Re: [WiX-users] How to hide a file in WXS configuration file ?

WiX 3.8. >> >> "...copying a file that you're already installing, but I've never >> found a good reason to use it in this way" >> >> Yes I've a good reason : I want install certain files to the root of >> the application folder for p

Re: [WiX-users] How to hide a file in WXS configuration file ?

Fabrice, The CopyFile element is kind of an oddball, particularly in the use-case where it points to another File in the same installer. Sure, the CopyFile element exists, and it supports copying a file that you're already installing, but I've never found a good reason to use it in this way; it m

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch doesn't find Key

Try adding Secure="yes" on the Property. This means that "the Property can be passed to the server side when doing a managed installation with elevated privileges". I don't fully understand what "the server side" is, but I think it has something to do with the "transactional" part of the installa

Re: [WiX-users] Strange Beahaviour while installing previous Version

Chris, Well, it looks like you've found a workaround for now: just uninstall the old version before installing the new one. It isn't pretty, but it seems to be working for you. Sometimes, that's just what you have to do when you're migrating from one toolset to another. But if you want to keep

Re: [WiX-users] Create MSI package with out installing Wix on Target machine

Dileep, Theoretically, there are other ways to utilize the WiX Toolset without formally installing it on a machine, but none of them work very well with Visual Studio Integration. If you're using Visual Studio Integration and you only need to work with one version of the WiX Toolset at a time, th

Re: [WiX-users] Strange Beahaviour while installing previous Version

Chris, Is your new version a "Major Upgrade" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa369786.aspx), as opposed to a "Small Update" or "Minor Upgrade" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370579.aspx)? Also, if it is a Major Upgrade, then when is your RemoveExistingProducts action schedule

Re: [WiX-users] Help with adding new elements using XMLConfig

Uma, Apologies for the delayed response. If you haven't figured it out already, you only need to remove the parent 'SnippetDir' node, and all of its children will be removed with it. However, you will need to be clever with your XPath to make sure you select the correct 'SnippetDir' node for rem

Re: [WiX-users] Service Start Too Early - Can I delay on install?

>From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371634.aspx "Note: Services that rely on the presence of an assembly in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) cannot be installed or started using the ServiceInstall and ServiceControl tables. If you need to start a service that depends on an assembly in t

Re: [WiX-users] Strange Beahaviour while installing previous Version

ay need to make further adjustments to the custom action DLL to ensure that it is fully self-contained for use in subsequent versions (e.g., if it's a C# or VB.NET DLL, make sure you're using the one whose name ends with ".CA.dll"). Regards, Mike Michael Turner wrote >

Re: [WiX-users] Strange Beahaviour while installing previous Version

Chris, This looks like a bad design choice in the previous version. Most of the time, you're going to want to embed your custom action DLL as a Binary in the MSI package rather than installing it on the target machine as a File in a Component. I.e., put the custom action DLL on a Binary rather t

Re: [WiX-users] problem with installer

Have you tried running the application without going through the shortcuts? It is possible that the application may be crashing, and your machine may be configured to go straight to the debugger when a crash occurs. Usually when this happens, something is logged in the Application Event Log, so y

Re: [WiX-users] path to framework SDK $(FrameworkSDKDir)

I'm not sure what you are expecting $(FrameworkSDKDir) to point to in a .wixproj. Which version of the framework? There is no clear answer to this question within the context of a WiX project, because WiX projects do not target .NET Framework versions and do not use the .NET Framework SDK. Rathe

Re: [WiX-users] Some but not all files being removed on uninstall

Scott, Is your product using conditional Features? One way that components can get "orphaned" is if they belong to a Feature whose Level is 0 at time of uninstall. Usually this happens when the intent is to install the feature only if a certain prerequisite software is present, and if the prereq

Re: [WiX-users] Help with adding new elements using XMLConfig

Uma, First of all, I don't think you can insert XML before a given node using XmlConfig; you can only append a new child to a given parent node. (http://stackoverflow.com/q/8224918) Also, there are two nodes that match your XPath expression, and XmlConfig only uses the first match. Since you kno

Re: [WiX-users] Component/@Guid error

I have encountered this also. This a defect in light.exe 3.0.5419, which I confirmed by downloading the WiX 3.0.5419 source code and searching for the error message. (I did this a few months ago, so I can't remember the exact location off the top of my head.) This is what the linker does in 3.0.

[WiX-users] wixlib backward compatibility in WiX 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

Does anyone have experience using 3.5-built wixlibs with light.exe in WiX 3.6 and 3.7? For purposes of this discussion, I'm only concerned with the official RTMs (3.5.2519.0, 3.6.3303.0, 3.7.1224.0). My objective is to use wixlibs for inter-project collaboration, so that one project can produce w

[WiX-users] Are there any special characters I should avoid in a FeatureGroup ID?

The syntax rules for ComponentGroup and FeatureGroup IDs seem to be fairly liberal: just about anything goes, including embedded spaces and backslashes (i.e., characters that are not allowed in traditional identifiers). Of course, $(...) and !(...) are still special and can be expanded (if valid)

Re: [WiX-users] Using Condition Level="0" results in files being left behind after upgrade then uninstall.

Condition Level="0" is tricky. There's a warning about this buried in the MSDN documentation for the Condition Table : "Conditions should be carefully chosen so that a feature is not enabled on install and then disabled on uninstall. This will or

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 MergeModule creation regression?

Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote > here is a minimal mergemodule showing the error: > > > http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [WiX-users] Password validation without CA

Nirmalraj, I have implemented something similar, and I ran into the same problem that you did. In my implementation, I created additional custom dialogs to display messages if the "Password" and "Confirm Password" entries did not match or if either the user name or password was empty. Then I kee

[WiX-users] ComPlusExtension (Win64) does not honor reference count during install?

I am using WiX 3.5 RTM (3.5.2519.0). I have several x64 products that depend on a COM+ application, and they may be installed either concurrently or separately, so I am using a Wixlib to include the COM+ application in the main feature of each product. I use a custom dialog to prompt for a user n