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

2009-05-31 Thread Sascha Beaumont
As mentioned in another thread, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dkkx7f79.aspx states that gacutil is for dev purposes only and should not be used in production. For analyzing log files, try "wilogutl.exe" from the Windows Installer SDK. Regarding install/uninstall, Virtual Machines and Sna

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to run another program before launching the main application

2009-05-31 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Sorry, I've got no experience with .NET so I can't really help you there. However Rob makes a good point, why do it manually if it's already supported elsewhere in WiX? Also, from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dkkx7f79.aspx there's this note: > Gacutil.exe is only for development purpos

Re: [WiX-users] Adding progressbar text on Add/Remove panel

2009-05-31 Thread Sascha Beaumont
No idea sorry, adding was all that I needed to get progress text during uninstallation (was quite stumped for a while). You could try doing a verbose uninstall (msiexec /x package.msi /l*v uninst.log) and analyze the log files, along with checking the MSI itself with Orca that error messages are a

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

2009-05-31 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Nick, I understand your frustration, in fact have expressed them myself. Bottom line is no, Heat currently isn't setup to handle this volume of files in a fully Windows Installer compliant way. This is a known design limitation for the v3.0 release. However, I wouldn't throw the tool away. The