[wix-users] Generating boot strapper files

[robert_yang at agilent.com]

"if I moved to a Bundle would I have to effectively re-write the 'detection' rules for when to determine if something is already installed"



Not needed for MSI's, nor for the supported .Net versions.  For other EXE packages you may have some work to do, but it's not so bad.  And you can do things you can't using the VS bootstrapper.  No need to run the exe as Admin anymore, either.



Using the standard bootstrapper application is really not that hard.  You can use your existing MSI user interface if desired; see MsiPackage / DisplayInternalUI.



Not sure about the VS2017 bootstrapper stuff; we went to Wix bundles in 2013 and have not looked back since.

-Rob