[WiX-users] Issues faced while upgrading from Wix 3.5 to Wix 3.8

2014-08-25 Thread CCM
Hi, For our project we used to create a bootstrapper installer with WiX 3.5. It included the .NetFramework 4.0 and our ProjectMSI. The product version used for this installer was 1.0.1.0. Now we have upgraded WiX to 3.8. The next product version used is 1.0.2.0. The product version for the

[WiX-users] Options for pausing the download and installation in wix custom BootStrapper

2014-08-25 Thread Balaji R
Hi, I have a wix custom Bootstrapper application which will download and install more than two msi in a client machine. Is there any option for me to pause the download process if internet is disconnected. If disconnected the application retries 3 times for re connection, if failed again it

[WiX-users] SourceProperty of CopyFile-element changed after execution

2014-08-25 Thread Ingo Fischer
Hello, I have following CopyFile element in my Product.wxs: CopyFile Id=myId DestinationDirectory=MY_DIR DestinationName=MY_NAME.xml SourceProperty=MY_SOURCE / My bootstrapper application passes the MY_SOURCE property in to the msi-file. The value of MY_SOURCE is C:\someDir\someFile.txt. It

Re: [WiX-users] SourceProperty of CopyFile-element changed after execution

2014-08-25 Thread Rob Mensching
MY_SOURCE in the Directory table? ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Ingo Fischer [mailto:ingoderfisc...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014

Re: [WiX-users] Options for pausing the download and installation in wix custom BootStrapper

2014-08-25 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Balaji R [mailto:ji4all...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 5:53 AM To:

[WiX-users] Customizing BA for Burn/Bundles

2014-08-25 Thread neslekkim
I'm creating lots of small msi's so I can modularize my installation package, and have been using the bundle feature (Burn?), to make an Exe that can install everything. The problem with this is the UI.. I have somewhat managed to make UI in the MSI, but I cannot use that UI, and need to make an

Re: [WiX-users] Customizing BA for Burn/Bundles

2014-08-25 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Both WixStdBA (C) and the WixBA (C#) have source code available to learn from. Since everyone wants a different look/feel and work flow, the bundle customization is often left up to a custom BA. For a vanilla install, WixStdBA does a good job, but injecting new pages isn't possible without

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2014-08-25 Thread Shree Krishnamurthi
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Re: [WiX-users] Customizing BA for Burn/Bundles

2014-08-25 Thread Asbjørn Mikkelsen
Would that be the code that is here? https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/tree/develop/src/ext/BalExtension mba = WixBA? I was hoping that one could use the same formats for the squences, languages, and ui definitions as one do for pure msi, but that is probably run by something else that is not

Re: [WiX-users] Customizing BA for Burn/Bundles

2014-08-25 Thread Hoover, Jacob
The MSI UI is limited by windows installer. The BA UI as no such limitations. https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/tree/develop/src/Setup/WixBA is the BA for Wix -Original Message- From: Asbjørn Mikkelsen [mailto:asbj...@neslekkim.net] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 11:20 AM To:

Re: [WiX-users] Issues faced while upgrading from Wix 3.5 to Wix 3.8

2014-08-25 Thread Rob Mensching
You'll want to investigate the log files. They should show what is going on. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: CCM

Re: [WiX-users] Splitting a package in a bundle

2014-08-25 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, but note Bundle upgrades happen last (maybe useful notes: https://support.firegiant.com/entries/24024208-Bundle-chain-execution-order-). ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Issues with Wix Installer per-user minor upgrade

2014-08-25 Thread Rob Mensching
New issue to me. Sounds like you are executing a minor upgrade. Do those work independent of the Bundle? Burn is just executing minor upgrades per MSI SDK so not exactly sure what should be changed. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support

Re: [WiX-users] SourceProperty of CopyFile-element changed after execution

2014-08-25 Thread Ingo Fischer
No, it is not in the Directory table. It is a full file path. (C:\someDir\someFile.txt ) I copy the file MY_SOURCE to the directory MY_DIR and rename it to MY_NAME. From: r...@firegiant.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:13:38 + Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

[WiX-users] No progress in installation

2014-08-25 Thread Vadivel Natarajan
Hi, we had created an installer using Bootstrapper and Burn with wix 3.7. In some machines, our setup installation was not started. Setup installation was in a starting state. No progress in installation. We are getting the below error when we look at the log file.

Re: [WiX-users] Customizing BA for Burn/Bundles

2014-08-25 Thread Asbjørn Mikkelsen
ah, thanks. When I'm using this element: BootstrapperApplicationRef Id='WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense' I'm using the C++ one then?, does it exist any examples that uses this WixBA to get an startingpoint on how I can reference it from wxs? On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:24 PM,

Re: [WiX-users] Issues with Wix Installer per-user minor upgrade

2014-08-25 Thread Phill Hogland
This thread also talks about issues with the August 12th Updates: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/SECREPAIR-CryptAcquireContext-Could-not-create-the-default-key-container-td7596414.html -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] No progress in installation

2014-08-25 Thread Hoover, Jacob
The error indicates The system cannot find the file specified. Do you have an over-zealous Anti-Virus software running on the effected machines? -Original Message- From: Vadivel Natarajan [mailto:vadiv...@syncfusion.com] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:04 PM To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] No progress in installation

2014-08-25 Thread Rob Mensching
My best guess is that you deleted stuff out of your package cache without updating the appropriate Add/Remove Programs registration as well. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/

[WiX-users] How to automatically include localized satellite assemblies?

2014-08-25 Thread David DL
Hi all, I'm new to WiX and am inheriting a project. So please pardon me if this is an silly question. Can WiX be set to automatically include all generated satellite resource assemblies? The goal is to have a single English language MSI that installs an application with localized strings

Re: [WiX-users] Issues with Wix Installer per-user minor upgrade

2014-08-25 Thread Sascha Sertel
@Rob: Yes the bundle as well as the packages inside the bundle all work fine without the August 12 update, but started failing after applying the update. @Phill: Yes that is exactly the issue I'm seeing as well. Is there any solution to this other than uninstalling the August 12 update? //

Re: [WiX-users] Customizing BA for Burn/Bundles

2014-08-25 Thread Phill Hogland
Here is a tutorial on using a mba: http://bryanpjohnston.com/2012/09/28/custom-wix-managed-bootstrapper-application/ The WixBA is used in the wixtoolset setup. So unlike the WixStdBA, it is not packaged as a module that can be included in your project. It is specific to the needs of the

Re: [WiX-users] Issues with Wix Installer per-user minor upgrade

2014-08-25 Thread Phill Hogland
Microsoft has acknowledged some of the issues related to the August 12th Update, and in some cases advised folks to uninstall certain of the updates in the August 12th release. I did not see any specific instruction from Microsoft about this particular KB. I suspect it would be best to contact

Re: [WiX-users] Issues with Wix Installer per-user minor upgrade

2014-08-25 Thread Phill Hogland
Just to clarify I don't have any connection to Microsoft or any expertise on the subject. Just passing on observations gleaned from Googling. -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Customizing BA for Burn/Bundles

2014-08-25 Thread Asbjørn Mikkelsen
Great!, thanks, this looks very usefull On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: Here is a tutorial on using a mba: http://bryanpjohnston.com/2012/09/28/custom-wix-managed-bootstrapper-application/ The WixBA is used in the wixtoolset setup. So unlike the

Re: [WiX-users] Customizing BA for Burn/Bundles

2014-08-25 Thread Phill Hogland
This may also be helpful http://www.wrightfully.com/part-1-of-writing-your-own-net-based-installer-with-wix-overview/ And there is a book on the wixtoolset.org site which I think has information on mba development. -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Cannot view RootView.xaml file in visual studio 2010

2014-08-25 Thread linos
So, I was able to fix my problem on my local PC, but since then I needed to switch on over to a VM that is running Window7. To my surprise the problem came back, but only on the VM. This is very disturbing especially when the folder containing all of the source code was copied from the PC, which

Re: [WiX-users] Copy the files from installation location to another location

2014-08-25 Thread Rajesh
-- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Copy-the-files-from-installation-location-to-another-location-tp7596539p7596540.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] Issues faced while upgrading from Wix 3.5 to Wix 3.8

2014-08-25 Thread CCM
Please find the Burn log for scenario 2 below: [23FC:17E0][2014-08-25T18:42:45]i001: Burn v3.8.1128.0, Windows v6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1), path: C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\MyProject\1.0.0.0\en-us_1.0.0.0\Setup.exe, cmdline: '/log D:\WixLog.txt -burn.unelevated