Re: [WiX-users] How to include 3rd party dll in MSI?

Hi Rufeng, First of all you need understand that CA executing in temp folder under his own process, so even you will include them in MSI - CA can found then, only if them installed in GAC or you will develop some special code to look/load dlls from in/from some folder on computer. I have

Re: [WiX-users] launch condition query

Hi: The other installation wasn't writen with wix/msi. This is why I need to rmove it automatically. Any help apreciated. Sean. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 October 2008 22:57 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re:

[WiX-users] Conditionalising custom actions

Hi: I have a property custom action. The property is a string. I only want to run the custom action if the string is not empty. how can I do this. or do i have to create a dll custom action? Cheers Sean. - This SF.Net email

[WiX-users] Indirect and RadioButtonGroup

Hi all, I'm attempting to use the Indirect property and a RadioButtonGroup, but am running into difficulties. My fragment looks like this: Control Id=SqlAuthenticationTypes Type=RadioButtonGroup X=20 Y=60 Width=330 Height=40 Property=SQL_USE_INTEGRATED Indirect=yes RadioButtonGroup

[WiX-users] How to Skip Licence Aggrement Dialog from FreatureTree UI

Hi All, I am using Wix3 in my build and using UIRef Id='WixUI_FeatureTree'/ which provides a UI for my Msi Pakcage. I dont want to have License Aggrement Dialog in my MSi , How can i skip the dialog from it. I know there are other UI interfaces which i could use, but I need the Featree Options

[WiX-users] Installed Condition question

Hi All, I am basically reposting this question with an example. The following code executes even when you put Installed or NOT Installed. The windows installer proceeds without an error. Why is it so? The following is my sample code from one of the files in the sample.zip : ?xml version=1.0

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate error

What does your Certificate element look like? What OS are you testing this on? -Original Message- From: Tanikella, Rajanikanth (SCR US) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] How to Skip Licence Aggrement Dialog from FreeTree UI

Hi All, I do got this done But, i dont know something is wrong in the sequence, i added the following in my Product.wxs UIRef Id='WixUI_FeatureTree'/ UI Publish Dialog=WelcomeDlg Control=Next Event=NewDialog Value=CustomizeDlg1/Publish Publish Dialog=CustomizeDlg Control=Back

[WiX-users] newbie question about removing files created by application

I have some birt functionality that creates a number of files and directories under web inf that remain after uninstall. I understand that i need to explicitly remove the files. I understand that the removefiles node requires a component parent and since these files arent installed there is no

Re: [WiX-users] how to use WIX write registry values to both 32 bit and 64 bit registries in one MSI?

Hi Chirs, Regarding Is64Bit=No - which tag in WIX this attribute belongs to? Are you referring to the attribute win64 of the component element? Thanks, Ravit -Original Message- From: Christopher Karper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:25 AM To: General

[WiX-users] Register COM Component

hi, i have to register a COM component in my installer. So far I have: Component Id=base.MyVbQL.dll Guid=* File Id=base.MyVbQL.dll Name=base.MyVbQL.dll KeyPath=yes Source=..\..\libs\base.MyVbQL.dll / /Component Then I created code with heat for this file: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?

[WiX-users] Indirect and RadioButtonGroup

Hi all, I'm attempting to use the Indirect property and a RadioButtonGroup, but am running into difficulties. My fragment looks like this: Control Id=SqlAuthenticationTypes Type=RadioButtonGroup X=20 Y=60 Width=330 Height=40 Property=SQL_USE_INTEGRATED Indirect=yes RadioButtonGroup

Re: [WiX-users] Indirect and RadioButtonGroup

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dean Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm attempting to use the Indirect property and a RadioButtonGroup, but am running into difficulties. My fragment looks like this: Control Id=SqlAuthenticationTypes Type=RadioButtonGroup X=20 Y=60 Width=330

Re: [WiX-users] how to use WIX write registry values to both 32 bit and 64 bit registries in one MSI?

Yes, that's it. Chris On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Ravit Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chirs, Regarding Is64Bit=No - which tag in WIX this attribute belongs to? Are you referring to the attribute win64 of the component element? Thanks, Ravit -Original Message- From:

Re: [WiX-users] Questions about using MFC Merge Module

As described in this blog (thanks to Tom Tan for directing me to it) http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/05/15/vc-runtime-binding.aspx, Microsoft has changed the default binding of an app to the VS version. Now the default binding is to the RTM version, and it is possible to bind to the

Re: [WiX-users] How to Skip Licence Aggrement Dialog from FreatureTree UI

Thanks Neil, It Worked. this Blog link was amazing, i know wht i was doig wrong. I finally think i am having a good grip on wix Thank to everybody like you..:D I just started using it 2 months...ago Thanks Alot.. Neil Sleightholm wrote: You might also find this blog useful:

Re: [WiX-users] How to Skip Licence Aggrement Dialog from FreatureTree UI

When I did this I removed the license stuff completely, take a look at the blog reference I posted I think that explains everything. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: BOB1981 [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] An issue with Perf Counters in wixV2

There should be a more detailed set of error message in log file. Can you share those? -Original Message- From: Mukesh Agrawal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 06:50 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] An issue with

Re: [WiX-users] Using single Dialog to change various paths.

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sergey Abakumoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Publish Property=_BrowseProperty Value=[INSTALLDIR] / Publish Property=_BrowseProperty Value=[SAMPLESDIR] / Try this instead: Publish Property=_BrowseProperty Value=INSTALLDIR /

[WiX-users] embedding cab files in .msi

Hello, I think I am missing something obvious I am using Wix 3.0.4429. In my .wxs file, I have the following elements: Media Id='1' Cabinet='product.cab' EmbedCab='yes' / Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=MyDir Name=MyDir

[WiX-users] Custom Action requiring properties

Hi, I am writing a custom action with DTF in C#. My custom action performs token replacement of database name, servername etc for SQL scripts. My understanding is that this should be done as an immediate CA, and then schedule the built in SQL CA as deferred to use the files that I have

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action requiring properties

I might be wrong, check up on this, but make the properties you want to modify in your UI sequence public, i.e. their names all in capital letters. Your immediate CA, which I believe is running in the InstallExecuteSequence, should be able to see the changed values modified during the UI

Re: [WiX-users] Insert error

I'm not using it in a custom action. I was testing the ability to INSERT a row. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 September 2008 23:53 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Insert error I'm using DTF to

Re: [WiX-users] Warning CNDL 1026 - can ignore ?

Hi, I opened the msi with Orca, and the Component field is complete (more than the 72 chars limit). Maybe WIX is just changing the table definition? According to MS: The installer does not internally limit the length of columns to the value specified by the column definition format. If the data

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action requiring properties

Thanks greenaj the public properties fixed the issue! === I might be wrong, check up on this, but make the properties you want to modify in your UI sequence public, i.e. their names all in capital letters. Your immediate CA, which I believe is running in the

Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component

Resending My Query.. Please help me out. -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:28 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Condition for Component Hi , I have one

Re: [WiX-users] how to use WIX write registry values to both 32 bit and 64 bit registries in one MSI?

Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) wrote: So in this case what I need to do. It depends on how you're building the packages. You can use the -arch switch to set the default package architecture. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Light cultures option

Neil Sleightholm wrote: May be it could provide a warning message for missing strings that would make it obvious what was happening. I have worked around the Dutch problem for now by including -loc WixUI_en-us.wxl on the light command line, but as you have observed, I now don't know what isn't

[WiX-users] choice of features using mondo ui leads to license for each feature?

Hi, I would like to use Mondo UI with all features optional, I would like that every optional feature has its own license agreement, so that if someone installs feature1, feature2, and feature4 it leads to a sequence where they have to accept the license on feature1, feature2, and feature4 before

[WiX-users] wix loading from .reg

Hi there Is there a way to get WIX to load registry values from a .reg file? If I have to write registry entries for each line it'll take a long time I also tried using the heat, but as I passed in the file it just treats it as normal file. Brian

Re: [WiX-users] running .reg file

[adding wix-users back] If you go back into the archive, you'll see lots of discussions about why automatically generating Resources and Components isn't something that we do in the WiX toolset. There are lots of repercussions with the organization of your Resource, Components and Features.

Re: [WiX-users] running .reg file

You can use tallow from v2, I don't think the format changed from v2 to v3 but if it did you can use wixcop to update it. I guess this functionality should be in heat but it seems to have gone. Neil -Original Message- From: Yu, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2008

[WiX-users] failed certificate install

I finally convinced my team to upgrade to Wix 3 and now our certificate installer is failing: MSI (s) (C4:08) [15:50:50:560]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINNT\Installer\MSI13A.tmp, Entrypoint: InstallCertificates InstallCertificates: Error 0x80070057: Failed to open PFX file.

Re: [WiX-users] old installer running?!

You should have a look at the msi help on the types of upgrades at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370579(VS.85).aspx. What you are experiencing is normal behavior unless you specifically author for upgrading. There is also good information on one of the upgrade types (major upgrade)

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3

Sean Farrow wrote: Wherecan I get the required version of nant? I carn't find it on the nant sourceforge page. http://nant.sourceforge.net/nightly/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.Net email is

Re: [WiX-users] Weird behaviour when patching

Eitan Behar wrote: The issue is that I expect in both scenarios to behave the same, /qr does the right thing, REINSTALL=ALL is not the behavior I need. /qb (or /qn) are doing something which I don't want (reinstalling the whole feature). Assuming that you're using MSI 3.0 or later, it will

Re: [WiX-users] Close/restart running application on install

divo wrote: Is there a similar mechanism available to close applications during installation, which automatically shows the same dialog to the user? No but in WiX v3, you can use the CloseApplication element to send close messages to given processes' windows. -- sig://boB

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

I appreciate the feedback. In the short term, I've added the SelfRegCost attribute to the file tags for the non-.Net COM DLLs, and that seems to work fine. As for the DLLs themselves, I have no idea what langauge they were written in. We're using them within a legacy VB6 app, and wiring in new

Re: [WiX-users] Add Remove Programs: Need to suppress fatal error message

Nimisha Saboo wrote: But is there no way, we can suppress this? Using some ARP property inside wix may be? I'm not aware of one. WiX and MSI don't control ARP. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.Net

[WiX-users] Single installer instance

Hi All, I am newbie to Wix. I wanted to know if there is any option by which I can allow only a single instance of MSI to run. Right now, if I execute one instance of MSI and start the other one, then it allows seamlessly. Any pointers would help. Regards, Kamal

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3

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Re: [WiX-users] My Dialog with WixUi

Hi, i have done this before, let me know which UI you want to use and where do u want your dialog to be inserted. ill try to write a code for you and send you. or i could send you code i have. I have customized WixUI_FeatureTree and added Backup Dialog to perform backup operations. Let me

[WiX-users] testing for environment variable definition in Wix

Hi... I recently ran into a number of problems trying to change wix project behavior based on environment variable settings. A number of the things that sounded intuitive to me didn't work. For example ?ifdef $(env.A) ? ?define myVar=foo ? ?else? ?define myVar=bar ? ?endif? didn't

Re: [WiX-users] failed certificate install

Ian, For us, certificate installs worked with 3.0.4429.0, but uninstalls failed. There was a reply from Rob saying that the uninstall bug was fixed with 3.0.4513.0, but we're seeing the same install errors as you are with the latest build. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Ian Elliott (Excell

Re: [WiX-users] Anyone have XSL for fixing up nested registry values?

What are you trying to do? That WiX snippet you describe below tells Windows Installer to write two separate strings to the same registry value. Do you mean to write a REG_MULTI_SZ? Or append Bar to ? Or are you just confusing the Value attribute and the Name attribute? For HKCR Foo

Re: [WiX-users] Do not want to execute component on repair and Remove

Resending my query. -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:17 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Do not want to execute component on repair and Remove Hi,

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

It's both. The application is written in VB6. It uses COM DLLs written in various languages, including C++, VB6, and .NET. The installer needs to be able to register all of these things. The non-.Net COM DLLs seem to be doing alright with the SelfRegCost attribute applied, but now the .Net DLLs

[WiX-users] Votive Installation for VS2008

Hi, I'm trying to install Votive 2.0.5805 on XP (32bit) with Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition installed. The Votive installer complains, that the Express Edition of VS is not supported and terminates. Does anybody know what's going on there? I used the X64-Version of Votive on another

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor and environment variables?

Sorry, I should have included that in the first place... V2.0.5325.0... Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:13 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor and environment variables?

Okay, yeah, that may just be a behavior in WiX v2. We readdressed this in WiX v3 but I think there is a breaking change somewhere in there and since WiX v2 is marked stable we aren't working on it. So, take solace in knowing the following: 1. The behavior in WiX v2 won't change. 2. The

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

0. Are you sure you needed to add all those actions? They should have been added for you automatically if you are using the advertised tables. Also, you don't need to add Sequence numbers to have a standard action added at the standard location. Just the name should be sufficient...

[WiX-users] Conditionally Removing Files on Uninstall

Hi, I am new to Wix trying to create an installer where certain files are removed by the uninstaller depending on a checkbox in the user interface. I have seen some similar questions on the Wix mailing lists, but no definitive answers on how to get it to work. Some of the comments I have seen

Re: [WiX-users] Moving from InstallShield 12 to wix

OK -- thanx. I thought for a second I had totally misunderstood how Windows Installer works. I've dug out the MSI created by the original IS installer (it was actually an exe installer, but IS12 seems to be MSI-based anyway, with exe installers just being boostrap wrappers around an underlying

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MSXML3 [I think] used to have SelfReg and it a ccounted for a percentage point or two of installation failures for Office... that was lot of money wasted on SelfReg. Wow. That is an awesome data point! -- The

Re: [WiX-users] Re 3: Patching and sqlscript element (to Bob Arnson)

Victor V. Sergeev wrote: I don't know how. I think that pyro.exe added new actions to .MSP file, but didn't include new binary data. What does your patch look like? Are you able to install the upgrade package successfully (i.e., using the new .msi, not the .msp)? -- sig://boB

Re: [WiX-users] Will XmlConfig do this?

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chad Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: configuration connectionStrings /connectionStrings /configuration That is identical to this: configuration connectionStrings//configuration There is nothing wrong with that. -- The

Re: [WiX-users] Will XmlConfig do this?

What's the problem? -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 13:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Will XmlConfig do this? My config file is simple. Just a configuration section.

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Sleightholm wrote: My untested theory is that when you call DllRegisterServer on a VB6 DLL it either calls DllRegisterServer on MSVBVM60.dll or the code from it is embedded into the VB6 dll. In my experience,

[WiX-users] Setting value of a property via Checkbox

Hi, I want the ability to set a property from the state of the checkbox. I am unable to make it work with the following piece of code. Snippet of my wix code:- Property Id=MYPUBLICPROP Value='0'/ Control Id=ConfigurePUBLICPROP Type=CheckBox X=21 Y=180 Width=237 Height=17 Property=

[WiX-users] use of Condition to detect Property

Hi, I am trying to do something like the following: Property Id=RENDERINGINSTALL RegistrySearch Id=Rinstall Root=HKLM Key=SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rendering Service Name=RenderingServicePath Type=directory / /Property Condition Message=You must have the Rendering Service

Re: [WiX-users] Setting value of a property via Checkbox

Additional details:- I am using Wix version 3.0.4513.0 to do this. From: Vidya Kukke Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:04 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Setting value of a property via Checkbox Hi, I want the ability to set a property from the state of the checkbox. I am

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

First, you should not be packaging someone else's resources in your MSI. You should be getting a Merge Module that has all of the COM and DLL and most importantly the *correct* Component GUIDs. That's what Merge Modules were designed for. You might want to tell Microsoft that and get a merge

Re: [WiX-users] use of Condition to detect Property

Hi Bryan, Two problems here. First, if you want a launch condition based on successful search, use just RENDERINGINSTALL. Drop != stuff. Second, by saying Type=directory you are indicating that search is not done yet and you want to continue with the search and use the data in the registry,

[WiX-users] What is the Use WixFailWhenDeferred

Hi, I am looking for roll back mechanism after installfinalize (when any custom action gets fail). In this regard please let me now the roll of WixFailWhenDeferred CA. Please help me out if any there practice is there. Regards -Sandeep

[WiX-users] Weird dialog behaviour

I use the following dialog in my installer: Dialog Id=CustomizeDlg Width=370 Height=270 Title=[ProductName] [Setup] NoMinimize=yes ?include Banners.wxi ? Control Id=Install Type=PushButton X=220 Y=250 Width=56 Height=17 Text=Install Publish Event=NewDialog

[WiX-users] Can WiX create stub installer?

Hi I'm new to WiX and I just a have a few questions before I decide to use it. I need to create an installation project for work that be like a stub installer. Basically there will be several installation files and .exe stub. The stub is ran and checks if Windows Installer is installed, if

Re: [WiX-users] Delete temp files during uninstall

These are cached files from IIS and believe IIS creates them if its not there when started. Rob Mensching-2 wrote: What happens when the user clicks cancel and rolls your uninstall back? Do you need those files. -Original Message- From: vivek.anandan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] How to include 3rd party dll in MSI?

Why does the 3rd party DLL need to run at install time? What does it do? -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/

Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component

Is the Component marked Transitive? -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 19:28 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Condition for Component Hi , I have one

Re: [WiX-users] failed certificate install

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=1930640group_id=105970atid=642714 On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Karthik Krishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian, For us, certificate installs worked with 3.0.4429.0, but uninstalls failed. There was a reply from Rob saying that the uninstall

Re: [WiX-users] failed certificate install

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=1930640group_id=105970atid=642714 Should be in the next binary release. 4513 exhibits this issue. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally convinced my team to upgrade to Wix 3 and

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate error

If you're on XP, it's probably this bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=1930640group_id=105970atid=642714 Build 4513 has this issue in it. On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does your Certificate element look like? What OS are you

Re: [WiX-users] use of Condition to detect Property

bryan rasmussen wrote: Hi, I am trying to do something like the following: Condition Message=You must have the Rendering Service installed first.![CDATA[RENDERINGINSTALL != ]]/Condition in other words read a value from the registry and then use a condition to determine if the

Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component

No, I did not use this attribute.Shall I mark this attribute as No ? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:33 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component Is

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Troy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should I just do a regasm /reg and then convert that to WiX code? That's what I've done in the past and it worked just fine. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Troy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This application is a beast, and the installer has to tame it. What a project At least I have a nice view of downtown Portland at night from the 11th floor of this building. When I removed self-reg components, it

[WiX-users] Shortcut : enable QuickEdit mode

I am trying to create a shortcut to PowerShell.exe like below: Shortcut Id=PSConsoleShortcut Directory=ProgramMenuShortcutDirectory Name=Powers.EX LongName=PowerShell Console Target=[SystemFolder]WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\PowerShell.exe ... The above example created a short cut properly but I want