[WiX-users] RE : RE : RE : Reboot to replace files

2007-03-26 Thread Jacquet Fabian
Ok thank you for your help. -Message d'origine- De : Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 27 mars 2007 8:01 À : Jacquet Fabian; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : RE: [WiX-users] RE : RE : Reboot to replace files

Re: [WiX-users] "An unexpected external UI message was received" when using WixUIExtension

2007-03-26 Thread Bei Liu (Volt)
Thanks very much, From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:09 PM To: Bei Liu (Volt) Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] "An unexpected external UI message was received" when using WixUIExtension Bei Liu (Volt) wrote: I got the following e

Re: [WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs icon

2007-03-26 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
hmmm right, i am trying to embedded the icon, but for some reason, it is not getting embedded, i am using VS2005 C#. I added the icon as a resource in my dll project. On 3/27/07, Justin Dearing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can give a DLL an icon why not try that? On 3/27/07, Nitin Chaudhari

[WiX-users] Wix votive stable version

2007-03-26 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
Hi all, I am planning to use votive, however the wix website tells me that v2.0votive is not maintained and that users should go with votive 3.0 Again wix 3.0 is marked as unstable so which is the best combination to use. I dont wan to risk anything by using unstable builds. Thanks, Nitin. -

Re: [WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs icon

2007-03-26 Thread Justin Dearing
You can give a DLL an icon why not try that? On 3/27/07, Nitin Chaudhari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, my installation consists of only DLLs, so I am using a > seperate icon file - i created a icon using visual studio. > > > > On 3/27/07, Justin Dearing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [WiX-users] How do i embedd and install a 3rd party msi (eg directx or wse runtime) if not already installed

2007-03-26 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
When I first started off with installer, I was thinking of using NSIS too, but I guess if you want to save on time and effort, go with visual studio setup project, set your pre-requisites i.e all ur other MSIs, u can configure these MSI's to be installed from ur own server or a particular location

Re: [WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs icon

2007-03-26 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
Unfortunately, my installation consists of only DLLs, so I am using a seperate icon file - i created a icon using visual studio. On 3/27/07, Justin Dearing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For PlaneDisaster.NET, I use the icon embedded into the main executable as the installer icon. If the icon you a

Re: [WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs icon

2007-03-26 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
No icons for me yet. I copied the 3 lines in my wxs and placed a .ico file in the same place where I had wxs and set the SourceFile value as the filename Why dont I see any icons? On 3/26/07, Bob Whiton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the responses. I finally figured out how to do it

Re: [WiX-users] How do I remove a file on upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Arnson
Justin Dearing wrote: > Ok that worked I setup the component for the DLL as below. The only > remaining problem is I can install 0.93 and then 0.92 and windows > seems to think both installations can coexist. I think this is because > I am doing a major upgrade. I will have to study the upgrade me

Re: [WiX-users] Help uninstalling

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to pass the property I need to set to the Add/Remove process? No, but you can use the command line: msiexec /x {product-code-GUID} PROPERTY=VALUE ... -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ---

Re: [WiX-users] "An unexpected external UI message was received" when using WixUIExtension

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Arnson
Bei Liu (Volt) wrote: I got the following error: light.exe line (0, 0) : An unexpected external UI message was received: The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2738. According to MSD

Re: [WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs icon

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Arnson
Rob Mensching wrote: > You definitely can change the Add/Remove Programs icon (MSI SDK for > "ARPPRODUCTICON" Property or something like that). The top left... don't > think so, but never tried. > Nope, that's msiexec's icon. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org

Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions and per user installs, and UAC problems

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Arnson
Mike Dimmick wrote: > Virtual PC and ActiveSync have nothing in common. The Windows CE Emulators > before VS2005 were based on Virtual PC technology, so you couldn't run them > within a virtual machine, I knew there was something... -- sig://boB http://bobs.org --

Re: [WiX-users] Using Wix to register COM+ -> similar to regsvcs

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Arnson
DEVAL SHAH wrote: > Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly > ...,version="1.0.2",culture="neutral",publicKeyToken="..",processorArchitecture="MSIL"'. > > Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: > 0x80131043. assembly interface: IAssemblyCacheIt

Re: [WiX-users] How do I remove a file on upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Justin Dearing
On 3/26/07, John Vottero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could try using . Ok that worked I setup the component for the DLL as below. The only remaining problem is I can install 0.93 and then 0.92 and windows seems to think both installations can coexist. I think this is because I am doing a maj

Re: [WiX-users] How do i embedd and install a 3rd party msi (eg directx or wse runtime) if not already installed

2007-03-26 Thread Justin Dearing
The page is here: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Embedding_other_installers On 3/26/07, Justin Dearing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May I suggest using the Nullsoft Scriptable Installer System (NSIS) to > Embed other installers. NSIS is the polar opposite of WiX, its a > simple scripting language th

[WiX-users] "An unexpected external UI message was received" when using WixUIExtension

2007-03-26 Thread Bei Liu (Volt)
I'm trying to upgrade to Wix 3.0. The wxs file worked fine when using Wix2 .0 with the following command: -out "product.msi" product.wixobj "Wix2.0\wixui.wixlib" -loc "Wix2.0\WixUI_en-us.wxl" I followed the following instructions to use wix UI in wix 3.0: 1. Add a UIRef element to your insta

Re: [WiX-users] Build error

2007-03-26 Thread R Kishe
I verfied that I have rc.exe installed in the same locations as suggested by Mike. Still getting the same error :( What is complus extension dll? Thanks On 3/26/07, Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps you didn't install the C++ compiler tools? Rc.exe is part of the C++ toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Just a question out of frustration

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Dimmick
The WiX custom actions link the C runtime as a static library, that is, the runtime code is linked directly into the custom action DLL. That's the best way to avoid the dependency problem. See the C++ compiler documentation for how to do this. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EM

Re: [WiX-users] RE : RE : Reboot to replace files

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Dimmick
Ensure you’ve got the mfc42.msm from Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6. Also check that there aren’t any bugs outstanding – the VS merge modules have been notorious for errors causing Windows File Protection to be invoked. Check http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/bugs_msi.htm#wimsm for the latest i

Re: [WiX-users] Ways of downgrading

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Dimmick
I think the only way to do this is to fully support side-by-side installation of different versions of the product, and that means different install folders, different component GUIDs, not using RemoveExistingProducts, ensuring the user doesn't try to install to a folder containing any other versio

Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions and per user installs, and UAC problems

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Dimmick
CeAppMgr.exe is the ActiveSync Add/Remove Programs utility. If you pass an .ini file which contains a list of .cab files, it registers those cab files as 'a program'. The intent is that the .cab files are the same product compiled for different processors/platforms. ActiveSync stores this informat

Re: [WiX-users] How do i embedd and install a 3rd party msi (eg directx or wse runtime) if not already installed

2007-03-26 Thread Justin Dearing
May I suggest using the Nullsoft Scriptable Installer System (NSIS) to Embed other installers. NSIS is the polar opposite of WiX, its a simple scripting language that runs in a linear fashion. I have written a page on their wiki that demonstrates how embed MSI as well as other installer types into

Re: [WiX-users] How do I remove a file on upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Justin Dearing
So it seems like I have broken WiX rules and cannot properly fix them. What I have done is separate out the dll, exe and license into separate components. All of the components have different ids and GUIDs than the original mega component. All three components belong to the original feature. When I

Re: [WiX-users] C# .dll

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Dimmick
The System.Configuration.Installer code is rotten. It dumps state information in files in the application folder. That doesn't work too well for installations that are launched from an advertised shortcut in order to install state for a non-privileged user. I had exactly this problem with RSS Bandi

Re: [WiX-users] Build error

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Dimmick
Perhaps you didn't install the C++ compiler tools? Rc.exe is part of the C++ toolset. I have rc.exe installed in three locations: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\rc.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\Bin\RC.Exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual St

Re: [WiX-users] How do i embedd and install a 3rd party msi (eg directx or wse runtime) if not already installed

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Dimmick
You need a bootstrapper application to install the MSIs in sequence. You can't nest an MSI within another MSI. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ste Sent: 26 March 2007 21:21 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Can Votive use Visual Studio Macros/Env vars ..eg SolutionPath, ConfigurationName ect

2007-03-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Feature request that Justin is supposedly almost done with. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ste Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:32 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Can Votive use Visual Studio Macros/Env vars ..eg

[WiX-users] Can Votive use Visual Studio Macros/Env vars ..eg SolutionPath, ConfigurationName ect

2007-03-26 Thread ste
Hi Using Wix3 and Votive. Is there an environment variable to specify the current project settings eg instead of hard coding the project path or build i would like use the Visual studio environment variables For example VS has the macro ConfigurationName mapped to "debug" or "releas

[WiX-users] How do i embedd and install a 3rd party msi (eg directx or wse runtime) if not already installed

2007-03-26 Thread ste
Hi I have a simple problem.. I am deploying a component that relies on a 3rd party installation runtime (think Msoft Wse3 runtime or DirectX runtime). I want the installer to check that this pre-requisite is installed and if not execute the prereq instal file before my installation invokes

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Assignment Agreement

2007-03-26 Thread Dawn Seymour (Volt)
Hi Neil, Please send any questions regarding this agreement or the project itself to the project owner by submitting a discussion item to the project's discussion board. I do not have any control over acceptance of your submissions. Thanks Dawn Seymour Shared Source Service Team www.

Re: [WiX-users] Build error

2007-03-26 Thread R Kishe
Yes. On 3/26/07, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you building from a VS command prompt? *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *R Kishe *Sent:* Monday, March 26, 2007 11:08 AM *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [WiX-users] Build error

Re: [WiX-users] Build error

2007-03-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Are you building from a VS command prompt? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R Kishe Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:08 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Build error I am trying to build Wix 3.0 sources (with makefile.bat) on my box. It fail

Re: [WiX-users] Using Wix to register COM+ -> similar to regsvcs

2007-03-26 Thread DEVAL SHAH
Hello Fredrik, I have .Net serviced component which i am trying to put in Component Services and not in GAC[C:\Windows\Assembly]. According to me they are separate places. I use regsvcs to register my component and this put in Component Services -> COM+ Application. When I use regsvcs i do not h

[WiX-users] Build error

2007-03-26 Thread R Kishe
I am trying to build Wix 3.0 sources (with makefile.bat) on my box. It fails with following error : = [copy] Copying 1 file to 'C:\Wix3.0_Sources\Release\debug\candle.exe.config '. [rc] Compiling "C:\Wix3.0_

Re: [WiX-users] How do I add reference to complus custom actions extensions (using votive)

2007-03-26 Thread R Kishe
Hello I am a new user. If anybody has a complus sample for Wix (3.0), please send me. Thanks On 3/25/07, R Kishe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am using votive and wondering how can I add reference to pca for complus custom actions. BTW, when I donwload Wix 3.0 binaries, I don't get extension

Re: [WiX-users] C# .dll

2007-03-26 Thread Wilson, Phil
I also believe [EMAIL PROTECTED] can be used - that's the email that the team hands out in chats etc. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:29 AM To: John Vottero; Bob Arnson; [EMAIL

[WiX-users] Help uninstalling

2007-03-26 Thread Chris.Rowland
I've managed to install my package in such a way that I cannot uninstall it. I was experimenting with utilizing properties on the command line, and did a successful quiet install using a particular property. I then noticed that the UI based uninstall would fail because it was dependant on said

Re: [WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs icon

2007-03-26 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
Even I would love to change the icons for my installation. I tried the wrote: You definitely can change the Add/Remove Programs icon (MSI SDK for "ARPPRODUCTICON" Property or something like that). The top left... don't think so, but never tried. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

[WiX-users] Fwd: XmlConfig and XML Attributes?

2007-03-26 Thread Callum Hibbert
I got this working in the end - the XMLConfig does support the manipulation of XML attributes. In case anyone Googles this, something like this will work: The above adds a "schemaLocation" attribute with the value to the element found at the ElementPath (actually the first "include" element wi

Re: [WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs icon

2007-03-26 Thread Rob Mensching
You definitely can change the Add/Remove Programs icon (MSI SDK for "ARPPRODUCTICON" Property or something like that). The top left... don't think so, but never tried. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Whiton Sent: Monday, March 26, 20

[WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs icon

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Whiton
Is there a way to change the icon for the msi package in WiX? I want to change the icon that appears in the upper-left corner of the install dialogs and the add/remove programs icon. Thanks! Bob Bored stif

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping to install .net 2.0-sample and best practices?

2007-03-26 Thread Chris Bardon
Thanks for the pointer-I checked the MSDN docs and got a simple bootstrapper working. It looks like I can do most of what I want, except it doesn't look like the task will let you specify command line parameters to msiexec. Am I missing something here? The only time this really looks like it's a

Re: [WiX-users] Simple question-not equals condition?

2007-03-26 Thread Chris Bardon
Thanks gys-that was actualy just what I needed. I thought I'd seen what I needed somewhere in that tutorial... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fredrik Grohn Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 10:30 AM To: WiX-users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Simp

Re: [WiX-users] Does CPL have any effect on msi packages created with WIX

2007-03-26 Thread Rob Mensching
There are no issues according the lawyers that I talked to (that's why we picked the CPL) but I don't think lawyer recommendations are transferrable so you really should check with your own. I'm not a lawyer either so my advice on this sort of thing is 100% useless. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [WiX-users] Simple question-not equals condition?

2007-03-26 Thread Fredrik Grohn
Oh. I guess I didn't read it to the end... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DE?K JAHN, G?bor Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 4:22 PM To: WiX-users Subject: [WiX-users] Simple question-not equals condition? On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:10:12 +0100

[WiX-users] Simple question-not equals condition?

2007-03-26 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:10:12 +0100, Fredrik Grohn wrote: Fredrik, > Correct, see: Actually, not that correct because Chris was looking for a way to check whether the property has been set at all, not to read its value. In this case, <> won't help, the syntax is: PROPERTY or NOT PROPERTY By

Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile and Votive?

2007-03-26 Thread Chris Bardon
I'm using the latest 3.0 build from the website. The version of the WixUtilExtension.dll is 3.0.2420.0. Sounds like it might be a Votive issue then? -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:03 AM To: Chris Bardon Cc: wix-users@li

[WiX-users] Simple question-not equals condition?

2007-03-26 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:45:26 -0400, Chris Bardon wrote: Chris, > I'm sure there's a way to put in a simple "property not set" > condition, I just don't know what the particular syntax is. See Section 5.3 of the tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson5.php . Bye, Gábor --

Re: [WiX-users] RE : Simple question-not equals condition?

2007-03-26 Thread Fredrik Grohn
Correct, see: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012.aspx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacquet Fabian Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 4:03 PM To: Chris Bardon; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] RE : Simple question-not equals condition?

[WiX-users] RE : Simple question-not equals condition?

2007-03-26 Thread Jacquet Fabian
I think it's <> like in VB so: PROPERTY <> "" -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Chris Bardon Envoyé : lundi 26 mars 2007 16:01 À : wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : [WiX-users] Simple question-

Re: [WiX-users] How do I remove a file on upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread John Vottero
I think you're breaking the component rules. You put PlaneDisaster.exe and PlaneDisaster.Dba.dll in the same component which you really don't want to do. I don't think you ever want more than one executable file in a component. In most cases, you only want one file in each component. If PlaneDi

Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile and Votive?

2007-03-26 Thread Chris Bardon
OK, that was it. I knew it was something dumb that I forgot. Didn't know you could define multiple namespaces for an XML file like that :) Thanks guys! From: Simon Dahlbacka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:45 AM To: Chris Bardon Cc:

[WiX-users] Simple question-not equals condition?

2007-03-26 Thread Chris Bardon
I'm trying to change the dialog sequence conditionally on properties being passed in on the command line, and I can't find a reference for what a "not equals" operator is. I can use PROPERTY="" as a condition, but I tried PROPERTY!="" and PROPERTY NOT "", but those don't seem to work. I'm sure th

Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile and Votive?

2007-03-26 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
Are you missing an appropriate /Wix/@xmlns declaration (i.e. xmlns:util='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension' ) On 3/26/07, Chris Bardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using the latest 3.0 build from the website. The version of the WixUtilExtension.dll is 3.0.2420.0. Sounds like

[WiX-users] Does CPL have any effect on msi packages created with WIX

2007-03-26 Thread Jarkko Mönkkönen
Hi! I tried to find clear answer from wix mailing lists or with google, but didn't find any, so maybe some of you who know WIX and CPL better can help with these questions. 1. If you use WIX without any extensions to generate clean setup, does the generated msi package fall under some license? D

[WiX-users] XmlConfig and XML Attributes?

2007-03-26 Thread Callum Hibbert
Coders, I can't get the "XmlConfig" task to create or update an XML Attribute. Is this supported? Or is the functionality of "XmlConfig" restricted to the manipulation of XML Elements only? Thanks, Callum - Take Surveys. Ea

Re: [WiX-users] Icon attribute on ProgId elements

2007-03-26 Thread Harry Liljeström
>>That sounds like ProgId is referring to a File, not the Icon. Can you share out a bit more .wxs code? Hi, I have following .wxs code: Double click on e.g. testconf.tst file launches correctly the installed configurator.exe, but testconf.tst file doesn

Re: [WiX-users] wix, C# installer class, uninstall

2007-03-26 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
The rollback CA executes as per the msi log, but at the wrong time : Action 13:42:43: Install2. Action start 13:42:43: Install2. Install2: Action ended 13:42:43: Install2. Return value 1. MSI (s) (C8:EC) [13:42:43:470]: Doing action: CA1.rollback.SetProperty MSI (s) (C8:EC) [13:42:43:470]:

[WiX-users] Creating virtual directory on default web site

2007-03-26 Thread Voranc Kutnik
Hello! My installation script creates virtual directory on default web site: ... ... ... If default web site is running on port 80, everything is OK. The problem is when default web site is not running on port 80 (i.e. 81). I get error "Failed to read IIsWebs table". How can I create a vir