Re: [WiX-users] Conflict of Interest: InstallFiles and RemoveExistingProducts

Sounds like Component Rule violations. Did you keep your Component/@Guids constant appropriately? -Original Message- From: vexilar [mailto:s...@sorna.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 15:56 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Conflict of Interest: InstallFiles and

[WiX-users] Conflict of Interest: InstallFiles and RemoveExistingProducts

>From the MSDN documention for RemoveExistingProducts (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371197(VS.85).aspx): "The RemoveExistingProducts action must be scheduled in the action sequence in one of the following locations. ... -After the InstallFinalize action. This is the most efficient

Re: [WiX-users] Support for other binding types in IIS

I've never heard of this before. Is that an IIS7 feature? Definitely a feature request. -Original Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) [mailto:pierson@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 13:59 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Suppo

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

Is it possible that your VerifyPath is already true so there was no work to do? -Original Message- From: Peter Oehlert [mailto:poehl...@securityinnovation.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:24 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfi

[WiX-users] Support for other binding types in IIS

With WCF in IIS, there has been need to bind net.tcp and others as site bindings. As far as I can tell, we only have support for http and https right now. Is this something that is coming or should I create a feature request? Thanks Pierson ---

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

I think there were a whole lot of translations provide by someone (possible Microsoft) in the early days of the UI but they haven't been update to include the custom actions or additions to the UI. Neil -Original Message- From: Vidya Kukke [mailto:vku...@windows.microsoft.com] Sent: 16 J

Re: [WiX-users] Getting the version from the Assembly file

I should mention - when I say it built ok, I mean it compiled without complaint, but there was no version. It was just my_cool_software.msi So I'm not sure if variable substitution works and I haven't put the setting of filever in the right place, or variable substitution does not work for output

Re: [WiX-users] Getting the version from the Assembly file

I am using WiX v3, so I'll give this a try. I haven't heard of binder variables, so I'll go look them up. One other issue is that of the msi filename itself. I would really like to be able to use a variable in the OutputName field, so I could do something like: OutputName=my_cool_software_$(fileve

Re: [WiX-users] How to link Web App to the specific .NET framework?

Might be helpful Regards, Siva, 201-671-5552. -Original Message- From: Ilya Mayzel [mailto:imay...@mdsol.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:14 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to link Web App to the specific .NET framew

[WiX-users] How to link Web App to the specific .NET framework?

Hello- I need to launch Web Application on the IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003) where .Net Framework 1.1 and 2.0 both installed. This application has been developed to be run in .NET 2.0, however by default it fails as it tryies to run in .NET 1.1 As a workaround we re-link each iis:WebApplicati

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

:-). One last thing, I was wondering how come if it has not been localized in japanese I get warnings only for a few strings? Is it that these are new and have been introduced only in 3.0 but the rest of the strings were in 2.0 and are available for use as-is in 3.0? Can you please help clarif

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

The component in the InstallValidate step seems to be installing. MSI (s) (44:E0) [09:54:07:298]: Component: GuidanceExplorerEXECONFIG; Installed: Absent; Request: Local; Action: Local Also, I thought components had to be completed together or not at all. The thing is the xml file gets laid d

Re: [WiX-users] Choosing Start Menu folder

Krzysztof Jakubczyk wrote: > I am trying to add dialog for choosing Start Menu folder for installed > application. > I want it to be to BrowseDlg, but it should be limited only to StartMenu > folder locations. > MSI doesn't offer the option to limit directory browsing to a particular tree.

Re: [WiX-users] Custom rollback action needs to fire BEFORE remove files...

Adam Langley wrote: > 1 > 1 > Rollback CAs need to be scheduled before the deferred CAs they roll back. So you want to use Before="RegisterService". -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- This SF.net email is spon

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

Peter Oehlert wrote: > I was wondering about that given the name. I'm not seeing an execxmlconfig > in the logfile with the /l*v option. Why might the schedule run but not the > exec? > It won't call ExecXmlConfig if there was nothing to do, or if the component tied to the XmlConfig isn't bein

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

Vidya Kukke wrote: > Is there any plan to do it? The WiX team, while experts in many, many things, is amateur at best at more than a handful of foreign languages. We rely on experts to donate that expertise and so far, nobody has done so. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] Dynamic Localization for Wix

kiyonaka.watan...@jp.yokogawa.com wrote: > Is there any way to localize by the current UI language dynamically? > Or I must specify one language and be linked (light.exe) one by one? > Windows Installer doesn't support multiple languages in one MSI. The closest is to have a language-neutral MS

[WiX-users] Choosing Start Menu folder

Hi, I am trying to add dialog for choosing Start Menu folder for installed application. I want it to be to BrowseDlg, but it should be limited only to StartMenu folder locations. Any ideas? -- This SF.net email is spons

[WiX-users] question about ServiceControl element

Hi All, I have an install which stops and starts the ReportingServicesService.exe service during the course of the installation. The problem I am running into is this: When the server in question has more than one instance of SQL Server Reporting Services installed, there is more than one

Re: [WiX-users] Changing a registry key

OK that is the case, but then I need to set a completely bogus keypath and I can't see how I can actually do that. I tried pointing it to a registry key that is deleted on install but wix fails to compile the msi. > -Original Message- > From: Rob Mensching > Sent: 01 December 2008 16:59

Re: [WiX-users] [Votive] [WiX v3.0.4909.0] is ignored

1. That isn't true. essentially makes one big file. This should work. 2. Try getting the output after preprocessing and see what the variables look like. Most likely something isn't what you think it is: candle your.wxs -p -Original Message- From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:

Re: [WiX-users] [Votive] [WiX v3.0.4909.0] is ignored

It seems that the custom variables defined in a certain file can be referenced within this file only. If you want to have a global variable to reference throughout your project, define it as a parameter to candle.exe (or, if you're using VS, right-click your project, choose Properties, switch to th

[WiX-users] [Votive] [WiX v3.0.4909.0] is ignored

I have created sample project with votive for VS 2008. The project contain 2 files Common.wxi Product.wxs http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> When i build project Candle raise this error: Error 3 Un

Re: [WiX-users] How to switch the Home Directory ofaDefault WebSiteon install?

I have played with this and it works. And it also seems to work for multiple instances. Though if you know about any reef in this area, I would appreciate another hint. Thank you. -- Yan -Original Message- From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

If you give it a fallback option to English it should work e.g. cultures=ja-jp;en-us. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Vidya Kukke [mailto:vku...@windows.microsoft.com] Sent: Thu 15/01/2009 23:34