stdout?
>
> Thanks,
> Artur
>
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