Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut removal and ICE38 silliness

2008-04-09 Thread Blair Murri
I assume you are upgrading NOT using major upgrade? On major upgrade, any components not installed in the upgrade are removed when the old version is removed. If your ProductCode didn't change (and that is intentional) you will need to use Transitive components and condition the components

[WiX-users] re gistering .dll in WiX

2008-04-09 Thread mike.tihonchik
Hi everyone, I am new to WiX (I been working with it for about a week now). What I need to do is register some .dll with WiX. I have read up on the messages in this user list, but still need a better answer. Here is what I have: I have a working installation package that is generated from

[WiX-users] re gistering .dll in WiX with CustomAction

2008-04-09 Thread mike.tihonchik
Ok, I have read that almost everybody suggest not to use the CustomAction to register .dll My question is though, the .dll I want to use, is used only by this one piece of code, and if its get removed it would not affect any other piece. Is CustomActions still a bad choice to do it Thanks in

Re: [WiX-users] pausing wix setup

2008-04-09 Thread Wilson, Phil
I think the more interesting question is why but I'm not sure I want to hear the answer! Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sebastian Brand Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [WiX-users] pausing wix setup

2008-04-09 Thread Christopher Painter
I'll bite. Long time ago I deployed a COM ATL Win32 service. Com Extraction wasn't working and there was an ugly race condition between SelfReg and StartService that would blow chunks. We had to insert a delay to allow the registation to complete before attempting to start the service.

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[WiX-users] support for suppressing individual ice warnings

2008-04-09 Thread Robert O'Brien
Is there support for suppressing individual ice warnings? Currently my wix sources are throwing the following Pendantic mode ice warnings due to me using the variables approach show below for arriving at what those settings should be.I'd like a way to suppress these understood and accepted

[WiX-users] Creating shortcut without copying file.

2008-04-09 Thread Riyaz Mogharabin
Dear All, I hope you are fine and doing well. Is it possible to create a shortcut for a file which already exists on the user's machine? I need to create a shortcut uninstaller for the product, and it is possible by creating a shortcut to the msiexec.exe which already exists on the

[WiX-users] MSI with an icon?

2008-04-09 Thread Riyaz Mogharabin
Dear All, I hope you are fine and doing well. How can we create a setup file which already has an icon? I had a quick search, but I found nothing about it. I'd be very thankful if you inform me about each and every kind of material which explains this. Thank you in advance,

Re: [WiX-users] Creating shortcut without copying file.

2008-04-09 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
Yes, it is possible: http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/04/27/How-to-create-an-uninstall-shortcut-and-pass-all-the.aspx Alex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Riyaz Mogharabin Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:07 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] MSI with an icon?

2008-04-09 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
Depends on where this icon you expect to see. I doubt you can change the icon for msi file, but you can set an icon for ARP (Programs and Features on Vista): Property Id=ARPPRODUCTICON Value=MyIcon.ico / Icon Id=MyIcon.ico SourceFile=MainIcon.ico / Alex -Original Message- From:

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2008-04-09 Thread 钟文辉
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2008-04-09 Thread 钟文辉
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[WiX-users] use registry value for install directory

2008-04-09 Thread teknolog
I would like to install and uninstall a part of my program to a directory. This directory must be saved as a registry value and removed on uninstall based on this value. I need to save personalfolder\MyApp as the registry value, for example. Thanks, R

Re: [WiX-users] is there a way to access wixproj macro values from within wix sources

2008-04-09 Thread Robert O'Brien
Fyi - I just updated http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1934684group_id=105970atid=642717 with the following additional scenario for a solution/project macro variable that if it were exposed would enable wix Source= values that has not source tree hierarchy dependencies.

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall keeps install folder and does nor remove it.

2008-04-09 Thread im2crazyin
Make sure all the guids in your wix are unique. Thanks. Shankar Chen Ganir wrote: Hi. I've been working with wix 2.0 for some time, and have come across a very disturbing issue. I'm creating an MSI from a main setup.wxs file, which includes several other wxi files, and is linked with

Re: [WiX-users] is there a way to access wixproj macro values from within wix sources

2008-04-09 Thread Justin Rockwood
Those are good scenarios. Just a note that you can accomplish the same thing today by defining the variables yourself. You would just change the DefineConstants in your .wixproj file (either directly or via the property pages in the IDE). You can use an MSBuild defined variable, which will do what

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2008-04-09 Thread 钟文辉
各位老总:您们好! 诚祝:您们在2008年里;有鼠不尽的快乐!鼠不尽的收获!鼠不尽的钞票!   鼠不尽的幸福!鼠不尽的美满生活!愿:您们阖家欢乐!幸福安康! 我是(深圳市珊湖岛进出口有限公司)的负责人;可以提供:出口报关单,   核销单等等一系列手续;代理:出口报关,商检,境内外运输..等等;还可

Re: [WiX-users] is there a way to access wixproj macro values from within wix sources

2008-04-09 Thread Robert O'Brien
Cool I guess I didn't quite connect the dots when you suggested this option earlier.I also realized that var.ReferencedProjectName.TargetDir is essentially going to equal OutDir and OutputPath for all projects in the case of a tfs automated msbuild .proj file processing activity. On a

Re: [WiX-users] MSI with an icon?

2008-04-09 Thread Constantin Bryzgalin
Hello, Depends on where this icon you expect to see. I doubt you can change the icon for msi file, but you can set an icon for ARP (Programs and Features on Vista): Property Id=ARPPRODUCTICON Value=MyIcon.ico / Icon Id=MyIcon.ico SourceFile=MainIcon.ico / Simple and wrong. :) If you have

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2008-04-09 Thread 钟文辉
各位老总:您们好! 诚祝:您们在2008年里;有鼠不尽的快乐!鼠不尽的收获!鼠不尽的钞票!   鼠不尽的幸福!鼠不尽的美满生活!愿:您们阖家欢乐!幸福安康! 我是(深圳市珊湖岛进出口有限公司)的负责人;可以提供:出口报关单,   核销单等等一系列手续;代理:出口报关,商检,境内外运输..等等;还可