Re: [WiX-users] Removing files opened by wuauclt.exe
Brent B. Powers wrote: Unfortunately, I can't remove a particular DLL because it's opened by wuauclt.exe. As in Windows Update? Which DLL? It's possible that this wouldn't occur within the installer, but only when I'm running the CA outside. MSI loads additional DLLs but probably none that the shell doesn't already load. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Error code lookup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to lookup Wix error codes? I'm getting CNDL0124, and I'd li ke to find out more about the error, so I can start debugging it. As Rob says, look in messages.xml. IIRC in v3 all the Message elements carry a Number attribute so you can simply search for Number=124. I've looked into this problem before and I think that you've actually got malformed XML, or after performing the include step the XML is malformed. I noted last time that the Component element is not valid under Include in the WiX v2 schema. The catch block in Preprocessor.cs reports SP1ProbablyNotInstalled if *any* XmlException occurs, which seems too aggressive to me. No doubt some exception is erroneously thrown if SP1 isn't installed and you try to load an XmlDocument from a StringReader, but can we not tell the difference between this and an actual malformed document? -- Mike Dimmick - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Modifying registry key permissions for new user
We have a WiX (v3.0.2315.0) project in VS2005 to build an installer for one of our products. The installer makes use of the User element to create a new user on the target machine for various purposes. I have recently been instructed to make sure the user is able to manipulate a registry key as part of the installation process. By default, the user is only able to read this particular key, nothing else. My initial thought was to use the PermissionEx element nested under an appropriate RegistryKey element. However, this doesn't seem to work as the user has not been created by the time the installer attempts to set the permissions on the registry key. Another custom action run by our installer also relies on the user being created, and by sequencing it after InstallFinalize, it worked. It seems that I could write another custom action that sets the required permissions, sequence it after InstallFinalize, and have everything work. Am I on the right track? Did I miss something important? Is there a better way to do this? Matthew - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Verb question
Why does Wix.chm say this about Verb/@Target? Target file to be executed for the verb. The value should be a formatted Property to refer to the *short path to the file*, for example: [!TargetFileId]. Only valid for non-Advertised verbs. I see no such restriction in the Platform SDK docs about the Verb table Target column referring to the short path of a file. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Verb question
Mike Dimmick wrote: It may well have problems if you use a long path with spaces in it. This might be considered a bug (I'm not sure if Windows Installer would properly quote a [#TargetFileId] expansion). It doesn't add quotes, whether they're needed or not. Hence the short path recommendation. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Warning message
Mike Dimmick wrote: You'd probably want the condition to be NOT Installed AND VersionNT = 502 so that Windows XP users didn't also get the message. Assuming, of course, that you want the message also to appear on Windows Vista. If not, try VersionNT = 502. Yes, sorry I didn't clarify -- the condition in that element controls when it's shown. So you can use it for any combination of OS conditions. The NOT Installed is important so users don't get it again during maintenance. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling while application is running
I guess this thread has got so long that the original problem needs to be
restated.
If a user uninstalls the application while the application is running, and
then clicks 'Ignore' when the FilesInUse dialog is shown, the uninstall
proceeds but never prompts for a reboot. If a reboot is done anyway, the
files that were in use are still installed.
Apparently a FilesInUse dialog is not needed in the MSI package. As I
mentioned, I tried to perform the same steps with the installer that the
tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ creates. This installer showed
a FilesInUse dialog when uninstalling while the program was running and its
MSI doesn't even have a Dialog table.
And as I also mentioned, this package also did not prompt for a reboot and
left the files installed after rebooting. Whatever problem my installers
have, the tutorial sample also has.
If you'd like I can send the log file for the tutorial package directly to
you for your inspection. It's only 79KB. Let me know.
Thanks very much for your time thinking about this and trying to help me
solve this problem.
On 11/22/06, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Lalande wrote:
MSI (s) (B4:74) [07:21:22:937]: Scheduling file
'C:\WINDOWS\Installer\1f6f1.msi' for deletion during post-install
cleanup (not post-reboot).
and
MSI (s) (B4:74) [07:21:22:968]: Scheduling file 'C:\Documents and
Settings\jlalande\Application
Data\Microsoft\Installer\{27DA485E-B001-4C9E-BAC4-F846034E86EF}\Foobar10.exe'
for deletion during post-install cleanup (not post-reboot).
Those are both normal. They're just noting that private files MSI
controls will be cleaned up and that doing so won't require a reboot.
MSI (s) (B4:74) [07:21:15:937]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error
MSI (s) (B4:74) [07:21:15:937]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT
`Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1607
MSI (s) (B4:74) [07:21:15:937]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error
MSI (s) (B4:74) [07:21:15:937]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT
`Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1603
MSI (s) (B4:74) [07:21:15:937]: 1 application(s) had been reported to
have files in use.
Info 1603. The file C:\Program Files\Acme\Foobar 1.0\FoobarAppl10.exe
is being held in use by the following process: Name: FoobarAppl10, Id:
5400, Window Title: '(not determined yet)'. Close that application
and retry.
MSI (c) (34:8C) [07:21:15:937]: Font created. Charset: Req=0, Ret=0,
Font: Req=MS Shell Dlg, Ret=MS Shell Dlg
The 1603 and 1607 codes are, as the next message indicates, for
detecting and showing in-use files. Do you have a FilesInUse dialog in
your .msi package? Is it not showing? Are you getting those log lines
during the UI or execute sequences?
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Re: [WiX-users] Verb question
The issue is that we use the App Path\Path registry value to specify additional paths for our application. We use the full name of the application which is longer than 8.3. But because the verb registration uses the short path name, the App Path entry is not found when the application is launched by clicking on a document for our application, and so the dependent dlls are not found. I could add an App Path\Path entry based on the short name, except I don't think I can reliably deduce the short name to register. Most likely it will be BLAH~1.EXE, but can I guarantee that? -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:43 PM To: Mike Dimmick Cc: Arnette, Bill; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Verb question Mike Dimmick wrote: It may well have problems if you use a long path with spaces in it. This might be considered a bug (I'm not sure if Windows Installer would properly quote a [#TargetFileId] expansion). It doesn't add quotes, whether they're needed or not. Hence the short path recommendation. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] New Website install
Hi Rob, We did some investigation and found out our code worked for build 2.0.3719.0, but we got the same error for builds 4117 and 4611. Do you know of any bugs or any changes in the schema that could have caused this? Or is there a work around with the later builds? I have pasted in our code below. Thanks. --zane ?xml version='1.0'? Wix xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi' Product Id='775673B7-FFA7-4556-B6F1-F0168CBACC7D' Name='Test Website Installer ($(env.BUILDTYPE)) ($(env.BUILDVERSION))' Language='1033' Version='$(env.BUILDVERSION)' Manufacturer='Microsoft Corporation' Package Id='CB7E7DE9-08B1-4667-90B7-777EB1F8936F' Description='Test Website Deployment' Comments='Windows Installer package to deploy Test Website' InstallerVersion='200' Compressed='yes'/ Media Id='1' Cabinet='Test.cab' VolumeLabel='Disk1'/ Property Id='INSTALLLEVEL'10/Property Property Id='ALLUSERS'2/Property Feature Id='TestWebsiteFeature' Title='Test Website' Description='Installs the Test Website' Level='1' ComponentRef Id='TestWebSite_Install' / /Feature WebDirProperties Id='ReadAndExecute' Read='yes' Write='no' Script='yes' Execute='yes' AnonymousAccess='yes' DefaultDocuments='default.aspx' / Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir' Component Id='TestWebSite_Install' Guid='31846218-E623-4055-8D99-DDBF784F8121' DiskId='1' WebSite Id='TestWebSite' Description='Test Web Site' Directory='TARGETDIR' AutoStart='yes' ConfigureIfExists='yes' DirProperties='ReadAndExecute' WebAddress Id='TestWebSiteAddress' IP='*' Port='83' Secure='no'/ /WebSite /Component /Directory /Product /Wix From: Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:52 PM To: Zane Teh; 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Cc: Suresh Parameshwar Subject: RE: [WiX-users] New Website install Not off the top of my head. You might try debugging in and seeing what is exactly going wrong. I'm not currently in a place where I can try an IIS install. From: Zane Teh Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 15:44 To: Rob Mensching; 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Cc: Suresh Parameshwar Subject: RE: [WiX-users] New Website install Thanks for the quick reply Rob. I installed the build 2.0.4611.0 but seem to getting the same error. Any ideas? --zane From: Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:30 PM To: Zane Teh; 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Cc: Suresh Parameshwar Subject: RE: [WiX-users] New Website install That's a pretty old build. I believe there was a couple bug fixes more recent than that which may fix the issue you are seeing. Try grabbing a newer version. From: Zane Teh Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 15:27 To: Rob Mensching; 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Cc: Suresh Parameshwar Subject: RE: [WiX-users] New Website install We are using v2.0.4117.0 From: Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:24 PM To: Zane Teh; 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Cc: Suresh Parameshwar Subject: RE: [WiX-users] New Website install What version of the WiX toolset are you using? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zane Teh Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 15:01 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Cc: Suresh Parameshwar Subject: [WiX-users] New Website install Hi All, I am new to WIX and am trying to install basic website but am running into issues. When I try installing the website I get the following error: Failed to read IIsWebs table. (-2147024774 ) Here is the code and settings I currently have: 1. Snippet of code from Wix: ... Component Id=TestWebSite_Install Guid=896d5f1f-eb73-461c-9fee-43c99577eb26 WebSite Id=TestWebSite Description=Test Web Site Directory=WEBSITEDIR WebAddress Id=TestWebSiteAddress IP=* Port=80 / /WebSite /Component ... 2. There are other websites installed on Port 80 but with different Headers. 3. There is NO Test Web Site that already exists 4. When I specify IP=All Unassigned OR Port=Port# different from 80 OR Header=localhost I get the same error. So far I have only gotten the website to install successfully when I have already manually preinstalled a website called Test Web Site but even with this I ran into issues: 1. I tried changing the port number to this preinstalled website from 80 to 81 and my MSI installed without errors and changed the port back from 81 to 80. Although this worked, it did not work when this site was preinstalled on port 80 and my MSI had port 81. When I tried this I still received the same error as above. 2. When I added Header=localhost to the Website attribute in my code, the MSI actually overrode a preexisting website that was installed with a Header=localhost. Even when I changed my preinstalled website named Test Web
Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?
I've asked many times for people to send me information that their company uses the WiX toolset to build their MSI packages so I can post it on the web site. Nobody has been willing to send in their name. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Rockwood Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 17:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Justin Rockwood'; 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? 1. Good idea. We should probably do that on our home page. 2. I can get to wix.sourceforge.net just fine. Maybe SourceForge was down for a minute? If you keep having problems getting to it, let us know. Justin -Original Message- From: Jacek Blaszczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 5:23 PM To: 'Justin Rockwood'; 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? Hello Justin! Thnx for this list of references it is really very helpfull to me. Personally I am not worried for WiX stability or robustness and I used it for all my installation packages created during last year. Furthermore, I am a strong advocate of WiX among all my customers. However, I would strongly recommend to fix 2 small things which create problems for coders trying to convince their customers to use WiX: 1. Provide official list of most prominent installer packages created with WiX - it tells actually everything. 2. Provide nice WiX home page linked via sourceforge.net project page - currently wix.sourceforge.net points to nothing and it may be bad www card for the package. Jacek -Original Message- From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? Here are some of the Microsoft products and groups that use WiX for their installations: * Office 2007 * Office Server 2007 * Windows SharePoint Server * SQL Server 2005 * Visual Studio * Windows Defender Additionally, there are several non-Microsoft products that use WiX. The biggest one that comes to mind is MySQL. There are lots more, but I can't remember off the top of my head. WiX has become the de-facto installation technology within Microsoft and all of the major product groups use it for their installations. If you or your client are worried about the stability, robustness, etc. don't be. The fact that some of the largest software products in the world use WiX should be testament enough that it's enterprise ready. Now, having said that, it doesn't mean that WiX is complete by any means. There is still lots of active development that goes on in the 3.0 version (which is still beta). Also, although there's a Visual Studio development experience, Votive still lacks a lot of the nice GUI designers that you'll find in Wise or InstallShield. There are some 3rd party designers for WiX files also available. And yes, sadly our documentation is not up to snuff yet. Let us know if you have any other questions. Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacek Blaszczynski Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:58 PM To: 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? Hello! Thnx for replies - they are very helpful. Can someone from MSFT WiX developers confirm which enterprise grade product installers are currently created with help of WiX package? Rgrds Jacek -Original Message- From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? I know that Microsoft use WiX for at least some parts of the SQL Server 2005, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 installers. Version 2.0.x is considered the stable version. It does get bugfixes, but no major new development. Version 3.0.x is considered the unstable development version. The versions at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970 of both are considered particularly stable; there are point releases (approximately weekly) at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ (when it works). Most people want to download the binaries or the Votive MSI, not the sources package. It's self-contained - no other tools are necessary, not even the Windows Installer SDK. Votive is the GUI, which is a Visual Studio integration package. The documentation is in the 'doc' folder of the binaries package as a chm file. Documentation is currently a weak area - the WiX.chm file gives the syntax, but not really much in the way of semantics. There's a tutorial at
Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox question...
Property Id=X is the same as nothing. If you don't want a Property to have
a value, don't define the Property. smile/
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That worked, thanks. I guess I was confused by the following warning:
C:\MQ\ndp\fx\src\xmltools\Tools\XmlNotepad\Wix\XmlNotepad.wxs(112,0): Warning
CNDL1006: Property 'LicenceAccepted' does not contain a Value attribute and is
not marked as Admin, Secure, or Hidden. The Property element is being ignored.
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Chris:
Set your property to no value by default Property Id=LicenseAccepted /
For an unchecked box, I believe that the Property @Value is empty. Checking
the checkbox sets it to the value defined in the control.
David Adams
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Just a guess, but I'd try changing the CheckBoxValue=1 to a 0
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I'm trying to put a check box on my license agreement dialog using the
following:
Control Id=AgreeCheckBox Type=CheckBox
Text={\DlgFont8}I amp;accept the terms in the License
Agreement
X=5 Y=207 Width=250 Height=15
Property=LicenceAccepted CheckBoxValue=1/
Where the property is defined as :
Property Id=LicenceAccepted Value=0/Property
But the checkbox comes up pre-checked. How do I force the checkbox to come
up unchecked to
Re: [WiX-users] How do I install a Win32 service that uses SvcHost.exe?
AFAIK, the Windows Installer doesn't support creating services like that. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byron Changuion Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 15:25 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How do I install a Win32 service that uses SvcHost.exe? Hi, I have a Win32 service that should be installed with my MSI. The typical WIX entry for a service would look something like: Component Id='MyDemoComponents' Guid='----' File Id=MyServiceDll Name='MySvcDll.dll' LongName='MyService.dll' DiskId='1' src='$(env.MySourceDir)\MyService.dll' Vital='yes'/ ServiceInstall Id=MyServiceInstall Name=MyService DisplayName=My Service Name Description=My Service Description Type=ownProcess Interactive=no Start=auto Vital=yes ErrorControl=normal /ServiceInstall /Component However, this produces an ImagePath service entry that references MyService.Dll, whereas I need to specify something like %SystemRoot%\system32\svchost.exe -k MySvcHostGroup. Cheers, -Byron. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Error code lookup
Alright, I figured out the problem, and I think it is a bug in the Preprocessor. In my include files, I am using elements from the Utility extension. The Include tag has xmlns:util=:. When this file is included in my main .wxs, by using ?include ?, the Include element is stripped out. This removes the xmlns:util attribute from the top of the included section. Because my .wxs file does not use any elements in the util namespace, the root element in that file does not contain the xmlns attribute. This causes an XML exception, because the elements in the Included section have util: prefixes, which is not declared in the concatenated xml. I'm going to work on a fix, which I'll submit Monday or Tuesday. As a workaround, I just added the xmlns:util attribute to my .wxs files, so the total xml, after including the include files, is valid XML. I am also going to submit a change to the error message for this error, and note that it is caused by malformed XML, rather than a .NET 1.1 SP1 bugfix. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cullen Waters Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wix-Users List Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error code lookup I agree on the too aggressive bit, especially since Wix is explicitly(in the exe.config files) set to run under .net 2.0 as well as 1.1. Presumably, any bug fixes that were present in 1.1 SP1 are also present in 2.0, which means that this message is only correct if there is an error, and if the user is running under 1.1. Thanks for the heads-up, Mike, I'll check into the xml, especially how it looks after the include is processed. I will send out an email once I find the root cause, so everyone can share in the learning. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:38 AM To: Cullen Waters; Wix-Users List Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error code lookup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to lookup Wix error codes? I'm getting CNDL0124, and I'd li ke to find out more about the error, so I can start debugging it. As Rob says, look in messages.xml. IIRC in v3 all the Message elements carry a Number attribute so you can simply search for Number=124. I've looked into this problem before and I think that you've actually got malformed XML, or after performing the include step the XML is malformed. I noted last time that the Component element is not valid under Include in the WiX v2 schema. The catch block in Preprocessor.cs reports SP1ProbablyNotInstalled if *any* XmlException occurs, which seems too aggressive to me. No doubt some exception is erroneously thrown if SP1 isn't installed and you try to load an XmlDocument from a StringReader, but can we not tell the difference between this and an actual malformed document? -- Mike Dimmick - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?
I've asked many times for people to send me information that their company uses the WiX toolset to build their MSI packages so I can post it on the web site. Nobody has been willing to send in their name. We use WiX to build our msi packages and we're willing to have our company and/or product name on the WiX web site. Let me know if what you need (if anything). John Vottero MVP Systems, Inc. http://www.mvpsi.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Rockwood Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 17:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Justin Rockwood'; 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? 1. Good idea. We should probably do that on our home page. 2. I can get to wix.sourceforge.net just fine. Maybe SourceForge was down for a minute? If you keep having problems getting to it, let us know. Justin -Original Message- From: Jacek Blaszczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 5:23 PM To: 'Justin Rockwood'; 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? Hello Justin! Thnx for this list of references it is really very helpfull to me. Personally I am not worried for WiX stability or robustness and I used it for all my installation packages created during last year. Furthermore, I am a strong advocate of WiX among all my customers. However, I would strongly recommend to fix 2 small things which create problems for coders trying to convince their customers to use WiX: 1. Provide official list of most prominent installer packages created with WiX - it tells actually everything. 2. Provide nice WiX home page linked via sourceforge.net project page - currently wix.sourceforge.net points to nothing and it may be bad www card for the package. Jacek -Original Message- From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? Here are some of the Microsoft products and groups that use WiX for their installations: * Office 2007 * Office Server 2007 * Windows SharePoint Server * SQL Server 2005 * Visual Studio * Windows Defender Additionally, there are several non-Microsoft products that use WiX. The biggest one that comes to mind is MySQL. There are lots more, but I can't remember off the top of my head. WiX has become the de-facto installation technology within Microsoft and all of the major product groups use it for their installations. If you or your client are worried about the stability, robustness, etc. don't be. The fact that some of the largest software products in the world use WiX should be testament enough that it's enterprise ready. Now, having said that, it doesn't mean that WiX is complete by any means. There is still lots of active development that goes on in the 3.0 version (which is still beta). Also, although there's a Visual Studio development experience, Votive still lacks a lot of the nice GUI designers that you'll find in Wise or InstallShield. There are some 3rd party designers for WiX files also available. And yes, sadly our documentation is not up to snuff yet. Let us know if you have any other questions. Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacek Blaszczynski Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:58 PM To: 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? Hello! Thnx for replies - they are very helpful. Can someone from MSFT WiX developers confirm which enterprise grade product installers are currently created with help of WiX package? Rgrds Jacek -Original Message- From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready? I know that Microsoft use WiX for at least some parts of the SQL Server 2005, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 installers. Version 2.0.x is considered the stable version. It does get bugfixes, but no major new development. Version 3.0.x is considered the unstable development version. The versions at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970 of both are considered particularly stable; there are point releases (approximately weekly) at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ (when it works). Most people want to download the binaries or the Votive MSI, not the sources
[WiX-users] Wix v2 Appllication launch fails if user changes install path.
Hi, I have an installer that has a checkbox on the exit dialog that is supposed to launch the application. It works perfectly unless the user changes the installation folder? I added the checkbox and custom action following the method in section 8.6 of the tutorial. Any idea as to what would cause this to happen would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Chuck - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How do I install a Win32 service that uses SvcHost.exe?
I'm installing a service as part of my install using Wix 3. Here's the
(slightly modified) code I use:
Component Id=MyService.exe Guid={----}
File Id=MyService.exe
Name=MyService.exe
KeyPath=yes
Source=C:\BuildOutput\MyService.exe /
ServiceInstall
Id=MyService.exe.ServiceInstall
Name=MyService
DisplayName=My Special Service
ErrorControl=ignore
Start=auto
Type=ownProcess /
ServiceControl
Id =MyService.exe.ServiceControl
Name=MyService
Start=install
Stop=uninstall
Remove=uninstall
Wait=yes /
/Component
Hope it helps.
Anthony
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 10:50 AM
To: Byron Changuion; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do I install a Win32 service that uses
SvcHost.exe?
AFAIK, the Windows Installer doesn't support creating services like that.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byron
Changuion
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 15:25
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] How do I install a Win32 service that uses SvcHost.exe?
Hi,
I have a Win32 service that should be installed with my MSI. The typical
WIX entry for a service would look something like:
Component Id='MyDemoComponents'
Guid='----'
File Id=MyServiceDll Name='MySvcDll.dll' LongName='MyService.dll'
DiskId='1' src='$(env.MySourceDir)\MyService.dll' Vital='yes'/
ServiceInstall Id=MyServiceInstall
Name=MyService
DisplayName=My Service Name
Description=My Service Description
Type=ownProcess
Interactive=no
Start=auto
Vital=yes
ErrorControl=normal
/ServiceInstall
/Component
However, this produces an ImagePath service entry that references
MyService.Dll, whereas I need to specify something like
%SystemRoot%\system32\svchost.exe -k MySvcHostGroup.
Cheers,
-Byron.
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Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - isit enterprise ready?
Rob Mensching wrote: 2. There is a block of documentation in the WiX.chm file that should be in every binaries.zip. You can also go to http://wix.sourceforge.net and see the online manual and the online tutorial there. We can always use more documentation but there is definitely documentation available. When one accesses SF the SF way, documentation will be expected at http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=105970. However, this page only contains three Sponsor Links, no trace of any Wix related documentation at all. This gives the wrong impression IMHO. Andre' - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
