Re: [WiX-users] Push button custom action problem

What exactly is the problem? Does it still works on Uninstall? Sorry I forgot that it also needs to run on Install mode: Not Installed or MaintenanceMode = Repair or Not Installed or MaintenanceMode = Modify Regards, Romeo sandun css wrote: It doesn't seem to fix the problem :( On

Re: [WiX-users] Creating x86 and x64 MSIs

I have found a solution using MSBuild by inserting Win64=yes on every components generated by Heat. Thanks anyway... Regards, Romeo Bob Arnson-6 wrote: Romeo Salayo Jr. wrote: I having the same problem, I need to create a 32 and 64bit installers automatically with a single source file.

Re: [WiX-users] How do I check UserName and Password

That was strange... before i'm having the same problem with checking username and password. The problem was the property was not set instantly when I click the next button, I need to press it twice to set the property correctly but when I added Order attributes, it works like a charm. I'm using

Re: [WiX-users] Calling a external setup package

Hey Jim, There is not an official way to do this at the time. You could develop your own bootstrapper that would launch the sequence. It is highly recommend that you don't use a custom action to launch a secondary process while installing. On a positive note, WIX is currently in the process of

[WiX-users] Referencing Binary file in managed CA

Hi, Is there a way we can refer any binary file in our managed CA? Like, here I have a scenario, I need to refer XML file in my CA for some functionality. I don’t want to copy it locally first to some folder and then use it. Do anyone has better solution for this? Thanks, Akash

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing Binary file in managed CA

ADD-ON what exactly i mean that, MSI hsould copy this file at particular location, and i can refer that physical location while executing my managed CA, where am using this XML Thanks, Akash On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM, akash bhatia 911ak...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way we

Re: [WiX-users] setupbld bootstrapper 64bit

Bob Arnson a écrit : Frédéric Viollet wrote: -I want to install a 64 bit product (my exes and dll are natively compiled for 64bit) on a 64bit OS -I build an x64 MSI (Platform=x64, Win64=yes in Components, etc...) -I build a 32bit bootstrapper using setupbld -This setup will be able to

[WiX-users] Radio button group with all buttons unchecked by default in WIX3

Hi people :) I want to implement a radio button group, so that initially all buttons are unchecked. In WiX2 this was possible to do in the following way: RadioButtonGroup Property=VERSIONCHECKALWAYS RadioButton Text={\DlgFont8}amp;Yes. (Recommended) Value=1 X=5 Y=0 Width=250

[WiX-users] Getting started

Hello everyone on this list, I'm almost finished on my application written in C# in Visual Studio 2008, mainly on Vista (mainly - sometimes on XP when I'm on the road), and I'm looking to use WiX to handle installation. My requirements are, i believe, quite simple. I have an exe plus a couple of

Re: [WiX-users] Is it safe to use a CustomAction longer than 255 bytes?

Bob, What are the consequences of an excessively long command line? A truncated command line could be dealt with, but if the result is undefined behaviour and a destabilised msi, that's another matter. Thanks Dominic -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]

Re: [WiX-users] votive causing massive pauses in Visual Studio

Latest build of Votive is 3.0.5106.0. Try updating it see if it fixes your issue - http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/wix3.feed Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with

[WiX-users] cabinet file can not be found if the file path contains double byte characters

Hi I found that my setup file (.msi) could not load the cabinet files if the file directory contain double byte characters such as Chinese. It seems that the msi is not unicode since if I changed the system locale to Chinese, the cabinet files will be loaded successfully. I've made the product

[WiX-users] fix/disable LGHT1076 (WiX) warnings

Hello, There are 2 types of warnings that I don't know how to deal with: 1. - warning LGHT1076 : ICE03: String overflow (greater than length permitted in colum n); Table: RadioButton, Column: Text, Key(s): SQMIAGREE.1 This warning is a result of too long text attached to a

[WiX-users] ClickThrough for Windows Forms application

I consider using the autoupdate technology provided by the ClickThrough project for a .NET 2.0 Windows Forms application. Could somebody recommend ClickThrough from its own experiences? Where can I found additional information (tutorial, examples) for it? Regards, Frank

[WiX-users] WIX : Java Version Opening New Browser issue

Dear All, I have made an installer. I want to check java version after installation. That I checked using RegistrySearch. Now I want to launch my application only if java version is 1.5 or greater, otherwise browser window should get opened with sun.com to all download latest version. What

Re: [WiX-users] Calling a external setup package

On an even more positive note this is fully supported by http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/. You will soon need something that checks whether your .exe needs to be run, dotnetinstaller will do it for you. -Original Message- From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] Sent:

[WiX-users] WIX : window.open() error

Dear All, I have in .wxs file : CustomAction Id=caid BinaryKey=bk JScriptCall=Main / Respective js file have function Main() as : function Main() { alert(Welcome); window.open(www.google.com); } It wont works. Anyone having ideas??? Thanks.

Re: [WiX-users] WIX : window.open() error

window.open() is using the OM from the browser, which isn't available in MSI. These are shell based scripts, and you'll need to look up the reference for that, MSDN probably has all the info you'll want. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:39 AM, ron cooper roncooper...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I

[WiX-users] How do I fully uninstall Services?

I have some Services that in my install. Everything seems to install fine. When I go to uninstall the application all of the physical files and folder are removed however when I look in the Services window, they are not getting removed from there. Any thoughts on how to remove them on uninstall

Re: [WiX-users] How do I fully uninstall Services?

I think you want servicecont...@remove='Uninstall'. Rob MacDiarmid, James D wrote: I have some Services that in my install. Everything seems to install fine. When I go to uninstall the application all of the physical files and folder are removed however when I look in the Services window,

Re: [WiX-users] How do I fully uninstall Services?

Are you using ServiceInstall? It should uninstall fine. There's a strange issue that appears in some OS versions where if you have the service control panel window open, the service will be locked and may fail to uninstall, or require a reboot. -Original Message- From: MacDiarmid, James

[WiX-users] How to fill the ListView table from a Custom Action ?

In my installer, I want to use a ListView to display the list of older products of our company that must be uninstalled first. To do so, I would like to fill the ListView table in a custom action written with DTF and scheduled after AppSearch in InstallUISequence. Here the code I have written in

Re: [WiX-users] How do I fully uninstall Services?

In each ServiceControl element make sure you have Remove=uninstall. That should do it. -Original Message- From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:james.macdiar...@eds.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:57 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] How

Re: [WiX-users] How do I check UserName and Password

Hi Romeo, I'm using Wix Version 3.0.4721.0 (Beta). Whether it will be the bug in Wix v3. log is here when I clicked Next 4 to 5 times, Action 23:55:06: LicenseAgreementDlg. Dialog created MSI (c) (68:4C) [23:55:07:296]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding LicenseAccepted property. Its value is '1'.

[WiX-users] Heat and msbuild

Hi All, I'm trying to find out how I can add a task to a wixproj file that will call heat, something like this: heat dir Folder -gg -sfrag -template:module -out heat.wxs And additionally, I've written a heat extension that writes the module name, which I've specified with a -m tag. How

Re: [WiX-users] How to fill the ListView table from a Custom Action ?

Checkout: http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/07/dynamic-windows-installer-ui.html The table is different, but you should get the idea. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and msbuild

Try Exec Command=pathto\heat.exe dir quot;Folderquot; -gg -sfrag -template:module -out quot;heat.wxsquot;/ Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and msbuild

Hey Nick, Try this: Target Name=BeforeBuild HeatDirectory Directory=..\..\HeatDir OutputFile=heat.wxs GenerateGuidsNow=true SuppressFragments=true Template=module ToolPath=$(WixToolPath) / In order to include your own switch you should add a

[WiX-users] KeyPath File with WixVariable in @Source

Hi, I've just noticed an unexpected behaviour while using a WixVariable in f...@source attribute. For example: WixVariable Id=AppName Value=TestApp/ [...] File Source=SourceDir\!(wix.AppName).exe/ [...] The doc states, that if I don't specify Name or Id, WiX will generate them for me. When I

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started

1. Which version did you download (from where)? 2. What features did you choose to install? richard develyn wrote: Hello everyone on this list, I'm almost finished on my application written in C# in Visual Studio 2008, mainly on Vista (mainly - sometimes on XP when I'm on the road), and I'm

Re: [WiX-users] How do I fully uninstall Services?

Ok Thanks to everyone that responded to this. It doesn't appear that I was using the ServiceControl Element. -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:16 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Weird ICE61

Amazing. sigh/ I'll see if I can't forward this to them via some other means. Alex Ivanoff wrote: I would have, if they had contact us link on http://blogs.msdn.com/Windows_Installer_Team/. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Wednesday, March

Re: [WiX-users] fix/disable LGHT1076 (WiX) warnings

1. ICE messages are documented in the MSI SDK. They are controlled by the Windows Installer team so the consequences of ignoring the warnings should be documented there. 2. There is a feature request out there to allow suppressing certain ICE messages. It's a good feature request.

[WiX-users] Accessing localization strings from custom actions routine

Is there a way by which I can retrieve/access the localization strings (in .wxl file) from within my custom actions routine? Is there any API to access the localization strings? Thanks. Sudripta. -- Apps built with the

Re: [WiX-users] How to deal with Error 1925 on Win2k8

Anyone? I was able to work around by 1) Setting the AlwaysInstallElevated = 1 and DisableMsi = 0 in HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Insaller and AlwaysInstallElevated = 1 in HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer and that seemed to do the trick. But is this like a

Re: [WiX-users] How to fill the ListView table from a Custom Action?

Thank you Christopher, It works. I was just missing the TEMPORARY modifier in the query. Olivier -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:08 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Weird ICE61

Thank you. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:07 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Weird ICE61 Amazing. sigh/ I'll see if I can't forward this to them via some other

Re: [WiX-users] Weird ICE61

FYI, sounds like this issue has been fixed... we'll need to pick up a new drop of the MSI SDK to get the new ICEs... not sure what exact timeline that is but it'll be something aligned with Win7. Alex Ivanoff wrote: I would have, if they had contact us link on

Re: [WiX-users] Accessing localization strings from custom actions routine

Yes. Those strings replace row data in your MSI. Your CA can query any MSI tables data. Sudripta Nandy (Sarangsoft Corporation) wrote: Is there a way by which I can retrieve/access the localization strings (in .wxl file) from within my custom actions routine? Is there any API to access

Re: [WiX-users] KeyPath File with WixVariable in @Source

File/@Id and @Name are generated during compile. !(wix.) variables are resolved during bind. However, you could use a preprocessor variable $(var.) becaue the order looks like this: preprocess - candle.exe compile - candle.exe link - light.exe bind - light.exe Kamil Mierzejewski wrote:

[WiX-users] Looping through registry keys

Our products require Oracle. The default Oracle Home on the target machine needs to be determined in order to configure the product. This value is stored in the registry but unfortunately it is not easy to retrieve due to the convoluted way Oracle configures multiple homes. Basically the

[WiX-users] Checking Spaces in the Install Path

Dear everybody, In the last year, I had a question which nobody could help me in, but I hope somebody is able to give me a clue now. I have to create an installer for a program, and I did everything in it. There is an important issue to check: The user cannot select an install path which has

[WiX-users] Showing progress bar messages using MsiProcessMessage

Hi, Has anyone successfully tried the example shown in this MSDN page? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367525(VS.85).aspx I’m trying to use the sample code to show some messages in my MSI, but I just can’t see any text in the progress bar. Can someone please help me with showing

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Update Tutorial?

Have you looked at this? http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/patching.htm Thanks, Brian Rogers Intelligence removes complexity. - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, waLIEN ad...@walien.com wrote: Hello all! Does anyone happen to have a good tutorial on how

[WiX-users] File Selection instead of Folder selection

Hi all Does WIX allow 'file selection' instead of 'folder selection' in its dialogs ? Thanks, Jyo -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform

Re: [WiX-users] Accessing localization strings from custom actions routine

Can you enumerate on this? I want to define some UI strings in the wxl file. I am not assigning these strings to any UI elements or properties in the wix file. I am creating a dialog in my custom actions routine and want to fetch these strings to be shown on the UI controls like buttons, labels

Re: [WiX-users] File Selection instead of Folder selection

Only folder, not file selection. -Original Message- From: Jyothsna Padavala [mailto:jpadav...@industrialorigami.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] File Selection instead of Folder selection Hi all