[WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to CopyFile

Essentially, what I'd like to do is to "install one file in two folders". We have one file called app.ico. It needs to be installed in "ProgramFiles\MyCompany\MyApp" folder and "ProgramFiles\MyCompany\MyApp\Images" folder. - Please don't ask me why, this is the requirement. Anyways, I searched

Re: [WiX-users] Installing backed up scheduled tasks - Windows 2003

The Scheduled Tasks folder is only special because of a shell extension (much like the Temporary Internet Files or Downloaded Program Files folders). The underlying data is just a bunch of .job files in a directory (typically %SystemRoot%\Tasks). The one issue you may encounter is that Vista

Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions

As a delimiter, or for serializing .NET objects? Seems like a rather long delimiter. :-) Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions From: Chad Mil

Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions

A GUID works nicely... :) On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Thomas S. Trias wrote: > Use a different delimiter; the WiX CA's use EUR. I've been tempted to > use XML (just because it makes reading the logs so much easier - > probably overkill for anything short of serializing .NET objects)... > >

Re: [WiX-users] Parsing a version string in WiX

I've had to do something similar to this. Come Monday if you don't have any leads I'll help ya. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Dan Giambalvo < danie...@windows.microsoft.com> wrote: > I'm trying to add a Condition to my WiX based installer to make sure that > IE8 is installed on the machine.

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

neil- Didn't I send you an example of a data driven custom action pattern that publishes sql server reporting services reports? I'm pretty sure in that example I used custom tables with joins back to the component table ( PK-FK relationship ) and an immeadiate CA that did the evaluation of wh

Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI

That works; dark.exe can do it too. Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI From: Jim Williams To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Date: 2/20/200

[WiX-users] Installing backed up scheduled tasks - Windows 2003

In my install I need to have some sort of way to install about 15 .job scheduled tasks. When I look at the tasks folder it looks like an object and not a regular folder. Any ideas on how I would go about "copying" them over? Thanks, Jim -

[WiX-users] Parsing a version string in WiX

I'm trying to add a Condition to my WiX based installer to make sure that IE8 is installed on the machine. I used a RegistrySearch to find the appropriate reg key with the currently installed version of IE. Unfortunately, it is in a 4-part form such as 8.0.6001.18372. I want to just grab the

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

Neil, I've noticed that design pattern in the IIS extensions as well; their modus operandi in the most recent WiX code I have is to include the install state and install action of the related component as part of their wrapped query data in the CustomActionData. I'm not sure the reason behin

Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registering VBScript and JScript under HKCU?

Yeah, right up there with advertised COM components. Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registeringVBScript and JScript under HKCU? From: Ro

Re: [WiX-users] any pointers on the syntax i should one use to enable deployment of a gac dll required dll.config file, e.g. gac dll's that make use if setting designer/api runtime settings?

I tried adding the following custom action sequenced to happen after MsiPublishAssemblies and even though the verbose logs show it completing successfully the dll.config is not there after setup competes. Any thoughts on why that is happening and how I get this required dll.config file placed

Re: [WiX-users] creating wix extensions

Sean, Creating the actual extensions to the compiler (candle), linker (light), decompiler (dark), serializer / gatherer (heat), etc. requires a .NET assembly; your choices there include managed C++ or a managed wrapper around a native DLL. That said, most of the extensions are coupled with Cus

Re: [WiX-users] Log file generation

AFAIK, MsiEnableLog is only useful if you have a bootstrapper that starts the installation; I'm guessing that this is useful when a bootsrapper uses ShellExecute to execute the MSI instead of starting an msiexec process with parameters. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet

Re: [WiX-users] Launch Conditions

If you don't use a CDATA section, you can also escape & < and > into their corresponding XML character entities: &, < and >. That's just general XML, not just a WiXism. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message -

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

I have examined the code some more and it follows the model Rob outline and uses component state to determine what to do. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] S

Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions

Use a different delimiter; the WiX CA's use EUR. I've been tempted to use XML (just because it makes reading the logs so much easier - probably overkill for anything short of serializing .NET objects)... Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

Rob Mensching wrote: > WcaGetComponentToDo() is a nice wrapper that cleans up > much of the confusion. > You're welcome. Every custom action that modifies the machine is tied, directly or indirectly, to a component. The compiler extension and schema make the authoring be a child of Componen

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency of third-part applications

Volnei dos Santos wrote: > You are correct, Bob; I've right the wrong code here. But unfortunately it's > not the main problem. Man, I've tried millions of variants of this code, > including your suggestion. That's why I think the way I'm doing the thing > may be wrong... > Then start with a ve

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

I think I understand the component state approach but I am not sure this is possible with the current implementation of custom tables as I can't see how they can be associated with a component. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com ___

Re: [WiX-users] Feature request: extending PermissionEx element with inheritance option

Yan, Take a look at the mailing list posts from and related to Cody Cutrer's enhancements to PermissionEx. I will also build a patch from my latest efforts and attach it to issue tracker item 2612975. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

It is interesting that you mention the Assembly Name from the MSI tables. When I first got the error, I was looking in the ComPlusAssembly table and noticed that the AssemblyName column was blank. I tried adding the AssemblyName attribute for my COM+ assembly, thinking that it would help the cus

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

On top of that it was all written on Windows 2000 originally. It could have something to do with the assembly name that is being extracted from the MSI tables. In any case I would also recommend going with your option 1 below, for the sake of general robustness. As long as you can live with the

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

Note: Fredrik wrote the COM+ installation code. His answers are far more authoritative than mine. Don Benson wrote: > I never had this functionality previously working. I am a new user to WiX > (just since the beginning of the month), going through the process of > converting Wise for Windows I

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

I never had this functionality previously working. I am a new user to WiX (just since the beginning of the month), going through the process of converting Wise for Windows Installer projects (yes, it's an ancient tool!) to WiX. Based on what Rob is saying, it does certainly seem to a Fusion issu

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

This is actually supposed to work. Though neither Fusion or COM+ where designed with deployment in mind, so plenty of unexpected things seems to happen here. This probably has something to do with Fusion, but I am at a loss to tell what. Are you saying that you have had it working with a previou

Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI

If you only need to do this manually one time, the Dark utility with the /x option will decompile an MSI and extract all of the binary components, including any embedded CAB files. You can then use a standard "archive" tool to extract files from the CABs. > -Original Message- > From: Ma

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Embedded UI Problem

If memory serves me correctly (from last August), the issue here lies in the MakeSfxCA processing. It only writes the Embedded UI entry points if there are no CAs included in the project. -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI

Well, if both installers are written in WiX, just move the WiX source into the main WiX installer. :-) However, if the one msi isn't written in WiX you could do an administrative install, then create the WiX source for the files using heat.exe, and add then add that WiX source to the main instal

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

That is what I did, and it was easy to do. So what is the purpose of the DLLPathFromGAC attribute on the ComPlusAssembly element? It doesn't seem like it has any use as of build 3.0.5006 unless you are using to register a DLL that already was previously installed, and I'm not sure what installa

Re: [WiX-users] question about upgrades and instance transforms

John, Thanks so much for this! :) That is much better news than what I was hoping for. I am going to try it today. A -Original Message- From: John Nannenga [mailto:john.nanne...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:25 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML t

Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI

Actual I was thinking more along the lines of taking the files out of one msi and putting them into my main package since I can't seem to call an msi from inside my main one. -Original Message- From: Jim Williams [mailto:jimwilliam...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:50 P

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions in fragments

Ick. Eitan Behar wrote: > You can also have an empty component group and add reference to it from the > product file. - this is what I do :^) > > > -Original Message- > From: Frederico Rico Apostolo [mailto:frederico.apost...@vantyx.com] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:49 PM > To: Ge

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions in fragments

You're right. Conditions are one thing that don't have a good way to reference. Maybe put the Properties referenced by the Conditions in the same Fragment, then use a PropertyRef? Frederico Rico Apostolo wrote: > I'm using v3 votive in vs2005 and I lost sometime trying to have a fragment > wi

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

Option 1 may be the best. All of that "install/upgrade/uninstall stuff" you listed on that line is good stuff and difficult to do well. I think Option 2 won't work because your CustomAction will not be elevated after InstallFinalize and thus will not be able to make the COM+ configuration then

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

Those Properties are essentially "kill switches" for the CustomActions. I don't remember the scenarios off the top of my head but we added those and the SKIPCONFIGUREIIS based on some needs. They are big red buttons that completely kill the CustomActions. The Properties do not provide fine co

Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI

That'll work great but be mindful of `Feature`.`Level` = 0. >From the SDK, "An install level of 0 (zero) disables the item and prevents it >from being displayed. A feature with an installation level of 0 (zero) is not >installed during any installation, including administrative installations."

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

That's exactly it. This also happens to be the exact same way the Windows Installer operates on all of its tables that install Resources. That's why this model works well. IIRC, all of the WiX CustomActions that install Resources work this way as well. I learned this from the MSI SDK a long tim

[WiX-users] Problem with MessageResult in DTF?

I'm trying to implement a files in use dialog and I've noticed a discrepancy between the values in Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.MessageResult and the values of the dialog box command ID's in WinUser.h. Here's what I see in MessageResult: public enum MessageResult {

Re: [WiX-users] question about upgrades and instance transforms

I leave the upgrade code the same for all instances. I have a dialog asking the user whether they'd like to upgrade an existing instance, or install a new instance (only if an existing instance is detected). If the user selects to upgrade an existing instance, I store the product code of that

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

In article , "Neil Sleightholm" writes: > I think you missed the point. I can see there are two different entry = > points, one for install the other for uninstall but what I can't see is = > the condition that says to run one on install and the other on = > uninstall. (Using the SQL one wa

Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions

What happens when the data value you need contains what appears to be the delimiter between independent properties within the CustomActionData class? "semi-colon"... -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:52 PM To: Ge

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

In article <499e7ecd.8000...@wixtoolset.org>, Rob Mensching writes: > Using conditions to control your CustomAction install/uninstall > behaviors is primitive and usually insufficient... but the most > visible. Data driven CustomActions that modify machine state via > Resources should r

Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI

You could try an administrative install: msiexec /a xxx.msi Jim Williams -Original Message- From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:james.macdiar...@eds.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:05 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Files in

[WiX-users] don't put searchable stuff on your signature pls.

I'd like to complain... I tried to find what condition should I use to find if AJAX Extensions is installed, it's impossible because some1 u must say is very active and that's good, great, have this signature full of products and architectures, which makes hard to find information about that stu

Re: [WiX-users] IUSR_XXXX and IWAM_XXXX

I'm basically automating a currently "manual" process, and it's on our list of things to do. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:42 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] I

[WiX-users] Files in an MSI

Is there any way to extract the files to be installed from an MSI package? Thanks, Jim -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open

Re: [WiX-users] creating wix extensions

Hey Sean, I think you just need to have the table in the DB (can be empty) and then create records for it. See this for a start. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370072(VS.85).aspx Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Fri, Feb

Re: [WiX-users] question about upgrades and instance transforms

Anyone have any thoughts on this? In my mind I am thinking that I would need to transform the Upgrade Code for each instance and the values in the upgrade table to match for windows installer to properly identify the specific instance I wanted to upgrade such that in my newer installer "Instance1"

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

> Windows Installer does not commit files to the GAC until > InstallFinalize > (the end of the transaction). This prevents GAC assemblies from being > used or even referenced really during the installation transaction. I > think this design limitation is the root of your issue. So, now I know th

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions in fragments

You can also have an empty component group and add reference to it from the product file. - this is what I do :^) -Original Message- From: Frederico Rico Apostolo [mailto:frederico.apost...@vantyx.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:49 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer X

[WiX-users] Conditions in fragments

I'm using v3 votive in vs2005 and I lost sometime trying to have a fragment with only launch conditions, I've realized that even with compile propriety in the solution that fragment was ignored, unless I had a propriety or a custom action in that fragment linked or sub linked to the , just a war

Re: [WiX-users] creating wix extensions

Hi Bob: It's not static data, it's dynamically picked up during install. If I can create a table and add data to this table (in ca's), this would suffice nicely. Any help apreciated as to how to do this. Cheers Sean. -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] SILENT ISNTALLATION

Do you want the text file to be read during ONLY silent installs or both interactive and silent installs? If both, schedule the CA somewhere before costing in both the UI and the Execute sequence. Attribute it to run only once. If only silent, schedule the CA somewhere before costing in only t

Re: [WiX-users] SILENT ISNTALLATION

> I want my installer to be silent installation. for that I want to pass > the > values to all the properties. > I can want to give all the values in a text file and read them. But my > doubt > is when to shedule this custom action? > before executing the msi > msiexec /i /q aa.msi INSTALLDIR= MYPR

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio Integration Question

Hi, this is a Visual Studio Add-in that you are referring to. You can create a Visual Studio add-in by using the new project wizard, and select the add-in project type beneath the Other Project Types -> Extensibility. There is some documentation at MSDN, but I have found the best guidance to be

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

Thanks Rob, the mist is starting to clear. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Fri 20/02/2009 09:58 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML t

Re: [WiX-users] question about upgrades and instance transforms

Hello Amy, I have been through this, here's my experience. By the way, if some one can tell me there's a better way, I'd love to know. Most of this is not wix specific, but can be implemented with WIX. Some of it is bootstrap stuff. I assume you want to upgrade each instance independentl

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

There is a helper function in wcautil that is usually a tell tale sign you've found the code ::WcaGetComponentToDo(). The old school way (most of serverca uses the old school) is to call WcaIsInstalling()/WcaIsReInstalling()/WcaIsUninstalling() to determine the scheduling. WcaGetComponentToDo

Re: [WiX-users] rouble registering .NET assembly from GAC into COM+

Windows Installer does not commit files to the GAC until InstallFinalize (the end of the transaction). This prevents GAC assemblies from being used or even referenced really during the installation transaction. I think this design limitation is the root of your issue. Don Benson wrote: > I am

Re: [WiX-users] ProgressText during Custom actions Execution

Something like this should do it: Doing something... Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Kusuma Sudheer Kumar (Tata Consultancy Services) [mailto:v-kku...@microsoft.com] Sent: Fri 20

[WiX-users] ProgressText during Custom actions Execution

Hi, I am calling my Custom actions After InstallFinalize Event. Thing is that, I am doing various actions inside my Custom action and it takes some time to execute all of them. Rather than user waiting to see what is happening, I want to send the Pr

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

I don't suppose you could point me in the direction of the code that controls that for one for the WiX CA's so I can learn how to do it. Thanks Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Bob Arnson [mail

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

I think you missed the point. I can see there are two different entry points, one for install the other for uninstall but what I can't see is the condition that says to run one on install and the other on uninstall. (Using the SQL one was probably a bad example as that has an override condition

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

Thanks for the explanation. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] Sent: Thu 19/02/2009 23:52 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF - in