[WiX-users] Heat and Components and Features and JBOF

So I tried to move from Tallow to Heat because, well, when I use Tallow, I have to manually edit Tallow's output to delete short filenames so it works with WiX3... Particularly challenging part of my projects is to generate WiX files for sample input/output. This sample input/output is on the ord

Re: [WiX-users] P2 Question: How to debug and read log file

I don't have an answer for #1, but as for reading the log, I've found wilogutl.exe (from the MSI SDK) to be useful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372811(VS.85).aspx There is a Annotated Windows Installer Log word document here: http://blogs.technet.com/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/04

Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedUI Install Execute Sequence

Thanks Jason. I also arrived at this conclusion too and the only thing I haven't figured out is how to access the session (to change properties). I've analyzed a verbose msiexec log to see how the WixUI does things. WixUI can do events to set properties and WixUI can also call a custom action (and

Re: [WiX-users] P2 Question: How to debug and read log file

Richard's got a log description here: http://blogs.technet.com/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/04/02/How-to-Interpret-Windows-Installer-Logs.aspx The general issue here is that you shouldn't even be running Gacutil.exe. For one thing, I don't believe it's legal to redist as you're doing, and you

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrap an MSI to pass in parameters

achandrapano wrote: > I am trying to create a bootstrapper to my MSI so I can pass in the logging > verbosity and log file location to msiexec. I have looked at setupbld.exe > but it doesn't seem to be able to pass in parameters. I want someway to set > logging verbosity and location of log files w

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

little.forest wrote: > But in our case, I'm afraid we couldn't take ownership for that key. The > reason is, we're not trying to create a component with a key, but trying to > change an existing key's value. Actually, our application is a WPF > application. We need to make "Windows Presentation

Re: [WiX-users] Publish order

Cranshaw, George wrote: > Ah this seems like it may be happening, but looking at the > implementation of the WixUIExtention WelcomeEulaDialog, it seems it > would have the same problem as it tries to use multiple SpawnDialogs > also. > There are odd rules about it; I think it's possible if the

Re: [WiX-users] Now Hiring - Austin, TX

Christopher Not willing to relocate, but if you hear of anything in the Boston area, please let me know. Thanks Lou Elston -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:33 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subj