If you are creating the Website (not just referencing to the Default Web
Site), set its component as permanent, and create the virtual directories in
different components.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Kalvagadda, SivaKrishna (MLX Technology)
sivakrishna_kalvaga...@ml.com wrote:
Hi,
I
Instead of creating the website you just need a reference to an existing one.
iis:WebSite Id=DefaultWebsite Description=Default
iis:WebAddress Id=DefaultWebsite Port=80 /
/iis:WebSite
I think this has to go outside of a Directory element. You can then reference
this in your WebVirtualDir
I got this from http://www.dalun.com/wix/06.26.2005.htm
c:\WiX\msiexec /i product.msi /L*v log.txt
Is this the only way to write out logging?
I find it difficult to work out what the installer is doing, is there
any way to change the logging level?
Is there some sort of reference document
Hmm. Need to start playing about with Wix at the Wix level first anyway I
think :)
On a slightly different matter, is the Windows Installer book by Phil
Wilson the best one to get to help get a good understanding of the
underlying technology?
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:02:45PM -0800, Rob
Thanks for a great hint, Chris! It also pointed me to my mistake I was
trying to figure out for a day...
But, as for the proposed strategy - it doesn't work for me.
I've followed your instructions below to trifles. Here is what I get in
my log:
...
MSI (s) (40:38) [12:46:12:187]: Doing action:
Phil's book is excellent - don't know if it's the best one, I haven't read
them all 8^)
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Jody Belka lists-...@pimb.org wrote:
Hmm. Need to start playing about with Wix at the Wix level first anyway I
think :)
On a slightly different matter, is the Windows
+1 for Phil's book.
It significantly helped me start to think about deployment
scenarios/problems in terms of windows installer concepts. I blame Phil for
my conversion from VS setup projects to wix.
(the other Phil)
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From: Jody Belka [mailto:lists-...@pimb.org]
Sent:
If you run misexec by itself it will give you a list of valid
parameters. /l foo.log gives you pretty much minimum verbosity
Yu, Brian wrote:
I got this from http://www.dalun.com/wix/06.26.2005.htm
c:\WiX\msiexec /i product.msi /L*v log.txt
Is this the only way to write out logging?
Sorry for digging this thread up but it seems very relevant to what I'm doing
now so hopefully it will still help others.
I'm with Sigurd on this.
I spent days - and I mean days - using Heat to generate the wxs files based
on registry entries for my COM dlls. Unfortunately since Heat is a
I agree - I ended up giving up on Wix for the same reasons and reverting to
using Visual Studio Setup. It was just too difficult and painful to get wix
register a dll (regasm).
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I feel your pain but this isn't really a WiX issue it is Windows Installer.
Having said that once you have generated the registry keys rebuilding the COM
DLL shouldn't need you to redo this it should be the same unless you add a new
interface and then you only need to add the new interface.
I am in the process of developing a formal requirements process for
our product installs (currently the process is basically hallway
conversations and scattered emails).
Part of the requirement framework is that all existing installs will
be migrated to MSI technology from our current
Well, ordered it from Amazon and it's been despatched for delivery tomorrow,
so I'll be able to dive in over the weekend :)
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:34:22PM +0200, Eitan Behar wrote:
Phil's book is excellent - don't know if it's the best one, I haven't read
them all 8^)
On Thu, Dec 18,
Make the WebSite's Component Permanent.
-Original Message-
From: Kalvagadda, SivaKrishna (MLX Technology)
[mailto:sivakrishna_kalvaga...@ml.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 22:13
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WebSite is getting deleted when msi
Okay, I agree. So how are you going to help us make it better?
Seriously, heat hasn't had an owner since Derek left us three years ago. Bugs
have piled up and no one has looked at them until this week.
Why was this week different?
Because all of the higher priority bugs (those bugs that
Hi All,
My installer is having a problem that didn't used to occur. My install
copies files, creates a virtual directory, app pool, local windows user,
database and login within that database (amongst other things). When I
execute the uninstall, the database, database login, iis virtual
Are the Components actually being uninstalled?
-Original Message-
From: Amy Rosewater [mailto:arosewa...@spectrumhr.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:33
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] uninstall fails to drop database, iis objects
Hi
Rob,
That's a really good question. I'm not entirely sure where to check to
make sure they are uninstalled, however, it made me wonder
about something. I have a requirement for my company that I must be
able to install multiple instances of our application side by
side. I have embedded
Hi,
I'm using DTF to create a custom action to show an Open Folder dialog in my UI.
I'm using the code I found here;
http://todayslearnings.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-get-folder-browser-dialog-in-c.html
I can build the project in VisualStudio (after adding a reference to
Shell32.dll), but
Why don't you use the BrowseDlg that comes with wix?
-Original Message-
From: Dale Quigg [mailto:da...@messagegate.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:03 PM
To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [WiX-users] DTF - Using Shell32.dll
Hi,
I'm using DTF to create a custom
Thanks Sam,
Scott Sam-2 wrote:
Why don't you use the BrowseDlg that comes with wix?
-Original Message-
From: Dale Quigg [mailto:da...@messagegate.com]
I'm using DTF to create a custom action to show an Open Folder dialog in
my UI.
I have a requirement to allow UNC paths.
1. The verbose log file will have a section that tells you the Installed and
Action states for your Components. That's how you know what the installer is
going to do.
2. Yep. If another product is still installed, the shared Components are not
removed.
-Original Message-
From: Amy
When I look through my registry under
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UserData\[MY USER SID] I
don't see any of the database
components or IIS components for any of my side by side installations
(not the installed copies or the uninstalled copies).
Is there somewhere else I could
Well, subject says it.
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Scott Sam wrote:
Upon a second look at things the binary was not in the original. I
currently don't have any patch families because I don't know what's
changed so I want the patch to include everything.
Then that's likely going to require the fix Rob mention Heath's working on.
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Dale Quigg wrote:
I have a requirement to allow UNC paths. My understanding is that the
BrowseDlg does not allow this.
No, mostly because MSI runs in system context except when impersonating
the user during custom actions. Therefore, it has limited permissions to
network resources.
Your
Peter Björkman wrote:
Using msistuff.exe with the option /o INSTALLUPD to modify my setup.exe
seemed like a solution but the problem remains.
MsiStuff is for the setup.exe sample code in the MSI SDK; I don't think
it's going to work with the .NET bootstrapper setup.exe.
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Lester wrote:
I am in the process of developing a formal requirements process for
our product installs (currently the process is basically hallway
conversations and scattered emails).
I used a similar form approach in a previous life; in general, it worked
for high-level things (we need
Yan Sklyarenko wrote:
sql:SqlString Id=AttachCore ExecuteOnInstall=yes
SqlDb=SqlMasterDB SQL=CREATE DATABASE
SqlDb is a literal string; it can't use a property or formatted string.
You can use two components each with its own SqlString, and component
conditions to choose between the two.
Hey guys,
I've been toying with the idea of adding a simple server notification during
the uninstall process. Something as simple as pinging my server when the
application is uninstalled. Does WiX support sending a simple HTTP request
during the install (or uninstall in my case) process?
You are putting the contents of SqlMasterDBAuth into SqlMasterDB, so it will
still use SqlMasterDB as the connection to execute. Are you watching it
connect through profiler or anything?
Chris
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Yan Sklyarenko y...@sitecore.net wrote:
Thanks for a great hint,
I knew you'd thank me one day..
(Some other Phil. )
-Original Message-
From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:14 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix#
+1 for Phil's book.
It significantly
I've created a number of WiX projects in a Visual Studio 2008 solution and
would like to use T4 templates to reduce the repetition we see in our *.wxs
files. I've found that Visual Studio 2008 does not automatically hook up my
*.tt files as it does for C# projects. I've tried replicating the
MSI SDK doesn't say that is supported.
-Original Message-
From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 14:19
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] REG_QWORD support in RegistryValue?
Well, subject says it.
Nothing like that today.
-Original Message-
From: Colin Bleckner [mailto:co...@binarynoise.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 14:42
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Counting uninstalls
Hey guys,
I've been toying with the idea of adding a simple server
Does Heat have problems harvesting out-of-proc COM exe settings?
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No, no problems. It just doesn't do it at all.
-Original Message-
From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 17:26
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Heat and out-of-proc COM
Does Heat have problems
Bob:
Thanks for the input.
At this point we're fairly early in the process, so I'm not (yet) too
concerned about aligning the structure of the setup requirements with
the lower-level construction of the MSI.
Right now I just want to be able to give out a one-sheeter that says
MSI can do X, Y,
I wan t to show my own error message if a certain custom action fails.
How can I do it?
Thank you
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::MsiProcessMessage().
-Original Message-
From: Joe Osman [mailto:joe.os...@tait.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 19:17
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] How to display a custom error message?
I wan t to show my own error message if a
It did some: TypeLib and Interface entries, but not ClassId. Do I have
to do it all manually?
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 19:28
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re:
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