[WiX-users] Inheriting MSM's

2014-02-13 Thread Narayana Rao, Sanjay
Hi all, I have existing msm say old.msm I want to create new msm (say new.msm) which extends the existing old.msm. I am using WIX Dependency tag, In installation package (MSI) file I need to mere both old.msm and new.msm, if I miss to merge old.msm, I only get warning message. Is there a way to

[WiX-users] Burn custom UI, second browse button

2014-02-13 Thread Hans De Groot
Hello, I'm trying to a second location + browse button the standard bootstrapper application. I currently have this: Page Name=Options Text X=11 Y=70 Width=-11 Height=30 FontId=2#(loc.OptionsHeader)/Text Text X=11 Y=111 Width=-11 Height=17

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

2014-02-13 Thread Kiran Somisetty
Thank you Tunneyit worked :) On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.comwrote: And please excuse the poor formatting of my message :) -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: February-11-14 9:56 AM To:

Re: [WiX-users] Burn custom UI, second browse button

2014-02-13 Thread John Ludlow
I think you may need to use something like this: http://wixextba.codeplex.com/ On 13 February 2014 11:21, Hans De Groot hans.degr...@nice.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to a second location + browse button the standard bootstrapper application. I currently have this: Page Name=Options

Re: [WiX-users] Burn custom UI, second browse button

2014-02-13 Thread Steven Ogilvie
This has been intergraded in WIX 3.8 -Original Message- From: John Ludlow [mailto:john.ludlow...@gmail.com] Sent: February-13-14 7:58 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn custom UI, second browse button I think you may need to use something like

Re: [WiX-users] Burn custom UI, second browse button

2014-02-13 Thread Hans De Groot
Can you provide an example then? I looked into the source. I found the code that puts the content of the value of the Editbox into a burn variable. But I could not find the code (or examples) that can fill the Editbox with a predefined value. Or the code that hooks-up a handler for the new

Re: [WiX-users] Burn custom UI, second browse button

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Unfortunately the second browse button hasn¹t been integrated - the code wasn¹t generic enough. Neil This has been intergraded in WIX 3.8 -Original Message- From: John Ludlow [mailto:john.ludlow...@gmail.com] Sent: February-13-14 7:58 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Burn custom UI, second browse button

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Sleightholm
The examples here http://wixextba.codeplex.com/ should deal with all of that. If you have any questions about wixextba can you post them on the wixextba codeplex site. Neil Can you provide an example then? I looked into the source. I found the code that puts the content of the value of the

[WiX-users] Trouble with WIX based installer for VSTO Solution for Word 2013 Template

2014-02-13 Thread Josef Bogad
Hi @all, I am facing problems with a WIX based installer in a particual installation. I posted that already at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21738825/wix-installer-for-vsto-word-temp late-for-word-2013-not-working-correctly Does anyone have a hint how to tackle that? Do I have to

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

2014-02-13 Thread Tunney, Stephen
No worries, The next time you're near Toronto you can buy me a beer ;) -Original Message- From: Kiran Somisetty [mailto:mr.svski...@gmail.com] Sent: February-13-14 6:29 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-13 Thread Wesley Manning
Disclaimer: I never created my own BA. Here are a couple of links: http://www.wrightfully.com/part-1-of-writing-your-own-net-based-installer-with-wix-overview/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7840380/custom-wix-burn-bootstrapper-user-interface?rq=1 These are for creating .net BA. If you

Re: [WiX-users] Inheriting MSM's

2014-02-13 Thread Rob Mensching
Create a module dependency? ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Narayana Rao, Sanjay [mailto:sanjay.narayana...@philips.com] Sent: Thursday, February

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-13 Thread karthikrangaraj
Thank you for the useful links. I'll try. Karthik - Wix 3.8 users -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Launch-third-party-application-installation-at-front-tp7592625p7592663.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at

[WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Hartmann
I've inherited a VS2008 project that has a VDProj project, which isn't supported in the VS2012 I'm running. I ran the VDProj to WiX converter to create a WiX installation project, but get two build errors that aren't making a lot of sense to me, and was hoping someone might be able to offer

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread John Cooper
It is entirely possible that Any CPU is set in the solution. What does Configuration Manager say? -- John Merryweather Cooper Build Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission, KS  66227 Office:  913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread Phill Hogland
I am getting the same error. In my case I have several projects, of different architectures, in the same solution. I only see the problem when I try to build the projects using a batch script and msbuild to build each project. The C++ CA project can be built as either Win32 or x64. The wixlib

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Hartmann
Thanks John. All of the projects in the solution are set to Debug and x86. Based on some info I found on one of the Microsoft forums, I manually edited the solution file and removed references to Any CPU, and x86, but that didn't help. -Original Message- From: John Cooper

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Hartmann
Thanks Phil. Per my reply to John, I'm pretty sure (though not absolutely positive), that I've removed all references to any configurations other than Debug and Release and platform x86 in the entire solution. -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Hartmann
John: Ran msbuild and basically got the same error messages. But in addition I noticed a warning: CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304, processorArchitecture=MSIL

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread Phill Hogland
If the solution has C++ projects, they must use Win32 rather than x86. (I also tried to change them to x86 and found that C++ does not support x86). -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread Phill Hogland
I mean I found that VC C++ project does not support using x86. Win32 must be used (or x64, etc.) -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Requesting-assistance-with-two-build-errors-tp7592664p7592672.html Sent from the wix-users mailing

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread John Cooper
The Platform should be overridden if you pass it as a property on the command line. There are several places (especially dependent on how may configs and platforms might have been supported in the past) where defaults are set in a *proj file. You need to make sure that none of the defaults

Re: [WiX-users] Requesting assistance with two build errors

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Hartmann
I appreciate all this info John, I'll have to do some studying. :) Will report back in a day or so. -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:51 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

[WiX-users] Cannot install wix 4.0

2014-02-13 Thread Filip Balas
I receive an error saying the installation failed when trying to use the wix40.exe . I downloaded the binaries, but there is no way to install/register everything from there (that I can see, not setup.exe or anything). In 3.9 you could just run the installer and everything worked well. Am I

Re: [WiX-users] Cannot install wix 4.0

2014-02-13 Thread Rob Mensching
There is a bug tracking this... or I thought there was a bug tracking it. Anyway, it's a bug. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Filip Balas

Re: [WiX-users] Read a value from a text file and use it in WIX source file

2014-02-13 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
Thanks Walter, that works for me :) On 12-02-2014 21:35, Walter Dexter wrote: Sorry I forgot about this. Here's what I'm doing. I'm sure someone more experienced will have a much better way, but this works for me. First, in my build.cmd file, set svt envrironment variable to the contents of