How to make wix bundle delay starting of execution of a MSiPackage for the completion of an ExePackage

Question

In my wix bundle I have two ExePackages and an MsiPackage. I need to start the installation of MsiPackage only after the complete execution of the Exepackage.

How can I make some delay in the MsiPackage execution in order to achieve this? Is there any other way to do this in Chain element?

Answer 1

InstallShield setups (such as setup.exe) fire off a child process to do the install, so the setup.exe process terminates with the install still running.

According to the documentation here:

http://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/installshield19helplib/helplibrary/IHelpSetup_EXECmdLine.htm

there are a couple of choices, /SMS and /w so try those.