Re: [WiX-users] Managed custom action return values

Hello, Writing managed custom actions is not supported. A standalone executable will not see anything of the setup around. I took two half ready projects and used them, to build up something that gives you the possibility to write managed custom actions and access the current setup from

[WiX-users] Problem with german letters if UI as FragmentRef

Hi, I have in UI some german texts with special german characters like Ä, Ü, Ö, ß. I saved UI in a separate fragment file FragmentUI.wxs and referenced it by FragmentRef Id=FragmentUI / While compiling I always get the error: C:\...\FragmentUI.wxs(629) : error CNDL0104 : Not a valid source

[WiX-users] Remove Install When Required and Install to Run From Network

Hi I want to remove the options Install When Required and Install to Run From Network when user tires to do a custom installation. How can I achieve this ? Thanks and Regards Srinivas T - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

[WiX-users] Wix layout

Hi folks, I would like to move to Wix and I did the basic researches how do this. Now one major part is left and I have no idea how to solve this. We have right now an application with three features and ~ 200 files. This files will be copied to a deployment directory using nant. Then all files

[WiX-users] ZIP archive inside MSI, UNZIP after installation...

Hallo all, I need to include ZIP archive (documentation in any directory structure...) into MSI and after installation I need to unzip it. Does anybody any idea how to do it? Encapsulation of documentation's directory structure is not so useful for me... Thanks a lot for any help.. David.

Re: [WiX-users] Restarting an existing service (SQLEXPRESS)

Phil, Rob, Thanks for your replies. It of course pays to read the installer code before asking a question (I dip in an out of this installer when I have the time). Here is what I really want to do: 1. Install MyService1 2. Install MyService2 3. Execute a series of SQL Scripts (setting up a

[WiX-users] Repair issue

Hi, Does anyone know how the debug problems with the ARP repair functionality? The problem in my case is that the repair gives a 1706 error; (Dutch version sorry ;) Fout 1706. Kan geen installatiepakket vinden voor product Drumis - Databaseonderdelen V2.90.2352.0. Voer de installatie opnieuw

Re: [WiX-users] Managed custom action return values

Thanks so much Oliver I will take a look at it and ping you if I have any questions danke rachna From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:29 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] error 1334 due to file sequencing.

+wix-dev mailing list and setupsup Note that file sequencing was changed in SP1 (after RTM was released) for few files in one of the merge modules used. I fixed it so that the merge modules file sequencing is now exactly the same as before (though some merge modules have now additional files

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with german letters if UI as FragmentRef

Sounds like your wxs file is not saved in UTF-8 or some other encoding that allows German characters. Also, you have to have ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-u ? at the top of your XML file. Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pobox77

[WiX-users] Error when using ServiceInstall

I'm trying to install a service with the follow bit of WiX - the first is hand done (from tutorial) the second is from WiX-Aware - both are failing: Component Id='nexusportalEXE' Guid='3B392C35-B499-473e-98F6-75218C1AE3B1' Location='local' File Id='nexusportalEXE' Name='nexuspor.exe'

[WiX-users] Validation failing on Wix v3 generated MSI

I have an MSI that I generate using a fairly recent Wix v3 weekly build. Once I add in the following merge modules and add them to a feature I get several new validation errors. Can anyone explain why I get these? Here is what I added to my wxs files. [this was added to a DirectoryRef

[WiX-users] creating INF files

Hi Guys, A question with a simple answer I'm sure. What is the format for creating an INF file to prepopulate the public properties (theres a mouthful) of an MSI package? And, does the MSI automatically look for INF files with the same name as the currently executing MSI? I do I need to

Re: [WiX-users] Wix layout

In my build environment, one of my unit tests is to compare the contents of the MSI to the files that were available to be built. This alerts me to application changes that have new resources that I've not been told about. An overly simplified look at this process would be like this:

Re: [WiX-users] ZIP archive inside MSI, UNZIP after installation...

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Stindl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to include ZIP archive (documentation in any directory structure...) into MSI and after installation I need to unzip it. Why don't you just distribute the files with a CAB? Then everything is integrated within

Re: [WiX-users] ZIP archive inside MSI, UNZIP after installation...

I need to include ZIP archive (documentation in any directory structure...) into MSI and after installation I need to unzip it. Does anybody any idea how to do it? Encapsulation of documentation's directory structure is not so useful for me... Why do you want to do this? The files will be

Re: [WiX-users] Managed custom action return values

Just to clarify, this behavior of executables is nothing to do with the code being managed or not. Any executable that returns a non-zero exit code to a custom action that checks the result will cause the There is a problem with this installer package message and a rollback. It's important to

Re: [WiX-users] Repair issue

If the product requires a repair to re-install a file then it will want the original MSI file, and the best approach to this issue is to have the original MSI available. You can't really guarantee that a repair will never occur. Unpacking a setup and installing the MSI from a temp location that

Re: [WiX-users] Error when using ServiceInstall

Some thoughts, not all of which may apply: The account needs the log on a service right. It's not automatic for admins IIRC. If you configure the service with an account manually it will add that right for you and tell you. Using the APIs isn't that friendly. If the service starts but never

[WiX-users] user home predefined name?

Hello, I'm a newbie at using wix. I've been using the tramontana tutorial [1] and now I want to install files to the user's home directory (so C:\Documents and Settings\myaccount\). The list of predefined names that is referenced in this tutorial [2] doesn't seem to contain a reference that I

Re: [WiX-users] What makes a custom action incompatible with Data Execution Prevention on Vista?

Certain versions of ATL can do this. http://www.google.com/search?q=ATL+NX+DEPrls=com.microsoft:en-USie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8startIndex=startPage=1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention It's a general issue though. Executing code on the stack, self-modifying code, etc. can cause

Re: [WiX-users] What makes a custom action incompatible with DataExecution Prevention on Vista?

No idea. I would look for code that only runs in those cases and see what I can find. It's not always very obvious (as in the case of ATL). I don't know if the MSI team has any tools to help you out there. You could set up IFEO (Image File Execution Options) on msiexec.exe and debug until

Re: [WiX-users] error 1334 due to file sequencing.

True, this is what is happening, but what I can't figure out is why this is happening or is there anything I am doing wrong here. Can anybody tell if the following is indeed a bug and if so, is it fixed or any workaround?