[WiX-users] WiX 3.5.0626 missing VS2010 Project Types?

I just installed WiX 3.5.0626 and do not have the WiX project types with Visual Studio now. Does anyone know what happened? The 3.5.0605 has them in place, but every build after that does not. John --

Re: [WiX-users] service failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient priviledge to start system services.

Problem solved. ServiceControl's name is wrong. Thanks Lian -Original Message- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 9:40 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] service failed to start. Verify that you have

[WiX-users] registering an MMC snap-in

My understanding from documentation on MSDN is that installutil shouldn't be used to register the MMC 3.0 snap-in in actual deployment. What then is the correct way to register an MMC snap-in with a Windows Installer built with Wix? I'm currently using Wix 3.5 since that's what had the VS2010

Re: [WiX-users] registering an MMC snap-in

You'll need to follow the manual registration process, and build the registry entries yourself. There is no extension to handle this as-is. A search on MSDN should get you the results you need, depending on the platform you used to develop the snap in. Heat may be able to harvest the registry

[WiX-users] WiX or MSI Dialog Size under Windows 7

Hi - wondering if anyone else has noticed this. Under Windows 7 - the MSI dialog windows have been stretched and are slightly larger than on Vista. This means that the dialog and banner artwork is also stretched - which can affect the quality of the dialog and banner artwork. Wondering if this