Re: [WiX-users] Inconsistent modification date time of Patched Binary on different timezone.

Thanks Heath for your reply.   But the problem i am facing is different. Let me throw some more light on the issue. I am having my product installation with some binaries installed at some path on two different machines having different time zone (one is GMT and other is GMT -8:00), now i want 

Re: [WiX-users] MergeModules vs. WixLib

karthik.shenoy wrote: I created a sample project as mentioned below in WiXlib and gave the reference to same in MSI in visual studio through Add- references. Installation completes but neither the directory is created nor the files are installed. Adding it as a project reference makes it

Re: [WiX-users] How to selectively NOT install file if file already exists on system

Could you share the vbscript? I'd be interested to use it if I may. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:31 PM To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to execute an exe file during or after myinstall

Thanks for the suggestion. Does it matter where that would go in the InstallExecuteSequence or can I add it to the end of the list? I suppose I could try it and see. :) -Original Message- From: Jacques Eloff [mailto:repst...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 6:14 PM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] How much of patch pcp database makes it into msp?

Tony Juricic wrote: In particular, can I somehow get MediaSrcPropName value, from *.pcp ImageFamilies table, using DTF on my patch *.msp file? The doc says: The value entered into the Source field of the new Media table entry of the upgraded image. So it's available. But only very

Re: [WiX-users] Preventing apps from closing during silent upgrades

Yes I tried both alternate settings. Unfortnately, I didn't see any difference in behaviour. Tim On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: Tim Haloun wrote: On Vista though, according to thishttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372466(VS.85).aspx and

Re: [WiX-users] Inconsistent modification date time of Patched Binary on different timezone.

Do these binaries have a version? Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: varun kataria [mailto:varunk0...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:33 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Inconsistent modification date time of Patched

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to execute an exe file during or after myinstall

Ok I tried what you suggested and I'm getting the following error: Unresolved reference to symbol 'CustomAction:Start_NFTS_Listener' in section product. I also added this Binary Id=NFTS30Listener.exe src=D:\Projects\NFTS\Src\apps\nfts\binaries\NFTS30Listener.exe / ...above the line that you

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to execute an exe file during or after myinstall

Hi Jim So all three elements have the same parent (product/fragment)? Your source should look something like this (Just want to make sure I understand where you're at right now). If you're using Binary, make the ExeCommand attribute an empty string and add the BinaryKey attribute like the example

[WiX-users] Component belong to different features error

I get the error shown below from light, and am not sure how to fix it. I have three different features that each install their own documents, and want to have all three shortcuts listed under one directory and thus one component. How can I get rid of this ice error (other than suppressing the

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to execute an exe file during or aftermyinstall

Ok Thanks, I'll give that a shot. Right now I have the Binary Command and the CustomAction / statement at the bottom of my code after my InstallExecuteSequence / section. All of this is in the same product. Also I was reading on a post in the archives on the net about the wixca.wixlib having to

Re: [WiX-users] How much of patch pcp database makes it into msp?

Thanks Bob but this, unfortunately, does not seem to be true. I am using DTF and code very simple test code: public void ShowPatches() { using (Session ses = Installer.OpenProduct(productCode)) { Database db = ses.Database; TableCollection

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to execute an exe file during or aftermyinstall

Hi No, you shouldn't need to reference it. WixCA provides some built-in custom actions, so if you want to use them then you would set the BinaryKey attribute to WixCA. An example of this is using the CAQuietExec custom action that's provided by the WixCA dll. Thanks, Jacques On Mon, Jun 15,

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to execute an exe file during oraftermyinstall

Ok Thanks Jacques, I'm more confused now than I was this morning when I started and haven't gotten anywhere with this. It shouldn't be this difficult to set up. As far as I can tell, I've got the code in my main.wxs as you mentioned and I keep getting that darn error saying unresolved

Re: [WiX-users] How much of patch pcp database makes it into msp?

The patch sequence information is stored in a table in the MSP directly; unlike the rest of the stuff in the MSP it does NOT get applied to the target product database. So, to get at that table for an installed patch you first need to get the PatchInstallation.LocalPackage, open that package as

[WiX-users] Feature migration during a Major upgrade

Hi, I posted this question on an older thread and haven't heard anything, so I'm wondering if it got through. Sorry if it did. Here is the older thread for reference: http://www.nabble.com/Major-upgrade---feature-migration-td23222720.html During a major upgrade some features that are not

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to execute an exe file during oraftermyinstall

Hi James I noticed a typo in one of my emails. I had NTFS somewhere, instead of NFTS. If you cut/paste from the emails, that might explain the error. Jacques On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:47 PM, MacDiarmid, James D james.macdiar...@eds.com wrote: Ok Thanks Jacques, I'm more confused now than

[WiX-users] Token Replacements in WXS

Hi, We need to do token replacement in the whole file using WIX and I was wondering whether this feature is available in wxs or not. For e.g. I have a text file which has $(Serverersion) at 10 places and I want to replace all the values in the text file using token replacement feature if any

Re: [WiX-users] Token Replacements in WXS

Hey Pankaj, Why would you use WiX and the preprocessor for this? Why not just use a text replacer? Do you need this to be automated? You could add var. in the toke and then yes, you could use the preprocessor. $(var.Serverversion) and then pass the value to candle.exe on the command line

Re: [WiX-users] Token Replacements in WXS

You could also use an environmental variable and set it before running the installer. $(env.ServerVersion) *Mike Rerick* *Sr. Software Engineer* [image: Google Docs] http://www.iwsinc.com*ImageWare Systems, Inc.* 9200 S.E. Sunnybrook Blvd., Suite 170 Clackamas, OR

[WiX-users] DataDriving a QuietExec-style CA

I have a large number of files that need to be processed one file at a time by an internal EXE tool at install-time. Currently I’m trying to generate custom actions for each file as follows (as in http://damianblog.com/2008/02/21/configuring-http-namespace-reservations-on-vista-using-wix/):

Re: [WiX-users] Token Replacements in WXS

Just to correct my query I don't want to replce tokens in wxs but need to replace tokens in a text file which is installed by MSI using wxs. Thanks, Pankaj -Original Message- From: Mike Rerick [mailto:mrer...@iwsinc.com] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:11 PM To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] How much of a web application deployment process should be packaged in a WiX MSI?

[Reposting to see if I can get some response] Is it good practice to package the following logics in an MSI using WiX? (Let's say I can assume that the MSI will always be installed on a freshly set-up server OS and that server environment can be controlled.) Install and configure SQL databases

Re: [WiX-users] Token Replacements in WXS

IMO, you should do this as a build step before packaging with WiX. It's trivial to accomplish with MSBuild and the MSBuild Community Tasks. Chris On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Pankaj Agrawal (Infosys Technologies Ltd) v-pa...@microsoft.com wrote: Just to correct my query I don't want to

Re: [WiX-users] How much of a web application deployment process should be packaged in a WiX MSI?

Here are my thoughts. Many in the web world seem to think that websites are published. I.E. you jump through a bunch of manual steps to get the base foundation deployed and from their you just sync out your content. For many in house enterprise applications, this probably works fine for

Re: [WiX-users] Preventing apps from closing during silent upgrades

Tim Haloun wrote: Yes I tried both alternate settings. Unfortnately, I didn't see any difference in behaviour. Never heard of that. You might want to try your question in the MSI newsgroups as WiX is out of the equation. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Component belong to different features error

David Bartmess wrote: I get the error shown below from light, and am not sure how to fix it. I have three different features that each install their own documents, and want to have all three shortcuts listed under one directory and thus one component. Why one component? You can put multiple

Re: [WiX-users] Feature migration during a Major upgrade

Shawn Dwyer wrote: I posted this question on an older thread and haven't heard anything, so I'm wondering if it got through. Sorry if it did. It's all about MSI, not WiX, so you might want to try the MSDN MSI newsgroups. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] DataDriving a QuietExec-style CA

Castro, Edwin G. Castro (Hillsboro) wrote: If I understand correctly I need to two custom actions: one for scheduling (immediate action), and one for doing the work (deferred action). What exactly gets scheduled in the scheduling custom action? The deferred custom action, which isn't

[WiX-users] Problems running VBScript during uninstall in Vista

Hi. I'm working on a WIX project where I need to set a directory path at msi run-time using VBScript. Right now, the msi installs correctly, but I receive an error when I attempt to uninstall from the Control Panel or the msi(Error 1720. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.

Re: [WiX-users] Feature migration during a Major upgrade

Bob Arnson wrote: It's all about MSI, not WiX, so you might want to try the MSDN MSI newsgroups. Thanks Bob! Here is the link to my question on MSDN MSI in case anyone else runs into this issue.

Re: [WiX-users] How much of a web application deployment process should be packaged in a WiX MSI?

Hi Christopher, Thanks a lot for your detailed reply. From your experiences with web applications that have everything contained in a package, do they use WiX to author the MSI? If so, did you encounter any difficulties with authoring the database deployment portions? For me, the biggest