[WiX-users] Merge existing MSIs into a single MSI as features

2008-09-02 Thread Troy Howard
All, First -- I'm new to the list, so, nice to meet you. My question, in a nutshell, is what is the best way to go about dealing with this situation I have? The situation its, that I've got a bunch of tools which are related to each other as part of a software platform. They are all various

Re: [WiX-users] Merge existing MSIs into a single MSI as features

2008-09-02 Thread si
Hi Troy, Each tool will be independently updated, and versioned, sometimes needing to be installed individually, sometimes as part of a package. When installed as a package, they may need to be updated individually, as part of that package... ... I'm not completely clear on merge modules and

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with conditional install

2008-09-02 Thread Pally Sandher
In essence yes but I know my code works as I use it in a product we released last week if he's using WiXUI_Mondo (or a custom UI that sets the InstallLevel = 100), your code would cause that feature to always be installed regardless of the condition if a user selects Complete in the SetupTypeDlg

[WiX-users] Making a feature non-selectable in the feature tree

2008-09-02 Thread Sean Farrow
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Re: [WiX-users] Making a feature non-selectable in the feature tree

2008-09-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
an installation with a feature ree. One feature is required by all other features, therefore I don't want the users to be able to unselect this feature. How do I go about this? Cheers Sean. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3407 (20080902

Re: [WiX-users] Merge existing MSIs into a single MSI as features

2008-09-02 Thread Christopher Karper
If you are going to use a hybrid approach, then merge modules will get you what you want. If you can implement Wi across the board, then you should use .wixlibs. They're much better for your mental health, and more capable to boot. Give us more information, and there are plenty of people here

Re: [WiX-users] ScheduleReboot Message

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Simoneau
I think it's the Error Dialog. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernd Adler Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 9:38 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] ScheduleReboot Message Hi, Which Dialog is

Re: [WiX-users] preventing SxS installation

2008-09-02 Thread Jim Williams
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372379(VS.85).aspx which talks about the Upgrade table to get a start on what you need to do. Then use the WiX equivalent XML tags to define what you need. I'm hoping you defined an UpgradeCode GUID in your first version though. Jim Williams

[WiX-users] Multiple launch conditions

2008-09-02 Thread Sean Farrow
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Re: [WiX-users] DTF DoAction throw exception

2008-09-02 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
Any idea? Is it bug or I have some problem in my CA? Thanks, Dima On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Dmitry Berkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I developed my custom action, where I passing to CA some properties. Part of properties is from byte[] type. Exception is thrown when DoAction

Re: [WiX-users] How do I execute deferred CAs (forunit testingcustom actions)?

2008-09-02 Thread Richard
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dB. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're entering a philosophical debate of where custom actions start and end. As far as the code goes, custom actions start at their entry point and end when they return to the Windows Installer engine. Unit testing them this

Re: [WiX-users] DTF DoAction throw exception

2008-09-02 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
Hi Jason, Thanks for response, It exactly that I did, i transferring data by using temp file. Please update me when you will finish your investigation, I just want to know if temp file is temporary or permanent solution. Dima On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Jason Ginchereau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] small updates or minor upgrades msi's andassociated msp's

2008-09-02 Thread Tony Juricic
There is also PatchIgnore attribute that can be set on individual file element. It's a pity that we can't do it for Registry keys and values too. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge

[WiX-users] VC redist msm not installing completely

2008-09-02 Thread Jeb Remus
Hello, I hope I'm mailing the correct list about this. In trying to develop an installer for our product in WIX, I've hit a wall concerning VC 8.0 redist prerequisites. I followed the steps available at

[WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-09-02 Thread Evans, Jim
I know this isn't the exact forum for this, but I'm really confused and don't know where else to turn. I'm in the process of moving our installer to an msi-based install using WiX. Our application is fairly complex, including .NET assemblies, a client-side application, Windows services that run on

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-09-02 Thread Tony Juricic
I had the same problem and switched to self-registering servers, i.e. setting SelfRegCost attribute on corresponding file elements. I know this approach is not officially recommended but it is hard to see what some third-party COM servers do with the Registry. -Original Message- From:

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-09-02 Thread Richard
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Evans, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this isn't the exact forum for this, but I'm really confused and don't know where else to turn. I'm in the process of moving our installer to an msi-based install using WiX. Our application is fairly complex,

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-09-02 Thread Richard
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Juricic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this approach is not officially recommended but it is hard to see what some third-party COM servers do with the Registry. RegMon will reveal all. You can get it from the sysinternals portion of Microsoft's web

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple launch conditions

2008-09-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Sean Farrow wrote: I am currently writing an installation that requires to check forr multiple versions of a product. I only want to display a message and exit the installation if none of the versions are installed. Use a condition with multiple properties. Aditionally,can launch

Re: [WiX-users] VC redist msm not installing completely

2008-09-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Jeb Remus wrote: however the VC redist is NOT listed in add/remove programs, and the registry keys in ...\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\ are not set. When In addition to Phil's and Neil's comments, I'd add that the registry key you're looking at is undocumented,