[wix-users] Wix Bootstrapper: Bundled Application Commandline Popup

[Colin Sim]

Hi Dean.


I'll give that a go. Thanks for your help, much appreciated!


Colin

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From: Wiles, Dean <dean.wiles at compucom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 1:29:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Wix Bootstrapper: Bundled Application Commandline Popup

Hi Colin,
I've been working through a similar challenge with SQL Server 2019 Express and finally got it working. I've documented my findings and the WiX code in http://lists.wixtoolset.org/pipermail/wix-users-wixtoolset.org/2020-September/009376.html

SQL2019-SSEI-Expr.exe wraps SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe (or SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU.exe if you need the advanced functions). The approach I used avoids having to write your own download/extract code.

There are no docs for any of those command lines, but the /QS switch on SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe avoided the popups that required input.

Hope this helps.

Dean.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:03 PM Colin Sim via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>> wrote:
Hi Nir,


I've been using the SQL Server Media. The issue I have with it is that its effectively a self extracting exe and not a bootstrap application, i.e. install using the SQL Server Media occurs in two steps:

  1.  Extract media content into a temporary location.
  2.  Run the setup application in temporary location.

As far as I'm aware, WiX doesn't handle this use case. However, SQL2019-SSEI-Expr.exe appears to be a new bootstrapping application (I have only seen it for SQL 2019 only), which will coordinate the download and install of SQL Server. The only drawback is that a commandline window pops up. I would just like to know if this is to do with how WiX launches applications.

Colin

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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org>> on behalf of Nir Bar via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 11:12:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Wix Bootstrapper: Bundled Application Commandline Popup

You need to download the SQL Server media and bundle that in the bootstrapper

Launch SQL2019-SSEI-Expr.exe, select "Download Media", download the edition you require


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Nir Bar

WiX Expert

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