Re: [WiX-users] Problems setting the Level of a Feature using Condition

2007-05-29 Thread Pally Sandher
Thanks for all the replies. I'd solved it by removing the Feature entirely using a Condition for the Component after adding the Component to the main Feature. Component Id=RibbitLink Guid=myguid Condition![CDATA[LINKTORIBBIT = True]]/Condition IniFile Id=RibbitIniMod Action=addLine

[WiX-users] Control-condition for install-only

2007-05-29 Thread Pseudonymic Wannabe
For our installation we have a lot of custom actions being called, all the post-install ones are chain-schedualed after InstallFinalize eg CA_Cust1 After InstallFinalize, CA_Cust2 after CA_Cust1. They are in the InstallExecuteSequence with NOT INSTALLED AND NOT REINSTALL as the condition and

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and string formatting

2007-05-29 Thread Richard.Foster
Bob, I guess I still need to learn more about Windows Installer... It was my understanding that formatted text expansion would typically occur before the user interface is shown. In this specific case, the user conducting the installation will be modifying the values, hence the reason why

[WiX-users] Vista unknown publisher

2007-05-29 Thread Pseudonymic Wannabe
When running our MSI package on Vista midway under the installation a dialog pops up (UAC) and complains about Unknown Publisher on our package.MSI file and asks for permission to continue. Is there anyway to author our package in such a way that the user won't be bothered with such

[WiX-users] Connecting many files to a single component

2007-05-29 Thread hariom
Hi All, I am a newbie to WIX, but I am using Installshield. Now I need to port my installers to WIX. In Installshield while doing Dynamic File Linking option I will be getting a option like, I can select only required files from that directory. That means for example I can select only *.aspx

[WiX-users] Help with Properties set in a UI then used in a Custom Action

2007-05-29 Thread Rik
Hi All, WiX v.2.0.4280.0 I have a confusing problem that I haven't been able to solve with my limited WiX / MSI experience. I am creating an installer that has a UI that allows the user to enter some values. These values are subsequently used in a custom action as part of the actual

Re: [WiX-users] Vista unknown publisher

2007-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
Sign your MSI. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pseudonymic Wannabe Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 6:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Vista unknown publisher When running our MSI package on Vista midway under

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Extension useable for 64 and 32 bit products

2007-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
1. No. You can use 32-bit CustomActions in a 64-bit package. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cosmin Manoliu Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 12:13 AM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix Extension useable for 64 and

Re: [WiX-users] How to improve speed of installation?

2007-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
2. The files are installed in the order specified by the Sequence column. The WiX toolset manages the Sequence column for you because the order should not matter. The control you get is that you can control the order of groups of files because the Media element specify the order of each

[WiX-users] Directory of US Realtors

2007-05-29 Thread Goldie acerbity
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Re: [WiX-users] How to improve speed of installation?

2007-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
[sorry, accidentally hit ctrl+enter] 1. There is only a portion of light.exe that does major file IO. If you cannot get an exception for some of your build drives with your antivirus software then you are going to be suffering with performance issues there. Seriously, I have seen 300%

Re: [WiX-users] How to improve speed of installation?

2007-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
2. 15 minutes to copy 3-4 GB isn't bad too. Remember, the WiX toolset is going to lay out your full DVD image in the way that the Windows Installer expects to see it. Compression obviously takes more processing. Also, with file IO much of the time will be counted against the operating

[WiX-users] Disabling features in the CustomizeDlg based on UI interaction...

2007-05-29 Thread Lewis Henderson
Hi All, I'm still trying to port from InstallShield to wix, and here's the problem I'm running into: The user enters an authorization key, which is checked for validity in a CA. The CA also determines which features are available based on this key, and I want to disable the features that

Re: [WiX-users] How to improve speed of installation?

2007-05-29 Thread Pally Sandher
Couldn't one set the environment variable WIX_TEMP to somewhere in the build area therefore only have to exclude one area from AV on-demand access? I would personally be wary of excluding the entire TEMP directory, whether it be on the user profile or the build machine's Windows directory unless

Re: [WiX-users] Disabling features in the CustomizeDlg based on UIinteraction...

2007-05-29 Thread Pally Sandher
I had a similar situation last week recieved a grand total of 1 replies. I've come to the conclusion that using Condition to set the Level of a Feature doesn't work (at all, as in it's a bug). I tried to use it to set the Feature Level to either 1001 or 1 (1001 would exclude it from any install

Re: [WiX-users] How to improve speed of installation?

2007-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, when I say temp directory, I mean wherever you have your temp directory pointing. WIX_TEMP is a great way to use a custom temp location. -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:30 AM To: Rob Mensching; Igor Maslov Cc:

Re: [WiX-users] Vista unknown publisher

2007-05-29 Thread Peterson, Joel
Just want to point out that even if you sign your MSI, you will still get a Unknown Publisher on uninstallation. It's sort of a sad limitation that is explained here: http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2006/10/19/new-wind

Re: [WiX-users] Control-condition for install-only

2007-05-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Pseudonymic Wannabe wrote: For our installation we have a lot of custom actions being called, all the post-install ones are chain-schedualed after InstallFinalize As an aside: That's outside the install transaction, so you can leave the machine in a bad state if any custom action fails. NOT

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and string formatting

2007-05-29 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was my understanding that formatted text expansion would typically occur before the user interface is shown. In this specific case, the user conducting the installation will be modifying the values, hence the reason why I (and apparently Rennie also) believed a

Re: [WiX-users] Help with Properties set in a UI then used in a Custom Action

2007-05-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Rik wrote: I am creating an installer that has a UI that allows the user to enter some values. These values are subsequently used in a custom action as part of the actual installation. Properties must be public (i.e., named in all UPPERCASE) and secure (@Secure=yes) to be passed from the

Re: [WiX-users] Connecting many files to a single component

2007-05-29 Thread Bob Arnson
hariom wrote: directory. That means for example I can select only *.aspx files OR *.dll from particular directory. Is that this feature is available in WIX also? No. It's been discussed on the list many times (search the archives for the fun). You can use the heat tool in WiX v3 or tallow

Re: [WiX-users] Disabling features in the CustomizeDlg based on UIinteraction...

2007-05-29 Thread Aaron Shurts
I use this very successfully actually and have not had any problems with it. My feature declaration looks like this: Feature Id=MyFeature Title=My Application Feature Display=hidden Level=1 ConfigurableDirectory=INSTALLDIR AllowAdvertise=no ComponentRef Id=MyInstallComponent / Condition

Re: [WiX-users] Connecting many files to a single component

2007-05-29 Thread Aaron Shurts
You can do it, but not in the way you describe. Component Id=MyComponent Guid=12345678----ABCDEF00 File Id=FirstFile Name=foo.bar Keypath=yes Source=C:\sample\foo.bar / File Id=SecondFile Name=foo2.bar Source=C:\sample\foo2.bar / File Id=ThirdFile Name=foo3.bar

[WiX-users] error dialog issue

2007-05-29 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
Hi, My Error Dialog is as follows: Dialog Id =ErrorDialog Width=370 Height= 100 Title= [ProductName] ErrorDialog =yes Control Type =Text Width= 123 Height= 17 X =20 Y =10 Id =text1 Text ![CDATA[{\VSI_Arial16.0_1_0}Install Unsucessful! ]]/ Text /Control

Re: [WiX-users] Disabling features in the CustomizeDlg based on UI interaction...

2007-05-29 Thread Lewis Henderson
Hi All, Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't do it for me. If I use this code, all of the features are disabled since none of the property values are set initially. As a reminder, I set property values in a CA called from a UI before the CustomizeDlg is called. Since I can't seem to Feature

Re: [WiX-users] Help with Properties set in a UI then used in a Custom Action

2007-05-29 Thread Rik
That fixed it, thanks Bob. As a comment: Isn't it unusual convention to have the case of a name dictating the protection level? I guess that's a legacy thing from MSI, rather than a feature of WiX..? On 29/05/07, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rik wrote: I am creating an installer that

[WiX-users] Fwd: Connecting many files to a single component

2007-05-29 Thread Rik
I might have sent my reply to the wrong address earlier. Apologies if it double-posts... Hi hariom, I'm using WiX v2.0. I managed to achieve what you're looking for by using tallow.exe with msbuild. In fact I wrote a custom task that calls the tallow executable and parses and re-formats the

Re: [WiX-users] LaunchCondiion - Changing OK button to Close button.

2007-05-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan
Hi, I got the desired effect by including the contents of ErrorDlg.wxs file in my WXS file and modifying the Text attribute as follows Control Id=O Type=PushButton X=100 Y=65 Width=56 Height=17 TabSkip=yes Text=amp;Close Please let me know if this approach is a good practice. Thanks,

Re: [WiX-users] Disabling features in the CustomizeDlg based on UI interaction...

2007-05-29 Thread Aaron Shurts
You may be able to build your ADDLOCAL property from checkboxes instead of using the Feature Selection dialog. This would allow you to enable or disable the checkboxes based on property values. The problem you are having is a sequencing problem. The feature conditions have already been

Re: [WiX-users] Help with Properties set in a UI then used in a Custom Action

2007-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
Yeah, it's an MSI thing. Goofy? Agreed. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rik Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:25 PM To: Bob Arnson Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help with Properties set in a UI then used in a Custom Action That fixed

Re: [WiX-users] Votive under VS2005 reports This installation is forbidden by system policy when running as LUA

2007-05-29 Thread Ben Day
I've got the same error trying to build my WiX (Votive) setup project as part of my Team Build. light.exe(0,0): error LGHT0216: An unexpected Win32 exception with error code 0x659 occurred: This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator. The project builds

Re: [WiX-users] Votive under VS2005 reports This installation is forbidden by system policy when running as LUA

2007-05-29 Thread Ben Day
I figured out how to specify -sval using Votive. 0. Check out your Votive setup project from source control 1. Right click on your Votive setup project 2. Click on Linker 3. Select the Configuration for which you want to specify -sval 4. Click Advanced... 5. On the Light Advanced Settings

[WiX-users] Can someone provide some direction on using the NAnt tasks to build for WiX v3?

2007-05-29 Thread Aaron Shurts
I am mainly concerned with how I reference multiple extensions. Is it like the following? candle ... extensions=${Wix_path} name=WixNetFxExtension.dll ;WixIIsExtension.dll;WixSqlExtension.dll;WixUIExtension.dll;WixUtilExtension.dll ... /candle Is this even supported? You know all those

[WiX-users] Difference between 2.0 and 3.0?

2007-05-29 Thread Don Tasanasanta
Where can I find information on the difference between WiX 2.0 and WiX 3.0? I'm planning on upgrading to 3.0 and would like to know all the things that I can take advantage of over 2.0. - This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [WiX-users] upgradable merge modules

2007-05-29 Thread Jerome Haltom
That level of control isn't possible in a merge module. Provide an .msi package instead. So, what's the point of merge modules then? If I can't distribute a third party library that other people can use as a dependency, what good are they for? And I don't think one can reasonable say it can