Re: [WiX-users] Problem with nested install of SQL Express 2005 in my installer

2007-01-05 Thread RuneC
Thanks for your reply. However, it works now (from InstallUISequence). I have: 1. Unpacked SQLEXPR.exe locally, and added resulting files to my setup image 2. In my InstallUISequence custom action I execute the unpacked install.exe Still don't know why it didn't work with executing the

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Dialog Selection

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Levi Wilson wrote: Here's my theory...I *think* that the reason that this works when I do not specify the Order attributes are because they get a value of 1, and the installer probably grabs it out of the ControlEvent table the order that I specified in my WiX source file. So, I think that

Re: [WiX-users] Spanning Cab files over disks

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Donnici, Teresa wrote: Here is the code as I have it... Media Id=1 DiskPrompt=BlueChart g2 Oulet Programmer Atlantic - Disk 1 Cabinet=Cab1.cab EmbedCab=no VolumeLabel=DISK1 / Media Id=1 DiskPrompt=BlueChart g2 Oulet Programmer Atlantic - Disk 1 Cabinet=Cab2.cab EmbedCab=no

Re: [WiX-users] First-time and Maintenance Install Sequences

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Levi Wilson wrote: Where is the sequence of the install types defined? For instance, I know that by copying WixUI_Mondo.wxs -- LWWixUI_Mondo.wxs I can add dialogs, and control the sequence there. However, at the top it says First-time install dialog sequence and Maintenance dialog

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Nick wrote: How do I get the Selection tree not to display Input in situations where Input may not be installed? Feature conditions are evaluated before the UI is shown, during the CostFinalize action. Conditions using properties that change in the UI won't change the feature levels. You

Re: [WiX-users] Running an exe with a working directory

2007-01-05 Thread Patrick Steele
Thanks for that K-ballo. Ok, so here's my new version: CustomAction Id='LaunchMyExe' Directory='INSTALLDIR' ExeCommand='My.exe' Return='asyncNoWait' / InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action='LaunchMyExe' Before='InstallFinalize'NOT Installed/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence But this doesn't seem

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify different INSTALLDIR than defaultProgram Files

2007-01-05 Thread Anil Prasad
Thanks Joel, I used ProgramFiles64Folder but still my files are getting dumped to when installations finishes. C:\Program Files (x86) I have to manually select installation folder to install at different location. Is ProgramFiles64Folder property supported on win2k3? How to do I see msi version

Re: [WiX-users] webdirproperties

2007-01-05 Thread Simon.Burgess
I need to have the following in IIS Website VirtualDir Dir and set SSL permissions just on the Dir As you say WebDir (and WebDirProperties) seems to be the thing, but WebDir cannot be a child of WebVirtualDir, only Website. Is there another way?

Re: [WiX-users] How to Regasm a dll in WIX

2007-01-05 Thread Levi Wilson
Haven't done this myself yet, but you might want to take a look at a couple of the WiX tutorial articles about registering COM DLLs, and there's also one about .NET. http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson5.php http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php Levi On 1/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Running an exe with a working directory

2007-01-05 Thread Patrick Steele
You are completely right Scott, thank you! :D Answer: CustomAction Id='LaunchMyExe' Directory='INSTALLDIR' ExeCommand='[INSTALLDIR]My.exe' Return='asyncNoWait' / InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action='LaunchMatadorExe' After='InstallFinalize'NOT Installed/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action DLL

2007-01-05 Thread Levi Wilson
Can I see how you have your .wxs file setup to call this? On 1/5/07, Lionel Pinkhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include Install.h TCHAR *GetPath(MSIHANDLE hInstall, TCHAR *szFolder) { TCHAR* szPath = NULL; DWORD cchPath = 0; UINT uiStat = MsiGetProperty(hInstall, szFolder, TEXT(),

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread wix
AddLocal and Remove work pretty good, except that after my CD Key dialog Removes a component, the user can still change its status back to Install Locally inside the SelectionTree. Is there any way to prevent this? Or maybe I'm being too ambitious trying to provide a fully featured installer

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread Tony Hoyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AddLocal and Remove work pretty good, except that after my CD Key dialog Removes a component, the user can still change its status back to Install Locally inside the SelectionTree. Is there any way to prevent this? Or maybe I'm being too ambitious trying to provide

Re: [WiX-users] Better handling of invalid mergeLanguage

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, can you open a bug with just that.unkunk-Original Message-unkFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan AppelgrenunkSent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 23:56unkTo: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netunkSubject: [WiX-users] Better handling of invalid

Re: [WiX-users] webdirproperties

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
WebDir's just aren't well supported in the WiX toolset. However, you might (I haven't tried) be able to specify the whole web path you want in the WebDir/@Path attribute. In your case, you could use Path=VirtualDir/Dir. It might work... it might not. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[WiX-users] Is system folder property-ProgemMenuFolder compatible with Vista?

2007-01-05 Thread Bei Liu (Volt)
I'm trying to run the sample in the http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwingen/html/wixsetup.asp on a Vista machine. I have admin rights on this local machine. When use the ProgramMenuFolder in the wxs file as following: Directory Id=ProgramMenuFolder ...

Re: [WiX-users] Is system folder property-ProgemMenuFolder compatible with Vista?

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
What version of the WiX toolset are you using? That'd be a bug in the compiler From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bei Liu (Volt) Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:40 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Is system folder property-ProgemMenuFolder

[WiX-users] Iterating over Registry entries

2007-01-05 Thread Charlie Poole
Hi All, My current install for NUnit looks for a particular registry entry and, if it is present, creates a shortcut for running NUnit under Mono. Actually, multiple Mono installs can be present and it would be nice to create entries for all of them. That would creaing a shortcut for each

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread wix
Two MSI's was my next best choice...but seriously, 99.9% of my users think Orca is a type of whale, will not be convinced otherwise, and expect the correct Installer to pop up on the screen after they pop in the CD. If somebody wants it bad enough, well, they even had a large chunk of Windows

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch Type=Registry

2007-01-05 Thread Brian Patton
If you ever intend to re-write a registry value looked up with RegistrySearch, it looks like writing it as a string (even if it's really a DWORD) will work, because the property is stored in a string-writeable format (i.e. DWORDs are written by RegistrySearch as #value, and Registry nodes will

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with nested install of SQL Express 2005 in my installer

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Dimmick
SQL Server Express uses an MSI installer internally. You cannot run multiple Windows Installer install sessions concurrently, nor nest them. You need to create a bootstrapper EXE that will run the SQL Server Express installer, then your installer. See MSDN for bootstrapper samples. -- Mike

Re: [WiX-users] help with Tallow.exe error on Vista

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Dimmick
Debug your self-reg code and work out where it's returning E_FAIL. Yes, I know this is nasty. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Hoeger Sent: 04 January 2007 14:06 To: Peterson, Joel; Mike Dimmick; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Iterating over Registry entries

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Charlie Poole wrote: Actually, multiple Mono installs can be present and it would be nice to create entries for all of them. That would creaing a shortcut for each subkey under a particular key. Any suggestions as to how to do this? There's nothing like that in MSI. I'm assuming there are

Re: [WiX-users] Iterating over Registry entries

2007-01-05 Thread Charlie Poole
Hmmm... Sounds like a bit of trouble for a solution that can never be quite right - since new versions of the CLR can be added after NUnit is installed. I think I'll simply check for a few known versions and put my effort into a post-install soution that discovers what runtimes are available -

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action DLL

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
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