Re: [WiX-users] launch default browser

I had already given a try with what we have in the tutorial but that doesn't work for me.So trying my luck with QuietExecute custom action... Victor Sergienko-2 wrote: > > Sorry, isn't it covered by http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php#6.2 > ? > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Anidil

Re: [WiX-users] Again on "new version check/automatically updating applications". What does one need to get it up?

Victor Sergienko wrote: > What I wish is to have client-side .NET API that would check for > updated MSI/MSP and notify if a new version is available, and surely > be able to download (probably via BITS) and install it as MSI and/or > MSP. > Maybe this can be done calling update.exe? But I see only

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade (options?)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now how do I take all of the parameters used in the original installation and > apply then to the new installation (upgrade)? > Save them in the registry and use RegistrySearch to load them. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] Problem in entering nodes to machine.config using XmlConfig of Wix

Abhradeep Thakurta wrote: When I create an empty dependentAssembly node (the one shown in bold). I need to make consequent entries into the empty node and not to any other node. I m really not being able to find out how do we specify the XPath in this case . Specify an ElementPath of the

Re: [WiX-users] Important: Check for space in the path

Riyaz Mogharabin wrote: I have created an installer with "WiXUi.InstallDir". I need to check the install path that the user selects and not let him continue the installation if the path contains a space. There's no support for that built-in: Default installation paths have included a space

Re: [WiX-users] Hidden Folder Creation

Reid Siglin wrote: I'm looking to create a hidden folder as part of my install, but I didn't see any attribute for Directory that would accomplish this. MSI doesn't support attributes on directories. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration

Thomas Svare wrote: Everything is technically working properly but I've been asked to provide a work-around for a UI issue. The problem I'm dealing with is the default registry entry for InprocServer32 is being written using the short file and path name. Is there a way to force the default

[WiX-users] Accessing directories above SourceDir

We have two Projects, A and B. There is a file in ProjectB that needs to be run by ProjectA. Originally thinking that ProjectB was a "child" of ProjectA I wrote some code that included the lines: That worked fine, and to show a "random" example from the install log right after CostFinalize, res

Re: [WiX-users] Building a Web App MSI for VS 2003

Christoper: I suspect that this is a case where you would be better off using the WiX server-related elements (, , etc) instead of the Dark output.David Adams, MCSD MSN MessengerID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.swamidavesays.com Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:03:21 +From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [WiX-users] IIS web site dialog

Graham: Our common fragment file installs web sites based on properties set in another "master" file. The textbox for the virtual directory name would probably be pretty straight-forward by mimicing the target directory functionality from the custom dialog. I do not know how you would ga

Re: [WiX-users] executing CA with logged on user not runas user

I've seen it called out as a security risk by the Windows Installer team, but I can't find the reference. You'd have to launch it separately. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nitin Chaudhari Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:42

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade (options?)

Now how do I take all of the parameters used in the original installation and apply then to the new installation (upgrade)? Thank you. Kevin Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Burton wrote: > > > > The second method has the major drawback of the fact that I don't know > > how t

Re: [WiX-users] Validate Product Key Dialog with custom action

This is the kind of thing you'd do: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253683/en-us where it sets the PIDCHECK property to denote that the key is valid. The rest of the article is about how to use the custom action from Visual Studio setups using Orca, and that can be ignored. Phil Wilson From: Er

Re: [WiX-users] removing an existing product

I've just found out how to manage this. I changed ProductId, UpgradeCode (and UpgradeId). Then I added an Upgrade entry with the old UpgradeCode (and I also removed the OnlyDetect attribute). Everything works fine now! Thanks anyway :) Fred Frédéric Viollet a écrit : > Oups...! > My mistake :

[WiX-users] executing CA with logged on user not runas user

Hi, In my scenario, most of the time the user who wants to install does not have administrator priviledges, so an Administrator does a runas and executes the setup for the user, when setup completes it launches excel.exe, however the username for this process is administrator and not the original

[WiX-users] Simple registry problem

Hi everyone, I am new to wiX and I am having a registry trouble. I want to be able to create registry keys/values while installing but not remove it while uninstalling. I tryed Action="createKey" on a key and it works as I want. But when I write values under that key and run the uninstallation,

Re: [WiX-users] removing an existing product

Oups...! My mistake : changing the productId *does* trigger a new installation (from scratch ... asking for install dir and all that) *but* my previous version is not removed... Any idea? Thanks again. Fred Frédéric Viollet a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > I've changed a lot of things (files and d

[WiX-users] removing an existing product

Hi everyone, I've changed a lot of things (files and directories) in my application, and I'd like to remove any previously installed version of the product before installing the new one. Here's the situation previous version of my product had the following items in the wxs:

[WiX-users] COM registration

Hello, I'm using Wix 2.0.5805 and the following code: Everything is technically working properly but I've been asked to provide a work-around for a UI issue. The problem I'm dealing with is the defau

Re: [WiX-users] ComponentGroupRef element & error CNDL0205

Hi Shivit, I ran into the same problem. My workaround is to not use -sfrag and hand-edit the output .wxs to change the top-level Directory tag to a DirectoryRef tag and set the id to INSTALLDIR. In the main .wxs I have inside a . This creates the directory structure in the main .wxs and

[WiX-users] Validate Product Key Dialog with custom action

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:50:29 -0500, Eric Latendresse wrote: Eric, > didn’t compile. I’m not very familiar with C++, do you have an > example that I could follow? C++ is not a requirement at all. You can use any compiler than can create plain ol' Win32 DLLs. C, C++, Pascal, Basic, Ada, D, Modu

[WiX-users] IIS web site dialog

I am creating an installer for a web service. I would like to have a dialog like that in the web installer the visual studio creates which has a drop down of the IIS web sites and a box for the virtual directory name. My question is has anyone created something similar before? I thing I am rig

[WiX-users] Building a Web App MSI for VS 2003

Trying to build a WIX install to run with CruiseControl. I built an MSI from VS2003 for a Web App solution. Then ran DARK on it, run CANDLE and LIGHT and builds a new MSI fine. But when you run the MSI, asks for target folder, accepts, starts install, then fails. Digging inside, the

[WiX-users] Hidden Folder Creation

Hi all, I'm looking to create a hidden folder as part of my install, but I didn't see any attribute for Directory that would accomplish this. Is there another way or will it require a custom action? Reid - This SF.net

Re: [WiX-users] launch default browser

Sorry, isn't it covered by http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php#6.2 ? On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Anidil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello there > I use the following Quiet execute CA to launch a web site during the > install.But it doesn't launch the web site.Can anybody give me

[WiX-users] Специальное предложение - помо жет сэкономить

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Re: [WiX-users] launch default browser

Hello there I use the following Quiet execute CA to launch a web site during the install.But it doesn't launch the web site.Can anybody give me an insight on what i am doing wrong here? ... Installed Brent B. Powers-2 wrote: > > Charles Wan-Calo wrote: > > >> >> But then I am fo

[WiX-users] Again on "new version check/automatically updating applications". What does one need to get it up?

Hi, I'd like to resurrect the topic of checking for updates, especially programmaticaly and especially for .NET applications. ClickThrough promises this tasty feature, though I see mostly the server part that generates RSS items. ClickThrough command-line interface looks fine for accessing FeedBu