Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist

[Torsten Rudnick]

You can also build your .msi file with WiX and use the "Bootstrapper 
Manifest Generator" and the VS 2005 SDK for generating a bootstrapper.

You can get the tool here:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=ddb4f08c-7d7c-4f44-a009-ea19fc812545

David Thielen schrieb:
> I take it I would have to use the VS installer instead of WIX? We can’t 
> do that as we use a lot of WIX functionality that does not exist in the 
> VS installer.
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> I wish WIX had this capability…
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> Thanks - dave
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> *From:* Erv Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:12 AM
> *To:* David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* RE: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
> 
>  
> 
> Visual Studio also includes a bootstrapper that can install your 
> prerequisites and then launch your setup.  It can get the prereqs from 
> your local CD, or if you are mostly a downloaded product, it can 
> download the prereqs from the official microsoft site when/if they are 
> needed.
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> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Michael 
> Osmond
> *Sent:* Monday, December 04, 2006 8:33 PM
> *To:* David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
> 
> Dave,
> 
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> 
> You could have a look at the "Microsoft Component Installer" 
> (PSetup).  It provides a bootstrap that will install your 
> redistributables and then your app.  The redistributables can be got 
> from local source or the web.  
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994369.aspx
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> Michael
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> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *David 
> Thielen
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:03 PM
> *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist
> 
> Hi;
> 
>  
> 
> We have had feedback from 4 potential customers that having .NET 2.0 as 
> a prerequisite with the message taking them to the download made our 
> installer "too difficult and too complicated" (and note - these are 
> programmers!)
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> So we need to have installing the .NET framework (and J# redist) as an 
> automatic part of our install. So my questions are:
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> 1) Is it better to have the redist in our install, or have it that when 
> they click Next it downloads it and runs it automatically?
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> 2a) If it's include it, anything special we have to do to have this in 
> our installer?
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> 2b) If it's download and run, how do we set that up to go?
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> thanks - dave
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[WiX-users] Bug in Wix v3.0.2218.0 and above

[Torsten Rudnick]

I use WiX v3.0.2211.0 and tried to update to v3.0.2315.0. But all 
versions above my current one throwing the following errors while using 
the Mondo-Dialogs.

The errors are:

The localization variable !(loc.MaintenanceTypeDlgRepairDisabledText) is 
unknown.  Please ensure the variable is defined.
The localization variable !(loc.MaintenanceTypeDlgRemoveDisabledText) is 
unknown.  Please ensure the variable is defined.

These errors occurs on english or german localization. Maybe it should 
be fixed.

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[WiX-users] How working .wxi files

[Torsten Rudnick]

I am developing a setup using Votive and WiX v3. But now I want use 
selfdefined variables in my own wixlib. Therefore I added a new .wxi 
file to my .wixlib solution. At the moment it contains one variable:







Now I am trying to use this variable inside of my .wxs file:

http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>





But if I try to compile this code I get an error:
"Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.appIcon)'"


What do I wrong? I can not find any documentation about using .wxi 
files. Maybe anyone can help me?
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[WiX-users] Creating my own .wixlib

[Torsten Rudnick]

Today I started with my own WixUI interface library. Therefore I 
followed the ten steps from the tutorial 
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson2.php#2.5

Now I have a project inside of my VS2005 and it looks good so far. But 
if I try to compile I get many errors, for instance here:





The problem here is the variable $(var.licenseRtf). It will be marked as 
unknown on the build process. What do I have to do for getting a 
workable interface library?

I use WiX 3.0.2218.0 and VS 2005.

If there is another guide how to start developing my own WixUI interface 
library I would to know it.

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[WiX-users] Distribute a WiX generated .msi file

[Torsten Rudnick]

I have a .msi file generated by using WiX. It is possible to use the 
bootstrapper located in VS 2005 to distribute the prerequisites and the 
generated .msi file? If yes, what do I have to do?

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Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails

[Torsten Rudnick]

Well that is not really an installer. It is only a selfextracting 
archive which creates a folder with the capicom.dll and some samples. 
After executing the "installer" you have to do a "regsvr32 capicom.dll" 
for registering the COM component.

I will try the hints of Mike Dimmick on Monday and hope it works for me. 
By the way how do I test wheather the capicom.dll is already installed 
on the target platform? I could not figure out which registry key I have 
to check in front of starting my own installation.

Tony Hoyle schrieb:
> Mike Dimmick wrote:
>> Also, the CAPICOM team should have provided a better solution for
>> installation than SelfReg. Ideally they should provide a merge module.
>> Am I being too idealistic in suggesting that any Platform SDK
>> redistributable should have a merge module?
>>
> There's an official capicom installer:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=860ee43a-a843-462f-abb5-ff88ea5896f6&DisplayLang=en
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> To be 'official' you'll have to chain to that.
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[WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails

[Torsten Rudnick]

I am trying to register the capicom.dll located inside of the system 
folder. In WiX v2 I generated a fragment with tallow and all works fine. 
Now I switched to WiX v3 and used heat to generate the related fragment 
but it seems not to work. What goes wrong?

I tried:

 > heat.exe file c:\windows\system32 -out d:\capicom.wxs

What I get is:


http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Maybe I need to add a few lines by myself? Any suggestions?

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[WiX-users] Changing fonts in prepared dialogs

[Torsten Rudnick]

I am using  inside of my WiX project. It works 
  great with a small mistake. The title on the welcome dialog and on the 
exit dialog are not bold. Do I have the chance to change this or do I 
have to wait until it fixed?

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[WiX-users] Problems with a directory

[Torsten Rudnick]

Today I tried to switch to WiX v3 but I get some errors. What is wrong 
in the next few lines and how can I fix it? I get always the error ICE64.






ICE64: The directory ProgramMenuDir is in the user profile but is not 
listed in the RemoveFile table.

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[WiX-users] tallow in v3?

[Torsten Rudnick]

What is the equivalent tool of tallow in Wix v3 and how do I extract 
registry entry from COM components? Maybe there is a new way of 
installing COM components I should know? So many questions and so less 
answers. Where can I find a documentation about WiX v3? The tutorial I 
have describes only WiX v2.

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[WiX-users] Release v3

[Torsten Rudnick]

I am switched to WiX v3 and now I can not find any localization files. 
Where do I have to look or there are important changes? If anything was 
changed how do I have to do localization now?

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[WiX-users] Cannot add new file with votive

[Torsten Rudnick]

Today I switched to the latest version of votive from yesterday. Now it 
is not possible to add new files to the WiX project. There is no 
template available. A bad workaround is to add an empty text file and 
rename it to example.wxs.
Additional I am not be able to create a new WiX project in VS 2005 Prof. 
Edition. The new project will be created but not be opened. In VS 2003 
the project will be opened fine but adding new files still not work like 
on older projects.

Any suggestions?

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[WiX-users] Uninstall progress messages unreadable

[Torsten Rudnick]

Today I have tried to get uninstall progress messages if an user 
uninstalls the software from Control Panel -> Software.
For this I added  to my main wxs 
file inside of the product element. Now the uninstall progress messages 
will be displayed but there are only squares an not words or characters. 
I added a screenshot from that.
I have tried to use german localization as well the english one. But I 
got not the solution. What did I in a wrong way?


And one additional question. How to I add an uninstall link inside of a 
startmenu where my application link is available?

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[WiX-users] Incorrect uninstall progress messages

[Torsten Rudnick]

Since I have added the following line to my WiX setup I get on the 
uninstall messagebox during the uninstall only squares displayed instead 
of text.



I have localized the setup to german and it seems that there is a 
conflict with the charset or so. If I remove the line above then I get 
an empty uninstall mesagebox which I do not want too.

So, what do I have to change for getting correct uninstall progress 
messages on the uninstall messagebox?

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[WiX-users] System32 path

[Torsten Rudnick]

How do I get the System32 path of the computer I want to install my 
software? The problem is that is could be c:\Windows\System32 or 
c:\Winnt\System32 or some other drive letter etc.

Is there a possiblity to get the environment variable for that in WiX?

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[WiX-users] Correct tallow.exe syntax

[Torsten Rudnick]

I want to create a fragment for all COM components in a directory, but I 
do not have the correct syntax of the tallow.exe it seems. Who can help 
me? At the moment I try this:

tallow -nologo -1 -d f:\COM\ -df *.dll  > com.wxs

But I need to integrate the -s parameter for extracting the registry 
entries. How can I do that? At the moment the command above gives me a 
fragment like this:

http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi";>
   
 
   
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
   
 
   


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[WiX-users] Installing COM components

[Torsten Rudnick]

Is there any better way of installing COM components instead of using 
tallow.exe and the related WiX fragment from the output?

I am wrinting at a nant script at the moment for building the setup. Now 
I want insert the installation of my COM components. The problem is that 
the output from tallow.exe includes hardcoded pathes. So it is not 
possible to replace the hardcoded pathes automatically without knowing 
the structure of the registry elements.

Any hints for solving my problem?

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[WiX-users] Adding new .wxs files to votive project

[Torsten Rudnick]

I am trying to add new files to my WiX project inside of Visual Studio 
2003 and it does not work. I have installed version 2.0.4221.0. So do I 
anything wrong or it is a failure.
I can create create new projects and have no problems. The first .wxs 
file will be created but adding more does not work. After opening the 
dialog with the templates no WiX related templates are there. I can 
remind me that it worked with an older version.

Any hints of solving this problem?

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[WiX-users] New Votive version

[Torsten Rudnick]

When will be a new version of votive2 available? I am hanging on the 
"Can not find candle.exe" bug.


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