[WiX-users] How to fire event without waiting for focus change

2008-09-05 Thread Krzysztof Kozmic
I now have in my UI a custom step that requires user to enter some data until he can proceed to the next step. However, the Next button won't get enabled, until user changes focus from the last entry box. I'd rather, if it went enabled as soon as user enters first character, without waiting for

Re: [WiX-users] Install satellite assemblies in GAC

2008-09-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Maybe just give the two File elements different Name attribute values. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sergey Abakumoff Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 22:53 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Install satellite

Re: [WiX-users] Install satellite assemblies in GAC

2008-09-05 Thread Sergey Abakumoff
Thanks, it works like a charm! On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Maybe just give the two File elements different Name attribute values. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sergey Abakumoff Sent:

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

2008-09-05 Thread dB.
It actually doesn't work. You only get the properties that were built into the MSI at build time. Any ideas? Thx dB. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:58 PM To: General discussion for

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

2008-09-05 Thread Christopher Karper
The way I handled this for my DBScript piece was to load the file into a temporary table in an immediate action, then use the table entries in the deferred CA. By loading the file immediately, you have access to all the properties, and can store it post-process. Then your deferred action can use

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

2008-09-05 Thread dB.
That's not what I am trying to accomplish. I need a list of all properties available during an immediate CA. I don't know the property names ahead of time. Thx. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Karper Sent: Friday, September 05,

Re: [WiX-users] Property problem - additional info

2008-09-05 Thread Brian Simoneau
Run your custom actions to set the properties in the InstallExecuteSequence as well. Your installer may not run with the UI anyways. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Rerick Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:29 PM

[WiX-users] Tutorial: How to install files into WinSxS

2008-09-05 Thread ACKH
Hi all, After struggling for a couple of days I have decided to write a tutorial on how to install files into the WinSxS folder. There are some pitfalls and I hope I can spare frustration by providing this tutorial. Well, here it is: Basically the WinSxS folder is for native assemblies what the

Re: [WiX-users] Property problem - additional info

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Mike Rerick wrote: 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. Properties have to be public (Id

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling related products

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Jeff Yates wrote: So the best way is to have my additional installers write to the registry and then have a custom action to do a runonce key registry entry written during the uninstallation of the main product? That runonce would be my own tool that reads the other installer registry keys and

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI Banner image sizes

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Troy Howard wrote: Also, since I imagine this will annoy a lot of people, is there any reason why it's different in the first place? When I created WixUI, I started with the MSI SDK samples, not with the .vdproj UI. Is there any interest in updating the official codebase to use the

Re: [WiX-users] action at uninstallation before files removed

2008-09-05 Thread Tony Juricic
You just invoke custom action before files are removed. I don't backup files but do some COM unregister before files are removed and there are no problems doing that. -Original Message- From: xiaoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 1:46 AM To:

[WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd

2008-09-05 Thread Yu, Brian
I read section 8 of http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson8.php but there's no mention on how to write a dialog box that prompts for user name and password and use them to register COM+. Can anyone help? - This SF.Net

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

2008-09-05 Thread Christopher Karper
No, you're trying to do token replacement in files based on properties, right? That's exactly what I'm doing. You write an immediate CA to do your token replacement, and put the resulting string in a temporary record... Then you schedule your deferred CA for execution. You write the deferred

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

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Christopher Karper wrote: You write an immediate CA to do your token replacement, and put the resulting string in a temporary record... Then you schedule your deferred CA for execution. MsiFormatRecord/WcaGetFormattedString take care of resolving all [FormattedPropertyValues] so you

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

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Robert O'Brien wrote: Q1 - does running upgrade msi or patch msi still require additional command line switches? Minor upgrades must be applied with arguments. Major upgrades don't need them. Q2 - I seem to recall running into upgrade capable msi's and patch msp's that I could simple

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

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Robert O'Brien wrote: is there a recommended approach to getting current wix vs08 project extensions to output a patch msp? Currently, Votive and the MSBuild tasks/targets don't support the WiX v3 patching tools. I don't know if they'll be supported as target types in v3. -- sig://boB

Re: [WiX-users] Question about linking custom action dll

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Radha Vaidyanathan wrote: I am using WiX v3 and visual Studio 2005 (VC 8). You might need to rebuild dutil.lib with VS2005; we build the ship versions with VS2008. Also for msi.lib: I downloaded Microsoft SDKs/v6.1 - that does not contain msi.lib. I have three

Re: [WiX-users] How to fire event without waiting for focus change

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Krzysztof Kozmic wrote: I now have in my UI a custom step that requires user to enter some data until he can proceed to the next step. However, the Next button won't get enabled, until user changes focus from the last entry box. I'd rather, if it went enabled as soon as user enters first

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd

2008-09-05 Thread Richard
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yu, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read section 8 of http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson8.php but there's no mention on how to write a dialog box that prompts for user name and password and use them to register COM+. Its never a good idea to prompt

Re: [WiX-users] Property problem - additional info

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Rerick
I have set all of the needed properties to have the Secure=yes attribute. The install is a perMachine install on XP. The properties do appear in the SecureCustomProperties property in the properties list that the installer dumps at the end of the log. I also set the EnableUserControl property to

Re: [WiX-users] How to fire event without waiting for focus change

2008-09-05 Thread Richard
The best way to get the least confusing behavior is to have the validity checks done when Next is clicked. If the validity checks fail, display a modal dialog box displaying the error message and don't transition to the next dialog box in the wizard sequence. Otherwise, transition to the next

Re: [WiX-users] Question about linking custom action dll

2008-09-05 Thread Radha Vaidyanathan
Bob - Thanks for your help. You might need to rebuild dutil.lib with VS2005; we build the ship versions with VS2008. I downloaded the source. I could not import the VC project that comes with source. While trying to compile in VC2005, I get a ton of errors: 1inetutil.cpp

[WiX-users] custom ui sample question

2008-09-05 Thread P a u l
I am just starting to try wix. I have built and run the sample UI projects up through the WixCustomSample.zip in vs2008. I don't see a way to process the key on the custom dialog. It appears there is an event system but I don't see any docs on this. Are there any tutorials that expand on this

Re: [WiX-users] custom ui sample question

2008-09-05 Thread P a u l
I found the sample WixSampleDllCA. So just the images question remains for now. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/custom-ui-sample-question-tp842093p842175.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] Property problem - additional info

2008-09-05 Thread Richard
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Rerick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have set all of the needed properties to have the Secure=yes attribute. The install is a perMachine install on XP. The properties do appear in the SecureCustomProperties property in the properties list that the

Re: [WiX-users] Property problem - additional info

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Rerick
Yes, all of the problem property Ids are in uppercase. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 3:00 PM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Property problem - additional info In article [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Property problem - additional info

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Rerick
What is more interesting, I have other global properties that get set from an edit field in the UI and their values are available in the execute sequence. It seems that only the ComboBox property and VBscript modified properties are causing problems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL