[WiX-users] WixUI Banner image sizes

First, thanks all for helping put me on the right track with merge modules in my last message. I figured that out and it's exactly what I needed. My current question revolves around the stock ui in WixUIExtensions.dll and the image sizes. Our company currently has a number of installers that

[WiX-users] Certificate error

I updated to the most recent WiX build. Now I get errors even during instalation InstallCertificates: Error 0x80070057: Failed to open PFX file. InstallCertificates: Error 0x80070057: Failed to get SHA1 hash of certificate. InstallCertificates: Error 0x80070057: Failed to resolve certificate:

[WiX-users] Uninstall certificate error

My installer fails during uninstallation. Here's the part of log. MSI (s) (48:98) [12:40:20:375]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=DeleteMachineCertificate,,) MSI (s) (48:98) [12:40:20:375]: Executing op:

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI Banner image sizes

You could create your own Custom UI set with your different sized bitmaps using WiXUI rather than recompile the DLL. Then you could specify it in your Product as you would the stock UI sets e.g. UIRef Id=WiXUI_MyCustomUI / Download the WiX Source, extract it browse to

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate error

The error code 3 is a Win32 error for file not found. You can find win32 error codes online or in MSDN or at a dos prompt by typing 'net helpmsg 3' and it will give you the error text a lot of the time. I suggest using filemon (from MS) to see what file is being looked for and where. Ryan

[WiX-users] util:InternetShortcut

Does anyone know why util:InternetShorcut creates a .lnk rather than a .url? My current code for creating a web link on the start menu is as follows: DirectoryRef Id=ShortcutsFolder Component Id=shortcuts Guid=myguid ... util:InternetShortcut Id=WebsiteShortcut Name=IES

Re: [WiX-users] Removing User Generated Files

I had to do a similar thing recently due to a plug-in we'd outsourced for development. It is possible to do in MSI but as Bob says it will only work for the user running the uninstall which for your average non-commercial user is fine but it's liable not to work for everyone else as the user

[WiX-users] Is there a way to dump all MSI properties?

Hi, This is slightly unrelated to wix. I'm writing a deferred custom action that can evaluate a template file. I want to expose all MSI properties as potential variables, so that the user can deploy a file with x=[MSIPUBLICPROPERTY] in it and get the value of MSIPUBLICPROPERTY written to

Re: [WiX-users] Is there a way to dump all MSI properties?

Duh. Is it just as simple as the contents of the Property table + Directory table for directories? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dB. Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:46 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Create new IIS WebSite

Hi, I am having the same problem, I'm installing on XP Pro - is this the cause of my problem - the default website being removed on installation? - this should not occur if I was instainng on server 2003? regards Derek shayla wrote: I am trying to create a new web site in IIS. Here

[WiX-users] does running upgrade msi or patch msi still require additional command line switches?

Q1 - does running upgrade msi or patch msi still require additional command line switches? In the WiX tutorial Lesson 4 Upgrades and modularization details it talks about needing the use the following command line switches to run an upgrade msi msiexec /i SampleUpgrade2.msi REINSTALL=ALL

[WiX-users] wxs front end?

Hello, Does anyone know if there is a WXS front end available for use? I am wondering if we can save the effort working directly in the xml file, i.e., if there is one program with a friendly UI for user to type in the Files information, such as folder name and components, and then it creates

[WiX-users] is there a way to get current wix vs08 project extensions to output a patch msp?

is there a recommended approach to getting current wix vs08 project extensions to output a patch msp? I've created a wix vs08 project and changed the Product.wxs to contain PatchCreation.../PatchCreation content versus Package.../Package content. In the current wix project settings there

[WiX-users] is it a known issue that the project macros $(OutDir), $(TargetDir) and $(TargetPath) still refer to bin\Debug versus bin\Debug\lang-locale where output now lands?

is it a known issue that the project macros $(OutDir), $(TargetDir) and $(TargetPath) still refer to bin\Debug versus bin\Debug\lang-locale where output now lands? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

[WiX-users] Creating Database..

Hi, Our installer has a requirement to create a db on a local/remote system. I am using the SqlDatabase element to do this. It works great on a local machine but not so on a remote machine. While I am able to create the DB on the remote machine on uninstall the DB is not removed. Why is

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Database..

I doubt this is the reason, but first thought maybe on the sqlscript you should rollbackonuninstall... On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Vidya Kukke [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, Our installer has a requirement to create a db on a local/remote system. I am using the SqlDatabase element to do

[WiX-users] String Replace Custom action

In Wix 2.0 Is there a custom action for replacing a value in a 'Text' file with a value provided in the installer (like XmlConfig but changing a value in a 'text' file). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Mark O

[WiX-users] Property problem

Everyone, I'm using WiX 3.0.4401 to build my installs. I've run into an interesting problem with a global property. The property is defined as Property Id=X2GLOBALPROPERTY Secure=yes/. It gets its initial list from a CA that calls a function in a custom DLL. I modified the Mondo UI

[WiX-users] Property problem - additional info

It appears that in the InstallExecuteSequence, all of the various global properties that had their values modified in the InstallUISequence have reverted back to having whatever default value they had initially when they were declared. Based on values that the user enters in various dialogs,

Re: [WiX-users] wxs front end?

List might need a bit updating: http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/11/20/WiX-editors.aspx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Ding Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 08:52 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] - light.exe problem

Are you passing the same file on the command-line twice? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Holland Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 06:24 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] - light.exe

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate error

Except you want to look at the hex number by the Error. In this case: 0x80070057 = E_INVALIDARG. Can you be sure you recompiled all of your files. It is possible you have an old table definition that is getting in and being confused. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall certificate error

There was a bug fixed tonight where the deleting was incorrectly freeing the same cert context twice. It should be fixed in the next build. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krzysztof Kozmic Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 04:18 To:

Re: [WiX-users] Create new IIS WebSite

I believe that WinXP only allows one WebSite at a time. So, if you overwrite port 80, then it probably works. If you delete port 80 and install on a different port it probably works. Windows Server has no such restrictions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[WiX-users] action at uninstallation before files removed

I want to invoke a custom action to backup files when uninstall the software before the files are removed. is it possible for Wix to do it? I know Wix can invoke a action after the files are removed. how about this one? Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context:

[WiX-users] Question about linking custom action dll

I am trying to include a custom action and running into a problem. I am using WiX v3 and visual Studio 2005 (VC 8). When I try to compile and link a no-op test dll, auto generated using Votive: Linking... 1 Creating library bin\Debug\CA_PTK.lib and object