It’s a combination of setting “DisplayInternalUI” to “yes” AND setting the
“display” arguments to BOOTSTRAPPER_DISPLAY_PASSIVE (which happens for you when
you pass the “/passive” argument to burn). That will get you
INSTALLUILEVEL_REDUCED (4). INSTALLUILEVEL_BASIC (3) isn’t currently available
If it finds the one installer package and not the other, and they are both
using a similar path, that smells like a bug to me.
Blair
From: Pally Sandher
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 2:58 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
It may well do
Search this list. It’s been discussed several times.
Blair
From: Robert Nell
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:47 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Can a bootstrapper with multiple chained MSIs be made to avoid multiple
Add/Remove Program
Hey Phil, not all files are xml some are MVC html views, we would rather
replace all the files than let the user try to merge changes back into their
dev or live environments. I saw someone else asked a similar question
yesterday on overwriting all files on repair which is basically what
Not sure, but did you try setup.exe /install /silent InstallFolder=C:\Program
Files (x86)\XXX ?
Blair
From: tom
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 1:14 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
I am using such command line for my MBA
setup.exe
The only idea that occurs to me is to provide the manual as a payload only to
the MBA and to pass its location to the MSI via an MSI property that you use in
the CopyFile table.
Blair
From: Michael Stoll
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 3:31 AM
To: General discussion for
SignCabs only signs cabs that are not embedded in the MSI (external cabs). WiX
does NOT provide any target explicitly for signing your payload before it is
cabbed (or any other such manipulation of your payload).
You can either write a Binder Extension that ensures that files are signed
Hi Bob,
I'm really blank about using this variable DelayStart for 5sec ,please
guide me to do this.
thanks for your reply.
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BTW, the migrated location for that bug is http://wixtoolset.org/issues/2639/
Blair
From: Tony
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 1:42 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Nevermind, this appears to be broken until 4.0(?)
Is your CA run in the same sequence as SetUSER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT?
What does your log say about the value of SERVICEUSER? Is it set in a line in
your log that starts “MSI (s)”?
Blair
From: Hoover, Jacob
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 11:19 AM
To: General discussion for
That should work for replacements you can do during buildtime.
That would be a great feature to contribute to make it available during
installtime.
Blair
From: Tobias S
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:07 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
What did the log say happened?
Blair
From: Christoffel le Roux
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:08 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Hi, When try to patch non-versioned files, the files does not get replaced when
the file on the disk was
Removing files from small updates is not (well) supported (and patches are
basically small updates). Your changes need to be changing a file, not removing
it.
Blair
From: Tunney, Stephen
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 7:44 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer
What does your log say about the value of EXPLORERPATH in the execute sequence?
Blair
From: victorwhiskey
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 9:16 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Hello,
I understand restartresource is only available on vista and
Hi,
I have my main installer built on XP(32 bit) Profession, Visual Studio 2008
now am creating patches using the patchwiz method and created a new
build on Win-7(64 bit) and Visual Studio 2010
The patch is getting created with all the differential and new files,
but when i run the *.msp its
The AppSecInc. Community MSI Extensions are MSI Custom Actions and so used
during Installation Runtime. In general they can be useful for different
custom actions. See http://dblock.github.io/msiext/docs/1.3/ for their
Intermediate Custom Actions.
Thanks Bob,
We'll continue to use the msistuff setup.exe bootstrapper for now, until we
find time to develop our own custom managed boostrapper application.
It'd probably be a useful feature to add in a future version of WiX.
Thanks again.
John
On 29 October 2013 01:32, Bob Arnson
Hi Blair/Jacob,
I think that SetProperty creates the necessary custom action and that it is
not deferred. This is currently scheduled after CostFinalize in execute
Sequence.
The CA to set {session.CustomActionData[SERVICEUSER] =MyUser; } is also in
the execute sequence and is
Hello,
I have tried the entire morning to register for the issue tracker on
wixtoolset.org/issues, but the activation email is so long arriving, that the
link has expired, so now I post here instead.
I have recently upgraded to 3.8 in order to get support for VS2013. Now I just
attempted to
If that's the only info you know, then create a log of the patch install
and post it for people to see.
Common reason: You deleted a component (that's not allowed) and the patch
process went into advertised mode and nothing was patched.
Phil Wilson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Ravishankar
Version lying is a bad thing! The basic issue is that the file on disk
(with no version) will never match the version you've put in the file
table. This means the product is always broken and is at risk of repeatedly
trying to repair itself.
Regarding let the user try to merge changes - I wasn't
I want to change the Wix UI strings at run time based on language selection
in the Wix UI.
Could anyone please help me on this?
Thanks in Advance
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Hello,
I'm sorry for my stupid question. Can anyone tell me is there a GUI
(graphic user interface) tool to visualize wxs script, or all content is
written by hands?
I found WixEdit editor but it craches on my Win 8.1.
Thanks.
The best regards,
Alexander Smagin.
El martes, 29 de octubre de 2013, Александр Смагин escribió:
Hello,
I'm sorry for my stupid question. Can anyone tell me is there a GUI
(graphic user interface) tool to visualize wxs script, or all content is
written by hands?
I found WixEdit editor but it craches on my Win 8.1.
What do
I have one but it doesn't cover the entire wix schema and is written to be used
in a particular way.
http://wix.codeplex.com Walkthrough and video showing it.
http://blog.iswix.com/2013/01/iswix-20130134-released.html
I'm always available for a 30 minute Google Hangout (or similar)
http://iswix.codeplex.com/ might be an option, however you will still need to
know the Xml format for debugging and advanced options.
-Original Message-
From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:18 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX
I am looking in to creating patches with WiX and therefore I am starting with
the basics of both:
Using Patch Creation Properties and
Using Purely WiX
I am currently using the 3.7 released version of WiX and following the exact
example for the 'Using Purely WiX' from the following documentation
I use Sharp Develop for creating my Dialogs in WIX:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx
Course you could just use Visual Studio 2010/2012?
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com]
Sent: October-29-13 12:26 PM
To: General
Hey Bob,
Thank you for your feedback, perhaps you could assist me with my problem then.
It appears as though my work with Melt and Torch is ignoring me :(
Here is a link to the batch file I'm using:
http://pastebin.com/kMfbSNcv
http://pastebin.com/Xa08mufQ
Thanks for looking, I can attach
c:\windows
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2013/10/28 victorwhiskey victorhwhis...@yahoo.com:
util:RestartResource Id=restart_Explorer
Path=[EXPLORERPATH]
ProcessName=explorer.exe/
Property Id=EXPLOREPATH
DirectorySearch Id=FindExplorerDir
More information, Bob :)
The wixmst file is complaining that it cannot find certain files and is
displaying the path from the RTM.wixpdb.
I see in the wixmst file the following values in their respective fields
/field/@unresolvedPreviousData node contains the *incorrect* path (RTM.wixpdb
Joe, we are just looking at patches and I have a question about this method
if you don't mind?
I am just testing out with using the sample 'Using Pure WiX' example and I
am looking at the PatchFamily element and noticed that you have to add a
reference to a component in your main install project.
Go here to get your activation email again: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/user
The page that indicated the token expired should have had a link to get a new
token.
There was an issue with the mail server this morning being incredibly slow.
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Due
Ah crap. So much for not being lazy and trying to type things out...
Thanks so much!
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HI Steve,
Could you provide tutorial how to use wix in VS2012? I modify already
created project in VS2012 and they used wix as installation. in my version
of VS, just xml is opened. there is no any interface to create/modify it
more easily. I'm beginner in VS, sorry
Thanks.
Alex.
Nope, it is all XML based,
Here are a few websites that can help:
http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/main%5Cwix_learning.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/310418/good-resources-for-learning-how-to-create-msi-installers-from-wix
these should help
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