Re: [WiX-users] How to pass parameters from Custom Action written in VBScript?
Maybe I didn't get your question right. In the custom action you can do like this: Session.Property(NewProperty) = NewValue 2009/7/18 Jirong Hu jirong...@gov.ab.ca Thanks a lot, Konstantin. How can I pass information from the CustomAction (VBScript) code back to Wix? Jirong -Original Message- From: Konstantin Vlasenko [mailto:konstantin.vlase...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:01 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to pass parameters from Custom Action written in VBScript? Deferred custom action. Please read carefully this artical http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370543(VS.85).aspx And see my example. CustomAction Id=ShowInstallDir.SetProperty Property=ShowInstallDir Value=[INSTALLDIR] / CustomAction Id=ShowInstallDir Script=vbscript Execute=deferred ![CDATA[ Dim property property = Session.Property(CustomActionData) MsgBox property ]] /CustomAction InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=ShowInstallDir.SetProperty Before=InstallInitializeNOT REMOVE=ALL/Custom Custom Action=ShowInstallDir Before=InstallFinalizeNOT REMOVE=ALL/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence 2009/7/17 Jirong Hu jirong...@gov.ab.ca Hi This is my first Custom Action, and I copied the code from here: http://n2.nabble.com/Re:-Creating-a-virtual-directory-under-a-web-site-(other-than-the-default)-(by-Mark-Jones)-td692909.html When I try to run this GetSites.vbs from Windows command line, I got an error say Object required on Session.Property(WebSitesList) = strRslt. If run the msi file SFS.msi, I got an error like this in the log: Action 16:06:26: caGetWebSites. Error 1720. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Custom action caGetWebSites script error -2147467259, Msi API Error: Property,Name Line 13, Column 2, MSI (s) (1C:4C) [16:06:32:531]: Product: SFS -- Error 1720. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Custom action caGetWebSites script error -2147467259, Msi API Error: Property,Name Line 13, Column 2, All my scripts are attached. Can someone also point me to some links tell how to write Custom Action in VBScript? I try to get a list of existing IIS web sites and display them in a Combo box in a dialog for the installer to choose from. How can I pass the result of GetSites() into the dialog? --- GetSites.vbs - Function GetSites() Dim strRslt: strRslt = Dim locatorObj: Set locatorObj = CreateObject(WbemScripting.SWbemLocator) Dim objProvider: Set objProvider = locatorObj.ConnectServer(localhost, root/MicrosoftIISv2) Dim objServersCollection: Set objServersCollection = objProvider.ExecQuery(SELECT Name, ServerComment FROM IIsWebServerSetting, WQL,H30) Dim oServer For Each oServer In objServersCollection 'strRslt = strRslt oServer.Name Chr(9) oServer.ServerComment vbCrLf strRslt = strRslt oServer.ServerComment vbCrLf Next Session.Property(WebSitesList) = strRslt Set objServersCollection = Nothing Set objProvider = Nothing Set locatorObj = Nothing GetSites = 0 Log (strRslt) End Function --- GetSites.vbs - ---install.wxs CustomAction Id=caGetWebSites FileKey=GetSitesFile VBScriptCall=GetSites Execute=deferred Return=check HideTarget=no Impersonate=no / !-- Binary Id=GetSitesBin SourceFile=GetSites.vbs / CustomAction Id=caGetWebSites BinaryKey=GetSitesBin VBScriptCall=GetSites Execute=firstSequence Return=check / -- InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=caGetWebSites Before=InstallFinalizeNot Installed/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence ---install.wxs Thanks Jirong Hu Build Master 780-644-5488 This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute,
Re: [WiX-users] merge modules not working only vcredist.exe
Hi Ari, Thanks for tip re static link explaining InstallExecuteSequence. Im not really concerned though about the custom action (launch app after installation checkbox). I only mentioned it to reference the error message 2896 in the log in case someone suggested it. The problem is, my installer works fine using VCRedist.exe (including the custom action) but not with merge modules - wont launch at all, custom action or no custom action. I thought merge modules vcredist are the exact same thing so concluded therefore Im not configuring the merge modules properly? thanks, -Original Message- Where is your launchapplication custom action scheduled in the InstallExecuteSequence? I think that the VC redists won't actually get installed to the SxS folder until after InstallFinalize, so if your action runs before then, the app won't find the VC dlls and you'll get the error message you're seeing below. I think that the answer is to launch your application after InstallFinalize. You lose the ability to fail the install and rollback if your app fails to launch, but maybe that's acceptable. You could also statically link the app with the CRT MFC and then the dlls aren't necessary. If your CA is already scheduled after InstallFinalize, then I wasn't much help :) -Ari _ Windows Live Messenger: Happy 10-Year Anniversary—get free winks and emoticons. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] controlling install location based on the value of ALLUSERS
Eric Napier wrote: If ALLUSERS is 1, I want to install to ProgramFilesFolder. If ALLUSERS is blank, I want to install to LocalAppDataFolder.Any recommendations for how to accomplish this? SetDirectory custom actions with conditions based on ALLUSERS. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WixVariables and GUIDs
rh_maill...@mac.com wrote:
Thanks Brian, this does work (I thought I'd tried this and it didn't before!)
Odd that if I define the GUID as a pre-processor variable it doesn't require
{}'s and if you enter the GUID manually Wix says it doesn't need them.
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/17/beware-localization-variables/
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Re: [WiX-users] I'd call this an error, not a warning
Mark Roden wrote: : warning MSB3155: Item 'Microsoft.Net.Framework.3.5.SP1' could not be located in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\'. I'd call that actually a pretty severe error, not a warning. That's the .NET bootstrapper, not WiX. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to get the PrintEula.dll from Wix source?
Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) wrote: I saw some source code about PrintEula in wix sources\src\ext\UIExtension\ca folder. However, I don't know how to get PrintEula.dll. Just reference its Id; Light.exe will pull it from WixUtilExtension. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Need a Good Working Sample
Ravi Patt wrote: I took WiX3.msi and decompiled it using dark.exe. Don't decompile it; use the source code from src\setup\*.wxs. Where can I get the Custom Actions and their source? src\ext\VSExtension\wixlib -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit
Erica Chang (PROJECT) wrote: It appears that we are still using version 2 of wix, not 3...and so I do not see WixUtilExtension.dll Is there a way to do this in version 2 of wix? That's where you need to link with wica.wixlib. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] merge modules not working only vcredist.exe
warne warne wrote: Thanks for tip re static link explaining InstallExecuteSequence. Im not really concerned though about the custom action (launch app after installation checkbox). I only mentioned it to reference the error message 2896 in the log in case someone suggested it. The problem is, my installer works fine using VCRedist.exe (including the custom action) but not with merge modules - wont launch at all, custom action or no custom action. I thought merge modules vcredist are the exact same thing so concluded therefore Im not configuring the merge modules properly? The content is identical but the process is different. You can't rely on the VC merge modules in a custom action that uses the VC DLLs. As long as you don't try to do that, they'll install correctly and you can rely on them, outside the installation transaction. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Specifying subfolder name at install time.
Greg Silin wrote: I know I can set a Directory via Property, but in that case I have to specify the full path. In this case, I only need to set that one folder name. MSI doesn't support that, but you can always use SetDirectory to set the target name relative to a parent directory (i.e., [PARENTDIR]childDir). -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] merge modules not working only vcredist.exe
So I remove the custom action to make sure the merge modules, as you say, install correctly. Same result... App wont launch with merge modules (see 1st post for list of what I have). Only works if prior install vcredist.exe (2008). Can I rephrase this question. Is there a link somewhere to find out what exactly is in vcredist.exe and what exactly it does to my system that merge modules (at least the way I have them currently configured) are not? No more about custom actions please, and I dont want to bootstrap in vcredist.exe ;) thanks all, -Original Message- The content is identical but the process is different. You can't rely on the VC merge modules in a custom action that uses the VC DLLs. As long as you don't try to do that, they'll install correctly and you can rely on them, outside the installation transaction. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ _ With Windows Live, you can organise, edit, and share your photos. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files
Thanks John. I used Heat (Wix 3.0) to generate a file (help.wxs) - this basically contains lots of help files (html and also some images). How to do I used this file (help.wxs) inside another wix file (product.wxs) - this is main wix file. Please let me know. Thanks again,Anu --- On Fri, 7/17/09, John Robbins (via Nabble) ml-user+58268-1057559...@n2..nabble.com wrote: From: John Robbins (via Nabble) ml-user+58268-1057559...@n2.nabble.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files To: akapoor anupama_kap...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 2:00 AM Heat with WiX 3.0 does a pretty good job of coordinating and building WiX fragments. Long before the updated WiX 3.0 Heat, I wrote a tool for my use, Paraffin that takes care of generating WiX fragments. (http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2009/06/28/paraffin3-1-new-and-improved.aspx). As with any tools that generate components, be extra careful and obey the component rules. :) John Wintellect http://www.wintellect.com 877-968-5528 -Original Message- From: akapoor [mailto:anupama_kap...@...] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:04 PM To: wix-us...@... Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files Can you please share your experience? I also want to do exact same thing that you are talking about. I am not sure, which way to go about. Tom Crozier wrote: All - I need to know the best way to handle installing a large number of files. As part of the project I have 2 different directories with approximately 24,000 files (including subfolders) in each. I could use heat to generate the initial list but then I am assuming I have to maintain the list from then on since I would not want the file id's changing from release to release. The other method would be to zip up each directory and install the zip file. In this case I would need to write a custom action to unzip the files (unless there is already something available). Ideas? Suggestions? Thanks - TopCat -- ___ WiX-users mailing list wix-us...@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-handle- installing-a-large-number-of-files-tp3148741p3269023.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list wix-us...@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list wix-us...@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users View message @ http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-handle-installing-a-large-number-of-files-tp3148741p3272801.html To unsubscribe from Re: How to handle installing a large number of files, click here. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-handle-installing-a-large-number-of-files-tp3148741p3283167.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
