Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Albert Tuulas 
Hi,

 

Your C code is fundamentally wrong. You need to get target dir from MSI db,
and check for free space only on it, for example

 

To get - set MSI property use MSI API calls, like MsiSetProperty() or
MsiGetProperty(). 

 

For example of implementing the DLL for custom actions, read through this
tutorial: http://www.codeproject.com/install/msicustomaction.asp - there you
can download sources as well. 

 

Keep wix-users list in recipients please. 

 

 

Best regards

Albert 

 

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From: Guna S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:49 AM
To: Albert Tuulas
Subject: Re: Silent Custom Installation

 

Hi,

Please find attached a C prg to find out the disk space.

If you dont mind,Could you please modify the same into custom action(C++
DLL).

Also the you mention  , and if there's not enough of it,
change TARGETDIR or INSTALLDIR MSI variables.

Could you tell me how to do it.

with lotmany thanks,

Guna S





On 10/25/07, Albert Tuulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Rough idea is in my previous email :-)

 

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From: Guna S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:53 AM
To: Albert Tuulas


Subject: Re: Silent Custom Installation

 

Hi,

Thanks for you reply.

If you dont mind could you give me the rough idea/code which implements
this.


thanks inadvance

Guna S

On 10/24/07, Albert Tuulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

You can implement it as a custom action (C++ DLL) which checks for
reasonable amount of space on system disk, and if there's not enough of it,
change TARGETDIR or INSTALLDIR MSI variables.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Silent Custom Installation

Hi,

am very new to this installer.

My requirement is If space is not available on default loc ie C drive, In
case of UI installation user can change the path. No issues. But in case of 
Silent Installation, because there is no UI, it should select another disk
which is available automatically and install there

I want both in same file, ie user can go any way.

Can you tell me how to implement this. 

Thanks,


Albert Tuulas-3 wrote:

 I meant something similar to this:



 Feature Id=Feat1 Title=Feat1

   Feature Id=Feat11 Title=Feat11 Level=1 

   Condition Level=1ADDLOCAL ~= Feat1/Condition

   /Feature



 ~= means case-insensitive comparison. Also you can check 



 Check that link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012.aspx
 Substring Operators



 I've an idea that the ADDLOCAL property can be modified by a custom
 action:



 CustomAction Id=CA1 Execute=immediate Property=ADDLOCAL 
 Value=Feat1,Feat11 /



 And schedule it like that:



 Custom Action=CA1 Before=CostInitialize![CDATA[Feat1=3]]/Custom




 To make it running earlier.



 Although I didn't try any of these by myself, can't tell is it really
 working.



 Best regards 

 Albert



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 From: Srinivas Tirupati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:42 PM
 To: Albert Tuulas
 Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation



 Hi Albert



 I am very new to this WIX ...

 I know about this Condition statement in feature tag but I didn't get how 
 we
 can use this statement for this purpose ??



 My purpose here  is that the person installing my product should be able
 to
 install all the child features by just specifying the parent feature name.


 Can you briefly explain how I can do this using condition statement in
 Feature tag ??



 Thanks and Regards,

 Srinivas T



 

 From: Albert Tuulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:00 PM
 To: Srinivas Tirupati
 Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation 



 I got it, but there's a possibility to set Condition tag inside a
 feature,
 and having there attribute (Level=1) marks feature to be installed if
 condition evaluates to True.



 Hope it makes sense.



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 From: Srinivas Tirupati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
 Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:25 PM
 To: Albert Tuulas
 Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation



 Level=1 for all my features

 

 From: Albert Tuulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:31 PM
 To: Srinivas Tirupati; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
 Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation



 Did you try to play with Condition Level=1  statement inside feature
 tag? I've got no other ideas :-) 



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 From: Srinivas Tirupati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 1:45 PM
 To: Albert Tuulas; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
 Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation



 Yes all features have Level=1



 But i found some information from msdn which explains why it didn't
 install
 anything :-)



 (Source :- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx)

 ADDLOCAL Rules:

 * Feature names

Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

2007-07-11 Thread Srinivas Tirupati 
FYI I am using wix v2.

And if you read the documentation for Feature Attributes
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368585.aspx
we find this info

Attributes
The remote execution option for features that are not installed and for which 
no feature state request is made by using any of the following properties.
* ADDLOCAL 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367536.aspx
* ADDSOURCE 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367538.aspx
* ADDDEFAULT 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367518.aspx
* COMPADDLOCAL 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367995.aspx
* COMPADDSOURCE 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367996.aspx
* FILEADDLOCAL 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368587.aspx
* FILEADDSOURCE 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368588.aspx
* REMOVE 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371194.aspx
* REINSTALL 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371175.aspx
* ADVERTISE 
Propertyhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367547.aspx


Since i use ADDLOCAL to perform silent custom installation  Using this 
followParent doent work.

Thanks and Regards
Srinivas T

From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:40 PM
To: Srinivas Tirupati
Cc: Albert Tuulas; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

Srinivas Tirupati wrote:
(Source :- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx)

That's SQL doc, not MSI doc. Try Feature/@InstallDefault=followParent.



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Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

2007-07-11 Thread Bob Arnson 

Srinivas Tirupati wrote:


FYI I am using wix v2.



FWIW, as this is about runtime, it's entirely an MSI issue, not related 
to WiX.


The remote execution option for features that are not installed and 
for which no feature state request is made by using any of the 
following properties.




Then I guess it's not going to work. If you must have subfeatures, 
you'll need to either document them like SQL did or use custom actions 
to set ADDLOCAL and wrap higher-level feature selection.


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Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

2007-07-10 Thread Srinivas Tirupati 
Yes all features have Level=1

But i found some information from msdn which explains why it didn't install 
anything :)

(Source :- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx)
ADDLOCAL Rules:
* Feature names are case sensitive.
* To use ADDLOCAL, provide a comma-delimited list with no spaces 
between the features to install. For example, to install everything except 
Analysis Services and Reporting Services components, the list would be as 
follows:
o
ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine,SQL_Data_Files,SQL_FullText,Notification_Services,NS_Engine,NS_Client,SQL_DTS,Client_Components,Connectivity,SQL_Tools90,SDK,SQL_Documentation,SQL_BooksOnline,SQL_Samples,SQL_AdventureWorksSamples,SQL_AdventureWorksDWSamples,SQL_AnalysisServiceSamples,SQL_Samples
* Selecting a parent feature only installs the parent feature, not the 
parent and the child. Installing the child feature automatically installs the 
parent and the child features. Removing the parent feature removes both the 
parent and the child feature.

So do u have any other idea of how to install the all the child features by 
just specifying the parent feature name ??


Thanks and Regards,
Srinivas T.

From: Albert Tuulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:58 PM
To: Srinivas Tirupati; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

A verbose log file may give more information why your feature was not 
installed. Did your features have Level=1? Or any conditions?



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srinivas Tirupati
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:36 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

Hi,

I have a features structure like

RootFeature
 --- ParentFeature1
--- Feature11
--- Feature12
  ParentFeature2
--- Feature21
--- Feature22


And I installed the product using this command ( silent installation )
Msiexec /i  product.msi /qn ADDLOCAL=ParentFeature1

But it did not install anything ... :(

Same  case with
Msiexec /i  product.msi /qn ADDLOCAL=ParentFeature2
Msiexec /i  product.msi /qn ADDLOCAL=COMPLETE


All the rest silent custom installations are working fine.

So what might have gone wrong. Or is this by design ??

Thanks and Regards
Srinivas T.




From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:38 PM
To: Srinivas Tirupati
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

Srinivas Tirupati wrote:
Is there any way to do custom installation in quiet mode.

Yes, by documenting your feature names so they can use standard MSI features 
like ADDLOCAL to specify a feature subset.

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Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

2007-07-10 Thread Albert Tuulas 
Did you try to play with Condition Level=1  statement inside feature
tag? I've got no other ideas :-) 

 

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From: Srinivas Tirupati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Albert Tuulas; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

 

Yes all features have Level=1

 

But i found some information from msdn which explains why it didn't install
anything :-)

 

(Source :- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx)

ADDLOCAL Rules:

* Feature names are case sensitive.

* To use ADDLOCAL, provide a comma-delimited list with no spaces
between the features to install. For example, to install everything except
Analysis Services and Reporting Services components, the list would be as
follows:

o
ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine,SQL_Data_Files,SQL_FullText,Notification_Services,NS_Eng
ine,NS_Client,SQL_DTS,Client_Components,Connectivity,SQL_Tools90,SDK,SQL_Doc
umentation,SQL_BooksOnline,SQL_Samples,SQL_AdventureWorksSamples,SQL_Adventu
reWorksDWSamples,SQL_AnalysisServiceSamples,SQL_Samples

* Selecting a parent feature only installs the parent feature,
not the parent and the child. Installing the child feature automatically
installs the parent and the child features. Removing the parent feature
removes both the parent and the child feature.

 

So do u have any other idea of how to install the all the child features by
just specifying the parent feature name ??

 

 

Thanks and Regards,

Srinivas T.

 

From: Albert Tuulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:58 PM
To: Srinivas Tirupati; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

 

A verbose log file may give more information why your feature was not
installed. Did your features have Level=1? Or any conditions?

 

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srinivas
Tirupati
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:36 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

 

Hi,

 

I have a features structure like

 

RootFeature

 --- ParentFeature1

--- Feature11

--- Feature12

  ParentFeature2

--- Feature21

--- Feature22

 

 

And I installed the product using this command ( silent installation )

Msiexec /i  product.msi /qn ADDLOCAL=ParentFeature1

 

But it did not install anything . :-(

 

Same  case with

Msiexec /i  product.msi /qn ADDLOCAL=ParentFeature2

Msiexec /i  product.msi /qn ADDLOCAL=COMPLETE

 

 

All the rest silent custom installations are working fine.

 

So what might have gone wrong. Or is this by design ??

 

Thanks and Regards

Srinivas T.

 

 

 

 

From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:38 PM
To: Srinivas Tirupati
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

 

Srinivas Tirupati wrote: 

Is there any way to do custom installation in quiet mode.


Yes, by documenting your feature names so they can use standard MSI features
like ADDLOCAL to specify a feature subset.

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Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

2007-07-10 Thread Bob Arnson 

Srinivas Tirupati wrote:


(Source :- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx)



That's SQL doc, not MSI doc. Try Feature/@InstallDefault=followParent.

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Re: [WiX-users] Silent Custom Installation

2007-07-04 Thread Bob Arnson 

Srinivas Tirupati wrote:


Is there any way to do custom installation in quiet mode.



Yes, by documenting your feature names so they can use standard MSI 
features like ADDLOCAL to specify a feature subset.


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