Why is it important to protect the registry keys with such extreme measures?
There are plenty of registry keys in the system that if you modify them the
whole system refuses to boot. I guess I agree that it just seems a might bit
overkill to me.
"Templating" a set of install settings into a t
Similarly, what would the recommended approach be for the custom properties
values during a maintenance procedure (upgrade, repair, removal, etc...)?
A number of folks seem to simply squirrel the settings off in the registry,
then have the installation reg-search the values during maintenance op
A new How To topic (should be in the next weekly build) covers launching your
installed application after install. While not exactly what you are trying to
do it does demonstrate how to use the ShellExec cusotm action. You can modify
it slightly by changing the WixShellExecTarget element to simp
0. Modifying the MSI is not advised since that will mess with the signature.
I think MST will have the same problem, but it might not if using the
TRANSFORMS property (haven't tried). A tool to generate transforms makes sense
(Office used to ship something just like this called "Office Custom
I just wanted to make sure I'm not doing thing the hard way here. I'm
creating an inatallation and I want my customers to be able to modify some
its many properties. From what I can see they have the following options:
1. Specify a property on the command line.
2. Use Orca.
3. Use a WiX t
Ryan O'Neill wrote:
> That launches IE (a specific requirement of this installer, not just any web
> browser).
>
The ShellExec CA in WiX v3 can launch the user's default browser. See
"ShellExecute Custom Action" in WiX.chm.
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Rather than prompt the user to do the uninstall, have you considered having MSI
take care of it for you? How to make that work is reasonably well documented at
http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/archive/2008/02/15/from-msi-to-wix-part-8-major-upgrade.aspx.
Note that this requires you increment on
Hello Everyone,
I have a question on how to popup a warning mesagebox if there is old
version already installed.
I will appreciate any help.
Backround:
e.g, I have installed a product with version 1.2.10.1.
Now I have a installation with a higher version 1.2.10.2
When I double the product.msi,
Updating the community from Brian's and my offline conversation / investigation
...
When installing Team Build, the account used for the service is added to the
IIS_IUSRS group. I had added the build account to the administrators group,
but apparently this had little effect when running throu
Try this;
http://www.blah.com/ " Execute="deferred"
Impersonate="no" />
Scheduled via;
NOT Installed
That launches IE (a specific requirement of this installer, not
How do I execute it? You mean execute a shortcut of a url?
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Why not just run the URL directly and let the shell handle it? Then the
default configured browser will pop up on your URL...
2008/7/1 Arthur Curvello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Key="http\shell\open\command"/>
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> ExeCommand="http://bla
Im trying to launch the default browser:
http://blahblahblah/"; Return="asyncNoWait"/>
linking it with the finish button, but
this is not working, its returning 1631
What can I do?
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Thanks for your help. I found a solution that works for me.
I splited the Name into two parts, the part before the ProductName and
the part after the ProductName. Instead of [ProductName] i define. Into
the Name attribute I put
!(loc.textPart1)$(var.myProductName)!(loc.textPart2). That version
Andreas,
Another option is to make ProductName a localization string in your wxl file.
Then use !(loc.ProductName) everywhere, including in the Product element. This
is what we do and it works like a charm.
Neil
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From: Andreas Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesda
Thanks for your answers.
I tried a property too. It didn't work. It wasn't replaced. Maybe that's
because the name field of a shortcut of the type Filename and not
Formatted. Well i guess i'll have to use text without the ProductName.
Andreas Hellwig
Tony Juricic schrieb:
> I had similar things
John Nannenga wrote:
> >From the windows installer SDK:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371847(VS.85).aspx
>
> The `Shortcut`.`Name` field is not a formatted field.
>
The InternetShortcut element in WixUtilExtension is primarily to support
URLs in shortcuts but it has the side-e
Ryan Markel wrote:
> The problem is that if I try to run the generated msp as suggested:
>
> msiexec /p patch/patch.msp
>
> Windows Installer simply brings up the maintenance dialog for the currently
> installed version, instead of patching it. Is there something totally obvious
> that I'm missin
I had similar things happen to me and solved them by using CA like:
In this case above dialog title contained [ProductName] which was not
resolved. Then you schedule CA very early and insert the property name
where you need resolved string.
The only way I can understand this is that MS
Johan Appelgren a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Frédéric Viollet
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Johan Appelgren a écrit :
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Frédéric Viollet
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
Hi everyone,
I've got a real big pr
> Am I going to have to resort to a custom action to read the settings and
> propagate them? If so, ugh. It seems like there should be a WiX custom
> action for simply reading the contents of an XML file (value or
> attribute) and putting the value into a property.
Open feature request that no one
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Frédéric Viollet
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Johan Appelgren a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Frédéric Viollet
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I've got a real big problem here on applying minor upgrades to my
>>> product. I re
>From the windows installer SDK:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371847(VS.85).aspx
The `Shortcut`.`Name` field is not a formatted field.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Hellwig
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:54 AM
To
Well I used [ProductName] like it is used in the WiXUI localization
files. Everywhere else it works correct. Just in the shortcut it isn't
replaced correctly.
in the .wxl file i've got this:
Uninstall
[ProductName]
Removes
[ProductName] from your computer.
and in my .wxs file i've got thi
Ok, thanks for your answer.
Fred
Nitin Chaudhari a écrit :
String manipulation is not supported in WIX, you will have to write a
C++/.net/vbs custom action to get substring.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Viollet
Sent: Tuesda
[ProductName] indicates that ProductName is a property. Are you sure you don't
want $(loc.ProductName)?
Rob
Andreas Hellwig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a shortcut with a localized name, but sadly
> '[ProductName]' isn't replaced in the localization-string (same for the
> descriptio
Hi,
I'm trying to create a shortcut with a localized name, but sadly
'[ProductName]' isn't replaced in the localization-string (same for the
description). Is there a method to get it working correctly?
Andreas Hellwig
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Ch
String manipulation is not supported in WIX, you will have to write a
C++/.net/vbs custom action to get substring.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frédéric
Viollet
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:41 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Ins
Hello,
I want to register 2 policies with the same publisher-file (pub) to the GAC
example - i have those files:
mypolicy.dll
policy.1.0.mypolicy.dll
policy.2.0.mypolicy.dll
mypolicy.pub
I register the file policy.1.0.mypolicy.dll like that:
if I add the component for registering th
Hi everyone,
Let's say that I have a registry key HKLM\Software\MyProduct with a
String value "TheDir" = "c:\program files\My product\module"
I can easily get the value by using a RegistrySearch:
Here's the question: :)
Is there a way to extract a substring from the retrieved value
i.e. T
Johan Appelgren a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Frédéric Viollet
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've got a real big problem here on applying minor upgrades to my
>> product. I really need your help here :)
>> During the first install, I ask the user where the p
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Frédéric Viollet
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've got a real big problem here on applying minor upgrades to my
> product. I really need your help here :)
> During the first install, I ask the user where the product should be
> installed (by using t
Hi everyone,
I've got a real big problem here on applying minor upgrades to my
product. I really need your help here :)
During the first install, I ask the user where the product should be
installed (by using the wix standard Gui)
But on minor upgrades, I do not ask him again. I just re-install
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