Re: [WiX-users] Adding msi/exe packages outside the burn chain

2014-04-11 Thread Rob Mensching
No. Burn provides a very strong security statement for the contained packages. If you add packages, you'll want to update the bundle to include them in the chain or include the additional packages in a related bundle and launch them in succession.

Re: [WiX-users] advertised install and user permissions

2014-04-11 Thread Rob Mensching
Is your MSI per-machine? ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 4:21 PM To:

[WiX-users] Relative path sometimes used for WiX extension references.

2014-04-11 Thread John Ludlow
Hi, When I add a reference to WixUtilExtension in my WiX project, this is what gets added to the .wixproj: ItemGroup WixExtension Include=WixUtilExtension HintPath$(WixExtDir)\WixUtilExtension.dll/HintPath NameWixUtilExtension/Name /WixExtension /ItemGroup When my colleague

Re: [WiX-users] Environment variable ProjectPath is expanded, possible to turn off?

2014-04-11 Thread Phill Hogland
When: 1) A cmd prompt is opened (in this case using the VS2010 CMD prompt) 2) A batch file which has setlocal also has a set projectPath=some_path_to_a_folder (case of the variable name does not matter) 3) And at some point in the same batch file or a different batch file (also using setlocal) but

Re: [WiX-users] Harvesting Performance Counters with Heat

2014-04-11 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I think you have to register the performance counters using the .NET tools and then harvest them. Neil Apologies in advance for the noob question - I HAVE tried various options but I'm stuck! I have a C# project (VS 2010) that creates a .NET DLL containing (amongst other things) a number of

Re: [WiX-users] advertised install and user permissions

2014-04-11 Thread Phill Hogland
Yes, the MSI package has the following: Package Platform=x86 Description=$(var.AppNameLong) InstallerVersion=500 Compressed=yes InstallScope=perMachine SummaryCodepage=!(loc.SummaryCodepage) / When this package is launched as part of the bundle chain the

Re: [WiX-users] Can a Wixlib contain a merge module?

2014-04-11 Thread TimM
Thanks Rob... It actually turned out to be the first build I did from TeamCity did not link in the merge module as it did not have access to it at the time. So the wixlib that went into the parent just did not have the merge module to install. So I re-verified with the latest build and it

Re: [WiX-users] Testing for Version Numbers??

2014-04-11 Thread Carter Young
It worked... Quoting Carter Young ecyo...@grandecom.net: I'm aiming for RuntimeVersion =13.0.8, I'll give this a try tomorrow... Carter On Thursday, April 10, 2014 04:49:47 PM Phill Hogland wrote: In the prior post I meant to have the entity display: InstallCondition=RuntimeVersion

[WiX-users] Best Practice for Updating UI from Custom Action

2014-04-11 Thread Arthur, Christopher
Hi, I would like to know, what's the best Way for Updating PeogressBar and StatusText From c# Custom Action. Sincerly Chris Wichtiger Hinweis: Diese E-Mail und etwa angehängte Dateien können vertrauliche Informationen enthalten und sind ausschließlich für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten

Re: [WiX-users] Adding msi/exe packages outside the burn chain

2014-04-11 Thread gowri.malasani
Thanks Rob. Is there a work around to achieve this? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:34 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding msi/exe packages outside the burn chain No. Burn

Re: [WiX-users] Adding msi/exe packages outside the burn chain

2014-04-11 Thread Rob Mensching
Is there a way to bypass the security features of the Burn engine designed to prevent evil people from slipping malware into your Bundle? I certainly hope not. If you find such a bug, please do let us know. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated

Re: [WiX-users] Adding msi/exe packages outside the burn chain

2014-04-11 Thread gowri.malasani
Got it. Thank you Rob. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 10:38 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding msi/exe packages outside the burn chain Is there a way to bypass the security

Re: [WiX-users] Best Practice for Updating UI from Custom Action

2014-04-11 Thread Phil Wilson
The general methodology is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367525(v=vs.85).aspx That covers the APIs which probably have C# mappings in DTF (if that's what you're using) The status text comes from the ActionText MSI table, WiX ProgressText. The format is templated and many

Re: [WiX-users] advertised install and user permissions

2014-04-11 Thread Phil Wilson
When you say it's advertised, I'm not sure whether you're referring to other users on the machine, and if some of the scenarios are about an administrator doing a repair but a limited user can't use the advertised feature correctly. If it's registry data intended for different users it typically

Re: [WiX-users] advertised install and user permissions

2014-04-11 Thread Phil Wilson
...ooops MsiLogging, which seems NOT to like * so spell out the options.. --- Phil Wilson On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Phil Wilson phildgwil...@gmail.com wrote: When you say it's advertised, I'm not sure whether you're referring to other users on the machine, and if some

Re: [WiX-users] Adding msi/exe packages outside the burn chain

2014-04-11 Thread Rob Mensching
Note: there have been discussions about adding a feature called modifiable chain to Burn. However, the security implications are massively challenging and backwards compatibility would be ratcheted up. At this point, is far more straight forward and secure to distribute an updated bundle. Since

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[WiX-users] Util:XmlFile Custom Action Displaying Sensitive Information in Log Files

2014-04-11 Thread Kevin Spence
Hi all, How does one handle the situation where the Util:XmlFile custom action logs sensitive information to the log file? Eg: MSI (s) (F8:8C) [11:43:03:072]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=ExecXmlFile,,) MSI (s) (F8:8C) [11:43:03:074]: Executing op:

Re: [WiX-users] advertised install and user permissions

2014-04-11 Thread Phill Hogland
I don't want to violate the security. The applications in the bundle were installed on the first install in a per-machine install. Burn was elevated at the UAC prompt. There are many other keys which are part of this app which are also written under HKLM. (I am not intending to do a per-user