[WiX-users] Question about InstallValidation for uninstall

2010-08-26 Thread Elfe Xu
Hi all, When uninstall a product, during InstallValidation, MSI will check if need to close any dependent applications. If yes, will show a message box: The following applications should be lcosed before continuing the install: ... And let user choose (1)Automatically close applications and

Re: [WiX-users] Copy fonts to folder. Without installing them.

2010-08-26 Thread mispel
When I remove 'TrueType=yes' I get this error message: error LGHT1076 : ICE60: The file FOHELLBI.TTF is not a Font, and its version is not a companion file reference. It should have a language specified in the Language column. -- View this message in context:

[WiX-users] How to set Manufacturer, Name and Title using Heat

2010-08-26 Thread Satyaprakash J
Hi, I am using Heat to generate the wxs file. In the generated file we have Manufacturer=PUT-COMPANY-NAME-HERE Name=PUT-PRODUCT-NAME-HERE and Title=PUT-FEATURE-TITLE-HERE. I would like to know how the Manufacturer, Name and Title can be set automatically using heat. Thanks

Re: [WiX-users] How to set Manufacturer, Name and Title using Heat

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
You can use heat's -t switch to pass an xslt file that will be applied to the heat output. -Original Message- From: Satyaprakash J [mailto:sat...@smartek21.com] Sent: 26 August 2010 11:43 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to set Manufacturer, Name and Title

[WiX-users] conditionally Setup

2010-08-26 Thread Mathias Kahl
Hi, i want to create a Setup which decides on an output of a c++ application which files need to be installed. Is there any option to handle this? Thank you, Mathias -- Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R)

[WiX-users] Install dll's to system-directory

2010-08-26 Thread Mathias Kahl
Hello, i need to copy  some dll's into the System32 folder of Windows with my .msi. Is there a shortcut to copy files in this folder? Because it needn't to be at every computer C:/windows/system32 Thank You, Mathias

Re: [WiX-users] Install dll's to system-directory

2010-08-26 Thread PLEYBER Thomas
Hi Mathias, Take a look at this page : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372057.aspx Hope this helps -Message d'origine- De : Mathias Kahl [mailto:mat...@gmx.de] Envoyé : jeudi 26 août 2010 13:30 À : wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : [WiX-users] Install dll's to

Re: [WiX-users] Install dll's to system-directory

2010-08-26 Thread Mathias Kahl
Thank you Thomas :) that looks real good Mathias Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:39:37 +0200 Von: PLEYBER Thomas thomas.pley...@alyotech.fr An: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff:

Re: [WiX-users] WIX Licensing

2010-08-26 Thread James Poole
Apparently my company is OK with the Eclipse Public License but not the Common Public License, and the only change between the two is the removal of this sentence in section 7: *If Recipient institutes patent litigation against a Contributor with respect to a patent applicable to software

Re: [WiX-users] WIX Licensing

2010-08-26 Thread Christopher Painter
 Microsoft does copyright assignments for all contributions to WiX so they are in fact the sole contributor in the context of this license.  I believe the process would be fat chance in hell but only Rob could speak to any possiblity of negotiating this.    I know that the my internal group

Re: [WiX-users] Question about InstallValidation for uninstall

2010-08-26 Thread Wilson, Phil
That's a fair description of MsiRMFilesInUse: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370379(VS.85).aspx Apps should integrate with Restart Manager to get automatic restart, and they get an oppurtunity to save state and restart where they left off. Phil Wilson -Original Message-

[WiX-users] How to check if major upgrade in progress?

2010-08-26 Thread gapearce
How can I tell if a major upgrade is in progress in the UI? I want to display a special dialog in the upgrade situation... Thanks -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-check-if-major-upgrade-in-progress-tp5466532p5466532.html

Re: [WiX-users] WebBrowser control in custom UI dialog

2010-08-26 Thread Pratapa Reddy Sanaga
Figured out that embeddedUI is introduced with Windows Installer 4.5, but I need to be compatible with Windows Installer 3.1. So, embeddedUI is not an option for me. I'm now left with two options. 1. In the bootstrapper exe, I can show a window, get the user credentials, get the token from the

[WiX-users] XMLConfig question

2010-08-26 Thread Chad Petersen
I have an XML file that looks like this. The goal is to alter the en_US to some other value. web-app context-param param-nameDEFAULT_LOCALE/param-name param-valueen_US/param-value /context-param context-param

Re: [WiX-users] How to check if major upgrade in progress?

2010-08-26 Thread gapearce
I should add that I'm using this mechanism now, and I test OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED, but I wanted to ask if this is the right way, or is there a different property I can also test? Upgrade Id=$(var.UpgradeCode) UpgradeVersion Minimum=$(var.ProductVersion) OnlyDetect=yes

Re: [WiX-users] Question about using XmlFile (WixUtilExtension.dll in general, actually)

2010-08-26 Thread Chad Petersen
Try adding the xmlns:util=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension; schema to the top of the file that has the XmlFile element in it. Mine looks like this Wix xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi;

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting major upgrade problem

2010-08-26 Thread gapearce
Doh! I figured it out - and I've asked this question before but in a different way. The answer is: If you have more than one NewDialog event that has a true condition, the one with the highest order number will execute, and the others will be ignored. You need to make your conditions mutually

Re: [WiX-users] XMLConfig question

2010-08-26 Thread Chad Petersen
I've made some headway, but not quite there yet. The closest I've gotten so far is this code util:XmlConfig Id=XMLMod50 File=C:\web.xml Action=create Node=value On=install ElementPath=/web-app/context-param[\[]param-name='DEFAULT_LOCALE'[\]] Name=param-value Value=other Sequence=1 / Which

Re: [WiX-users] Question about InstallValidation for uninstall

2010-08-26 Thread Elfe Xu
Thanks Phil. My question is: is there anyway for me to hide the MsiRMFilesInUse dialog, and do the close/restart application automatically? I want to use the Restart Mananger rather than implement start/stop functions by myself, but I don't want user to see this dialog. Thanks, -Elfe -- View

Re: [WiX-users] Question about using XmlFile (WixUtilExtension.dll in general, actually)

2010-08-26 Thread James Kessler
Are you referencing the dll in your Visual Studio project? On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Dave DaveLists dbfli...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the response Chad. I do indeed have the xmlns:util setup at the top of my WIX source file. Do you use WIX 3.0 or 3.5? We moved to Visual Studio 2010