Re: [WiX-users] Planning a new WiX release

[Rob Mensching]

How do you measure the number of successful installs?


PS: Sorry for the mess, I'm cleaning up right now and this next build should
be much better.

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frederik
Carlier
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 22:48
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Planning a new WiX release

Hi all,
 
With the major update to Votive and Derek's enhancements to the core WiX
toolset, there for sure is a lot of new stuff that needs to find its way to
SourceForge.
 
However, there seem to be some issues that still need to be resolved (for
example, Votive not loading). That's why I am waiting for a future build
(maybe next build?) that fixes the most visible bugs.
 
I keep an eye on this list to monitor for people's success rates with the
interim WiX builds, so please, if you encounter any issues, file a bug or
post a message here!
 
Thanks,
 
Frederik.
 
 


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Re: [WiX-users] light freze

[Bob Arnson]

Frank Büttner wrote:
> I have zip the files with 7 ZIP now it is only 552KB, because it is to
> big for SF I post it here.
>   
Well, the "good" news is that I was able to duplicate your bug. Bad news 
is that I'm not sure what the problem is. I can pinpoint it to the code 
that parses the .manifest file. If I rename light.exe.manifest 
QtCore4.dll.manifest, light succeeds. It's almost certainly a parsing 
bug in the binder but I'm not familiar with the binder code, so other 
than playing around with the formatting, I don't really have any 
suggestions for a workaround.

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[WiX-users] FW: issue around INSTALLDIR

[Anirban Basu]

Also forwarding my
query to the right group.

 



Take
Care

Anirban




 









From: Anirban Basu 
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
11:24 AM
To: Windows Installer XML
Subject: RE: issue around
INSTALLDIR



 

 

Hi,

Have not got
response in this. so re-sending.



Take
Care

Anirban




 









From: Anirban Basu 
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 6:28
PM
To: Rob Mensching; Cullen Waters;
Windows Installer XML
Subject: RE: issue around
INSTALLDIR



 

Hi,

Thanks for your
responses.

 

Rob, probably it is
not possible to do away with the custom action. I am giving you more details on
this.

 

The custom action
registers a dll which is copied to the installation directory. The dll is a
.NET assembly. Then it calls “Install” and “Uninstall”
method within the assembly which does specific actions. (like making BizTalk
WMI calls etc.).

 

I agree that
storing the installation directory specifically into the registry is an option,
but is it what all users of WIX are supposed to do? Does WIX not handle the
modified installation directory? 

I agree that if I
do not store modified installation directory somewhere it is not possible for
WIX to identify the installation directory. But what I want to know is that
from where WIX reads this value of “INSTALLDIR”?

 

Your help is much
appreciated.

 

 



Take
Care

Anirban




 









From: Rob Mensching 
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006
3:17 PM
To: Cullen Waters; Anirban Basu; Windows Installer XML
Subject: RE: issue around
INSTALLDIR



 

Or better yet, quit
calling your CustomAction.  Something sounds very fishy in this
design.  More details about what you are doing in the CustomAction are probably
necessary to really provide useful information.

 





From: Cullen
Waters 
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006
09:58
To: Anirban
 Basu; Windows Installer XML
Subject: RE: issue around
INSTALLDIR





 

Other users have
reported that you have to save the modified installation directory value during
install somewhere(like the registry).

 

Then, on
untinstall/reinstall/modify, do a regsearch to get the value of the key you
created, and change INSTALLDIR to that value.

 

Make sense?

 





From: Anirban Basu 
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006
7:50 AM
To: Windows Installer XML
Subject: issue around INSTALLDIR
Importance: High





 

Hi,

I am running into a very severe issue. I may be having
some problem in my setup.wxs file but really not being able to debug it. The
issue is as follows.

 

We have a very simple setup, which during setup
registers an assembly (for custom action) and calls its methods.

If the installation directory of the product is
changed to something else from the default installation directory, the
installation gets through properly. Actually in this case
“INSTALLDIR” is changed properly to the value of the installation
directory that user has selected.

 

During un-installation the variable
“INSTALLDIR” takes the default value and never changes to what user
has selected during installation. So during un-installation the registration of
the custom action assembly fails. Hence the un-installation fails.

 

I can not find what from where windows installer is
setting “INSTALLDIR” to default installation directory. Is using
the “INSTALLDIR” property reliable? Do I need to set
“INSTALLDIR” explicitly?

Can somebody please tell me whether it is the expected
behavior?

Please reply ASAP. We are badly stuck in this issue.
Any help will be appreciated.

 


 
  
  
   


 
  
  
   

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[WiX-users] Planning a new WiX release

[Frederik Carlier]

Hi all,
 
With the major update to Votive and Derek's enhancements to the core WiX toolset, there for sure is a lot of new stuff that needs to find its way to SourceForge.
 
However, there seem to be some issues that still need to be resolved (for example, Votive not loading). That's why I am waiting for a future build (maybe next build?) that fixes the most visible bugs.
 
I keep an eye on this list to monitor for people's success rates with the interim WiX builds, so please, if you encounter any issues, file a bug or post a message here!
 
Thanks,
 
Frederik.
 
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Re: [WiX-users] Problem with install condition based on lang ID

[Jeff MacDuff]

I will run a verbose install tomorrow and
see what the return is.

 

 









From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006
9:33 PM
To: Jeff MacDuff
Cc:
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem
with install condition based on lang ID



 

Jeff MacDuff wrote: 

It’s being set through a custom Action:

 

  

 

What does a verbose log show it's being set to? More
important is the timing; make sure the CA is scheduled before LaunchConditions.



Perhaps
there is a method to get the UI lang within the MSI itself and not use the
custom action?

There's SystemLanguageID, but that uses
GetSystemDefaultLangID.




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Re: [WiX-users] Problem with install condition based on lang ID

[Bob Arnson]

Jeff MacDuff wrote:

  
  

  
  
  It’s being
set through a custom
Action:
   
    
   
  

What does a verbose log show it's being set to? More important is the
timing; make sure the CA is scheduled before LaunchConditions.

  
  Perhaps
there
is a method to get the UI lang within the MSI itself and not use the
custom
action?
  

There's SystemLanguageID, but that uses GetSystemDefaultLangID.

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Re: [WiX-users] Problem with install condition based on lang ID

[Jeff MacDuff]

It’s being set through a custom
Action:

 

  

 

 

Which is basiccly this code
(snipped a bit)

 

  LANGID langId =
::GetSystemDefaultUILanguage();

  TCHAR
szLang[10] = {0}; _itot((UINT)langId, szLang, 10);

  MsiSetProperty(hMSI, TEXT("SystemDefaultUILanguage"), szLang);

 

 

Perhaps there
is a method to get the UI lang within the MSI itself and not use the custom
action?

 

-Jeff

  

 









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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem
with install condition based on lang ID



 

Jeff MacDuff wrote: 

My condition statement is formatted like this:

 

Condition>

 

 

Var.LCID is passed in as the build language and 1033
is of course English. What we are seeing is that the MSI’s can install
everywhere.

How are you setting SystemDefaultUILanguage? If it's
not set, "SystemDefaultUILanguage <> 1033" evaluates to true.




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Re: [WiX-users] Feature List conditional control

[Bob Arnson]

david adams wrote:

  If I set the Feature @Level="1" and use Condition #1 or #4 in an attempt to 
"disable" the other three, then all four features stay at level = 1 in 
CustomizeDlg (i.e. feature set for install).

If I set the Feature @Level="0" and use either Condition #2 or #3 in an 
attempt to "enable" the selected one, then all four features stay at level = 
0 in CustomizeDlg (i.e. feature not available).
  

Yeah, that's what I get when I reply without enough coffee. Or with too
much coffee. Unfortunately, feature conditions aren't
constantly evaluated so you can't use them to set feature levels based
on properties set in the UI. From "CostFinalize Action" in the MSI SDK:
The CostFinalize action queries the Condition
table to determine which features are scheduled to be installed.
Costing is done for each component in the Component table.

CostFinalize happens early. To add or remove features after that,
use the  AddLocal/AddSource and Remove control events.

It's a pain, but it gives you the power to "fix" mutually-exclusive
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Re: [WiX-users] Problem with install condition based on lang ID

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Jeff MacDuff wrote:

  
  
  
  
  My condition statement is
formatted like this:
   
  Condition>
   
   
  Var.LCID is passed in as
the build language and 1033 is of
course English. What we are seeing is that the MSI’s can install
everywhere.
  

How are you setting SystemDefaultUILanguage? If it's not set,
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Re: [WiX-users] Automatic updating an MSI installation under restricteduser account

[Bob Arnson]

Mike Dimmick wrote:
> If you must use a service, install the service as manual start and use a
>  element under  to allow the service to be
> started and stopped by a non-privileged user. Then start the service to
> perform the upgrade and stop it when you've finished (or perhaps have it
> stop itself?) This is the technique that Windows Installer itself uses.
>   
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Re: [WiX-users] disabling a single RadioButton

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gboreki wrote:
> Please, i am having a problem here, is there a way to disable a 
> radiobutton from a radiobuttongroup based on a property?
MSI doesn't support that. In MSI terms, the radio button group is the 
control and the radio buttons are non-control children. It's annoying 
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Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut to a URL target?

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Frank Hsueh wrote:

  
  
  
  
  "http://server/path/file.html" />
   
  I’m
using WIX v 2.0.4117.0, if that helps.  Is there anything I’m doing
wrong?
  

MSI shortcuts must point to a file or a directory (or be to an
advertised feature). You need to write a .url file and create a
shortcut to that file. You can use IniFile to create the .url file
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[WiX-users] Problem with install condition based on lang ID

[Jeff MacDuff]

I am having trouble getting an install condition based on
land ID to work… I have consulted the WIX doc’s and my
implementation seems to be correct but since it’s not working I am
missing something.

 

We are building a Multilanguage MSI for a small product and
we wish to only allow install on the language of the MSI AND English but not a
different language.

 

For example a Korean (KOR) MSI should be able to install on
a Korean language OS and an English (ENU) language OS but not a German(DEU)
language OS. At the same time, a DEU MSI should install on English and German
(DEU) but not on a Korean (KOR ) OS ,etc… you get the idea.

 

My condition statement is formatted like this:

 

Condition>

 

 

Var.LCID is passed in as the build language and 1033 is of
course English. What we are seeing is that the MSI’s can install
everywhere. 

 

Thanks for help,

Jeff

 

 

 






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Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!

[Justin Rockwood]

I have since found out the problem. It's a PLK (package load key) issue and
I'll have a fix for the next drop. Basically, since I revved the version
from 2.0 to 3.0, the PLK hash no longer matches. Watch for the next drop.
I'll also drop a line to wix-users and wix-devs to let people know that the
fix is in.

Thanks,
Justin

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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 4:43 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!


I am having the same problem too, but no I didn't have an instance of Visual
Studio Open at the time of Installation.  

Justin Rockwood wrote:
> 
> When you installed Votive3.msi, did you have any instances of Visual
> Studio
> 2005 open? If so, please uninstall and reinstall without them open. If
> not,
> please let me know so I can look into it further.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Justin
> 
>  
> 
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Welter
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:28 AM
> To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!
> 
>  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Was excited to try out the new release but found a bug right away.  After
> installing the Votive v3 latest build, I couldn't create a new project in
> Visual Studio.  In the New Project dialog, under Wix, the project template
> list is empty.  Is there some way to manually add the templates so I can
> get
> started using the latest build? 
> 
> thanks
> Paul
> 
> On 9/16/06, Justin Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> Well, after many weeks of work, I've finally checked in Votive v3. It is
> now
> available after any build >= 3.0.2115.0. You can download it from
> http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.2115.0/Votive3.msi.
> 
>  
> 
> For details about what is in the new version, you can find out on my blog.
> It also has some screen shots.
> 
>  
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/jrock/archive/2006/09/15/757144.aspx
> 
>  
> 
> Let me know what you think!
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> -
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Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!

[Magus]

I am having the same problem too, but no I didn't have an instance of Visual
Studio Open at the time of Installation.  

Justin Rockwood wrote:
> 
> When you installed Votive3.msi, did you have any instances of Visual
> Studio
> 2005 open? If so, please uninstall and reinstall without them open. If
> not,
> please let me know so I can look into it further.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Justin
> 
>  
> 
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Welter
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:28 AM
> To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!
> 
>  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Was excited to try out the new release but found a bug right away.  After
> installing the Votive v3 latest build, I couldn't create a new project in
> Visual Studio.  In the New Project dialog, under Wix, the project template
> list is empty.  Is there some way to manually add the templates so I can
> get
> started using the latest build? 
> 
> thanks
> Paul
> 
> On 9/16/06, Justin Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> Well, after many weeks of work, I've finally checked in Votive v3. It is
> now
> available after any build >= 3.0.2115.0. You can download it from
> http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.2115.0/Votive3.msi.
> 
>  
> 
> For details about what is in the new version, you can find out on my blog.
> It also has some screen shots.
> 
>  
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/jrock/archive/2006/09/15/757144.aspx
> 
>  
> 
> Let me know what you think!
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> -
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Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut problem, and a few other notes

[Eric Epstein]

Simon,

I am new to using WiX too, but I just got some help from the list, so
I think I will try to give back.
I think your first attempt is really close.
I think that all you need to add is the following line


after your


and before your



"ProgramMenuFolder" is a special (reserved/magic) name
(check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/system_folder_properties.asp
)
but it seems like you still need to define it in your .wxs file in a
 tag so that your reference to it in your  tag
will pick up properly.

If adding the  doesn't work for
you, then either a) I am a n00b too :-) , b) perhaps it has something
to do with Vista X64, c) something else.  :-(

Good Luck!

Eric


On 9/18/06, Simon Dahlbacka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Let's begin with the facts:
>  I'm a relative wix n00b and I'm running Wix 3.0.2015.0 (under Vista RC1 x64
> if that matters)
>
> Due to the lack of samples I'm having trouble with creating a shortcut in my
> wxs file.
>
> My first attempt:
>
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>   WorkingDirectory="INSTALLDIR " />
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
>
>
> 
>
>
>
> However, that blows up with
>
> C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio
> 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(37):
> error LGHT0094: Unresolved reference to symbol 'Directory:ProgramMenuFolder'
> in section
> 'Product:{D025DC70-6ADD-4AAE-8F58-A3455DD27DEE}'.
> C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio
> 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(51):
> error LGHT0094: Unresolved reference to symbol
> 'Component:ComicBookShortcutComponent' in section
> 'Product:{D025DC70-6ADD-4AAE-8F58-A3455DD27DEE}'.
>
>
>
> Then I found a sample doing something along the lines of
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
> KeyPath="yes" >
>
> 
>
> 
> Target="[!ComicBook.exe]" Name="!(wix.ProductName)" />
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> Again, this blows up as follows:
>
> C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio
> 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(22):
> error LGHT0204: ICE38: Component ComicBookShortcutComponent installs to user
> profile. It must use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file.
> C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio
> 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(22):
> error LGHT0204: ICE43: Component ComicBookShortcutComponent has
> non-advertised shortcuts. It should use a registry key under HKCU as its
> KeyPath, not a file.
> C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio
> 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(21):
> error LGHT0204: ICE64: The directory ComicBookShortcutFolder is in the user
> profile but is not listed in the RemoveFile table.
>
> So it seems that I am missing something, but I don't know where to look.
>
> A related note, the CHM file bundled with the binaries does not work on
> Vista, clicking it first gets me a security warning and if I OK that I get
> the chm file open with the contents and index tabs working but the content
> area shows a constant "The address is not valid"
>
> Pointers/hints appreciated!
>
> regards,
>
> Simon
>
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[WiX-users] Shortcut to a URL target?

[Frank Hsueh]

WIX-Users,

 

I
have a shortcut which isn’t generating anything in where I expect it to
be:

 



 

I’m
using WIX v 2.0.4117.0, if that helps.  Is there anything I’m doing
wrong?

 



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[WiX-users] disabling a single RadioButton

[gboreki]

 
Hello All,
 
Please, i am having a problem here, is there a way to disable a radiobutton from a radiobuttongroup based on a property?
 
I have some registrysearches that set properties in the start of my setup. Based in this properties the user must have some options enabled or disabled in the radiogroup but i didnt found any property like "disable" in the radiobutton element.
 
Any toughts on this?
 
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Re: [WiX-users] UCS-2 Little Endian encoding of MSI Log file problem.

[Roy Abou Assaly]

Solution:

Someone replied...the answer was to use the MultiByteToWideChar function to
convert from ANSI to UCS-2 before appending to the file.

Thanks!



Roy Abou Assaly wrote:
> 
> When I install an msi, I am keeping a log like so:
> 
> c:\>msiexec /i foo.msi /l* foo.log
> 
> The problems is that when I open foo.log, it turns out it's in UCS-2
> Little Endian encoding.  Chaning the encoding in .NET is trivial, but we
> have a legacy app that needs to append to the log file, and it's in VB6. 
> I'm having quite a bit of trouble converting the file to ASCII from UCS-2
> Little Endian.  Without the conversion, the file gets mangled with
> garbage.
> 
> Is there a particular reason why UCS-2 Little Endian is used to create the
> MSI log file?  I don't think VB6 has the programmatic capacity to natively
> read such an encodingI'm googling a solution now :-/
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[WiX-users] Shortcut problem, and a few other notes

[Simon Dahlbacka]

Let's begin with the facts:
 I'm a relative wix n00b and I'm running Wix 3.0.2015.0 (under Vista RC1 x64 if that matters)
 
Due to the lack of samples I'm having trouble with creating a shortcut in my wxs file. 
 
My first attempt:

 
 
 
 
Directory> 
 
 
 
File> 
Component> 
Directory> 
Directory> 

Directory> 
  
However, that blows up with 
    C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(37): error LGHT0094: Unresolved reference to symbol 'Directory:ProgramMenuFolder' in section 'Product:{D025DC70-6ADD-4AAE-8F58-A3455DD27DEE}'. 
    C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(51): error LGHT0094: Unresolved reference to symbol 'Component:ComicBookShortcutComponent' in section 'Product:{D025DC70-6ADD-4AAE-8F58-A3455DD27DEE}'. 

 
Then I found a sample doing something along the lines of 
 
 
 
 
 
Component> 
Directory> 
Directory> 
Again, this blows up as follows:
    C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(22): error LGHT0204: ICE38: Component ComicBookShortcutComponent installs to user profile. It must use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file. 
    C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(22): error LGHT0204: ICE43: Component ComicBookShortcutComponent has non-advertised shortcuts. It should use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file. 
    C:\Users\Simon\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\ComicBook\ComicBook\installer\installer.wxs(21): error LGHT0204: ICE64: The directory ComicBookShortcutFolder is in the user profile but is not listed in the RemoveFile table. 
So it seems that I am missing something, but I don't know where to look.
A related note, the CHM file bundled with the binaries does not work on Vista, clicking it first gets me a security warning and if I OK that I get the chm file open with the contents and index tabs working but the content area shows a constant "The address is not valid" 

Pointers/hints appreciated!
regards,
Simon
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Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!

[Justin Rockwood]

Thanks for the email. Yes, this problem has been reported a couple of times.
The issue is that our PLK (Package Load Key) hash no longer matches our
registration since I bumped the version to 3.0 and changed the package GUID.
I'll get this fixed for the next drop (which should be on Wednesday).
Unfortunately the only workaround is to install the Visual Studio SDK so
that the DLK is installed and will override loading the package using the
PLK.

Justin

-Original Message-
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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:00 PM
To: Justin Rockwood
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!

Justin,

Just installed the most recent version (v3.0.2115.0 - after grabbing the
ProjectAggregators.msi from you blog post - thx). It appears that the
"Projects" and "ProjectItems" folders have items that do not get
unzipped during the installation.

I followed your advice on the users-list and did an uninstall and fresh
install, but with no luck.  When I unzipped the
Templates\Projects\WixProject.zip and then attempted to open
VisualStudio, I get the error "Make sure the application for the project
type (.wixproj) is installed."

My apologies for the direct email... trying to get the WiX users mailing
list setup...

Regards,

Peter A.  Skelly
Senior Consultant
ThreeWill L.L.C.
mobile - 770.900.6172
office - 678.513.6930
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-Original Message-
From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 2:14 PM
To: Pete Skelly
Subject: RE: (votive, wix, vsip, and all things microsoft) : Votive 3.0
And Source Control

It was checked in last week, but the build hasn't been pushed out to
SourceForge yet. I think we'll have the build out on Wednesday.

Justin

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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 7:34 AM
To: Justin Rockwood
Subject: (votive, wix, vsip, and all things microsoft) : Votive 3.0 And
Source Control
Importance: High



Hello Justin,



I saw in a recent blog you indicated upsoming support for Source Control
in Votive / WiX projects.  Is this implemented yet? If yes, what build,
if not, any idea on when it might be?



Thanks in advance,



Pete Skelly

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Re: [WiX-users] Name-based UUID's

[Neil Sleightholm]

Derek Cicerone has blogged on this, see here:
http://installing.blogspot.com/2006/09/automatically-generating-componen
t.html. I don't know if there are any plans to implement this.

Neil

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Subject: [WiX-users] Name-based UUID's

Hello:

Has anyone considered using name-based (e.g. URL-based) UUID's, as
specified in RFC 4122, to reduce the tedium of creating Windows
Installer packages with WIX?  This would be especially helpful for
component GUID's.  Maybe the Component element could have an optional
GuidUrl attribute, which would create a version 3 (MD5 hash) or version
5 (SHA-1 hash) from the specified URL.  To reduce repetition in the
source file, the author could use WIX variables in this attribute, like
this:



It would certainly beat running uuidgen for each component.

Are there any problems with using RFC 4122 name-based UUID's as Windows
Installer GUID's?  I've never really understood the difference, if any,
between a UUID and a GUID.  It looks like this idea should work, but I'm
new to Windows Installer and WIX, so I may be missing something.

Thanks.

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[WiX-users] Name-based UUID's

[Matt Campbell]

Hello:

Has anyone considered using name-based (e.g. URL-based) UUID's, as 
specified in RFC 4122, to reduce the tedium of creating Windows 
Installer packages with WIX?  This would be especially helpful for 
component GUID's.  Maybe the Component element could have an optional 
GuidUrl attribute, which would create a version 3 (MD5 hash) or version 
5 (SHA-1 hash) from the specified URL.  To reduce repetition in the 
source file, the author could use WIX variables in this attribute, like 
this:



It would certainly beat running uuidgen for each component.

Are there any problems with using RFC 4122 name-based UUID's as Windows 
Installer GUID's?  I've never really understood the difference, if any, 
between a UUID and a GUID.  It looks like this idea should work, but I'm 
new to Windows Installer and WIX, so I may be missing something.

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Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!

[Justin Rockwood]

Sorry about that. I forgot to put it up on the web site. See my blog for
where you can download it (I've attached it to the blog):
http://blogs.msdn.com/jrock/archive/2006/09/18/761044.aspx.

Justin

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From: Torsten Rudnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 6:58 AM
To: Justin Rockwood
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!

I have tried to install votive3.msi but I get an error:

"To install Votive, you need to first install ProjectAggregator2.msi, 
which is available at http://wix.sourceforge.net.";

But, I can not find such a file there. Any hints?


Justin Rockwood schrieb:
> Well, after many weeks of work, I've finally checked in Votive v3. It is 
> now available after any build >= 3.0.2115.0. You can download it from 
> http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.2115.0/Votive3.msi.
> 
>  
> 
> For details about what is in the new version, you can find out on my 
> blog. It also has some screen shots.
> 
>  
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/jrock/archive/2006/09/15/757144.aspx
> 
>  
> 
> Let me know what you think!
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!

[Justin Rockwood]

When you installed Votive3.msi, did you have any instances of
Visual Studio 2005 open? If so, please uninstall and reinstall without them
open. If not, please let me know so I can look into it further.

 

Thanks,

Justin

 



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Hi,

Was excited to try out the new release but found a bug right away.  After
installing the Votive v3 latest build, I couldn't create a new project in
Visual Studio.  In the New Project dialog, under Wix, the project template
list is empty.  Is there some way to manually add the templates so I can
get started using the latest build? 

thanks
Paul



On 9/16/06, Justin Rockwood
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wrote: 





Well, after many weeks of work, I've finally
checked in Votive v3. It is now available after any build >= 3.0.2115.0. You
can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.2115.0/Votive3.msi.

 

For details about what is in the new version, you can find out on my blog.
It also has some screen shots.

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/jrock/archive/2006/09/15/757144.aspx

 

Let me know what you think!

 

Thanks,

Justin






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Re: [WiX-users] adding -loc parameter to 'light' when building WiX project in Visual Studio 2005

[Justin Rockwood]

The good news is that you're not a complete n00b. :) Votive v2 does not have
support for passing in command line parameters to candle/light. However, all
you have to do is add the .wxl file to the project and then it should
automatically pass in the -loc parameter.

I would recommend that you install Votive v3, since it's a lot more robust
and you can do a lot more things with it. You can see my blog for the new
features and the download location:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jrock/archive/2006/09/15/757144.aspx.

Thanks,
Justin

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project in Visual Studio 2005

Hello,

I have just started using Votive2-2.0.4415.0 and Visual Studio 2005.
In order to add the UI features to the installer, you need to supply
the '-loc' parameter (and associated value) to the 'light' linker.  I
have been able to do this successfully from the command line.  I have
not found a way to pass the '-loc' parameter to the build inside
Visual Studio 2005.  I have looked in a number of properties screens
and dialog boxes, but I have not been able to find where I can specify
a value to add a parameter to the 'light' command line executed by a
Visual Studio 2005 build.  Has anyone else done this?  Am I a complete
n00b for not being able to find how to get the '-loc' parameter into
the Visual Studio 2005 build?

Thank you in advance for you help.

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Re: [WiX-users] Conditions and version of OS

[vbtricks]

Salut,

thanks. I changed it to

Version9X =
400

and it gives me no error anymore. Next time I get the chance to test it on
Windows 95 I'll see if it works completely correct ;)


Stefan


Matthew Janulewicz-2 wrote:
> 
> In Wix, and with MSI installers in general I believe, the condition has
> to be *true* to install. So in these cases, you will *only* be able to
> install on Windows 95. I believe you want to change your '=' to 'NOT'.
> 
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:31 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Conditions and version of OS
> 
> 
> Salut,
> 
> trying to create my first setup using WIX. My software does not support
> Windows 95. In the  http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.4 wix
> tutorial  I found the following lines:
> 
> Version9X =
> 400
> Version9X = 400
> AND
> WindowsBuild = 
> 
> Unfortunately I get the message "Operating system not supported!" when
> trying to run the setup, although I'm running Windows XP. What's wrong?
> By
> the way, can I replace the equality sign in the condition by a less
> than?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Stefan
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Re: [WiX-users] Conditions and version of OS

[Matthew Janulewicz]

In Wix, and with MSI installers in general I believe, the condition has
to be *true* to install. So in these cases, you will *only* be able to
install on Windows 95. I believe you want to change your '=' to 'NOT'.


-Matt


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Salut,

trying to create my first setup using WIX. My software does not support
Windows 95. In the  http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.4 wix
tutorial  I found the following lines:

Version9X =
400
Version9X = 400
AND
WindowsBuild = 

Unfortunately I get the message "Operating system not supported!" when
trying to run the setup, although I'm running Windows XP. What's wrong?
By
the way, can I replace the equality sign in the condition by a less
than?


Thanks in advance,

Stefan
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[WiX-users] Conditions and version of OS

[vbtricks]

Salut,

trying to create my first setup using WIX. My software does not support
Windows 95. In the  http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.4 wix
tutorial  I found the following lines:

Version9X =
400
Version9X = 400 AND
WindowsBuild = 

Unfortunately I get the message "Operating system not supported!" when
trying to run the setup, although I'm running Windows XP. What's wrong? By
the way, can I replace the equality sign in the condition by a less than?


Thanks in advance,

Stefan
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[WiX-users] adding -loc parameter to 'light' when building WiX project in Visual Studio 2005

[Eric Epstein]

Hello,

I have just started using Votive2-2.0.4415.0 and Visual Studio 2005.
In order to add the UI features to the installer, you need to supply
the '-loc' parameter (and associated value) to the 'light' linker.  I
have been able to do this successfully from the command line.  I have
not found a way to pass the '-loc' parameter to the build inside
Visual Studio 2005.  I have looked in a number of properties screens
and dialog boxes, but I have not been able to find where I can specify
a value to add a parameter to the 'light' command line executed by a
Visual Studio 2005 build.  Has anyone else done this?  Am I a complete
n00b for not being able to find how to get the '-loc' parameter into
the Visual Studio 2005 build?

Thank you in advance for you help.

Eric

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[WiX-users] UCS-2 Little Endian encoding of MSI Log file problem.

[Roy Abou Assaly]

When I install an msi, I am keeping a log like so:

c:\>msiexec /i foo.msi /l* foo.log

The problems is that when I open foo.log, it turns out it's in UCS-2 Little
Endian encoding.  Chaning the encoding in .NET is trivial, but we have a
legacy app that needs to append to the log file, and it's in VB6.  I'm
having quite a bit of trouble converting the file to ASCII from UCS-2 Little
Endian.  Without the conversion, the file gets mangled with garbage.

Is there a particular reason why UCS-2 Little Endian is used to create the
MSI log file?  I don't think VB6 has the programmatic capacity to natively
read such an encodingI'm googling a solution now :-/
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Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 has been released!

[Paul Welter]

Hi,Was excited to try out the new release but found a bug right away.  After installing the Votive v3 latest build, I couldn't create a new project in Visual Studio.  In the New Project dialog, under Wix, the project template list is empty.  Is there some way to manually add the templates so I can get started using the latest build? 
thanksPaul
On 9/16/06, Justin Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Well, after many weeks of work, I've finally checked in Votive v3. It is now available after any build >= 3.0.2115.0. You can download it from 
http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.2115.0/Votive3.msi.
 
For details about what is in the new version, you can find out on my blog. It also has some screen shots.
 
http://blogs.msdn.com/jrock/archive/2006/09/15/757144.aspx
 
Let me know what you think!
 
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Re: [WiX-users] Installing Votive3

[Matthew Janulewicz]

I believe this is part of the VisualStudio 2005 extensibility SDK. I
didn't have it on hand so I searched around for it on google (search for
: ProjectAggregator2.msi download) and found it. Here's one place you
can find it (it's in the archive):

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Steel-Download-and-Change-Log


-Matt


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Subject: [WiX-users] Installing Votive3

Hi All

I just read that Votive3-beta has been released so I tried to install it

but the installer failed with the message that I first need to install 
ProjectAggregator2.msi which should be available on the wix homepage. 
Probably due to me not looking well enough I can't find it (and google 
doesn't know what it is either :-( ). So I was wondering if somebody 
could point me to the correct file.

I did download the last wix3 (binaries only). That zip file didn't have 
the projectaggregator in it so I'm guessing the installer is hiding 
somewhere.

Any hints

With regards

Petrik


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[WiX-users] B.C. slumber party

[Maggie Harmon]

They had started again exactly at eleven. Betty 
came to him in the librarya few minutes before nine.
She should be in Paris tomorrowmorning, England 
tomorrow night.
The road by which we have come is the better one, 
she continued.
If shecould get to England they couldnt bring her 
back, could they? Youll be leaving it for good very soon, Betty, he said 
significantly.
A couple of sergents - de - ville stood in front 
ofthe door. Hanaud went over to the cabinet and, using his skeleton keys, 
againopened its doors.
He has got to go back to Paris andsay: You see, 
they sent from Dijon for me, and five minutes! He laid the arrow down upon the 
table, and openedhis green file.
She would have fallen had not Jimcaught her in his 
arms.
There, since you are not blind, you will see. Jim 
placed her in a chair and dropped on his knees beside her.
I do not wish to interfere, but Ishould be glad to 
have a copy of the medical report.
A couple of sergents - de - ville stood in front 
ofthe door.
And whilst he spoke he cursed himself for 
thebanality of his words. If shecould get to England they couldnt bring her back, 
could they? I shall go to the Prefecture, said Hanaud. Of course its pleading 
guilty, he said slowly.
I cant imagine why you had us followed this 
morning, Monsieur Hanaud,he exclaimed with some heat.
It came by the evening post - with 
others.
Shall be at Monsieur Hanauds disposal as early as 
possible, theCommissaire agreed. Oh, yesterday afternoon in the hall - dont you 
remember, Jim? Hanaud shivered like a man suddenly chilled. Hesat down at the bureau 
and began carefully to search it. We shall do as much for him, said Betty, looking 
over her shoulder fromthe steering - wheel. But he admits he put it back, said Jim 
slowly. So when he turned into the street he sauntered and lookedround.
The Prefecture lay the better part of a mile away 
across the city.
From the stone bridge onecan be at the Hotel de 
Ville of Dijon in twenty - five minutes. 
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Re: [WiX-users] Feature List conditional control

[david adams]

Bob:

The suggestion does not seem to be working.  I have tried all of the 
following combinations to no avail.

I have four properties defined in their respective CheckBox controls 
(DEV_ENVIRONMENT, TEST_ENVIRONMENT, QA_ENVIRONMENT, & PROD_ENVIRONMENT).

What I am trying to do is control which one of four features (a sample shown 
below) are set to a @Level = "1".

If I set the Feature @Level="1" and use Condition #1 or #4 in an attempt to 
"disable" the other three, then all four features stay at level = 1 in 
CustomizeDlg (i.e. feature set for install).

If I set the Feature @Level="0" and use either Condition #2 or #3 in an 
attempt to "enable" the selected one, then all four features stay at level = 
0 in CustomizeDlg (i.e. feature not available).


...

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

...


Regardless of how I configure this, it does not seem that the Feature tree 
is responding in the expected manner to the Property values.

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Re: [WiX-users] Automatic updating an MSI installation under restricteduser account

[Mike Dimmick]

If you have a service configured to run as an administrator, the
administrator's password is stored as an LSA secret in the registry (in
the SAM hive, as I recall). It is encrypted but the decryption key is in
there too. However, if someone is able to steal the SAM hive to crack it
offline - which they can only do by already knowing the administrator
password or by physical access to the machine - then they can crack all
the passwords in it.

I'd be happier seeing the Windows Data Protection API used to store the
administrator's credentials, available as of Windows 2000. See
CryptProtectData in the SDK.

If you must use a service, install the service as manual start and use a
 element under  to allow the service to be
started and stopped by a non-privileged user. Then start the service to
perform the upgrade and stop it when you've finished (or perhaps have it
stop itself?) This is the technique that Windows Installer itself uses.

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Jason Swager wrote:
> But that was shot down on the principle that having the admin creds 
> ANYWHERE on the system in ANY fashion was unacceptable.
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Re: [WiX-users] Component spanning directories

[Mike Dimmick]

Windows Installer only permits a component to install to a single
directory. If you have many directories you will have to author at least
one component per directory.

As Cullen says, it may be better in the long run to create one component
per file. As I recall, you cannot add or remove a file from a component
without changing the component code.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/set
up/changing_the_component_code.asp says:

"When introducing a new component, authors need to do one of the
following to ensure that the component does not conflict with any
existing components:

- Change the name or target location of any resource that may be
installed under the same name and target location by another component. 

- Otherwise guarantee that the new component is never installed into the
same folder as another component which has a resource under a common
name and location. This includes localized versions of files with the
same file name. For more information, see What happens if the component
rules are broken?. 

- When changing the component code of an existing component, also change
the name or target location of every file, registry key, shortcut, and
other resource in the component."

Tallow.exe or heat.exe (v3) should be able to help you author the XML if
you're starting from a source tree.

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Subject: [WiX-users] Component spanning directories

We've been using Wix for some time now and recently got around to
cleaning up our wix files.  As we are adding samples and source code to
the installer, I find it hard to believe that I can't make a single
component include all my source files.  As I understand it, a component
should be anything that you want installed or removed as a unit.  Well,
if I want all my sources treated as a single unit, then a single
component should do it.
However, light complains about duplicate symbols.

Can this be done?  If not, why on earth not?  It would seem ridiculous
to create a thousand components to install a source tree of a thousand
directories when it should be installed or removed as a unit.

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