[wix-users] Wix Bundle and DetectCondition

[Sean Hall]

Ah, great. So the confusion that Microsoft caused by renaming .NET Core to
.NET has begun.

.NET Core is not giving us an easy way to detect it, see:

https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/6257
https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/6264
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67024261/how-to-install-a-net-core-application-with-net-core-runtime-prerequisite-from-w/67198122#67198122
https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/discussions/6293

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 2:22 AM Jacqueline MARECHAL via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Hello Jacob,
>
> I am talking about .Net Core, not .Net Framework, but it is quite possible
> that the link you sent will help me understand how to create a similar
> extension.
> But I need to study this in order to understand and eventually create my
> own extension.
>
> Thank you :)
> Jacqueline
>
> De : Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
> Envoyé : mardi 20 avril 2021 20:38
> À : WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc : Jacqueline MARECHAL <j.marechal at arcinfo.com>
> Objet : RE: Wix Bundle and DetectCondition
>
>
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blob/develop/src/ext/NetFxExtension/wixlib/NetFx48.wxs
>
> Are you talking about this?
>
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:
> wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org>> On Behalf Of Jacqueline MARECHAL
> via wix-users
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 1:26 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>>
> Cc: Jacqueline MARECHAL <j.marechal at arcinfo.com<mailto:
> j.marechal at arcinfo.com>>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Wix Bundle and DetectCondition
>
>
> Ok, I understand.
> I will expressed it differently : how would you detect a version of .NET
> Desktop runtime.
> All ideas are welcome.
>
> Thank you
>
> De : Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com<mailto:
> Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>>
> Envoyé : mardi 20 avril 2021 18:58
> À : WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>>
> Cc : Jacqueline MARECHAL <j.marechal at arcinfo.com<mailto:
> j.marechal at arcinfo.com>>
> Objet : RE: Wix Bundle and DetectCondition
>
> Step 1, explain the problem. Starting off by thinking you need to write
> custom code is a bit strange, as many have traversed the path before you
> using the existing capabilities and were able to accomplish the task at
> hand.
>
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:
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> 3cmailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org>>> On Behalf Of
> Jacqueline MARECHAL via wix-users
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 11:16 AM
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> Subject: [wix-users] Wix Bundle and DetectCondition
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to build and evaluate complex DetectConditions.
> I thought of several possibilities:
>
>
> - Create an extension such util, to create additional functions like
> string parse, search on regular expressions and so on.
> But I don't understand how to do this. Is there a document or a tutorial
> about ?
>
>
> - Evaluate the condition directly in a custom bootstrapper.
> But it seems that it is not possible to get the DetectCondition attribute
> of an ExePackage. InstallCondition is available, but not DetectCondition :(
>
> Do you have any advice ? examples ? information ?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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