Re: [WiX-users] Setting Estimated Size and Version

[Ahn Ahn Liu]

Thanks for the reply.

1. Too bad about not being able to control it.  Since our chainer just calls a 
bunch of other packages and doesn't actually install anything itself the size 
shown is only 7.6MB when in reality, it's over 3GB!  Maybe I'll check with the 
Shell team to see if there's any hack around it.

2.  I set product/@Version to 1.0.0.0 but the arp entry still shows it as 
blank... I'm setting ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT to 1, so I imagine that's why it's not 
pulling the version from product/@version.  I also set the 
windows\currentversion\uninstall\version and productversion field to 1.0.0.0 
but that unfortunately does change the arp version field either.  Any other 
ideas on this one?

Thanks,

Ahn AHn

-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:13 PM
To: Ahn Ahn Liu
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting Estimated Size and Version

1. ARPSIZE is set magically by ARP. There is no real way to control it.
Raymond Chen (Master of all things Shell) had a fun blog entry about how
ARP calculated the size it displayed there. The fact that it took him a
couple paragraphs is telling.

2. AFAIK, the ARP Version is controlled by the Product/@Version
(ProductVersion in MSI speak).

PS: In case you didn't know, ARP is the Shell team's fault not the
Windows Installer team's fault.

Ahn Ahn Liu wrote:

 I was wondering if it was possible to set the size and version that
 shows up for a given program in ARP when I set ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT to
 1. For size, it seems like setting ARPSIZE or EstimatedSize has no
 effect. I'm also unsure how to set the Version. Does anybody have an idea?

 Thanks!

 

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[WiX-users] Setting Estimated Size and Version

[Ahn Ahn Liu]

I was wondering if it was possible to set the size and version that shows up 
for a given program in ARP when I set ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT to 1.  For size, it 
seems like setting ARPSIZE or EstimatedSize has no effect.  I'm also unsure how 
to set the Version.  Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks!

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Re: [WiX-users] Problem with registering COM dll

[Ahn Ahn Liu]

It looks like it failed even before that as I don't even seen the 
CLSID-20DOE... entry in the registry.

Here is the main WXS file that the fragment is compiled with - maybe that will 
show what the real reason is:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi;
Product Id=d3ce8f84-5a14-4dcd-8530-fdcfe3cac8c9 Name=Valuebox 
Prerequisite Language=1033 Version=1.0.0.0 Manufacturer=Microsoft 
UpgradeCode=6b148c86-7fc1-4ffe-97f5-b8e0ca36f478
Package InstallerVersion=200 Compressed=yes 
Id=64349d0a-7196-459e-9d15-c632d28becd7/

  Media Id=1 Cabinet=VBPrereq.cab EmbedCab=yes /

  Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir
Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder
  Directory Id=INSTALLDIR Name=Microsoft ValueBox 1.0
Component Id='SetupUIComponent' 
Guid='AC24D38E-96E4-4128-BF73-C39201822004'
  File Id='SetupUI' Name='WelcomeCOM.dll' DiskId='1' 
Source='WelcomeCOM.dll'
  /File
/Component
  /Directory
/Directory
  /Directory

Feature Id=ProductFeature Title=Main Feature Level=1
  ComponentRef Id=SetupUIComponent /
/Feature

  UIRef Id=WixUI_Mondo /
  UIRef Id=WixUI_ErrorProgressText /
/Product
/Wix

From: Daryn Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 3:47 PM
To: Ahn Ahn Liu; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Problem with registering COM dll

I see that the use of [INSTALLDIR] in the registry entry - perhaps edited by 
hand? - does not match the the TARGETDIR DirectoryRef.
This is not guaranteed to be an error, e.g. if you've ensured that the two 
properties are equal, but it seems fragile.
You can check the installed registry entries to see if they have the full path 
to WelcomeCOM.dll, or just the filename alone, to know if this is causing an 
error.

Daryn.


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ahn Ahn Liu
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 3:34 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with registering COM dll

I'm trying to register a COM component and followed the instruction on the 
tutorial - running tallow -c WelcomeCOM.dll.

However, it does not appear to be successfully registering the object.

The tallow outputs:

Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi;
  Fragment
DirectoryRef Id=TARGETDIR
  Component Id=component0 DiskId=1 
Guid=A8D11ADD-9C2B-48ca-B666-B930D9F932E0
File Id=file0 Name=WELCOM_1.DLL LongName=WelcomeCOM.dll 
Source=WelcomeCOM.dll /
...
Registry Root=HKCR 
Key=CLSID\{20D0E68E-393C-11DC-8314-0800200C9A66}\InprocServer32 
Name=CodeBase Value=[INSTALLDIR]WelcomeCOM.dll Type=string /
...
Registry Root=HKCR 
Key=CLSID\{20D0E68E-393C-11DC-8314-0800200C9A66}\InprocServer32\1.0.0.0 
Name=CodeBase Value=[INSTALLDIR]WelcomeCOM.dll Type=string /
...
  /Component
/DirectoryRef
  /Fragment
/Wix


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