Hello,

How do you suggest to developer to implement MSXML6 in Setup  Project
(winforms) now? Can it be attached as Prerequisitem and setup
automaticly ask for licence agreement on beggining, or any other
solution?

Thanks
Milan



Umut Alev - MSFT wrote:
> Until there is an Official word on the MSDN, here is my take:
>
> We will not be releasing MSMs (Merge Modules) for Msxml6. We have found out
> the hard way, MSMs in general are evil. As MSM gets inserted to another MSI,
> the product id's loose the context and can cause major update issues
> especially when there is a security issue that needs to be fixed in all the
> machines in the world.
>
> While, we know that not having MSMs, is somewhat hindering to deployment, we
> think not having MSMs is the right choice for the platform. This will be
> true for all releases coming from Microsoft at least from our departmant.
>
> I hope you would understand and make required changes to your setup logic to
> chain msi's.
>
> --
> Regards,
> - Umut Alev [MSFT]
>
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>
>
> "Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message
> news:%23DewKxfwGHA.2448@T......
> >
> >
> > Vivek wrote:
> >
> >> Where can I download the the Merge Module for MSXML6? The SDK
> >> documentation for MSXML6 is referring to a merge module for MSXML4?!
> >
> > One answer in this thread
> > <http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=247167&SiteID=1>
> > says "There is no merge module for MSXML 6.0.  We are working on a KB
> > article that explains the details."
> >
> > Searching support.microsoft.com for "MSXML 6" does not show any article
> > about MSXML and the lack of a merge module so it seems that KB article is
> > not yet published.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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