[WiX-users] DTF Build Fails on ManagedCA Project

I just pulled down build 4325 and tried to build the DTF solution. Unfortunatly when it went to do the postbuild for the ManagedCA project it throw an exception and hung the build. I also tested the release MSI and that worked fine. Any thoughts? Error 1 The command "C:\wix-src\buil

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from an MSP

Thanks for all your advice. I'm currently developing a tool to import all the exe fileversion information from all the apps installed in the Bank. This information will be stored in a SQL 2005 db. There are is approx 2000 apps and we package or repackage 40 packages a per month. I need to selectiv

[WiX-users] Is there a way to substitute strings in a property value?

Before I start writing custom actions that to regular expression manipulations... 1. Is there a way to do a simple string replacement at runtime for an MSI property? 2. Is there anything built-in with wix CAs/extensions to do that? Thx dB.

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency Management

Actually, I'm looking at it right now. The problem is that my projects don't use the "default" build configuration, they need either x86 or x64 specified as the platform, and it won't build without that. It could easily be solved by having the abililty to pass properties to the build system fro

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency Management

Heh, well, yeah... uhh, I don't actually use it... Worst, we don't actually have anyone working on heat.exe right now. It was Derek's baby and he's been gone (off to some startup to make the big bucks or something ) for quite a while now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Modules for Ink Edit

Rob, I have posted a request on the Tablet PC developers forum. I hope this will start the ball rolling. I am open to any other suggestions. When I suppressed the ICE99 message I got an ICE32 error message. So for now I am forcing the user to download and install the Tablet PC SDK 1.7. I am d

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency Management

Yeah, the heat project harvester was non-functional the last time I tried it (about 3-4 drops ago)/ It just throws an exception every time. If I get some spare time, I'll poke around and see what I can find. On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a

[WiX-users] Administrative Install and wixui_mondo

Using Wix V2 successfully for some time now, I came across a problem today when a customer tried to use administrative install (msiexec /a) mode: As it seems, this is not really supported by Mondo. What happens is the following: - msiexec /a myinstaller.msi does nothing - msiexec /a TARGETDIR=\

Re: [WiX-users] Close button in Progress dialog

All right, what is making Close button disabled is the fact that I don't have Cancel button in Progress page! I needed extra space for billboards so I removed it. Now it is back with Hidden="yes" to keep it invisible and problem solved. It occurred to me that this may be the cause at one time so

Re: [WiX-users] Want to suppress 'service uninstall dialog'

Why don't you use the built in ServiceControl element? My bet is the message box is coming from the service code itself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cemiles Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 09:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] Want to suppress 'service uninstall dialog'

I just noticed something, I hope it's this simple and I'll feel like a goober if it is... Change "check" to "ignore"??? cemiles wrote: > > via cmd line w/ a CA... > > Value='"C:\\.exe" -u' /> > DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="immediate" Return="check" /> > > > Rob Menschi

Re: [WiX-users] Want to suppress 'service uninstall dialog'

via cmd line w/ a CA... Rob Mensching-2 wrote: > > How are you uninstalling this service? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cemiles > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 09:28 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [W

Re: [WiX-users] Want to suppress 'service uninstall dialog'

How are you uninstalling this service? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cemiles Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 09:28 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Want to suppress 'service uninstall dialog' I have an install that n

[WiX-users] Want to suppress 'service uninstall dialog'

I have an install that needs to be totally silent, but I'm running into a minor problem. I have a custom action that uninstalls an existing service, but when I do that a dialog spawns stating "ServiceName successfully uninstalled". This appears to be a Windows dlg, so is there any way I can supp

Re: [WiX-users] WIX and VS2008 Merge Modules

Yeah, the files are definitely included - I can see them in orca and running FILEMON when the MSI in installing I can see msiexec trying to locate each file in turn (which it fails to). I'm currently trying to upgrade to the latest weekly release of WIX to see if that helps (but am getting erro

Re: [WiX-users] WIX and VS2008 Merge Modules

Can you pop the final MSI open in Orca and see if the Merge Module contents are actually in there? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Adams Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 04:48 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] WIX

Re: [WiX-users] Is there a way to find out whether my custom action is running with Return="check" or "ignore"

Not directly possible to access your CustomAction's attributes. You'll have to pass yourself an extra piece of information (another Property). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dB. Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 08:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Modules for Ink Edit

You really do have to go after the people that created the Merge Module. However, it is very likely you can ignore most of those warnings/errors and I doubt they will bite you so you might suppress the errors and see how things go. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency Management

That's all true. However, IIRC, heat does have an MSBuild Task that can "harvest projects". I'm not sure how well it works right now but I know that there are some manual steps to get it wired in to begin with. Anyway, I think that there is a point in the future where Votive could automagical

Re: [WiX-users] Close button in Progress dialog

What's your control look like? 1 . . . This? Tony Juricic wrote: > > I have Progress with disabled Close button so it prevents me from > cancelling the installation while it is displayed. > > Yet, I have done nothing (that I am aware of) to cause that. Progress >

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency Management

This is a source of lots of hot discussion on the list right now. There is nothing that can automatically manage things for you the way you would be used to with Visual Studio. The Windows Installer is a mighty finicky beasty, and adhering to all of it's rules makes development such a thing a ver

[WiX-users] Dependency Management

Apologies if this has been asked and answered a zillion times already, I am fairly new to WiX and very new to the list :) Using the Visual Studio deployment projects one is able to assign the output of a project or projects to the installer project and that has the effect of having the IDE mana

[WiX-users] Is there a way to find out whether my custom action is running with Return="check" or "ignore"

I have the following dilemma: I have a C++ custom action that finds out an Active Directory domain controller. It's used in two scenarios: one where we want a blank value when the machine is not on a domain and another where we want the CA to fail. Naturally I used Return=ignore for the one where I

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from an MSP

Read the article from Heath. You can extract the _Storage but what you could end up with is just a bunch of binary delta patches which would be useless. I like his idea of performing an administrative install and then patching it. A program could be written that: 1) Performs Admin Install to

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Modules for Ink Edit

Rob, Thanks for the help. I do not know if I am doing this correctly. I have searched for an update to Tablet PC 2005 Edition SDK 1.7 to correct the merge problem. I have not found any updates. We would like to be able to install on laptops that are just running Windows XP and the Tablet Editi

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from an MSP

I'm sure the DTF could be used to write a managed tool to perform this task; but I'll let folks more knowledgeable with the DTF answer that. Here's a better link for you, for a tool that'll extract files from a patch: http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/04/07/571138.aspx I've used

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from an MSP

Is it possible using DTF? Regards Simon Powell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Nannenga Sent: 25 July 2008 15:03 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from an MSP http://

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from an MSP

http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/02/14/532200.aspx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Powell, Simon Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:29 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Extract files from

Re: [WiX-users] Manual un-install

thanks Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Petersen Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:05 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Manual un-install Here's a link http://support.microsoft

[WiX-users] Icons on Shortcuts

Hi, I've got a problem that I'm trying to fix for some time now. With the installion i am creating a shortcut to open an webpage and one to uninstall the software. The shortcuts themselfs are working fine, but i have a little problem with the icons. My .ico files contain the following formats:

Re: [WiX-users] Framework with Wix

I'm not sure what you mean by 'framework' but there are some higher-level tools for composing Wix packages. Votive is Visual Studio integration for Wix. There are also third party tools like SharpDevelop and WixAware. > I am new to Wix. Is there any existing framework available with Wix.? ---

[WiX-users] Framework with Wix

Hi, I am new to Wix. Is there any existing framework available with Wix.? We would like to use Wix for our Project - Application Packaging.. In our Project we have identified 20 Packages which needs to released to the different environment viz., staging, Factory test, integration and production e

[WiX-users] WIX and VS2008 Merge Modules

Hi, I have a very puzzling situation, and am hoping someone can shed some light on it. I have a Visual Studio 2008 Merge Module (containing Content Files and Project Output, and a couple of directories). If I reference this merge module from a normal VS 2008 Setup Project all files are install

[WiX-users] Extract files from an MSP

Hi, Is there a simple way to extract files from an MSP file? Regards Simon Powell -- This e-mail is confidential and the information contained in it may be privileged. It should not be read, copied or used by anyone other than the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, pl

Re: [WiX-users] Binder variables from Votive

Nothing off the top of my head... I'd have to debug this to get to the root of it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Karper Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 14:12 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: R

[WiX-users] Auto-launching app & MsiRunningElevated

I'm trying to modify my WiX installer to have the following semantics: 1) If the user is not installing from an elevated prompt, then automatically launch my installed app at the end of install 2) If the user is running from an elevated prompt, then show the ExitDialog and skip the ap