What is the best practice to create MSI with some other child MSI as prerequisite?

Question

Currently we are using Inno Setup as a bootstrapper to install the MSI prerequisites. It makes bit complex to maintain the setup. I found the Burn tool which may help us to resolve this issue by having a single setup to install whatever we need. I could not find either documentation or sample for this tool. Is anyone have idea about this? Or is there an alternative solutio?

I am looking for the alternative solution for the actions that we do with the ISS bootstrapper now:

1. Extract the files (Main setup, Prerequisite setup)
2. Need to ensure prerequisites status and install on demand.
3. Start main install.

Prune

Keep a close eye on Rob's blog, because in this newer post he promises to give more information soon: robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/1/15/… – Untruthful

Answer 1

The Burn tool is still a bit raw to be used in production. Many people in the WiX community recommend dotNetInstaller.

Ellita

Great. Thanks Yan for pointing out this. Will make of use it. – Prune

Well, if you build a Managed Bootstrapper, while taking advantage of Net Framework 4 + WPF, it can become really awesome.. – Newtonnext