[WiX-users] : Problem when creating Private queues using MSMQ Extensions.

2008-07-28 Thread Chandra Vuppala
Hi All, Can any give the solution for MSMQ Creation, i have attached the log fiel and Code is as follows Please give me solution for this. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; xmlns:msmq=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/MsmqExtension;

[WiX-users] : Problem when installing Windows service using Wix.

2008-07-28 Thread Chandra Vuppala
Hi All, Can any give the solution for Windows service installation using Wix, i have attached the log fiel and Code is as follows ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; xmlns:util=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension; Product

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

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Adams
I've found a resolution to this problem now, although it's a bit of a hack. NOTE: I'm now on WIX 3.0.4325.0 When the WIX project only contains registry keys and references to merge modules it doesn't seem to put any files down. The moment that I added a Component and a (blank text) file down

[WiX-users] Custom Action formatted Progress text question

2008-07-28 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
Hi, I have writen my own custom action.In addition I have declared this section uder fragment: UI ProgressText Action=MyCAGenerating file.../ProgressText /UI where its works fine. My question is : (1) if exist any way to add formated text to progress text. Ex: ProgressText

[WiX-users] GUID generation in WiX

2008-07-28 Thread Stas Klyachkovsky
Hi there, I need to generate a GUID during the setup and put it in the registry key. Is there a simple way to generate random GUID in Windows Installer during installation? Is there WiX tag to do this? Thanks, Stas - This

Re: [WiX-users] GUID generation in WiX

2008-07-28 Thread Pat Higgins
You could try something like ?define MyGuid = {----}? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stas Klyachkovsky Sent: 28 July 2008 12:32 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] GUID generation in

[WiX-users] Should SuppressModularization affect the Target column for custom actions 35 and 51?

2008-07-28 Thread Andrej Jantzen
Hi, I have to create/set some application data folders (for all users) und tried to use custom actions 35 or 51 according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367852(VS.85).aspx. WiX fragment: CustomAction Id=AssignDATADIR Directory=MYDATADIR Value=[CommonAppDataFolder]MyCompany\Data

[WiX-users] CloseApplication

2008-07-28 Thread John Lister
Hi, i'm trying to understand the CloseApplication functionality of wix. I'm trying to detect if an app (Internet Explorer) is running and ask the user if they want to restart it (as my installer is for a plugin for IE). I can use CloseApplication to set a property and use this to alter the

Re: [WiX-users] GUID generation in WiX

2008-07-28 Thread Neil Enns
That GUID would be generated at MSI build time, not at MSI install time, so it won't be unique for each user. Neil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:51 AM To: General discussion

[WiX-users] Temp files after repair

2008-07-28 Thread Anidil
If i repair the MSI keeping one of the installed files opened, i see there are temp files getting created inside the installdir.Why is this happening? WI have tried changing the REINSTALLMODE=vmus so that all files will be forecully reinstalled.But no luck though..Can anyone give me an insight on

Re: [WiX-users] GUID generation in WiX

2008-07-28 Thread Erik Garcia
Pardon my french, but why the frak would you want to do something nondeterministic in a setup/installation package? (You'd probably have to write your own CA for this.) On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Neil Enns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That GUID would be generated at MSI build time, not at MSI

Re: [WiX-users] GUID generation in WiX

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Also, only very limited number of attributes take the ? GUID. It isn't a general purpose thing because this is a very strange requirement to have. It'll be an interesting thing to try to repair, upgrade and patch as well... why do you need it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency Management

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Karper
OK, so I fixed the problem with the heat project harvester. How do I submit these changes to you Wix fellows for review and possible inclusion? Chris On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Christopher Karper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm looking at it right now. The problem is that my

[WiX-users] Error Creating Patch

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Latendresse
I was successful in creating the two different .msi's. Built the transform with torch. Compiled the Patch.wxs. But when I run pyro I get this error. ..\Patches\Patch.wixmsp : error PYRO0104 : Not a valid output file; detail: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 1, position 1.

[WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-28 Thread Gregory Swanson
Our upgrade test for WIX version 2.0.5805.0 failed with a missing reference: error LGHT0112 : Unresolved reference to symbol 'CustomAction:ConfigureSql' in section 'Product:87987744-2DCA-4262-B0A2-57B2EEA3FBE9'. We copied our build files from version 2.0.2912.0 and simply tried to compile with

[WiX-users] Failure using Wix installer certificates with WCF

2008-07-28 Thread Morris, John - Raleigh
I have a wix project that uses the IIS extension to install a simple x509 certificate. Here is my wix snippet: Binary Id=BIN_MyCertificate.pfx SourceFile=$(var.Binaries)\MyCertificate.pfx / DirectoryRef Id=INSTALLLOCATION ?define ComponentGuid =

Re: [WiX-users] Two questions about new WiX patching

2008-07-28 Thread Tony Juricic
Thanks Blair, that is exactly what I was looking for1 My problem is precisely in impossibility to recreate the same file locations between the builds. For a while I thought about building MSI, then doing administrative install and then fixing the paths in non-binary wixpdb to correspond to

[WiX-users] Creating entires in Wow6432Node

2008-07-28 Thread Nilkund Aseef
Hello, I have a requirement that my 64 bit msi should create registry entries on the Wow6432Node. In my wix file, I have the following logic ?ifdef BUILDi386? RegistryValue Id=Reg01 Root=HKLM Key=SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\UCMA SDK V2.0 Assemblies Type=string

Re: [WiX-users] Creating entires in Wow6432Node

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Karper
Use the Win64=no attribute on the containing Component. Chris On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Nilkund Aseef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a requirement that my 64 bit msi should create registry entries on the Wow6432Node. In my wix file, I have the following logic ?ifdef

Re: [WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-28 Thread Dana Gutride
What is the command line you are building with? Sounds like you need sca.wixlib passed as an arg to light.exe (or maybe it's wixca.wixlib). Dana On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gregory Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Our upgrade test for WIX version 2.0.5805.0 failed with a missing

Re: [WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-28 Thread Gregory Swanson
The command line is: light wixca.wixlib sca.wixlib ENS.wixobj CustomActions.wixobj ServSrc.wixobj WebSrc.wixobj SiteDataSrc.wixobj -out ENS.msi g Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:14:42 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Missing reference

[WiX-users] Patching SQL Database with script

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Latendresse
My initial installer creates the SQL database perfectly, but I want to be able to include new SQL scripts to be run with my patches. Could someone give me some insight on how to do this? Eric - This SF.Net email

Re: [WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-28 Thread Gregory Swanson
Dana - I'm re-posting this reply because the previous one was re-formatted in a way that changed its meaning. The command line is: light wixca.wixlib sca.wixlib ENS.wixobj CustomActions.wixobj ServSrc.wixobj WebSrc.wixobj SiteDataSrc.wixobj -out ENS.msi Thanks - g Date: Mon, 28

Re: [WiX-users] GUID generation in WiX

2008-07-28 Thread Richard
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pardon my french, but why the frak would you want to do something nondeterministic in a setup/installation package? Perhaps you want to uniquely identify each install for bug reporting purposes. -- The Direct3D Graphics

[WiX-users] Building msi across OS's

2008-07-28 Thread Greg Silin
Hi, Question from a wix newbie. I ran into the following issue: I am building an msi in Vista (let's just say client) that could be installed either on Vista (client) or Win 2003 Server OS. One of the issues was that the framework resides under C:\WINNT in the server OS, and under C:\Windows

[WiX-users] Preview of binary WIXPDB file

2008-07-28 Thread Tony Juricic
Non-binary ones are just XML so I use XML Notepad to look at them. For MSI's I use Orca. Is it that a tool for previewing binary WiXpdbs has yet to be written ? Thanks, Tony - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin

Re: [WiX-users] Building msi across OS's

2008-07-28 Thread Neil Enns
Greg, Check out the netfxutil extension. It includes many properties, including the directories for various versions of the framework. The help file has a how to on using it to get the framework version, and that is similar to using it for the directory. All the available properties are in the

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

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Ahh, okay then I know what the problem is. The Merge Module is *supposed* to include all the base actions necessary to install itself. In your case, the Merge Module must not have the InstallFiles/RemoveFiles actions. If you just add those to actions (no Sequence necessary) to your

Re: [WiX-users] GUID generation in WiX

2008-07-28 Thread Erik Garcia
Ohh, I completely understand the many possible uses, but that sounds more like an app configuration problem than something that WiX is geared towards. I'm just a proponent of picking the right tool for the job, and in this case WiX isn't the best tool for the job, a CA is... IMHO. On Mon, Jul

[WiX-users] How to include localized components?

2008-07-28 Thread Michael Ballou
I currently have two installs for my product. One in English and one in Japanese. Most files are the same for both languages, but some files are different. I was planning to use Wix include files (wxi) for the languages (one for English, and one for Japanese). I could then include the

[WiX-users] EmbeddedUIResource

2008-07-28 Thread John Nannenga
We're building a .NET based embedded UI for Windows Installer 4.5. While the SDK for windows installer implies more than one resource DLL can be included in the MsiEmbeddedUI table (though only one primary DLL), the wix schema doesn't allow more than one EmbeddedUIResource element under the

[WiX-users] Conditional Property Value

2008-07-28 Thread Sajid1105
I want to set a property value depending on a condition.. Property Id=A Value=1/ Property Id=B Value=Some value/ if A == 1 then B = A is one else B = A is not one How do I do this? -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] How to include localized components?

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
.wxl files are an easier way to do this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Ballou Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 18:51 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to include localized components? I currently have two

Re: [WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
IRCC, the ConfigureSql action was renamed somewhere in there. Did you rebuild everything? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Swanson Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:29 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Missing

Re: [WiX-users] Patching SQL Database with script

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
The SqlScript element (or SqlString if you just want to run a couple strings). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Latendresse Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 14:59 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Property Value

2008-07-28 Thread ramya ragupathy
Publish Property='B' Value='A is one'![CDATA[A = 1]]/Publish Publish Property='B' Value='A is not one'![CDATA[A 1]]/Publish Sajid1105 wrote: I want to set a property value depending on a condition.. Property Id=A Value=1/ Property Id=B Value=Some value/ if A == 1 then B = A is

Re: [WiX-users] How to include localized components?

2008-07-28 Thread Neil Enns
To elaborate a bit on what Rob states below (thanks for setting me straight, Rob!), you can use !(loc) variables as the value for the Source attribute on a File element. So in your Japanese localization file you can set a String property to the path to the Japanese version of the files on disk,

Re: [WiX-users] Framework with Wix

2008-07-28 Thread Krishnan Senthilraj
Hi Jeff, Thanks for the response. I agree with the tool what you said. I am try to communicate clearly. - We want to create 20 packages for our project which includes biztalk, work flow, application database etc., - To create these packages we have some dependency between packages.

Re: [WiX-users] Building msi across OS's

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
You don't need a CustomAction. The Windows Installer has built in variables for a great many paths in Windows. WindowsFolder in this case. MSI SDK lists them all. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Silin Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008

Re: [WiX-users] How to include localized components?

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
After reading a little closer, if the Components are completely independent then you can put the resources in separate .wxs files and use the linker command-line + .wxl files to determine the final product (i.e. only provide English files + English .wxs files to build the English product and

Re: [WiX-users] Framework with Wix

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Is there a reason you can't put all of this in a single Windows Installer package? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krishnan Senthilraj Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 20:45 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] Failure using Wix installer certificates with WCF

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
That's a new one on me. Certificates have proven to be no end of fun. I should have known this since they are part of the CryptoAPI and that API is one of the most cryptic around. Sorry, couldn't resist the pun. grin/ Anyway, something subtle is clearly different but I don't have any iea

Re: [WiX-users] Error Creating Patch

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
What version of WiX? What was the command-line? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Latendresse Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:21 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Error Creating Patch I was

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency Management

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Sign an assignment agreement (send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) then send the patch to wix-devs (or just me). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Karper Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:19 To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Temp files after repair

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Log file might list the files as files to be removed on next reboot. Take a look at the verbose log file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 07:10 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Should SuppressModularization affect the Target column for custom actions 35 and 51?

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
That's the spec'd behavior for Merge Modules (see the MSI SDK). Instead of using Merge Modules could you use a .wixlib instead? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrej Jantzen Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 06:58 To:

Re: [WiX-users] : Problem when installing Windows service using Wix.

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
What's the problem? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chandra Vuppala Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 23:27 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] : Problem when installing Windows service using Wix. Hi

Re: [WiX-users] : Problem when installing Windows service using Wix.

2008-07-28 Thread Chandra Vuppala
It is for privillages though i have given required privillages. errror : Verify that you have sufficient privileges to install system services. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rob Mensching Sent: Tue 29/07/2008 9:22 AM To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] : Problem when installing Windows service using Wix.

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
That (unfortunately) is the standard error message you'll get when the service has any problem installing or starting. First thing I usually do, is not try to start the service in the install. If that succeeds, then it is almost certainly a dependency problem... your service needs something

Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedUIResource

2008-07-28 Thread Bob Arnson
John Nannenga wrote: We're building a .NET based embedded UI for Windows Installer 4.5. While the SDK for windows installer implies more than one resource DLL can be included in the MsiEmbeddedUI table (though only one primary DLL), the wix schema doesn't allow more than one

Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedUIResource

2008-07-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Bug in the XSD. Compiler would support it if you suppress schema validation. Mind opening a bug on it? It'll be easy to fix. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Nannenga Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 19:50 To:

Re: [WiX-users] CloseApplication

2008-07-28 Thread Bob Arnson
John Lister wrote: I can use CloseApplication to set a property and use this to alter the UI sequence asking the user if they want IE to be restarted. But i'm unsure how to actually use it to close IE. I'm guessing it is through the use of a custom action, but i'm not sure where to go from

Re: [WiX-users] Preview of binary WIXPDB file

2008-07-28 Thread Bob Arnson
Tony Juricic wrote: Non-binary ones are just XML so I use XML Notepad to look at them. For MSI's I use Orca. Is it that a tool for previewing binary WiXpdbs has yet to be written ? Right. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] : Problem when installing Windows service using Wix.

2008-07-28 Thread Chandra Vuppala
Hi Rob, Now i have commented the service start code , but it is giving same error. Code: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; xmlns:util=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension; Product Id=0a41e965-5d82-4f3d-81b2-c796203dcafb