Hello,
I'm currently testing this by calling c:\winodows\system32\calc.exe...
to minimize side-effects.
And I wait for the other process to finish.
Kind regards,
Henning
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> From: Paul McCloskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:41 PM
> To
Hi,
I added one component(xyz.exe) property Permanent="yes"
When I uninstall the client, xyz.exe is still there under INSTALLDIR.
I think this becuase of property permanent=yes.
Also when I uninstall the client, the files from C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Test Machine ar
Peter Jaworski wrote:
> 1) Does it mean that if I would like to use DLLs created under VB6 I
> should use WiXv2?
>
For now.
> 2)How much time does it take to fix the bug in WiXv3?
>
> 3)Which WiXv3 build number supports COMs correctly?
>
I don't know.
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Christopher Painter wrote:
> Do you have similar trivia for how to get rid of the annoying `this
> feature, and all subfeatures, will be installed on local hard drive.`
> when said feature doesn't have any subfeatures?
That's your choice in localizing UIText strings.
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Mooney, Stephen wrote:
The PathEdit, DirectoryCombo and DirectoryList controls all appear to
be used in selection of a directory only. I cannot find a property to
show the files within a directory.
There's no such control built in to MSI.
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Bryan C. Boettcher wrote:
However, after the installation is completed (for ALLUSERS), if an
administrator forcibly removes a file that's required, the MSI will
try to auto-heal itself. This works wonderfully, if the current user
is also an administrator. How can I make Vista require privil
Adrian Alonso wrote:
> Hi! I need to detect if Visual Studio is running to avoid some Custom
> Actions fail.
> Do you know if MSI/WIX allows me to detect if a proc is running or,
> better yet, if it provides some support for detecting if Visual Studio
> is running specifically?
The CloseApplica
Btw, I'm familiar with the use of "Installed" to make sure you don't create
blocking problems for repair and uninstall transactions, but what use is it
when coupled with REMOVE="ALL". From what I can see it's not possible to
have REMOVE="ALL" without Installed being set. MSI gives the err
Note, use of REMOVE="ALL" is only reliable after the InstallValidate action.
Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ted Yu" writes:
> > CheckDbExist" BinaryKey="CheckDbExist" />
>
> How do I limit the above custom action to be run only at uninstall ?
Use the
Hi! I need to detect if Visual Studio is running to avoid some Custom
Actions fail.
Do you know if MSI/WIX allows me to detect if a proc is running or, better
yet, if it provides some support for detecting if Visual Studio is running
specifically?
Thanks,
-Adrian
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ted Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> How do I limit the above custom action to be run only at uninstall ?
Use the Condition
Installed and REMOVE="ALL"
Look at the help page titled "Conditioning Actions to Run During
Removal" in the Windows I
Hi,
How do I limit the above custom action to be run only at uninstall ?
Thanks
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Thanks Mike,
Do you have any idea which Windows APIs are called by caspol to grant full
trust to a public key or should I call managed APIs ?
Regards
Sandeep
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From: Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday
In recent versions of WiX, set Package/@InstallPrivileges to "elevated" to
inform Windows Installer that the package needs to be elevated.
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Boettcher
Sent: 22 January 2008 17:19
To: wix-users
"Peter Jaworski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> or it is enough to to just use:
>
>
> [%myenvironmentvariable]
> ?
Windows Installer would not expand that environment variable,
because the Property.Value column has type Text rather than
Formatted. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/aa370908.aspx
>From the documentation:
"ElementPath : String : The XPath of the element to be modified. Note that
this is a formatted field and therefore, square brackets in the XPath must
be escaped."
To escape square brackets, use [\[] and [\]], so your XPath needs to be
/redirections/redirection[\
If you link with the WixUtilExtension in WiX v3.0, you can use the
WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS property. See the topic "OSInfo custom actions" in
WiX.chm.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer
Sent: 22 January 2008 21:32
To: w
Nevermind... I figured it out.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Tasanasanta
(Volt)
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:48 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] what's an ExtensionData child element?
I am getting the following error.
error CN
Write the custom action to call caspol directly? Write a C++ DLL to perform
whatever task caspol is doing for you? Relying on a batch file is pretty
flaky, and for best results custom actions should have as few dependencies
as possible.
CasPol with the -af option ultimately calls
System.Securit
I am getting the following error.
error CNDL0063 : A not hidden Feature element must have at least one child
element of type ExtensionData.
Has anyone encountered this? And what is a child element of type ExtensionData?
I can't find any reference to it in WiX help.
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Are you waiting for the perquisite executables to completely finish
installing before trying to call MsiInstallProduct? There can be only
one executing MSI at a time.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krause,
Henning
Sent: Tuesday, January 22
Hello,
I already call MsiEnableLog(~0, logfile, 3);
But no log is created. The method fails instantly.
Kind regards,
Henning
> -Original Message-
> From: Ben Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:23 PM
> To: Krause, Henning
> Cc: wix-users@lists.source
I'm trying to make some changes to play nice on Vista... Currently our
product has several folders that it places under Program Files, e.g.:
C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_A
C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_B
C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_C
The purpose of these folders was t
Perhaps you can try shelling out and running msiexec.exe with logging
enabled. Even if it still doesn't work, you may have a more descriptive
error message.
bg
Krause, Henning wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a setup-bootstrapper which installs some required software
> before the actual MSI is
Hello,
I'm writing a setup-bootstrapper which installs some required software
before the actual MSI is executed. The MSI is installed via
MsiInstallProduct.
This works just fine if no external process is called prior to the call
to MsiInstallProduct.
But if I launch any executable prior to the c
Thanks for the reply Phil,
Any workaround you may suggest?
I can think of running installutil from bootstrapper (or installing assembly to
Local Folder) but if something can be done inside MSI itself that would be
great.
Regards
Sandeep
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From: "Wilson, Phil" <[EMA
Assemblies don't get installed to the GAC until the commit phase,
InstallFinalize. This is (unfortunately) just the way that MSI and Fusion
behave.
Phil Wilson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:17 PM
To: wix-users
Hi,
We need to give full trust to our assemblies at the installation time.. We have
a batch file embedded in the MSI DB which is extracted at the runtime and runs
caspol to full trust our assemblies (machine level). This process works fine
when run as an immediate custom action but fails to run
Hi,
When does the file get installed to the GAC if Assembly=".net" and Assembly
application is not specified.
The problem I'm facing is
I've a custom action which runs InstallUtil on an assembly say "A" which
references the assembly to be installed in GAC. It worked fine if the custom
action i
If the old installer didn't update the SharedDLLs reference count in the
registry, then there isn't a lot you can do.
Windows Installer updates this if requested, and if installing into certain
known locations. When uninstalling a component, if there are no more Windows
Installer references to
Hi,
I have this combobox in my ui/dialog file
However I cannot get the option to display. The combobox will, but when
it drops down it doesn't display anything.
Thanks,
Mike
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Firstly I'd try the latest weekly release from
http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/. The first two digits of the build
number are the 'month number' so the version you're using is now 8 months
old.
If the problem persists it sounds like a bug.
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I have an application that installs both a new virtual directory and
client sided (windows based) tools. When installing both on a machine
with IIS there is no problems.However, when installing only the
client side tools the installer wants to talk with IIS which is not
install on the comp
An older version of our product was installed with Internet Component Download.
Part of the install copied a .DLL to System32.
Our MSI installer of a newer version of the product copies the same version of
the DLL (it's a shared component that hasn't changed in a long time) to
System32. If t
Hi
I need to modify an XML file and create several nodes with the same name
https://external_host/*
http://internal_host/msmq/internal_queue
https://external_host/*
http://internal_host/msmq/internal_queu
I've got an MSI (that's somewhat polished, thanks to this list!) using the
AssemblyApplication parameter on the File tag for "autohealing" and dependency
tracking. An example is shown below:
Installing on Vista requires administrative privileges, because we write to a
subfolder in
I use WiX to build installers for a retail product. None of the MSI
bootstrappers I've seen on the web provided the logic and UI
customizability I required.
I use NSIS for my bootstrapping and I am very happy with it. It's
extremely flexible, there are lots of plugins and code samples around
I just tried rolling back to 3530 and that didn't work either. I suspect
there's a setting somewhere that I need to clear out in order for new settings
to be applied.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RAYMENT Tim
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:42 AM
To: wix-users@
> >1) Is there any nice pattern how to check if environment variable is set
> > and if it does, to asign its value to a property in the same way as
> > IniFileSearch or RegistrySearch:
> >
> >...
> >
> >
> > or it is enough to to just use:
> >
> >
> > [%myenvironmentvariable]
> > ?
>
>2) Th
All of the bootstrapper I've seen from every vendor is limited in one way or
another. Eventually you will find you rolling your own.
Igor Lemsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need very advanced bootstrapper,
which will install prerequisites in custom way (client choose what to install).
Does s
I saw this scenario all the time in enterprise repackaging. You have to write
a `forced uninstall` pattern. This is basically a clean up utility that
harvests configuration data that you want to preserve, writes it somewhere for
the new install to use and then programatically wipes the old ap
Hi,
I am a user of wix 2.
My problem is I need the user to be able to browse and select a file
(Licenses.txt) during the install process.
The PathEdit, DirectoryCombo and DirectoryList controls all appear to be
used in selection of a directory only. I cannot find a property to show
the files within
> Is there any nice pattern how to check if environment variable is set
> and if it does, to asign its value to a property in the same way as
> IniFileSearch or RegistrySearch:
>
>...
>
>
> or it is enough to to just use:
>
>
> [%myenvironmentvariable]
> ?
The same feature "for read" from X
Hello,
Is there any nice pattern how to check if environment variable is set
and if it does, to asign its value to a property in the same way as
IniFileSearch or RegistrySearch:
...
or it is enough to to just use:
[%myenvironmentvariable]
?
Thank you, for any information.
Best regards,
> > Why has WixComPlusExtension.dll not been included in the weekly builds since
> > a long time ago?
> > Is support being dropped?
> No, there's an open bug on the build process that it's not working since
> we switched to MSBuild.
1) Does it mean that if I would like to use DLLs created under V
Which version of WiX have you got installed? 3.0.3711 has broken VS2008
integration. I have Wix 3.0.3530 working fine with VS2008 and Vista.
Have you installed any other addins to Visual Studio? I had problems
with CAB and GAX preventing creation of new projects.
Tim
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Unfortunately there is no working silent uninstall routine with the legacy
install..Can't i ever upgrade in this situation?
Christopher Painter wrote:
>
> UpgradeCode is an MSI concept. A non-MSI project doesn't have an
> UpgradeCode. In these cases you either hope that the legacy install ha
I found the reason by looking into the installation log.
It is because the custom action file is removed before rollback is called.
It is strange. Because this code worked before. :(
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I need very advanced bootstrapper, which will install prerequisites in
custom way (client choose what to install). Does somebody know such
bootstrapper?
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Bob,
Thanks, your workaround works as magic.
Andrei
Andrei wrote:
I have a simple feature tree.
Absent="disallow" InstallDefault='*local*'...>
Absent="disallow" InstallDefault='*local*'>
...
Absent="allow" InstallDefault='*local*'>
...
It appears that setting InstallDefault t
Hello to all,
I'm looking at using WIX to create an FTP Site in IIS, what is the best way
to do it?
Should I use a VBS ?
Thanks
Matthieu
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