[WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2008/06/06/Proposed-adjustments-the-WiX-v2-and-WiX-v3-roadmap.aspx Based on the feedback left by those of you here and elsewhere, I've posted some proposed adjustments to our current roadmap. I am curious what people think about trimming the next releases

[WiX-users] Setup.exe UAC elevation on Vista

Hello all. I've written a standalone GUI to spawn the install of 3 separate MSIs. The gui is called setup.exe. Whenever I run setup.exe on a Vista machine I get the UAC elevation prompt. If I rename the gui to jd.exe I do NOT get the UAC elevation prompt. If I rename the file install.exe I

Re: [WiX-users] Setup.exe UAC elevation on Vista

Yes, this is expected. If the file looks like its an installer, then Vista will elevate it unless the manifest says otherwise. This was to try and aid migration to Vista. Rob John Daintree wrote: Hello all. I've written a standalone GUI to spawn the install of 3 separate MSIs. The gui

Re: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs would you like to see?

Bootstrappers - how to and why. Seems a very common question. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Enns Sent: 05 June 2008 22:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs would you like to see?

Re: [WiX-users] Setup.exe UAC elevation on Vista

OK Rob, thought so. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Rob Hamflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setup.exe UAC elevation on Vista Yes, this is expected. If the file looks like its an installer,

[WiX-users] light.exe crash when using Shortcuts and Merge modules in Wix

Hi folks, I'm using WiX 2.0.5805.0 on Windows XP and facing a crash of light.exe when using Merge Modules and Shortcuts together. If I omit the Shortcut definition everything runs fine. The error message from light.exe is: light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Beim Aufruf einer COM-Komponente wurde ein

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe crash when using Shortcuts and Merge modules in Wix

Can you try grabbing the mergemod.dll out of the latest drop of the WiX v3 toolset (http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases)? There was a bug recently found in mergemod.dll that the VC runtime merge modules seem to have uncovered. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Find out user name of current logged-in user

Now I have tried the Property LogonUser and that works great. This property was exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you so much. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Rob Mensching Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008 19:13 An:

Re: [WiX-users] Find out user name of current logged-in user

Thank you for your help. I will try this proposal immediately. But, where do I find the documentation of all build in properties? The manual of wix at sourceforge seems to be offline for some days. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von

Re: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs would you like to see?

Do you think it would be better to add this information to the Wiki (http://www.wixwiki.com)? Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Neil Enns Sent: Thu 05/06/2008 22:04 To:

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe crash when using Shortcuts and Merge modules in Wix

That did the trick. It also fixed my problems with Shortcuts installing from merge modules. I would not have thought it to be that easy. Thank you for your immediate response and your wonderful WiX toolkit! I enjoy working with it. Keep up the good work, Cheers Volker Rob Mensching schrieb:

Re: [WiX-users] Find out user name of current logged-in user

* Xenia Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06.06.2008]: Thank you for your help. I will try this proposal immediately. But, where do I find the documentation of all build in properties? The manual of wix at sourceforge seems to be offline for some days. on the msdn, see

Re: [WiX-users] Find out user name of current logged-in user

Thank you. I have saved the link to my bookmarks. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Xenia Holtmann Projekt-Managerin BRAVIS GmbH -- BRAVIS GmbH, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Str. 15/Süd 9, D-03044 Cottbus Tel. : +49 (0) 355 / 28 91 82 - 20, Fax: - 29 WWW : http://www.bravis.eu E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BRAVIS:

Re: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs would you like to see?

I think so... would be nice to have it all up-to-date, in one place. 2008/6/6 Neil Sleightholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you think it would be better to add this information to the Wiki ( http://www.wixwiki.com)? Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

[WiX-users] localizing and custom actions

I've just began to work on on installer with WIX 2.0.5805.0 version. And I've got some questions related: 1. Localize the UI. I've added the . I've already find on this forum that this could be solved by adding to the command line the .wxl file needed (-loc %WIX%\WixUI_en-us.wxl). But my

Re: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs would you like to see?

I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of small tutorial that shows how to create upgrades... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Enns Sent: 05 June 2008 23:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs

Re: [WiX-users] Attach a database

When I do it that way, I get a compile-time Error 1 When nested under a component, the sql:SqlDatabase element must have one of the following attributes specified: CreateOnInstall, CreateOnUninstall, DropOnInstall or DropOnUninstall. Is the v3 WixSqlExtension ready, or should I be

Re: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs would you like to see?

I would like to see all custom actions and wcautil functions documented *with an example*. One can argue that they are just the wrappers around MSI functions and thus : read the documentation! However, initially one approaches these functions in the hope of making sense out of SDK documentation

[WiX-users] DTF - Invalid data received from remote MSI function invocation

I have recently converted a custom action in my install to use DTF and C#. This specific custom action is launched from a dialog and confirms various things about SQL Server credentials, permissions, version etc. that were entered by the user on that dialog. When I execute this install on a

[WiX-users] custom actions and merge modules

Hi, I have a package in which the MFC and MSVCRT runtime libraries are needed. So I decided to use Microsoft's merge modules... so far so good... The problem is that I have a custom action that calls an executable which needs these MFC and Runtime libraries to be installed. I'm calling the

[WiX-users] Howto uninstall the feature?

I have: Feature tree and custom action list. Minimal example: Feature Id='Complete'... Feature Id=CoreFeature... ... /Feature Feature Id=OptionalFeature ... ... /Feature /Feature CustomAction Id=InstallOptionalFeature BinaryKey=.../ CustomAction

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - Invalid data received from remote MSI function invocation

What is the value of MYPROPERTY ( msi log ) at the moment that you attempt to get it?nbsp; I'd like to see if I can mock this up and debug it.nbsp; Perhaps there is some kind of escaping problem. nbsp; Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - Invalid data received from remote MSI function invocation

I fixed a bug this week in the managed CA remote-invocation channel that is probably the cause of the exception you're seeing. Can you check if you can still reproduce the problem on today's build 3.0.4206? (It's not published yet, but should be there soon...) -Original Message- From:

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

Riyaz Mogharabin wrote: // // Condition WIXUI_INSTALLDIR something - will not gerenrate error, but the conditon is not working. (it is always true) Then you might not be able to check that property; there's no documentation how to do an indirect property lookup. Try directly

Re: [WiX-users] How to make the ProgramMenuDir configurable?

Volker Enderlein wrote: i came across the idea of making the ProgramMenuDir configurable as InstallShield and other installers do. You can give a different name to the program group. Is that possible in WiX and if yes how? Create a subdirectory of ProgramMenuFolder and you can give it

Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

Evans, Jim wrote: This is sorely disappointing to me personally. Quite frankly, I need the bootstrapper. I hate that I'll be waiting for WiX v4 to get it. It's unlikely to change the date when the bootstrapper becomes available. Working on it in the v4 branch gives us the flexibility to ship

Re: [WiX-users] how to install the same file in multiple directory using wix?

Laplante, Patrick wrote: - find all 3 application and locate their plug-in folder (probably reading the registry). - display the 3 application in a listbox where the user can select/deselect into which application it must install - and install the plugin in the user's selected

Re: [WiX-users] FileSharePermission has no Domain

Mole, Chris wrote: In the util:FileSharePermission element, there's no Domain attribute. Is there some other way to grant fileshare permissions to a domain account? Use DOMAIN\username for the User value. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Using AssemblyVersion in the build

Ryan O'Neill wrote: Ah, I was using ?define Version=!(bind.FileVersion.MyFile) ? When it should have been ?define Version=!(bind.FileVersion.MyFile) ? Hmmm, I'd say either should work. Can you open a bug that includes the error message you got? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Registry and math

Christopher Painter wrote: You know Bob, I've read that before but didn't think about how that could solve another pain point. getting around the fact that the ShortCut table doesn't format the shortcut name when dealing with multiple instance installations. WiX already supports

Re: [WiX-users] localizing and custom actions

Natxo Mateos wrote: 2. Which would be the best planning to define a multilanguage installer? Define a dialog with all the possible languages and depending on the selection, execute one or another executable file (that would imply having as many .msi files as languages). Or it would be

Re: [WiX-users] custom actions and merge modules

Frédéric Viollet wrote: Are the merge modules installed after 'StartServices'? No. It's a limitation of how the CRT installs the DLLs into the WinSxS store. See the MsiAssembly Table doc in the MSI SDK: The assemblies are not committed until successful execution of the InstallFinalize

Re: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs would you like to see?

Wow very cool :) Well as I noted down, the URL has a good start on UI modification. Also, a big one for many is Localizations. Localizing properties (for UI) and how to compile/link them in the project can be hard to figure out. This is a great amount of effort and you would help out a lot of

Re: [WiX-users] Registry and math

Good to know, only I wasn't using WiX at the time. :-)nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Any idea on why the column was formattable in the first place?nbsp;nbsp; Was it just a `we didn't think you'd want to do that` thing or is it limited by some advertisement problem? nbsp; Christopher Painter, Author of

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - Invalid data received from remote MSI

Christopher, The code that throws the exception is string serverToTest = session[SERVERTOTEST]; session[LASTSERVERTESTED] = serverToTest; From my install log... Property(C): SERVERTOTEST = sqlserver Property(C): LASTSERVERTESTED = tion

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - Invalid data received from remote MSI

Jason, I'll be on it the moment it's available, and I will let you know. Amy - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source.

Re: [WiX-users] ICE20: ErrorDialog?

Justin Chase wrote: I am getting one last error about an ErrorDialog property not being set and I can't for the life of me figure it out. I have created a Dialog with ErrorDialog=yes and I have added a DialogRef pointing to it in my main UI... what am I missing? You need to set the

Re: [WiX-users] Attach a database

If you place the SqlDatabase element under a Component element that will attempt to create the database. My SqlDatabase element is a direct child of one of my Fragment elements. It is a little confusing but that causes the SqlDatabase element to search for an existing database. Unfortunate

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe crash when using Shortcuts and Merge modules in Wix

Thanks for the confirmation. We're going to be releasing a very tiny update to WiX v2 with the fixed mergemod.dll very soon. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Volker Enderlein Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 04:42 To: General discussion for

[WiX-users] Error when using FileSharePermission

Hi, I'm getting this error.. error LGHT0094 : Unresolved reference to symbol 'User:test' in section 'Product:{A50A3A25-28AA-40D0-97B7-63091A3723D9}' code as follows.. Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir' Directory Id=apps_d Name=. Component Id='apps_d'

Re: [WiX-users] Error when using FileSharePermission

You are hitting one of the less consistent parts of the WiX toolset. The FileSharePermission/@User element creates a reference to a standalone User element. The PermissionEx element has the @Domain and @User elements to define the user inline. Unfortunate merger of design by different people

Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

To provide a bit more detail on what Bob said, the biggest difference between the planned WiX bootstrapper and the other bootstrappers discussed here is to create something with built in layers so that you can use only the functionality that you want. Additionally, the hope is to make the

Re: [WiX-users] What kind of How To docs would you like to see?

Personally, I'd hope to see this in the WiX.chm so that it can then get published up on the http://wix.sourceforge.net site. Is there an advantage of spreading the documentation all around? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - Invalid data received from remote MSI

Actually, now that I am looking at it, it succeeds through both of these lines and then fails on the next attempt to access a property. string sqlServer = session[SQLSERVER]; from the log... Property(C): SQLSERVER = PETER It's at this point an exception is thrown and I end up in my catch. Amy

Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

Bob Arnson wrote: It's unlikely to change the date when the bootstrapper becomes available. Working on it in the v4 branch gives us the flexibility to ship it in stages and not be forced to do a more limited release just to ship v3. Also note that there's nothing that ties the bootstrapper

Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

There is a feature planned to provide progress to parent processes of the bootstrapper. The .NET Framework does this already, we'll probably do the identical thing (presuming it is rich enough). I don't know if SQL Express does the same... if not, then the progress for that component will be

Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

RE: SQL Express installer progress: I only recently learned of the .NET Framework's installation progress solution, and am planning on using it. As near as I can tell, SQL Express does not provide a similar solution, so I guess we should start working on that letter. grin/ -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

If you write it, I'll add my name. I'd even be happy to try to find the right people to send it to. smile/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evans, Jim Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:16 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] How to make the ProgramMenuDir configurable?

Bob Arnson schrieb: Volker Enderlein wrote: i came across the idea of making the ProgramMenuDir configurable as InstallShield and other installers do. You can give a different name to the program group. Is that possible in WiX and if yes how? Create a subdirectory of ProgramMenuFolder

Re: [WiX-users] How to make the ProgramMenuDir configurable?

Volker Enderlein schrieb: Bob Arnson schrieb: Volker Enderlein wrote: i came across the idea of making the ProgramMenuDir configurable as InstallShield and other installers do. You can give a different name to the program group. Is that possible in WiX and if yes how? Create a

Re: [WiX-users] Setup.exe UAC elevation on Vista

There's some documentation here, scroll down to Installer Detection Technology. http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/00d04415-2b2f-422c-b70e-b18ff918c2811033.mspx?mfr=true Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [WiX-users] Re moveExistingProducts and Duplicate GUIDs

1) The code will be different for immediate and deferred custom actions. Immediate CAs can get properties directly, deferred ones need to use CustomActionData. This may be something to do with what you're seeing. 2) RemoveExistingProducts will work fine after InstallInitialize, but note the

[WiX-users] Problem with drop v3.0.4206.0

I just installed the new Wix3_x64.msi (v3.0.4206.0) today, and now I get this: Error1The specified task executable could not be run. Could not load file or assembly 'wconsole, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=ce35f76fcda82bad' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with drop v3.0.4206.0

Oh yeah. I'm running this under VS2005. On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Christopher Karper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed the new Wix3_x64.msi (v3.0.4206.0) today, and now I get this: Error1The specified task executable could not be run. Could not load file or assembly

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with drop v3.0.4206.0

Ah, if you look at the last three characters in the public key you can see why. PublicKeyToken=ce35f76fcda82bad' Sorry, that just tickled me! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Karper Sent: 06 June 2008 20:48 To: General

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - Invalid data received from remote MSI

Jason, I just installed and tested this again with the new build of wix v3.0.4206.0. On Windows Server 2003 SP1 I do not see the exception, and all the code I wrote executes correctly and detects the various things I have written it to detect (can it connect to the database server, does the

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with drop v3.0.4206.0

That's the SN token that gets consumed if you build yourself.nbsp;nbsp; Official MS builds use a different ( not distributed ) key. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with drop v3.0.4206.0

That would suggest that there has once again been a ship errata. nbsp; Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Fri, 6/6/08, Christopher Karper lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote:

Re: [WiX-users] How to make the ProgramMenuDir configurable?

Volker Enderlein wrote: I knew I was missing some fundamentals of WiX. I found the answer reading the wix tutorial a second time more carefully. Right. Windows Installer requires you to name files and directories explicitly; a custom action is needed to use embedded properties. --

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with drop v3.0.4206.0

Christopher Karper wrote: Error1The specified task executable could not be run. Could not load file or assembly 'wconsole, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=ce35f76fcda82bad' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.C:\Program Files

Re: [WiX-users] Registry and math

Christopher Painter wrote: Any idea on why the column was formattable in the first place?nbsp;nbsp; Was it just a `we didn't think you'd want to do that` thing or is it limited by some advertisement problem? Shortcuts are files; MSI requires static names for files. -- sig://boB

Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

That all sounds fine to me personally, as long as I can start investing my time in refactoring all of our installers with WiX v4 (and its bootstrapper!) sometime around the time you would said it would be available. Joel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Proposed adjustments the WiX v2 and WiX v3 roadmap.

I like the new plan, let's get it done! :D On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2008/06/06/Proposed-adjustments-the-WiX-v2-and-WiX-v3-roadmap.aspx Based on the feedback left by those of you here and elsewhere, I've posted

Re: [WiX-users] ICE20: ErrorDialog?

Where is this ErrorDialog property? There was one on the dialog itself but that was just a yes/no value. What object has the ErrorDialog property that wants the ID? On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Chase wrote: I am getting one last error about an

Re: [WiX-users] ICE20: ErrorDialog?

Ok actually I think I figured it out by adding the following line above my InstallUISequence node: Property Id=ErrorDialogFatalError/Property Where fatal error was the name of my dialog. But now I get the following error: Error 8 ICE20: Specified ErrorDialog: 'FatalError' not found in Dialog

[WiX-users] Problem with wix code - unable to upgrade new version of web service

Hi I am creating a wix installer using the code below. Although I am using the UpgradeCode , the msi does not replace the already installed web service code with the new one. Is there something that I am missing? Please help. ?xml version=1.0? Wix

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with UpgradeCode

Hi I am creating a wix installer using the code below. Although I am using the UpgradeCode , the msi does not replace the already installed web service code with the new one. Is there something that I am missing? Please help. ?xml version=1.0? Wix

[WiX-users] IIS websites and v-dirs: How can I obtain a site list?

So here is a question. I've seen the default projects that come from Visual Studio and seen the site selection for Vdirs appear. How would one go about that through WiX? Any pointers? Thanks Pierson - Check out the new