Re: [WiX-users] move from wix2.0 to 3.0

Hey Karen, Are you referring to tallow? Mallow is not part of the toolset, it is a third-party. Heat.exe is slated to do the fuctions of tallow with a bit more functionality. Hope that helps, -- Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Thu, Aug 14,

Re: [WiX-users] Minor Upgrade not detecting existing version

Sonar, Have you looked at the sample on Alex's blog for doing major upgrades? The details are at http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/archive/2008/02/15/from-msi-to-wix-part-8-major-upgrade.aspx. It's a little lengthy but it should give you the details you need to make this work properly. Neil

[WiX-users] Minor Upgrade not detecting existing version

Hi, I am trying to build a simple UI installer for our application. I want to make sure that the application is upgradable in future. In order to do so, I am playing around with Upgrade element in WIX source file. Upgrade seems to work fine but I am not able to detect the old version and newer

[WiX-users] move from wix2.0 to 3.0

I would like to convert my current installer from wix2 to wix 3 - installer is currently synchronized with mallow and then installer is built with light and candle using the ant dotnet task - what are some of the issues with moving to 3 from 2? will heat replace mallow effectively? Karen -- Vi

Re: [WiX-users] Attach a database

I'm a little confused on the desired outcome. You're detaching the database on uninstall, instead of dropping it (which would delete the files)... You're also trying to drop the database elsewhere while the connection context is mapped to the database you're trying to drop, which won't work (you

[WiX-users] newbie trouble with implementing custom action

i am trying to add the quiet execution custom action to an installer and having difficulty - i added the configuration to the wxs for the custom action and the installer fails to complete - the logging is crytpic Property(C): DBDRIVER = oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver === Logging stopped: 8/14/2

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with [#fileid] reference.

Yes, I did receive the ICE69 warning - and with these responses the cause is now explained. I have too resolved it by using the "[DIR]filename" method and will remember in the future to take ekstra care about using the "[#fileid]" reference method. Thanks again, /Michael ---

Re: [WiX-users] IIS6 Website Identifier

I found the problem and have it working. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Bakken > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:52 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] IIS6 Website Identifier > > I tried

Re: [WiX-users] Patching fails with 1627

Hi, I'm running into what seems to be a common error on the mailing list, but none of the solutions so far have worked for me. I have 3 basic test patches: RTM: installs file1 Patch1: targets rtm, updates launch condition of RTM Patch2: targets Patch1, updates file1 and installs directory2\file2

[WiX-users] newbie: SourceFile in Icon using votive/wix 3 can't be resolved?

Just starting out. wxs includes: under Product. When compiling, I get: The system cannot find the file "MyApplication.exe" which is the reference above (var.MyApplication.TargetFileName) The same reference is used in a File tag with no apparent error: If I

Re: [WiX-users] Attach a database

Hi Tim, thanks for a code example, I allowed to use this example in my scenario and it works perfect, but it doesn't delete database files and directory when uninstall. I want to delete database files after uninstall. This is code: ...

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature

InstallScript is a proprietary language you can still use in InstallShield setups today and has always been available to use in MSI based setups. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Eldridge Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2

Re: [WiX-users] Error LGHT0293

Alejandro Rodriguez wrote: > I'm trying to build a *.wxs file when I come across the error messages > below. Does anyone know what exactly this means and where I can begin > debugging the issue? Thanks! > Double-check that your generated IDs don't use the same file IDs for files with the sam

Re: [WiX-users] User permissions not removed on uninstall

MarkZune wrote: > I'm using the PermissionEx element. The [MY_PATH] folder already exists > before the install occurs. PermissionEx doesn't remove the permissions it adds. It's generally assumed you're adding permissions to objects you're creating in the install. Feel free to file a feature req

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with SqlDatabase while upgrading

dschmitz wrote: > Error 6 Cannot set column 'Attributes' with value 128 because it is > greater > than the maximum allowed value for this column, 127. candle.exe 0 > 1 Please file a bug at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105970&atid=642714. It's a simple table

Re: [WiX-users] Authoring installation of VB6 COM components

Evans, Jim wrote: > 1. What is the best way to harvest the registry entries for each COM > component? I could use heat, but these are VB6 components, so I get a > bunch of extra stuff in the generated file. I could use tallow from WiX > v2, but I'm not sure that would be any better. I suppose I cou

Re: [WiX-users] Difference between XmlConfig and XmlFile elements?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not totally clear about what is the difference between XmlConfig > and XmlFile. Can somebody explain? Why do we have two different elements > that seemingly can do the same (or can they)? > > Accordingly to Bob Arnson [see > http://n2.nabble.com/Wix---Prevent-XMLFile

Re: [WiX-users] Response to error in CustomAction

Костиков Александр wrote: > My CustomAction is executed after InstallFinalize. > Desired behavior - installer rolls back. > After InstallFinalize, the setup transaction is committed, so rollback isn't possible. You need deferred and rollback CA pairs before InstallFinalize to get the rollback

Re: [WiX-users] Installing Visual Studio Add-ins and ICE64 Validation Errors

William Bartholomew wrote: > The problem is that I get an ICE64 validation error (The directory > VS2008LOCATION/VS2008ADDINSLOCATION is in the user profile but is not > listed in the RemoveFile table). After doing some searching the common > solution to this problem is to add a RemoveFolder elemen

Re: [WiX-users] Same files but don't know parent directory until install time

Gus Perez wrote: > warning LGHT1076: ICE30: The target file 'XXX' might be installed in > '[TARGETDIR]\Xml\Schemas' by two different conditionalized components on an > LFN system: 'Comp_F1_XXX' and 'Comp_F2_XXX'. If the conditions are not > mutually exclusive, this will break the component refer

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Pre-requisite Dialog

pavan gadam wrote: >> The control is shown even if the property "IISCHECK" contains nothing. (If >> Controls are shown by default, so if you want the visibility based on a condition, use both show and hide conditions. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] IIS6 Website Identifier

> I tried adding an action which runs before ConfigureIIS to do this, but > ConfigureIIS is failing. Suggestions? Without a verbose installation log diagnosing this problem via the mailing list is near impossible. That being said, if you're creating a site via VBScript be sure to use a "locator"

[WiX-users] IIS6 Website Identifier

IIS 6 creates the integer web site identifier by using a hash of the site name. There is already an RFC asking for a way to tell Wix to use this mechanisms ([ 1437805 ] Configure Site Identifier assignment in IIS 6.0

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with SqlDatabase while upgrading

Hi urugan, thanks for your answer. When I uninstall the program via "Add/Remove programs" the database is removed, so then everything is perfect, so I don't think it is an SQL problem. And to be honest I also don't know where I can check if the SQL works for reinstall. But if I want to upgrade th

Re: [WiX-users] Response to error in CustomAction

My CustomAction is executed after InstallFinalize. Desired behavior - installer rolls back. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Костиков Александр Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:38 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with [#fileid] reference.

Michael, Were you getting ICE validation warning when you were using the # reference? The way you had your components set up I would expect to see the validation warning specifically designed to prevent us from having to think :) It was raised in my installer when I used # incorrectly, so I fix

[WiX-users] Response to error in CustomAction

How to cancel installation based on custom action return value? I thought returning ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE from my custom action would be enough but installer ignores it and continues to install. - This SF.Net email is spon

Re: [WiX-users] Minor upgrade problem

I just realised that in fact, I want to do major upgrade. I suppose that means uninstalling in the background (but with few files left untouched), stopping/reinstalling some services and running sql scripts. So, all previous changes and approach stays, just need to add different product Id ? --

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature

Hi Jeff, Youcan run the msi with log option /l*v logfile.txt and check why the feature is not installed. Regards, Eitan On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Jeff Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > The original install is InstallScript based (and was called out as such in > the original em

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with SqlDatabase while upgrading

I would look at your current database. I think it's more sql problem. Do you have column Attributes? Maybe something prevents dropping db in the firstplace? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Problem-with-SqlDatabase-while-upgrading-tp719783p723890.html Sent from the wix-use

[WiX-users] Minor upgrade problem

I would like someone to confirm if my way of thinking is right. I want to modify installer that will upgrade existing installation. By upgrading here I mean minor upgrade, because all I want is to copy a set of dll files and run custom sql scripts. I also want to change product version, but nod co

Re: [WiX-users] Call a .NET dll file in wix using custom

Can you just provide me some example of how to use msicoree.dll in my present wix file?? Regards Poornima.S Aztecsoft Limited -- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:27:00 -0700 From: "Wilson, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Call a .NET dll file i

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with [#fileid] reference.

Thanks for the clarifications.  As cemiles suggest I've changed the code to exactly that of using "[DIR]filename" It just show that you cannot headlessly be sure that "[#fileid]" references always work across your components and wix source files. Now you'll have to think (we hate that, right?)

Re: [WiX-users] SP1 for VS2008 / .Net 305 released

That's very helpful, thanks for writing it up. Hopefully I'll be able to sign the setup.exe as well as my MSI. Regards Ryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Juricic Sent: 13 August 2008 23:16 To: General discussion for Windows Install