[WiX-users] Reading value from Xml or INIFile

Hi , Can any one give working sample for reading the values from xml file or INiI file. Thanks & Regards, Chandrashekar vuppala M-9908298419 Oakton Global Technology Services Centre (India) Results Driven. When Business & IT Matters From: Davidovitz, Ran

[WiX-users] How to execute the msbuild cmd by passing property value with space.

Hi, When i am executing the Msbuild cmd using custom action(that shown down), it is not working. If i remove this highligted(Italic green) property from above it works fine after all tests what i find is, it is giving error because of space in the program files and Microsoft BizTalk S

[WiX-users] Always Reinstall a Component

We have a WIX v3 installer and are trying to force a component that contains only registry values to reinstall when the user presses “change” in Add/Remove programs. The registry values are populated from properties that are set by our installer UI and can be changed when running the installer

Re: [WiX-users] Stack available for Custom Actions

What are you doing to run out of stack space? When I get a stack overflow it has always been a bug in my code. -Original Message- From: Tony Juricic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 19:46 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Stack available fo

[WiX-users] Stack available for Custom Actions

I am getting a stack overflow exception when executing deferred custom action in C++, but I am consuming only a quarter of 1 MB which, I believe, is the max stack space allowed per process. Did anybody here have similar things happen to him/her? I'm wondering if msiexec indeed gives much reduced

[WiX-users] How to add DirectoryRefId

The following output is generated by heat.exe: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> I want to add afterand a

[WiX-users] Votive and Build Events

I am trying to sign installation package as a post-build step. This is the command that we use for C# projects: "$(FrameworkSDKDir)bin\signtool.exe" sign /n "Company name" /d "$(ProjectName)" /t "http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll"; "$(TargetPath)" As it turns out FrameworkSDKDir

[WiX-users] Is there a wix guru out there looking for a small contract project?

Hi; We need some stuff done on out WIX scripts. If you are interested here is what we need. We presently do have wix scripts for our installers - this is adding to them. And we use mallow.exe (we paid a contractor to have it created) to rebuild the help & sample file .wxs scripts. 1. F

[WiX-users] Enabling web garden from WIX

I have been looking through the schema here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_index.htm http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_index.htm but I don't see anything about enabling web gardens. Are they not supported or is there some other means to do so which I am missing?

[WiX-users] Always Reinstall a Component

We have a WIX v3 installer and are trying to force a component that contains only registry values to reinstall when the user presses "change" in Add/Remove programs. The registry values are populated from properties that are set by our installer UI and can be changed when running the installer aga

[WiX-users] Deferred custom action generating error 2762.

Hi, I am building a setup file. At the end of the installation, I want to start the main application program. The main application program requires elevated privileges on Windows VISTA to run. So, I am setting the Custom action (within InstallExecuteSequence) as 'deferred' and Impersonate a

[WiX-users] Signing .msi with msicert

So, during our build, we package all of our dll's and have them signed, and are returned with a cabinet file. Can I use this cabinet file to sign my .msi? I assume the -m is the listing of the cabinet file within wxs file So would the command be msicert.exe -d foo.msi -m 1 -c foo.cab Or am I m

Re: [WiX-users] Bi-directional language UI layout support in WIX?

Dialog/@RightToLeft -Original Message- From: Jeb Remus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 09:37 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Bi-directional language UI layout support in WIX? Hello, I'm wondering if WIX v

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig and special Xpath syntax

I think XmlConfig is using XslPattern (or whatever the MSXML implementation was before XPath existed). I'm not sure that has the same functions as XPath. -Original Message- From: Davidovitz, Ran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 09:45 To: General discussion for Wi

Re: [WiX-users] Votive and fragments

References flow from the Product element down to Fragment. That's been the design of the WiX toolset for 9 years now. Not something we could tweak easily. -Original Message- From: Davidovitz, Ran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 09:42 To: General discussion f

[WiX-users] XmlConfig and special Xpath syntax

Hi, I have created a XmlConfig element that suppose to find a node that has specific text in it. I have used the following xpath syntax "/project/tasks/exec/buildArgs[\[]contains(text(), 'ECO')[\]]" And when installing it tell me that it cannot find the node although the syntax is correct (with

Re: [WiX-users] Votive and fragments

Yes you are correct, I have made this by design because I am generating the WXS files dynamically and cannot alter the product.wxs, And I thought that if I do a backward ref it will be added. Is there a way to tweak it? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

[WiX-users] Bi-directional language UI layout support in WIX?

Hello, I'm wondering if WIX v3 supports automatic editing of UI for bi-directional languages. In Hebrew, for example, everything that was X pixels from the left side of a dialog has to instead be X pixels from the right side. To support this would I have to wr

Re: [WiX-users] light error

Did you consult the Windows Installer SDK? It has a full reference for all of the ICEs. Here is the page about ICE39: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368962.aspx ## $_='^#(/||/@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@:^[-['^";@@@\\>])@.". "{)/];)^{";$,+=(++$,);$_.=">&$,"

[WiX-users] light error

Hi. I recieve this error when building. The msi file is build, and it seems to work fine, but I recieve this error. Does anyone know what it means? Error 1 ICE39: Bad Type in Summary Information Stream for PID_SUBJECT. C:\Documents and Settings\pvni\Local Settings\Temp\dxxjzolc\WixProjectTest.msi

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and COM executable registry extraction

In case anyone is interested, I was being stupid (as I thought!) :-) All I had to do was wrap the Registry Keys inside a Component element, then wrap that inside a DirectoryRef element (to "TARGETDIR") Then I referenced that in my Feature and hey ho, all works perfectly! (Well, except for the f

[WiX-users] How to solve Concurrency Problem

Hi, Currently when we create an installer the locking of the MSI happens when the execution starts. So the users are able to open multiple dialogs before the installation starts. Is it possible to make this when the installer is initiated itself. Thanks Mazin -

Re: [WiX-users] Install Localisation

I am not sure how I could do that, for my own code it won't link if the files are missing and for the built-in localisation I am not sure how I can exclude it. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rob