[WiX-users] Property entries (Product Name, Product Version, etc) on an installers details tab?

Hi, I notice on some of the installers I have used that the installer files detail tab has Product Name, Product Version, Copyright and other useful entries - the normal properties available for any exe. For example, the windows .Net 3.0 installer has these properties defined (dotnetfx3setup

Re: [WiX-users] Putting component files in different directories?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372830(VS.85).aspx I believe the Component Rules would apply here. In brief, these rules are: * Each component must be stored in a single folder. * No file, registry entry, shortcut, or other resources should ever be shipped as a me

[WiX-users] Putting component files in different directories?

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Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

They must be really desperate joining a wix-user mailing list ;) On 22/04/2008, John Vottero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If anyone has any other opinions on this topic, please do make your > > voice heard. I'm still following this thread and trying to figure out > > if I should lock non-membe

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

> If anyone has any other opinions on this topic, please do make your > voice heard. I'm still following this thread and trying to figure out > if I should lock non-members out of the list. I'm still very hesitant > to do that since it raises the bar for people just starting to get > involved with

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

Here's another vote for locking out non-subscribers. The spam isn't so bad if you read the list daily, but if you scan the list only occasionally to search for information the spam becomes more of an annoyance. Improving the signal-to-noise ratio will be a good thing in the long run. (Do many no

Re: [WiX-users] Missing IntelliSense (was context sensitive help)

I have rolled back to 3.0.3907.0 and it works again, I'll raise a bug report on this. Neil From: Martin MacPherson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 April 2008 21:41 To: Neil Sleightholm Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Missing IntelliSense (was context sensiti

Re: [WiX-users] Missing IntelliSense (was context sensitive help)

I'm seeing it ok at this end in VS 2008 On 22/04/2008, Neil Sleightholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I used the wrong term, what I really meant is IntelliSense. > > > > Neil > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Neil Sleightholm > *Sent:* 22 April

Re: [WiX-users] Missing IntelliSense (was context sensitive help)

I think I used the wrong term, what I really meant is IntelliSense. Neil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: 22 April 2008 20:51 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Missing context sensitive help I am using Votive 3.

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

Rob wrote: I'm still very hesitant to [lock out posting by non subscribers] since it raises the bar for people just starting to get involved with WiX (and we don't need to make anything *harder* ). While I understand the sentiment, the large quantities of spam probably reduce the number of people

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Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

I think that having to subscribe to wix-users is a reasonable prerequisite for people wishing to post. Dale -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: 22 April 2008 18:29 To: Rob Hamflett; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

I implemented the spam filter one of the original posters suggested (a bunch of Chinese/Russian words OR'd together), with the additional of "AND wix-users" to restrict it only to this list (it caught a few non-wix legitimate messages that I wanted) and I've only rec'd. about 2 spams (both in Engli

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

I vote to lock non-members out. I would have normally replied to [EMAIL PROTECTED] of the specific individual anyhow because of many, many reminders not to respond to individual people so that we can all benefit from the conversation. I stopped reading and responding to e-mails on this thread (wi

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

With no spam filtering on the list, it's sometimes half of all email. Joel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:48 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lis

[WiX-users] Missing context sensitive help

I am using Votive 3.0.4014.0 and am not seeing any context sensitive help in either VS2005 or VS2008. Before I start digging around for an odd config on my machine could anyone confirm whether this is working for them. Thanks Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

I feel this has got worse recently, I think I have a pretty good spam filter but I am seeing about 10% spam now. Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan O'Neill Sent: 22 April 2008 18:48 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding uninstall

Mano, You can make a component for that file and mark it as permanent. Second option is custom action on uninstall, scheduled before RemoveFiles action which will make a copy of this file somewhere. Alex From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mano Mishra Sent: Tuesday

[WiX-users] Question regarding uninstall

Hi I want to preserve a file post-uninstall. I do not find any attribute to do that. I can take the file out of my MSI and copy it manually, but it will be nice if I have a way to do it through my MSI itself. Please let me know. Thanks. Mano ---

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

At the current levels it is a minor annoyance for me, but we all know it will get a lot worse at which point I will have a problem with it. Is there nothing that SourceForge can do? I would have hoped that they would be working on reducing the levels of spam. -Original Message- From: [EMAI

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

If anyone has any other opinions on this topic, please do make your voice heard. I'm still following this thread and trying to figure out if I should lock non-members out of the list. I'm still very hesitant to do that since it raises the bar for people just starting to get involved with WiX (a

Re: [WiX-users] Votive error

Yes, bug, please. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 03:59 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Votive error I am getting the following error in the properties page with the latest build of Votive (3.0

Re: [WiX-users] CNDL0001 : Culture 'en' is a neutral culture.

I think this bug will be fixed in the build for this week. Sorry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:16 To: Fredrik Grohn; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CNDL0001 : C

Re: [WiX-users] Question about variables

Makes a lot more sense now, thank you. From: Jim Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 April 2008 17:35 To: Ryan O'Neill; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Question about variables The dollar sign ($) on the front of the component name MyVbsCa means to use the

Re: [WiX-users] Question about variables

The dollar sign ($) on the front of the component name MyVbsCa means to use the value of action state of the component, that is, what is going to be done to the component. ">.2" means to check if the action state is greater than 2, where 2 means "not present or installed" or being uninstalled. Th

Re: [WiX-users] CNDL0001 : Culture 'en' is a neutral culture.

This report talks about light but I have seen it in candle, I guess it is just shared code but I'll add a comment to the bug. Neil -Original Message- From: Fredrik Grohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 April 2008 15:32 To: Neil Sleightholm; Krause, Henning; wix-users@lists.sourceforge

Re: [WiX-users] Question about variables

Thanks for that, just what I was looking for. From: Chad Petersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 April 2008 16:49 To: Ryan O'Neill; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Question about variables I believe this web link should be a good reference for the $ operator an

Re: [WiX-users] Question about variables

I believe this web link should be a good reference for the $ operator and the state value 2 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012.aspx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan O'Neill Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 200

[WiX-users] Question about variables

I'm decoding someone else's setup and it has the following custom action definition; ... ... Plus the following scheduling of that action. (CTL_SetDefault = 1) AND $MyVbsCa>2 >From what I understand, $MyVbsCa is a variable but it is not used

Re: [WiX-users] & in product name

But for default dialogs such as the Canceldlg(which has been really bothering me with its awkward y position), you can't just set the NoPrefix Attribute to its text control. Actually, an interesting that I saw was that the references to [ProductName] in some of the "bigger" dialogs(WelcomeDlg, Ex

Re: [WiX-users] unable to install feature on Maintenance install

Bob Thanks for your reply. I have found the problem and it is that I was not setting the Secure attribute on the property that stored the location of the Notes installation. By doing this all my issues went away. Sometimes, a person merely needs someone to point them to a spot in the log to sta

Re: [WiX-users] CNDL0001 : Culture 'en' is a neutral culture.

This is a known problem. See bug #1942991. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1942991&group_id=105970&atid=642714 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:07 PM To: Krause, Henn

Re: [WiX-users] Votive error

Thanks for the tip, I went for option 2. I will raise a bug on this. Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gendelman, Yuri Sent: 22 April 2008 14:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive error Yes, it seems to

Re: [WiX-users] CNDL0001 : Culture 'en' is a neutral culture.

Thanks for the confirmation. I am guessing from your email address you are not in the US like me, sounds like that could be relevant. I will raise a bug report. Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krause, Henning Sent: 22 April 2008 14:43

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 153

I played with the 1st sample (SampleFirst.zip) from this tutorial: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ and got the same message. After removing some stuff from the .wxs: - Vital='yes' from from Subject: [WiX-users] CNDL0001 : Culture 'en' is a neutral culture. To: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [WiX-users] CNDL0001 : Culture 'en' is a neutral culture.

Hi, same error here. Running version 3.0.4014.0 on Visual Studio 2008 on Vista. Sadly not solution. Kind regards, Henning > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:41 PM > To: wix

Re: [WiX-users] Votive error

Yes, it seems to be a bug. The source of troubles seems to be the "non-alphanumeric" dot. I know two ways to bypass: - Rename file "License.rtf" to "License_rtf" and use "WixUILicenseRtf=License_rtf" - Move this definition into the .wxs: I myself prefer the 2nd. BR Yuri Gendelman --

Re: [WiX-users] Votive error

That is correct for WiX source but I was trying to set it in the Visual Studio property page. Neil From: Willie Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 April 2008 13:47 To: Neil Sleightholm Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive error I thought it was like that. Did it change?

[WiX-users] CNDL0001 : Culture 'en' is a neutral culture.

I am getting the following error from candle Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 3.0.4014.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2003. All rights reserved. Access Control.wxs candle.exe : error CNDL0001 : Culture 'en' is a neutral culture. It cannot be used in formatting and

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[WiX-users] Votive error

I am getting the following error in the properties page with the latest build of Votive (3.0.4014.0): WiX variable: The Wix variables you entered is not in a valid format. Etc The variable I am entering is "WixUILicenseRtf=License.rtf" which I think is valid (it was in previous versions). I

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

There's still a problem if you prefer to use the newsgroup interface (I'm using Thnderbird). You can't delete messages, and the best I think I can do is move them into a separate folder. That might have to suffice if we can't filter them out before they hit the list. Rob DEÁK JAHN, Gábor

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Re: [WiX-users] & in product name

It's documented as the "NoPrefix" control attribute for Text Controls. Set it to avoid the described underlining behaviour. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370535.aspx Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com On Apr 21, 2008, at 19:50 , Wilson, P

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