[WiX-users] Best method for authoring my Wix setup

2014-01-16 Thread Graham Allwood
Hi, I use VS 2013 Express and VB6 to develop my application. It has serveral .NET assemblies that are exposed via COM and used in the VB6 app. I also have some pure .NET apps / utilities. Because I have a COM exposed components, I have to use HEAT to extract the registration information.

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple entries in ARP, while upgrading an installation.

2014-01-16 Thread Shehnaz Khan
Is there any documentation which would explain this behavior? It would be of great help. Thanks, Shehnaz -Original Message- From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:18 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

[WiX-users] How to disable GUID automatically conversion

2014-01-16 Thread joe_qiao
Hi, When I use wix tool to generate msm file, I found package GUID is automatically converted, dash _ is added. E.g., Package Id=22DC78B69C36-40A0-99DC-65F986235041 will be 22DC78B69C36_40A0_99DC_65F986235041 when I examine the msm. Even if I use 22DC78B69C3640A099DC65F986235041, it will be

[WiX-users] Problem with service install on non English OS

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen I. Woolhead
Hi, I have a problem I'm trying to resolve regarding installing a couple of services via ServiceInstall. Of these services some install as Local System, and Some as Local Service. When we originally built this wix project, it targeted only English OS's and in the serviceInstall element we

Re: [WiX-users] Best method for authoring my Wix setup

2014-01-16 Thread Christopher Painter
Best Method is subjective but I know the method I personally would use and it would probably only take me about 1 hour to do it. See: http://blog.iswix.com/2011/03/installation-collaboration-workflows.html Basically I'd use VS 2013 Integrated Shell, WiX 3.8 and IsWiX 2.4 (latest build) to

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple entries in ARP, while upgrading an installation.

2014-01-16 Thread Christopher Painter
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370859(v=vs.85).aspx In general, *everything* actually is documented in the Windows Installer SDK. However, it's not organized very well and the way I had to learn it was to read every single page over and over and during the course of

Re: [WiX-users] WiX web setup Directory name

2014-01-16 Thread Phill Hogland
Can you post relevant sections of code and verbose logs (from your %temp% folder)? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WiX-web-setup-Directory-name-tp7591768p7591823.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] WiX web setup Directory name

2014-01-16 Thread Phill Hogland
Sorry I see that you did post code in another thread. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WiX-web-setup-Directory-name-tp7591768p7591824.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple entries in ARP, while upgrading an installation.

2014-01-16 Thread Phill Hogland
If you are trying to do a major upgrade, then the new setup needs to have both a different ProductCode and a different version (in the first three positions). -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple entries in ARP, while upgrading an installation.

2014-01-16 Thread Wesley Manning
I got it from the mailing list and wix book. It would be on the MSI MSDN somewhere but I don't know where. From: Shehnaz Khan [mailto:shehnaz_k...@persistent.co.in] Sent: January-16-14 4:26 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple entries in ARP,

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with service install on non English OS

2014-01-16 Thread Phill Hogland
I suspect what you need to do is to localize your setup for polish so that you have a english wxl and a polish wxl file (or the language of concern). And also specify the multiple cultures in your project file. If you don't really want to translate the dialogs then use english strings in the

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with service install on non English OS

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen I. Woolhead
The thing that confuses me at the moment is that the only thing I need to translate are the account names I need to pass to ServiceInstall, and WiX provides those translations via the property WIX_ACCOUNT_LOCALSERVICE, so the only thing written into the MSI installService table is the literal

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with service install on non English OS

2014-01-16 Thread Phill Hogland
I am not sure if what I suggested would solve your problem, but what I noticed from your earlier message, when you use that polish string, you had an error which indicated that the characters were not in the code table. The polish wxl file would specify the correct code table. -- View this

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with service install on non English OS

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen I. Woolhead
Ah, yes get what you mean, that was if I was to hard code the names into the wxs, I was hoping I would be able to use the translations WiX supplies at install time. -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: 16 January 2014 15:04 To:

Re: [WiX-users] How to disable GUID automatically conversion

2014-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
The WiX toolset is following the MSI spec for Merge Modules. Whatever tool you were using before was messing up the identifiers. -Original Message- From: joe_qiao [mailto:yanchun.q...@autodesk.com] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 12:45 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple entries in ARP, while upgrading an installation.

2014-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, there is. See ProductVersion in MSI SDK. -Original Message- From: Shehnaz Khan [mailto:shehnaz_k...@persistent.co.in] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 12:26 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multiple entries in ARP, while upgrading an

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with service install on non English OS

2014-01-16 Thread David Watson
The wix properties are populated by an api call at runtime, so it should be working fine and they are the correct option in this case. There may be a specific issue in this language. Is there anything interesting in the install log? -Original Message- From: Stephen I. Woolhead

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with service install on non English OS

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen I. Woolhead
I'll go give it a try in some other languages and see if they work. Cheers, Stephen. -Original Message- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: 16 January 2014 16:42 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem with service install on non

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with service install on non English OS

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen I. Woolhead
Just tried this on a Turkish and Russian OS and it installs and runs fine, so it does look like there is something strange with the Polish OS. Not sure where to go next with this Stephen. -Original Message- From: Stephen I. Woolhead [mailto:s...@gtl.biz] Sent: 16 January

Re: [WiX-users] MsiNTProductType support in wix bundle?

2014-01-16 Thread Goran Malovic
Thanks, it seems that NTProductType is the same as MsiNTProductType. On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:34 PM, Sean rhal...@hotmail.com wrote: You're looking for the NTProductType burn variable.  List of all them are at

[WiX-users] Install exe package conditionally in bundle

2014-01-16 Thread Goran Malovic
Hi, I need to install both .net framework and one exe package (update to .net framework). When bundle starts installing .net framework, following messageis displayed: Processing: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 After framework is installed, a new installation is started (new window), installing

Re: [WiX-users] Install exe package conditionally in bundle

2014-01-16 Thread Goran Malovic
I have found the answer to first question: we can use DisplayName property for such purpose. The remaining question is if ExePackage can be run in the same window as bundle? On Friday, January 17, 2014 6:00 AM, Goran Malovic malov...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I need to install both .net

[WiX-users] Component install state not being recognized correctly

2014-01-16 Thread kirannhegde
Hello, I have a .msi package which sources certain component through merge modules.Lets call this product A This merge module is also part of another product and hence the other product too contains the same set of components. Lets call this product B. Consider a scenario where i install