Re: [WiX-users] Issue with XMLFile in util

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson Lee
I'll give that a shot and see then. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:23 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Ryan Perlman Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Issue with XML

Re: [WiX-users] Issue with XMLFile in util

2008-06-03 Thread Rob Mensching
XmlFile has issues with uninstall. It really only works at modifying files that you install/uninstall as part of your product. XmlConfig was created to handle all those scenarios correctly. XmlConfig is also a bit more complicated to use. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

Re: [WiX-users] Exception when using enumerator of session.Components

2008-06-03 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Yes your analysis is correct. I'll get this fixed soon. Thanks for the report! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dmitry Berkovich Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:34 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Exception when us

Re: [WiX-users] Error accessing Visual Studio project settings

2008-06-03 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Yes, for a short time Votive had a dependency (unintentional, my fault) on the PropertyChangingEvent* classes, which were introduced in .NET 3.5. As you see it was fixed in the latest build. -Jason- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dmitry

[WiX-users] Exception when using enumerator of session.Components

2008-06-03 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
Hi, I have exception when this code is executed: foreach (ComponentInfo componentInfo in session.Components) {}. Exeption is: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.InstallerExceptio

Re: [WiX-users] Error accessing Visual Studio project settings

2008-06-03 Thread Colin Bleckner
Sorry, I'm using VS2005. And I'm using WiX version 3.0.4102.0. Let me try upgrading to a new version of WiX to see if that fixes anything. Dmitry Berkovich wrote: > I am using VS2005 and had same problems when used 3.0.4116.0 build of > WiX. Today I installed 3.0.4130.0 and now I dont have this

Re: [WiX-users] Improve the WiX mailing list

2008-06-03 Thread Jeremy Farrell
Is there a big complaint? I thought it was just that many people prefer a mailing list to a forum, in the same way that you prefer a forum to a mailing list. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Christopher Painter > Sent: Monday, J

Re: [WiX-users] Error accessing Visual Studio project settings

2008-06-03 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
I am using VS2005 and had same problems when used 3.0.4116.0 build of WiX. Today I installed 3.0.4130.0 and now I dont have this exception. - Dima On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Justin Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you having these problems in VS 2005 or VS2008? The code is differe

Re: [WiX-users] Error accessing Visual Studio project settings

2008-06-03 Thread Justin Rockwood
Are you having these problems in VS 2005 or VS2008? The code is different between the two, so it really helps us if we know which version. I assume it's 2005. Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Bleckner Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 20

[WiX-users] Issue with XMLFile in util

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson Lee
We are adding customizable XMLs to our web deployments. One of these deployments involve nested V-Dirs under the base IIS site. If we modify the web.config in the main V-Dir it will uninstall fine, but if we modify the config in the nexted V-Dir, then it fails to uninstall. After reviewing the

Re: [WiX-users] Building a connection string RegistryValue

2008-06-03 Thread Tim Fisher
Nevermind, I got it. I used this string "{Data Source=[DBSERVERNAME];[[USEINTEGRATEDSECURITY]]}" as my connection string, the listbox switches USEINTEGRATEDSECURITY between either IntegratedSecurity or NotIntegratedSecurity. Then IntegratedSecurity property gets "Integrated Security=SSPI" while the

Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3.0 release date

2008-06-03 Thread Wilson, Phil
As a strategy, I think the support for an embedded chainer and single transaction/multiple MSI files makes a lot of sense. There are already products being shipped as multiple MSI files, and formalizing it within MSI is a good thing. It'll save people a lot of time dealing with those kinds of se

Re: [WiX-users] Building a connection string RegistryValue

2008-06-03 Thread Tim Fisher
OK, so I need a CustomAction that assigns to CONNECTIONSTRING property from a number of different properties. If the user selected IntegratedSecurity, then I want to assign it the string "{Data Source=[DBNAME];Integrated Security=SSPI;}". If the user selected NotIntegratedSecurity, then I want to a

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to read IIsWebSite table

2008-06-03 Thread Chad Petersen
Found this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309634 "The Mdutil.exe tool is located in the I386 folder of the Microsoft Windows 2000 CD. You must use the Expand.exe command-line tool to extract the Mdutil.ex_ file from the i386 folder of the Windows 2000 CD." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

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Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved Reference to binary

2008-06-03 Thread Rob Mensching
Take a look at the "Using WiX Extension" topic in the WiX.chm file. It looks like you are trying to use WiX v2 syntax with the WiX v3 toolset and that won't work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sangeetha Haudakari (Aditi) Sent: Monday,

Re: [WiX-users] Error in v3 with extended permission element

2008-06-03 Thread Rob Mensching
Are you passing the extension on the command line to candle.exe? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mole, Chris Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 02:20 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error in v3 with extended permission el

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to read IIsWebSite table

2008-06-03 Thread Rob Mensching
Mdutil.exe is what I use to do all kinds of Metabase investigation/fixing. I don't know where I got it... probably the NT Resource Kit. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christophe Laumond Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 01:38 To: General disc

Re: [WiX-users] Votive unable to reference C++ projects?

2008-06-03 Thread Rob Mensching
Actually, IIRC, there have been attempts at making it work but those attempts broke older stuff. VC++ is just different from everything else and is turning out to be very difficult to get done correctly. So, unfortunately, not supported yet. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

[WiX-users] Error accessing Visual Studio project settings

2008-06-03 Thread Colin Bleckner
Has anyone seen anything like this before? I have a WiX project that used to behave correctly in Visual Studio. However, when I now try to view the project settings now I get an error that says "Could not load type 'System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangingEventHandler' from assembly 'System, Ve

[WiX-users] empty content for online WiX2 manuals

2008-06-03 Thread Robert Morton
The online WiX2 manual seems to have been corrupted recently, for example: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_upgrade.htm Most of the files were modified on May 30th and have no content: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/ I've seen various tutorials online which are great, but

Re: [WiX-users] Building a connection string RegistryValue

2008-06-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Tim Fisher wrote: > Type="string" > Value="{Data Source=[DBSERVERNAME];[[USEINTEGRATEDSECURITY]]}" > /> ... > > > > > USEINTEGRATEDSECURITY is assigned to a listbox, which switches it > between "IntegratedSecurity" and "NotIntegratedSecurity"

Re: [WiX-users] Adding condition to WIXUI_INSTALLDIR library

2008-06-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Riyaz Mogharabin wrote: > Value="PathConditionDlg">[WIXUI_INSTALLDIR]><' ' > I have tested this with and without [ ] and qutoation marks, and also > CDATA. I always get the following lines: > Error LGHT0204 : ICE03: Bad conditional string; Table: ControlEvent, > Column: Condition, Key(s): > Did

Re: [WiX-users] WixNetFxExtension.dll

2008-06-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Neil Enns wrote: > Sigh. Of course, where it isn't is on > http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=NetFxExtension, which is where we were > looking when we needed it. > Live Searchâ„¢ does wonders. We've been pretty good about listing new functionality in extensions in WiX.chm. It's still more

Re: [WiX-users] Error in v3 with extended permission element

2008-06-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Mole, Chris wrote: > I'm using Wix v3. Trying to use the extended permission element. Getting > this error: > > "The CreateFolder element contains an unhandled extension element > 'util:PermissionEx'." > Are you specifying WixUtilExtension (via the candle and light -ext command line or you

[WiX-users] Building a connection string RegistryValue

2008-06-03 Thread Tim Fisher
I recently downloaded WiX 3.0.4130.0 and figured out how to make it work from the docs and various Internet sources. A steep learning curve, to say the least. I figured out how to make a custom dialog box, with text boxes for the user to fill in and I inserted it into the UI sequence. Here's my pro

Re: [WiX-users] Improve the WiX mailing list

2008-06-03 Thread Ian Thomas
Very nice. Actually, I love the MSDN Forums approach, with "helpful" and "Answers". The syntax highlighting is good (I haven't tried it out on the new forum, though). Ian Thomas - Perth, Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

Re: [WiX-users] Installer options

2008-06-03 Thread McLoughlin, John
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Re: [WiX-users] Error in v3 with extended permission element

2008-06-03 Thread Ryan O'Neill
Does this help? It looks likely. http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03327.html I think you just have to change http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension to http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/Util Ryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

[WiX-users] Error in v3 with extended permission element

2008-06-03 Thread Mole, Chris
Hi, I'm using Wix v3. Trying to use the extended permission element. Getting this error: "The CreateFolder element contains an unhandled extension element 'util:PermissionEx'." My source looks like this: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"; xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wi

Re: [WiX-users] Votive unable to reference C++ projects?

2008-06-03 Thread Ryan O'Neill
Not supported right now. I believe that there are plans but it is just low down on the list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Zemanek Sent: 03 June 2008 09:20 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Votive unable to

[WiX-users] Votive unable to reference C++ projects?

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Zemanek
I would like to use project reference for a custom action library within a WiX project, but the C++ project reference is marked with an exclamation mark and $(var..TargetFileName) won't resolve. Visual Basic and C# Projects work fine. This behavior occurs with both development environments I use: