[WiX-users] Installing an extended stored procedure into SQLserver
Hi All I'm porting one of our old installers from the VS setup projects into WiX. So far everything has been going very well. The WiX source files are much easier to deal with than the VS projects and our installer is now 45Mb smaller than it used to be. Unfortunately there is one task that I'm stuck on. As part of the install we want to install an extended stored procedure into SQLserver (2000, 2005 or 2008 depending on what the customer has). We've got a DLL that is linked from the stored procedure (in both 32bit and 64bit versions) and so the installer needs to find the installed version of SQLserver, determine which version of the DLL to install and then install it. At the moment we're using some custom code (a C# class that derives from System.Configuration.Install.Installer) that is run via the InstallUtil. This our code isn't the most robust so I'd like to replace it with something else. If possible something that is build into WiX. So the question is, have other people done something like this before and is there an (semi-)easy way to install the DLL and register it with SQL server? Thanks Patrick Developer The Optima Corporation -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Weird behavior of Checkbox control and SetProperty
Hi, Hope you are not getting tired with my name, since I've posted so many questions these days :P This time is about a strange behavior when I use Checkbox and the SetProperty control. On the UI, I have [] Use proxy: Address: __ Port: ([] is checkbox, and is Edit) In my dialog, I have And in the Produce.wxs, I have I add the SetProperty code, wish to let user only need to specify PROXY_SERVER and PROXY_PORT when launch the setup by msiexec, but no need to specify USE_PROXY. But I found the behavior is not what I want. When I run msiexec with PROXY_SERVER=123.4.5.6 The checkbox is checked, the address is filled, but the address and port edit are DISABLED. When I run msiexec without PROXY_SERVER value The checkbox is STILL checked, the address is empty, and it is enabled. Seems to me there is something make the checkbox to be checked when it is shown, and by default the two Edits are disabled. So if executed, then when dialog show, the value is not changed, and the Edits keeps disabled. If is not executed, then when dialog show, the value is changed to 1, and the Edits become enabled. I've tried change the SetProperty's Sequence and Before/After, but still don't work. Why the checkbox does not respect USE_PROXY value, and always been checked? I didn't find any attribute for the default value. Thanks, -Elfe -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server
Hi
Another angle, to determine the location of an instance, connect to the
instance and use the SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') and compare to your local
name.
You may need to be careful where the instance is running on a cluster.
Michael
-Original Message-
From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Friday, 25 June 2010 6:11 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server
Just looking at it from a naïve point-of-view, and seeing what is on my own
computer (I have two instances of SQLServer installed/running, one 2005 the
other 2008), this is what I see:
If the dependency were local, it appears that the service name is
MSSQL$. Local means that the
\ instance-identifier would match (ignoring
case) with the property "ComputerName".
You could then update the Dependencies column of the ServiceInstall table
for your service.
This would probably need to be done from an immediate action, and that
action/addition would need to be performed every time you are not removing
the service's component's feature (if not simply everytime) which would
require that you preserve the instance-identifier you depend on.
Wish I had some documentation to throw at you to prove that this is really
the way to go, however.
-Original Message-
From: dB. [mailto:dbl...@dblock.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:34 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server
We have the same problem, would love a solution.
Did you try creating two components with services, one with a dependency and
another without? Then condition them based on, say, SQLSERVER_IS_LOCAL. Try
setting and not setting the property and see if that works.
Once it does, you can start trying to figure out what a "local" instance
means. It would go a long way checking for basic names (eg. (local)). We're
using http://msiext.codeplex.com, it would be implementable to properly
figure out whether the instance is actually local.
Thx
dB.
dB. @ dblock.org
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From: Will Sullivan [mailto:wsulli...@softdocs.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:21 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server
My service uses an instance of Sql Server. Now, if that instance is on the
current machine, I need to set a dependency on that service so that my
service starts afterwards.
I can foresee a hard time getting this into my installer. I need to
determine if the sql server is on the current machine from the
server/instance provided by the user, then determine the method of
identifying the service in order to set a dependency on it, then dynamically
adding this to my service during the install.
So, is there a relatively easy way to do this? Or are there any guides out
here for this situation? Looking for any help on this I can get! TIA.
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Re: [WiX-users] Merge modules for Visual C++ 2010 Express?
I haven't installed VC Express, but the location for them in VS 2010 is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Merge Modules" (or "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules" if your box is 32-bit) but they are an option for the paid versions of VS (I don't know if they are in the defaults or not). -Original Message- From: Engel Sanchez [mailto:engel_sanc...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:46 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Merge modules for Visual C++ 2010 Express? Hello. I have in the past used Wix to install the visual C++ redistributable compmonents as per the instructions here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/install_vcredist.htm After installing Visual Studio Express 2010 I can't find the merge modules to do the same. Is there a new preferred way to do this with Wix? Perhaps this is not included in the Express version of Visual C++ anymore? Any hints/advice/pointers will be greatly appreciated! Engel A. Sanchez “Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.” http://engelsanchez.net -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Merge modules for Visual C++ 2010 Express?
Hello. I have in the past used Wix to install the visual C++ redistributable compmonents as per the instructions here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/install_vcredist.htm After installing Visual Studio Express 2010 I can't find the merge modules to do the same. Is there a new preferred way to do this with Wix? Perhaps this is not included in the Express version of Visual C++ anymore? Any hints/advice/pointers will be greatly appreciated! Engel A. Sanchez “Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.” http://engelsanchez.net -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] No OpenFileDialog or something like that?
In your custom action, create and start a new thread and then wait on it. In that new thread, initialize COM for STA mode (or just initialize OLE, which will do that for you) and then call the OpenFileDialog class. After you copy your file path out of the class, let that thread end, which will release the thread your custom action entered on, and set your property with the path you received from the user. -Original Message- From: Elfe Xu [mailto:elf...@microsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:57 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] No OpenFileDialog or something like that? @Johannes Thanks for the link to wixwiki. But these samples are too simple and do not show the complex usage for me to refer :( I tried to write a custom action to use OpenFileDialog class. However, the CA gets exceptions "Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it. This exception is only raised if a debugger is attached to the process." I found an old post http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Detecting-IA64 -bit-architecture-td1381532.html#a1383764 here say that I need to create a new thread to invoke the function. Since it is a old post (2008) and Joson had suggest to submit a feature requrest for this requirement, I would like to know if there is any easy way to achieve this now. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/No-OpenFileDia log-or-something-like-that-tp5216565p5219318.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server
Just looking at it from a naïve point-of-view, and seeing what is on my own computer (I have two instances of SQLServer installed/running, one 2005 the other 2008), this is what I see: If the dependency were local, it appears that the service name is MSSQL$. Local means that the \ instance-identifier would match (ignoring case) with the property "ComputerName". You could then update the Dependencies column of the ServiceInstall table for your service. This would probably need to be done from an immediate action, and that action/addition would need to be performed every time you are not removing the service's component's feature (if not simply everytime) which would require that you preserve the instance-identifier you depend on. Wish I had some documentation to throw at you to prove that this is really the way to go, however. -Original Message- From: dB. [mailto:dbl...@dblock.org] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:34 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server We have the same problem, would love a solution. Did you try creating two components with services, one with a dependency and another without? Then condition them based on, say, SQLSERVER_IS_LOCAL. Try setting and not setting the property and see if that works. Once it does, you can start trying to figure out what a "local" instance means. It would go a long way checking for basic names (eg. (local)). We're using http://msiext.codeplex.com, it would be implementable to properly figure out whether the instance is actually local. Thx dB. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Will Sullivan [mailto:wsulli...@softdocs.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:21 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server My service uses an instance of Sql Server. Now, if that instance is on the current machine, I need to set a dependency on that service so that my service starts afterwards. I can foresee a hard time getting this into my installer. I need to determine if the sql server is on the current machine from the server/instance provided by the user, then determine the method of identifying the service in order to set a dependency on it, then dynamically adding this to my service during the install. So, is there a relatively easy way to do this? Or are there any guides out here for this situation? Looking for any help on this I can get! TIA. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] No OpenFileDialog or something like that?
@Johannes Thanks for the link to wixwiki. But these samples are too simple and do not show the complex usage for me to refer :( I tried to write a custom action to use OpenFileDialog class. However, the CA gets exceptions "Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it. This exception is only raised if a debugger is attached to the process." I found an old post http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Detecting-IA64-bit-architecture-td1381532.html#a1383764 here say that I need to create a new thread to invoke the function. Since it is a old post (2008) and Joson had suggest to submit a feature requrest for this requirement, I would like to know if there is any easy way to achieve this now. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/No-OpenFileDialog-or-something-like-that-tp5216565p5219318.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 116
Remove the tag and instead "Publish" a "DoAction" event from the Done/Finish/Close button on your finished dialog. -Original Message- From: Thomas Due [mailto:t...@scanvaegt.dk] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:36 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 116 Hello, I have two quick questions: First, I need to run an application when the installer is closed. Currently it runs when the finished dialog is shown: NOT Installed But how do I make it run when the finished dialog is CLOSED? Second, how do I escape a " in the ExeCommand attribute? E.g. ExeCommand="-lan=\"[INSTALLLANGUAGE]\" -src=[SourceDir]"? Thanks, Thomas Due -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Files are not copied if custom actions are defined
Are you also noticing an error from the custom action preventing your installation from succeeding? The files are not actually installed until the script runs, so your custom actions will need to actually attempt to attach/detach as "deferred", not "immediate". Also, ALL actions that have side effects (such as attaching/removing databases) should ALWAYS be deferred, never immediate, in order to be able to participate in rollback, etc. in case of other installation errors. That preserves the transactional nature of Windows Installer. The first time through the InstallExecuteSequence (up to InstallExecute, InstallExecuteAgain, or InstallFinalize) the script is recorded. At any of these three actions, the script is run (played back) before continuing on to the next action in the sequence. If an action is marked as immediate, it runs immediately (when it's position in the sequence is reached). If an action is marked as deferred, it is written into the script at that point (so it will still be run in order). That is what you need here. If you need access to properties/tables/etc. you will need an immediate/deferred pair. The immediate should process the information in the database/environment and create data for the deferred action, then "schedule" the deferred action by calling DoAction on it. -Original Message- From: Pavel Oleinikov [mailto:node1...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 2:15 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Files are not copied if custom actions are defined Hi people! I have a strange trouble with WiX (I am a novice only...). There are two components in my installer - Windows Service & Database. Also there are two custom actions. If custom actions are defined, files are not copied at all, target folder does not exist and custom action "AttachDb", that wants to attach a database via a stored procedure call, certainly fails, since database files are not exist (note - section "InstallFiles" presents in the log). If custom actions are commented out, all is OK, folder and files are created. Please help! Many-many thanks in advance. Sorry for dummy and possibly annoying question. Source: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"; xmlns:ds="http://schemas.appsecinc.com/wix/DataSourceExtension";> NOT Installed AND &DatabaseFeature=3 Installed AND &DatabaseFeature=3 Privileged Terveisin, Pavel -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Share Folder
Take a look at the FileShare element. I've used it with no problems for a long time. Thanks Chad -Original Message- From: Carolina Zuqueto Amaral [mailto:carolina.ama...@conv.com.br] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:31 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Share Folder Hi, How Do I create a share folder? Thanks, Carolina Zuqueto. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Share Folder
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Re: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server
We have the same problem, would love a solution. Did you try creating two components with services, one with a dependency and another without? Then condition them based on, say, SQLSERVER_IS_LOCAL. Try setting and not setting the property and see if that works. Once it does, you can start trying to figure out what a "local" instance means. It would go a long way checking for basic names (eg. (local)). We're using http://msiext.codeplex.com, it would be implementable to properly figure out whether the instance is actually local. Thx dB. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Will Sullivan [mailto:wsulli...@softdocs.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:21 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server My service uses an instance of Sql Server. Now, if that instance is on the current machine, I need to set a dependency on that service so that my service starts afterwards. I can foresee a hard time getting this into my installer. I need to determine if the sql server is on the current machine from the server/instance provided by the user, then determine the method of identifying the service in order to set a dependency on it, then dynamically adding this to my service during the install. So, is there a relatively easy way to do this? Or are there any guides out here for this situation? Looking for any help on this I can get! TIA. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] What can cause WcaInitialize to fail?
Yes it is being called in DllMain
switch (ul_reason_for_call)
{
case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:
::WcaGlobalInitialize(hModule);
break;
case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:
::WcaGlobalFinalize();
break;
}
Thanks,
Tim
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Did you call WcaGlobalInitialize() in your DllMain()?
>
> /
> WcaGlobalInitialize() - initializes the Wca library, should be
> called once per custom action Dll during
> DllMain on DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH
>
> /
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Fangren wrote:
>
> >
> > Hoping someone can shed some light on WcaInitialize.
> >
> > I have a WiX based installer that works on hundreds of different
> machines,
> > but on a couple it appears that WcaInitialize is failing. The log entry
> > after WcaInitialize is not written to the logs even with verbose logging.
> > What conditions can cause this call to fail? I've been unable to dig up
> > documentation on what this call does exactly or expected return values.
> >
> > Code example:
> >
> > HRESULT hr = ::WcaInitialize(install, "MyCA");
> > if (FAILED(hr))
> > {
> >return ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE;
> > }
> >
> > ::WcaLog(LOGMSG_STANDARD, "Working on MyCA");
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim
> > --
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> >
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Re: [WiX-users] Using New Lines in Text Fields for Custom WiX Extension Doesn't Work
Thanks Rob, that worked great. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Using-New-Lines-in-Text-Fields-for-Custom-WiX-Extension-Doesn-t-Work-tp5214598p5217423.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] No OpenFileDialog or something like that?
There is no file browsing UI/capability built into Windows Installer. You will need a custom action to display a file browse dialog. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/No-OpenFileDialog-or-something-like-that-tp5216565p5217401.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 116
Hello, I have two quick questions: First, I need to run an application when the installer is closed. Currently it runs when the finished dialog is shown: NOT Installed But how do I make it run when the finished dialog is CLOSED? Second, how do I escape a " in the ExeCommand attribute? E.g. ExeCommand="-lan=\"[INSTALLLANGUAGE]\" -src=[SourceDir]"? Thanks, Thomas Due -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to delete the extracted MSI after install
You should definitely not cleanup the MSI from within the MSI. You might be in the beginning of wanting a lot more features from your bootstrapper. Take a look at http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com. For your purposes it extracts your MSIs to a temporary location and cleans up after itself. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:13 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to delete the extracted MSI after install There's a good case for not deleting it at all: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_installer_team/archive/2006/05/24/605835.aspx Rule 31. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Andy.Kruger [mailto:appr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:43 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to delete the extracted MSI after install I have a VC++ bootstrapper with an embedded MSI. during install MSI gets extracted to the %USERPROFILE% path. How do i clean up the extracted MSI after install?? Should i be doing it from the bootstrapper or from with in the WiX-MSI?? - Andy Build&Deployment Schneider Electric -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-delete-the-extracted-MSI-after-install-tp5212438p5212438.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BF (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/legal/default.asp?top_nav_id=77&nav_id=80&prev_id=77. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 7821 3848 or e-mail inet.hqhelpd...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Heat -> Wrong project documentation output
Hi, I'm trying to generate a project's Documentation output with the following line: heat project "MyProject.csproj" -cg MyProjectDocuments -pog:Documents -gg -nologo -sfrag -out MyProjectDocuments.wxs Is it normal to get a $(var.MyProject.ProjectDir)\bin\Debug\MyProject.XML source file inside of a bin\debug directory? What I need is $(var.MyProject.API.TargetDir)\MyProject.XML. Cordialement / Best regards, Gernot -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Files are not copied if custom actions are defined
Hi people! I have a strange trouble with WiX (I am a novice only...). There are two components in my installer - Windows Service & Database. Also there are two custom actions. If custom actions are defined, files are not copied at all, target folder does not exist and custom action "AttachDb", that wants to attach a database via a stored procedure call, certainly fails, since database files are not exist (note - section "InstallFiles" presents in the log). If custom actions are commented out, all is OK, folder and files are created. Please help! Many-many thanks in advance. Sorry for dummy and possibly annoying question. Source: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"; xmlns:ds="http://schemas.appsecinc.com/wix/DataSourceExtension";> NOT Installed AND &DatabaseFeature=3 Installed AND &DatabaseFeature=3 Privileged Terveisin, Pavel -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Antw: No OpenFileDialog or something like that?
Hi Elfe, did you checked http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Samples.21 ? These samples are usefull but you may have to adjust them because they don't work 100% with the latest WiX 3.5 KR >>> Elfe Xu 24.06.2010 09:34 >>> Hi, During my product setup, I need to let user to specify the path of a certificate file on his local driver. I searched for something like the OpenFileDialog in Wix/WI for a while, but could not find things for this purpose. The DirectoryCombo and DirectoryList seems only for folders, but cannot be used for a specific type (e.g. .cert) of files. Do I have to use CustomAction, to invoke the OpenFileDialog? B.T.W. is there any place that I can find lots of Wix samples? The Wix document does not have samples, and search on the internet always costs lots of time with little result. Currently I'm mostly refer to the UIExtension in Wix source, but it's very limited. Thanks, -Elfe -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] No OpenFileDialog or something like that?
Hi, During my product setup, I need to let user to specify the path of a certificate file on his local driver. I searched for something like the OpenFileDialog in Wix/WI for a while, but could not find things for this purpose. The DirectoryCombo and DirectoryList seems only for folders, but cannot be used for a specific type (e.g. .cert) of files. Do I have to use CustomAction, to invoke the OpenFileDialog? B.T.W. is there any place that I can find lots of Wix samples? The Wix document does not have samples, and search on the internet always costs lots of time with little result. Currently I'm mostly refer to the UIExtension in Wix source, but it's very limited. Thanks, -Elfe -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
