Re: [WiX-users] Shared Files

[Bob Arnson]

Henning Eiben wrote:
> I didn't find an obvious way to include a file only once in the MSI and
> install it to serveral locations ...
>   

Generally you don't. Instead, you can use WiX's support for "smart 
cabbing" so that only a single copy of the file is included in your MSI 
package regardless of how many times it's installed. See 
http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/06/01/quotSmart-cabbingquot-added-to-WiX-toolset.aspx
 
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Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0.3621.0

[Bob Arnson]

Philip Lippard wrote:


What is the status of the above WIX install with VS.NET 2008 RTM ?

 


Is Votive still installed with this release ?



Yes. What features are shown if you click Advanced?

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Re: [WiX-users] Dark - NullReferenceException due to rows in the AppSearch table

[Bob Arnson]

Frank Eden wrote:
> I run dark against my MSI, and I get an exception.  Ive tracked it down a
> bit, and I find that if I delete particular ros in the AppSearch table, I
> can get dark to work.  Please find an attached MSI that demonstrates the
> problem.  Its 4Mg - Sorry its so big!!
>   

Your attachment didn't come through. Please enter a bug and try 
attaching the MSI. (I'm not sure what the size limits on attachments are 
in the SF bug system, though; it might be too big.)

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Re: [WiX-users] Crystal Reports Merge Module Installation Woes

[Bob Arnson]

Szentpali Janos wrote:
> "Merge modules are generally now considered bad practice..." 
> If this is true than what is the point of the whole MSI system? I mean if I 
> have a 3rd party component (x.dll) that 4th party and 5th party are using 
> too, how does the system decide that the x.dll component installed by the 4th 
> party's installer and the x.dll component installed by the 5th party's 
> installer are the same and how does it make sure that upon un-install it is 
> only un-installed if both (all) products are un-installed and that it IS 
> un-installed if both (all) products are un-installed? I'm thinking of a 
> "common file" placed under say "%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\3rd Party\x.dll"..

MSI manages that at the component level; merge modules are an authoring 
construct, not an installation construct. Because patches target 
products, not components, however, most redistributables are shipped as 
MSI packages, not merge modules.

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Re: [WiX-users] Substitution for Fragments in MMs?

[Bob Arnson]

Chris Weiss wrote:
> the installer as possible. I'd planned to use a Fragment, but
> discovered that Fragments are no longer supported (why?). 

Fragments are still supported. What's no longer supported is 
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Re: [WiX-users] Using XmlFile in a merge module

[Bob Arnson]

csellers wrote:
> We are using Wix build 3.0.2925.0
>   

Please try the latest weekly release. The version you're using is over 
six months old. And please include the exact error message from a 
verbose log, to get the details the CA logs.

> Looking at this, you would think SchedXmlFile would occur after
> InstallFiles, but it doesn't seem to work this way.
>   

SchedXmlFile is an immediate custom action; it runs while the 
installation script is being generated. It tells MSI to run other CAs 
when the script is executed (which is when the files are actually 
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Re: [WiX-users] Latest build - specifically MSMQ extension

[Bob Arnson]

Henning Eiben wrote:
> Hmm, but as far as I can see only the source-version contains the
> msmq-extension, the binary version does not contain those binaries.
>   

It was probably a casualty of the conversion to MSBuild. Please enter a bug.

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Re: [WiX-users] Wix3: File/@Name as part of @Source

[Bob Arnson]

Alexander Biryukov wrote:
> Bob, while it feature is NEW, you can improve it without damage of  
> bracking changes.
>   

The breaking change would be that Name currently defaults to Id.

> If you cannot improve this feature withot "Feature request", i will create  
> it.
>   

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Re: [WiX-users] SQL Elements are not recognized in Visual Studio?

[Aaron Shurts]

Did you add the references to your extensions in your WiX project?
...and, did you add the schemas to the wxs file?

i.e.
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";
 xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension";
 xmlns:sql="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/SqlExtension";
 xmlns:ui="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UIExtension";>

Regards,
//aj

On Jan 2, 2008 3:03 PM, JCWrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I Installed Votive 3.0 and I started testing out a project in Visual
> Studio.
> When I tried to build the project it did not recognize SQLDatabase and
> User
> as valid tags.  I checked the help file to make sure I had the proper
> version and it shows the definition for both.  Have I missed some
> versionsetting in VS or is there something else I need to do?
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Re: [WiX-users] ICE60 and DefaultLanguage

[Mike Dimmick]

I can't do better than refer to the documentation for ICE60 at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369003.aspx.

"Failure to fix a warning reported by ICE60 generally leads to a file being
needlessly reinstalled when a product repair is done. This happens because
the file to be installed in the repair and the existing file on disk have
the same version (they are the same file) but different languages. The file
table lists the language as null, but the file itself has a language value
in the resource. Based on the file versioning rules, the installer favors
the file to be installed, so it is recopied needlessly."

I believe the installer is using the Translation key in the VarFileInfo of
the resources to get the list of languages from the already-installed
version.

WiX - specifically, light - is supposed to get the language information at
build time, unless you have specified the -sf or -sh switches. I would not
advise using these switches as they suppress ALL the version information
collection, throwing you into the chaos of unversioned files (where
last-installed wins).

Why does Windows Installer want you to duplicate all this information in the
database, when it's already in the files? To prevent it having to obtain the
file (potentially a CAB download from the Internet, for HTTP MSIs) just to
discover that it wasn't needed.

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-Original Message-
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Sent: 02 January 2008 23:27
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] ICE60 and DefaultLanguage

I am packaging third party DLLs in my .msi file.  These DLLs do not 
contain a Language entry in their resource bundle.  When I validate the 
MSI I get an ICE60 warning for each of these DLLs: "The file  is not a Font, and its version is not a companion file reference. 
  It should have a language specified in the Language column."

If I manually add the value 1033 to the Language column for each of 
these entries I no longer get the validation warning.

I have added a DefaultLanguage="1033" attribute to the  element 
for each of these libraries, but this value seems to be ignored.  I 
still get empty Language column values for these files.



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Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?

[Mike Dimmick]

What you specify in the Icon elements gets incorporated in your .msi as a
binary at build time, so it should be something you have control over, not
attempting to use a system executable.

The warning message is described in the documentation for the Icon table,
where it states:

"Icon files that are associated with shortcuts must be in the EXE binary
format and must be named such that their extension matches the extension of
the target. The shortcut will not work if this rule is not followed. For
example, if a shortcut is to point to a resource having the key file
Red.bar, then the icon file must also have the extension .bar. Multiple
icons can be stuffed into the same icon file as long as all of the target
files have the same extension."

The Id attribute is used for the icon file's name when it is extracted onto
the system. So you should use something like:



When they say the EXE binary format they actually mean a Portable Executable
file - a resource-only DLL is acceptable. It does not actually have to be
executable.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 03 January 2008 00:06
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?

When we created help file shortcuts in the start menu using
InstallShield, we had to manually set the icon to
System32\WinHlp32.exe. If I try to do this with WiX, it complains that
the extension of icon 'xyz' for shortcut 'abc' does not match the
extension of the Key File for component 'foo.chm'.

How does one go about getting a nice help icon in the start menu?

My code looks more or less like this:


  
  
  

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[WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?

[Chris Weiss]

When we created help file shortcuts in the start menu using
InstallShield, we had to manually set the icon to
System32\WinHlp32.exe. If I try to do this with WiX, it complains that
the extension of icon 'xyz' for shortcut 'abc' does not match the
extension of the Key File for component 'foo.chm'.

How does one go about getting a nice help icon in the start menu?

My code looks more or less like this:


  
  
  

...



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[WiX-users] ICE60 and DefaultLanguage

[Ted Berg]

I am packaging third party DLLs in my .msi file.  These DLLs do not 
contain a Language entry in their resource bundle.  When I validate the 
MSI I get an ICE60 warning for each of these DLLs: "The file  is not a Font, and its version is not a companion file reference. 
  It should have a language specified in the Language column."

If I manually add the value 1033 to the Language column for each of 
these entries I no longer get the validation warning.

I have added a DefaultLanguage="1033" attribute to the  element 
for each of these libraries, but this value seems to be ignored.  I 
still get empty Language column values for these files.

What am I doing wrong?

Ted

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[WiX-users] SQL Elements are not recognized in Visual Studio?

[JCWrs]

I Installed Votive 3.0 and I started testing out a project in Visual Studio. 
When I tried to build the project it did not recognize SQLDatabase and User
as valid tags.  I checked the help file to make sure I had the proper
version and it shows the definition for both.  Have I missed some
versionsetting in VS or is there something else I need to do?
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Re: [WiX-users] Two questions on SelectionTree and Features.

[Aaron Shurts]

Brad,
First question:
Set the attributes when you are defining your feature and components.
Example:
  
  

Second question:
There is no elegant solution unfortunately.  You could use a custom dialog
that does not employ the SelectionTree control, such as checkboxes, or a
custom action that hooks your feature selection dialogs and watches for
event triggers of the SelectionTree control.  Windows Installer UI is
limited at best and leaves a lot to be desired.

Regards,
//aj

On Jan 2, 2008 1:50 PM, Brad Thompson (WEBSTORE) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>  I have two questions. I am using the SelectionTree control to allow
> customization. When I click on the top level of the tree it has the
> following entries:
>
>
>
> Will be installed on local hard drive
>
> Entire feature will be installed on local hard drive
>
> -
>
> Will be installed to run from the network
>
> Entire feature will be installed to run from the network
>
> -
>
> Feature will be installed when required
>
> -
>
> Entire feature will be unavailable.
>
>
>
> Our team does not want to support network installs or "when required"
> installs. Is there a way to remove these from the list?
>
>
>
> *My second question:*
>
>
>
> Is there a way to automatically set a feature to be installed based on
> other features without using SetInstallLevel?
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[WiX-users] Two questions on SelectionTree and Features.

[Brad Thompson (WEBSTORE)]

I have two questions. I am using the SelectionTree control to allow 
customization. When I click on the top level of the tree it has the following 
entries:

Will be installed on local hard drive
Entire feature will be installed on local hard drive
-
Will be installed to run from the network
Entire feature will be installed to run from the network
-
Feature will be installed when required
-
Entire feature will be unavailable.

Our team does not want to support network installs or "when required" installs. 
Is there a way to remove these from the list?

My second question:

Is there a way to automatically set a feature to be installed based on other 
features without using SetInstallLevel?

Brad Thompson.

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Re: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

[Richard]

Make sure you are using the service name in the ServiceControl table
and not the display name.  The two are not necessarily the same and
you must use the service name when controlling services in Windows
Installer.
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Re: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

[Christopher Painter]

I've also worked on projects where the developers used environment variables 
across the system and in the service.  This also can cause a race condition as 
the SCM doesn't recognize environment changes.  

  The poster mentioned install/start manually.  Certainly try install MSI start 
manually.  If this works you probably have a race conditionion.  If it doesn't 
work, you probably have configuration / installation data problems.
  
"Wilson, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  If it can be started ok after the install then the issue could be 
dependencies. If it's dependent on an assembly in the GAC or (on Vista) the C++ 
CRT support being installed from a merge module these won't be available at 
StartServices time.

Phil Wilson

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Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:42 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

I am trying to install and start a service but its coming back with.
Error msg: Verify that you have sufficient priveleges to start system services. 
I am running the msi file as an administrator.

I can install / start the service manually but not via wix, has anyone seen 
this before and do they have sample code?

Much appreciated.

Graham

Code:

SharedDllRefCount='no' KeyPath='no' NeverOverwrite='no' Permanent='no' 
Transitive='no'
Win64='no' Location='either'>

Source='Call Manager Service.exe' ReadOnly='no' KeyPath='yes' Vital='yes' 
Hidden='no' System='no'
Checksum='no' />

ErrorControl='normal' Start='auto' Type='ownProcess' Vital='yes' 
Interactive="no" />

Start='install' Stop='both' Remove='uninstall' Wait='yes' />




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Re: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

[Wilson, Phil]

If it can be started ok after the install then the issue could be dependencies. 
 If it's dependent on an assembly in the GAC or (on Vista) the C++ CRT support 
being installed from a merge module these won't be available at StartServices 
time.

Phil Wilson

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Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:42 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

I am trying to install and start a service but its coming back with.
Error msg: Verify that you have sufficient priveleges to start system services. 
I am running the msi file as an administrator.

I can install / start the service manually but not via wix, has anyone seen 
this before and do they have sample code?

Much appreciated.

Graham

Code:



  

  

  




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Re: [WiX-users] FileShare - Question

[Aaron Shurts]

Set the ROOTDRIVE property to "C:\" and Move your component under the
TARGETDIR DirectoryId tag.  I am not sure why you would want your setup
package to share the root.  That seems a little dangerous and
counterintuitive.

//aj

On Jan 2, 2008 8:14 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi there,
> I probably have a quite simple question:
> How can I set the sharing of my C-drive and name it as "Root"?
>
> I tried something like this but it creates the Root-folder:
>
> 
>
>  
> Guid="6f051579-2950-42e3-9381-2f538ae1de12">
>  
>   PasswordNeverExpires="yes" RemoveOnUninstall="yes" UpdateIfExists="yes"
> CreateUser="yes"/>
>
>  
> Read="yes"/>
>  
>
>  
>
> 
>
>
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> Chris
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[WiX-users] Substitution for Fragments in MMs?

[Chris Weiss]

I'm trying to create a merge module with the file list as a separate
file so that programmers can edit it while still exposing as little of
the installer as possible. I'd planned to use a Fragment, but
discovered that Fragments are no longer supported (why?). If this were
not a merge module, I could easily use FeatureRef to include the
chunks of files. I'd rather not have dozens of ComponentRef entries,
as then either myself or the engineering group has to update the main
file each time there's a new addition to the file roster (which is
what I'm trying to avoid in the first place). If I use an include, the
file contents wont be brought into the correct location (inside the
Module node), right?

The Fragment structure looks like this currently:





...
  




How
I'm new to this whole WiX thing, so please forgive me if I'm missing
the obvious.


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Re: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

[Michal Peled]

The error message you receive implies that the service was installed but
failed to start.
Once getting this error (before canceling the installation or anything
else), if you go to Windows Service Manager, can you start the service
manually, right there in that minute?

I use Wix to install and start many services with my installation. I've
learned that I get errors like these only when there's a real error not
related to Wix. I was never able to manually start something Wix
couldn't...

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Subject: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

I am trying to install and start a service but its coming back with.
Error msg: Verify that you have sufficient priveleges to start system 
services. I am running the msi file as an administrator.

I can install / start the service manually but not via wix, has anyone 
seen this before and do they have sample code?

Much appreciated.

Graham

Code:



  

  

  





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[WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

[Graham Vickrage]

I am trying to install and start a service but its coming back with.
Error msg: Verify that you have sufficient priveleges to start system 
services. I am running the msi file as an administrator.

I can install / start the service manually but not via wix, has anyone 
seen this before and do they have sample code?

Much appreciated.

Graham

Code:



  

  

  




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[WiX-users] Wix 3.0.3621.0

[Philip Lippard]

What is the status of the above WIX install with VS.NET 2008 RTM ?

 

Is Votive still installed with this release ?

 

Votive does not show up as a VS.NET 2008 RTM add-in.

 

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Re: [WiX-users] Using XmlFile in a merge module

[csellers]

Here's a sample that demonstrates the problem:


http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";
xmlns:sql="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/SqlExtension";
xmlns:iis="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/IIsExtension";
xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension";>





















If I remove the util:XmlFile line, the merge module will correctly copy
web.config.  With that line, I get "failure to configure XML files" error,
and web.config has not been copied.

Is there anything I can do here?


csellers wrote:
> 
> I currently have an MSI Wix project that (among other things) copies an
> xml file and makes modifications to it using util:XmlFile.  I am in the
> process of converting this project to a merge module (MSM), but when I
> include the merge module in another install, I get an error saying there
> was a failure while configuring XML files.
> 
> I then noticed that I get this error before the xml file had been copied
> (which would explain the error).  I did not have this problem when I was
> building an msi file.  Looking at the log file, the failure is in
> SchedXmlFile, which is occurring before any files have been copied.
> 
> If I remove the XmlFile commands, the install runs without any problems.
> 
> Is there a reason why this is happening in the merge module when it didn't
> in the msi?  Is there anyway to control when SchedXmlFile runs?
> 

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Re: [WiX-users] Wix layout

[Dominik Guder]

Dominik Guder wrote:
> 
> this looks suitable for me. I'll give it a try.
> 

After a bunch of more important tasks I was able to come back to this task.
I first tried the diff solution which worked as expected and I ended with a
nant solution which removes the diff dependency. I would like to share this
here for all others who might need it.

Since wix throws an error on missing files in buildarea, only a one way
check is needed to check if all files from buildarea are present in
administrative install location (below installer dir).
In addition some files could be excluded from the check if needed.

Regards Dominik


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[WiX-users] FileShare - Question

[Chris]

Hi there,
I probably have a quite simple question:
How can I set the sharing of my C-drive and name it as "Root"?

I tried something like this but it creates the Root-folder:



  

  
  

  

  

  




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[WiX-users] Shared Files

[Henning Eiben]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to wix, and I want to create a msi-file to distribute my
.net application. My app consists of several components, which require
certain assemblies. These assemblies are required in the same folder as
the application (I don't want to place them in the GAC right now).

So I have an assembly containing common interface defintions. This
assembly has to be installed to several directories, obviously in each
components directory. How should I layout my wix-config to achive this?
I didn't find an obvious way to include a file only once in the MSI and
install it to serveral locations ...




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[WiX-users] Wix 3.0 : website and virtual directory created with Wix are not removed on uninstall

[Michal Peled]

In my installation, I give the user the ability to create a virtual
directory (under an existing website) or to create a new website, giving
the name, port number, IP and header value.
All works just fine, but when I'm uninstalling, the virtual dir or the
website, if created, are not removed and are shown in IIS (we support
IIS 5 and 6).

This is the code snippet:




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.
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 IISINSTALL = 1






 IISINSTALL = 1













The "VIR_DIR" component is installed under "WebSite" (which is an
unremoveable component, so it won't be damaged by uninstall).
The "NEW_WEB_SITE" component is a new site.
The user installs either "VIR_DIR" or "NEW_WEB_SITE", but not both.
Each component belongs to its own feature, with no other components (I
know that's ugly, but it was due to technical constraints).

The MSI log of the uninstall shows that the components are detected as
Installed:Local, with Action: Absent, but yet are not removed.

Is that a known bug, or am I doing something wrong?

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[WiX-users] Automatically creating a shortcut after the FileSet has been written

[Joa]

The only possibility to create a shortcut for a file, as far as I know, is to
use the http://www.nabble.com/Automatically-creating-a-shortcut-after-the-FileSet-has-been-written-tp14576701p14576701.html
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[WiX-users] Creating a component group using mallow

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Is there a way to create a component group using mallow? 
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