Re: [WiX-users] Wix and Answer file (unattended install)

2007-02-25 Thread Neil Sleightholm
You could create a simple bootstrap exe that reads the settings from a file and launches your msi with the appropriate command line. Neil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Quirion Sent: 21 February 2007 18:35 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

[WiX-users] Unable to remove service on uninstall

2007-02-25 Thread marzena
Hi all, I'm new to wix - trying to solve trivial problem of creating MSI that installs new service on the computer and uninstalls it when the application is uninstalled itself.. Creation of the service, starting and stopping the service is OK. But when I uninstall the application the service is

[WiX-users] Problem after WiX upgrade

2007-02-25 Thread Michael Sperber
Hi, I'm a very casual WiX (and Windows) user. Forgive me if this is a trivial question. After switching to a new machine and upgrading to WiX 2.0.4820.0 (from an about-2-year-old version of WiX), I have two problems I didn't have before: Installing the .msi file also pops up the dialog

Re: [WiX-users] WiX3 Error: The primary key xxx is duplicated in table 'Registry'

2007-02-25 Thread Neil Sleightholm
So I guess the next question would be how do I go about getting this changed? Neil From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 February 2007 05:13 To: Neil Sleightholm Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX3 Error: The primary key xxx is duplicated in

Re: [WiX-users] WiX3 Error: The primary key xxx is duplicated in table 'Registry'

2007-02-25 Thread Bob Arnson
Neil Sleightholm wrote: So I guess the next question would be how do I go about getting this changed? Two ways: 1. Submit a patch and submit an assignment agreement. 2. File a feature request. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org

Re: [WiX-users] Patching fails with 1627

2007-02-25 Thread Bob Arnson
Huck, Jacob wrote: ERROR: Failed to execute a view ERROR:The Last Error Received is: 1627 ERROR:The Last Error Received is: 1: 2259 2: c:\temp\~pcw_tmp.tmp\3000.MSI 3: 4: I've gotten that before when I was use a File/Sequence column of I4; by default, Patchwiz supplies

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to remove service on uninstall

2007-02-25 Thread Bob Arnson
marzena wrote: ServiceControl Id=MyServiceControl Name=MyServiceName Start=both Stop=uninstall Remove=uninstall Wait=yes/ @Start=both is asking for the service to be started at uninstall and install, so I can see where that might lead to a partial uninstall. Try @Start=install instead.

[WiX-users] wix for Office 2007 .net 2.0 shared add-in

2007-02-25 Thread Patrick Schmid
I would like to use wix2 or wix3 for an Office 2007 .net 2.0 shared add-in. The add-in is for Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. It requires a bunch of .NET components and should install the Office 2007 PIAs as well. In addition to that, it has a VC++ (ATL) 2005 COM shim and needs to use

Re: [WiX-users] Patching fails with 1627

2007-02-25 Thread Huck, Jacob
Sounded promising, but unless I did it incorrectly, it didn't work--I'm still getting the same error. How were you able to determine it was a schema issue (and then specifically that column)? I'd love to think I could apply the same logic to my issue. Thanks -jh

[WiX-users] Uninstalling MSI app after files get deleted

2007-02-25 Thread Jeelan Sheriff
Hi. I have an MSI, whose dependent files gets copied to %SystemDir%. If these files are accidentally deleted by the user, I am having issues while uninstalling the app. Is there a way for me to 'ignore' these kind of errors during uninstall of the apps. Thanks Jeelan