[WiX-users] Detect WiX Version
Is it possible to detect the version of WiX when candle is run? What I would like to do is make sure users have the correct version of WiX installed when compiling so that newer features/bug fixes are included in the MSI, e.g. something like this: ?if sys.WixVersion 3.0.5027.0 ? ?error WiX version 3.0.5027.0 or later is required. ? ?endif? Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com mailto:n...@x2systems.com -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Patch uninstall requires the original base MSI andIdon't know why
Marking the component as permanent didn't' work at all. I wrongly assumed that patch uninstall is a form of uninstall so it won't uninstall a permanent file. Instead, it is a reinstall and it overwrites higher version files with lower version from baseline cache. Also, I am not sure how will REINSTALLMODE affect this behavior. I never set it so it is presumably default omus. What REINSTALLMODE options would produce desired result: file version increments as patches get applied but does not drop when patches get uninstalled? IOW, the latest and greatest version ever installed always remains on the machine. Clearly, making component permanent will do this in install/uninstall scenario but can the same be done when applying/removing patches? I never see REINSTALLMODE value listed in patch application or patch removal verbose logs. At most I find REINSTALLMODE specifies all files to be overwritten for each file in patch removal log. -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patch uninstall requires the original base MSI andIdon't know why Tony Juricic wrote: DLL is supposed to always increase in version so it can be patched up but it should never revert to previous version during patch uninstall. Whether that's true depends on your original product's REINSTALLMODE property. I assume that just marking the file component as Permanent would do this for me? At the cost of leaving the component behind after an uninstall. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ TradeStation Group, Inc. is a publicly-traded holding company (NASDAQ GS: TRAD) of three operating subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and NFA), TradeStation Technologies, Inc., a trading software and subscription company, and TradeStation Europe Limited, a United Kingdom, FSA-authorized introducing brokerage firm. None of these companies provides trading or investment advice, recommendations or endorsements of any kind. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] WebApplication associated with WebDir
While the documentation claims that this is possible, how does one actually do it? I will scan the compiler and CA code whilst awaiting an answer. I suspect that this feature ended up on the cutting room floor. If I weren't so pressed for time on the deployment project, I'd start the overhaul of the IIS extensions. Once I've got stuff minimally working, I may be able to own / co-own the IIS extension. Thanks, -- Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WebApplication associated with WebDir
Heh; here's the line from IIsCompiler.cs in ParseWebDirElement: row[5] = null; // TODO: why isn't there a way to supply this value? So, I've added code to supply the value; now to make sure the CA actually uses it. Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: WebApplication associated with WebDir From: Thomas S. Trias tomtr...@artizan.com To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list wix-d...@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 3/1/2009 4:30 PM While the documentation claims that this is possible, how does one actually do it? I will scan the compiler and CA code whilst awaiting an answer. I suspect that this feature ended up on the cutting room floor. If I weren't so pressed for time on the deployment project, I'd start the overhaul of the IIS extensions. Once I've got stuff minimally working, I may be able to own / co-own the IIS extension. Thanks, -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Interpreting Return Codes of Executable Custom Action (type 2)
Hello, I have some questions regarding processing return codes of a custom action that runs an executable. I have an exe file that I want to execute as a part of the installation process, but the complication is that the exit codes this file returns does not satisfy the type 2 custom action return code requirement. That is, it does not return 0 when it finishes successfully. And this executable is 3rd-party provided, so I can't do anything to the executable itself. There were two solutions that I thought of. The first one was to save the file in msi file table, install the file in some folder, and then to have a vbscript to run the executable, process its return code, and if the file completes successfully, make it return 0 to the msi installation session. Another is to store the file in binary table, have a stub dll extract the file from the database, execute it, and then have it process the return code like I mentioned above. My questions are 1) Does anyone have cleaner and easier solution? 2) For my first solution, would there be any way for me to delete the executable after it is done running? I don't want to use dos commands to do that, and I was hoping that there would be some sort of wix support for this type of scenario. 3) Do you see any benefits to the second solution (use stub dll instead of vbscript) compared to the first one? Thanks! -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WebApplication associated with WebDir
The fix is just in the compiler; the CA already handles the Application_ column. I will send along a patch (attached to a bug report), but it will end up including enhancements for extended log properties and default logon domain. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: WebApplication associated with WebDir From: Thomas S. Trias tomtr...@artizan.com To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list wix-d...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list wix-d...@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 3/1/2009 5:55 PM Heh; here's the line from IIsCompiler.cs in ParseWebDirElement: row[5] = null; // TODO: why isn't there a way to supply this value? So, I've added code to supply the value; now to make sure the CA actually uses it. Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: WebApplication associated with WebDir From: Thomas S. Trias tomtr...@artizan.com To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list wix-d...@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 3/1/2009 4:30 PM While the documentation claims that this is possible, how does one actually do it? I will scan the compiler and CA code whilst awaiting an answer. I suspect that this feature ended up on the cutting room floor. If I weren't so pressed for time on the deployment project, I'd start the overhaul of the IIS extensions. Once I've got stuff minimally working, I may be able to own / co-own the IIS extension. Thanks, -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Schema documentation blank on sourceforge
Hi All, I just tried looking up the schema documentation for the WiX 2 Permission element on sourceforge. The page is there and I can see the page frame at the top and right hand side, but the content is missing. The URL is I looked at is: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_permission.htm I see the same problem in IE 7.0 on XP and in Firefox 3.0 on Mac OS 10.5. The pages for some other elements (I clicked around randomly) exhibit the same problem. I think something has gone wrong with the script that generates these pages. Fortunately live.com's cache contains copies of the pages :-) Best Regards, Hugh -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Patch uninstall requires the original base MSI andIdon't know why
Tony Juricic wrote: Instead, it is a reinstall and it overwrites higher version files with lower version from baseline cache. Yes and that's why MSI 4.5 introduced the msidbComponentAttributesShared attribute; before 4.5, there's no workaround I'm aware of. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Detect WiX Version
Neil Sleightholm wrote: Is it possible to detect the version of WiX when candle is run? What I would like to do is make sure users have the correct version of WiX installed when compiling so that newer features/bug fixes are included in the MSI, e.g. something like this: Wix/@RequiredVersion -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Schema documentation blank on sourceforge
There is a bug opened for this. https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detailaid=2646882group_id=105970atid=642714 Brian Rogers Intelligence removes complexity. - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Hugh Emberson hugh.ember...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I just tried looking up the schema documentation for the WiX 2 Permission element on sourceforge. The page is there and I can see the page frame at the top and right hand side, but the content is missing. The URL is I looked at is: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_permission.htm I see the same problem in IE 7.0 on XP and in Firefox 3.0 on Mac OS 10.5. The pages for some other elements (I clicked around randomly) exhibit the same problem. I think something has gone wrong with the script that generates these pages. Fortunately live.com's cache contains copies of the pages :-) Best Regards, Hugh -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Schema documentation blank on sourceforge
Hugh Emberson wrote: I just tried looking up the schema documentation for the WiX 2 Permission element on sourceforge. The page is there and I can see the page frame at the top and right hand side, but the content is missing. Bug already reported and a fix is in place but it won't get published until next Friday/Saturday. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] SUPPORTDIR for WIX
Thanks for ur reply Brian, I will tell you how things use to work in installShield there we have once section by the name SupportFiles, where we can add our files which we need not to install on the target machine but can use for our logic(do certain things, like registring few things) on fly. When installer runs, these files are copied to the TEMP directory on the target machine which we can access by using SUPPORTDIR property in Installshield. Can you throw some light on this ? And how to achieve the same in WIX? Thanks! Akash On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Brian Rogers rogers.br...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Akash, I haven't used InstallShield since version 11 but don't remember that directory. You can create a Directory Id=SUPPORTDIR Name=SupporDir / element inside your directory structure. Thanks, Brian Rogers Intelligence removes complexity. - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:35 AM, akash bhatia 911ak...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i am a newbie in Wix and is using Wix 3.0 toolset currently. before, i was using installshield for creating installers. i was wondering do we have some concept in Wix like SUPPORTDIR in Installshield. Below is what i have thought as a solution to the above:- Means, if we dont have one, we can use files(files to be included in SUPPORTDIR) included in BINARY table in particular custom action, like registrying certain dlls in my case. but am not sure whether we can call any *function* from normal *c# DLL*? Any suggestions for me how to tackle this requirement of mine? Thanks, Akash -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
