Re: [WiX-users] Installing to the GAC

2006-12-20 Thread BULL, Dave, GBM
Hi Rob I have two assemblies that I am trying to install into the GAC. Both are signed, both are generated using .NET 1.1 compiler. One is a wrapper around a COM type library, generated by tlbimp, and the other is a DLL which is dependent on the wrapper. They are in separate components in

Re: [WiX-users] Installing to the GAC

2006-12-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Hmm, there is nothing below that looks wrong. Can you provide more details about the exact command lines and exact .wxs file that is causing the problem? If you can't send the whole thing, can you send an example .wxs file that demonstrates the same problem? I just can't repro the problem

[WiX-users] forswear

2006-12-20 Thread Agatha
StupidQuestion: Admin login password. But of course, if you turn off JAAS you don't get to log in or use page permissions. It s perfect for planning for the weeks ahead or noting past historic events. However, my wiki:Skins tag can't be used and there's no reason that I can see why. Multiple

[WiX-users] Tallow/Heat and Component

2006-12-20 Thread Subscriber
Hi, I've found the nice tallow.exe tool (WiX 2.0) which allows me to create a Fragment that contains all the directories there should be packed into my MSI file. This is nice. Now, my problem is, that tallow.exe creates a Component for each directory, but what I want is actually a single

Re: [WiX-users] Tallow/Heat and Component

2006-12-20 Thread Rob Hamflett
A component is a specific thing in a specific place. Although you can group all the files in a directory into a component, you can't have multiple directories in a component. What you can do is create a ComponentGroup in your fragment. Then your feature can contain just one

[WiX-users] Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Null ?

2006-12-20 Thread André Pönitz
Can anybody explain me why I get the 'Action: Null' decision in some cases, but not in all? MSI (s) (68:C0) [12:28:49:678]: Component: Hasp_52; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Absent MSI (s) (68:C0) [12:28:49:678]: Component: NetlmProgramMenu; Installed: Local; Request:

[WiX-users] Ada

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Re: [WiX-users] Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Null ?

2006-12-20 Thread André Pönitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Pönitz Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:34 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Null ? Can anybody explain me

Re: [WiX-users] Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Null ?

2006-12-20 Thread Arnette, Bill
Non-Windows Installer installers use the SharedDlls registry key to refcount the usage of common/shared dlls. By default Windows Installer will only increment that refcount if it already exists so that the other installer will track the refcount properly if a WI installer installs the same

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-20 Thread André Pönitz
Mike Dimmick wrote: If you don't think you need install-on-demand, repair-on-launch, or the ability for domain administrators to advertise software through Group Policy, by all means use non-advertised shortcuts. Which, unfortunately, does not seem to work with Wix v3 and validation. At

Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-20 Thread André Pönitz
Matthew Janulewicz wrote: I don't think there is an elegant way to do this, as the Wix tools (or any other tools for that matter) can't predict what ComponentRef's you want under which features. Everything under a certain directory put in one feature seems to be a fairly good first

[WiX-users] WiX 3.0 wixca.dll QtExec

2006-12-20 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
Dont know if anybody answered this but here is some code... Shows how to run XmlPreprocess.exe by Loren Halvorson. Property Id=QtExecCmdLine Value=1/ CustomAction Id=Set_QtExecCmdLine Property=QtExecCmdLine Value =quot;[#XMLParser]quot; /i quot;[#ConfigFile]quot; /s

Re: [WiX-users] SQL Script

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Dimmick
Sorry, Dhaval, I should have made it clearer that the first paragraph was my advice to you while the subsequent paragraphs are discussing what we can do to stop the problem recurring, i.e. potential changes to the WiX toolset so that others don't run into the problem. I need to separate that stuff

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net COM+ without .TLB

2006-12-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:29:41 +0300 Alexander Biryukov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wix COM+ CA (pcaexec) does not allow to install COM+ .Net assembly without TLB file, but basically it possible. Okay, I'm having a hard time installing a COM+ .Net assembly *with* a TLB file (Take a look at the

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Dimmick
The validation assumes that the ALLUSERS property is not present or is set to 0. Even if you've set ALLUSERS=1 in your package, the user installing could set it to 0 on the msiexec command line, or a network administrator could deploy it in the per-user part of Group Policy. You should ideally try

Re: [WiX-users] Tallow/Heat and Component

2006-12-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:58:27 +0100 Subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've found the nice tallow.exe tool (WiX 2.0) which allows me to create a Fragment that contains all the directories there should be packed into my MSI file. This is nice. Now, my problem is, that tallow.exe creates

[WiX-users] [MailServer Notification]Attachment Blocking Notification

2006-12-20 Thread TLVMAIL7_Administrator
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Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net COM+ without .TLB

2006-12-20 Thread Fredrik Grohn
Does your components derive from ServicedComponent? Other ways they are not COM+ components. Managed COM+ components are registered with regsvcs.exe and not with regasm.exe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christer Solskogen Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Comparing two MSIs

2006-12-20 Thread Cullen Waters
I was getting errors trying to use the script you suggested, Michael. I ended up using Dark and just eyeballing through Orca, and actually found several items using both methods. Thanks everyone, for the suggestions. From: Michael Osmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 06,

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net COM+ without .TLB

2006-12-20 Thread Alexander Biryukov
Maybe you confuse COM with COM+ ? If you installing COM+, than why you do't use standart Wix CA (ComPlusApplication element) ? -- Alexander Biryukov On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:27:54 +0300, Christer Solskogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:29:41 +0300 Alexander Biryukov

Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-20 Thread Scott Palmer
I wrote a small program to walk a directory hierarchy and generate the XML for a fragment that defines a ComponentGroup for the root folder that you specify. It's an easy program to write and the output can be customized to the way I like it, i.e. a lot cleaner than the output from the WiX tool,

[WiX-users] Upgrade XML config files

2006-12-20 Thread Alexander Biryukov
Hi, Can anybody suggest universal mechanism to upgrade XML config files (such as Web.config) ? I need to upgrade/reinstall product with XML config file, but modified by user XML attributes and added elements must be stay. Thanks. -- Alexander Biryukov

[WiX-users] Extracting COM data from executable COM servers (AppID) with heat.exe

2006-12-20 Thread Eric Hybner
Do y'all have any pointers for extracting COM data from executable COM servers? When I heat (-gg) BOB.exe (a legacy VB component not quite ready to be retired) for example, I get something like this: Component Id=BOB.exe Guid={14E7...} File Id= BOB.exe Name= BOB.exe KeyPath=yes

[WiX-users] How can I remove a single registry value on uninstall?

2006-12-20 Thread Brian Patton
There are plenty of facilities to add and remove entire keys on install/uninstall, but is there any way to remove a single registry value on uninstall or do I need to write a custom action to do this? Specifically, I am interested in using wix to install a Firefox extension along with the rest

Re: [WiX-users] How can I remove a single registry value on uninstall?

2006-12-20 Thread Rob Mensching
If you make a full path Root\Key\Name registry key a part of a Component, during uninstall that key should be removed for you. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Patton Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 17:15 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] How can I remove a single registry value on uninstall?

2006-12-20 Thread Brian Patton
This is fine, and it works if you want to remove the whole key on uninstall. My problem is that I want to remove a single value from a key on uninstall, not the entire key. On 12/20/06, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you make a full path Root\Key\Name registry key a part of a

Re: [WiX-users] How can I remove a single registry value on uninstall?

2006-12-20 Thread Rob Mensching
I'm confused are you adding a value to a MULTI-SZ or are you just creating another Name=Value registry key. If the latter, then my statement should work (or else I'm remembering something very wrong). From: Brian Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 17:29 To: Rob

Re: [WiX-users] How can I remove a single registry value on uninstall?

2006-12-20 Thread Brian Patton
I think I must have misunderstood the documentation/what you wrote. I was under the impression that Registry Action='write' would create a value but never delete it (and that, for that you'd have to use createKeyAndRemoveKeyOnUninstall). However, I rebuilt the MSI with Registry Action='write'

[WiX-users] How can I write a registry key in each user's HKCU

2006-12-20 Thread Brian Patton
Specifically, I'm looking to add a key to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\ for each user. I've tried writing to HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\ but this seems to work only for S-1-5-18 (which must be the default user). I'm thinking something like:

[WiX-users] RegistrySearch Type=Registry

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, I'm trying to maintain an old .wxs file generated a while ago by decompiling a Visual Studio-generated .msi. It contains a RegistrySearch .type=Registry node which doesn't appear to be supported any more. (2.0.4611 doesn't like it; 2.0.2613 does). Could anyone tell me what it did, and

Re: [WiX-users] How can I write a registry key in each user's HKCU

2006-12-20 Thread Rob Mensching
You can't write to every user's profile. You can however write to the AllUsers profile and all users will inherit that if you create a per-machine install (see the ALLUSERS Property in the MSI SDK). From: Brian Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 17:59 To: Rob

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch Type=Registry

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Pavlik
Hi... Type='registry' is not supported (it was deprecated for a long time...) You should replace it with Type='raw' probably. Here is actual help for Type attribute: This attribute's value should be one of the following: directory Sets a directory path from the registry value. file