[WiX-users] Reference to Wixproj file

2009-07-14 Thread kathik.shenoy
I don't know if I am talking sense here. But just wanted to know whether it is possible to refer a wixproj in another wixproj. I saw a sample project where they were referring to wixproj file. When I tried to add an wixproj reference to my project, Visual studio puts up an error saying make sure

Re: [WiX-users] Can I control the UI when uninstall

2009-07-14 Thread zhihai guo
Thank you for your answer. And can I disable the cancel button of the prepareDlg and the progressDlg when uninstall? 2009/7/3 Rob Mensching r...@wixtoolset.org This was asked pretty recently. You don't. zhihai guo wrote: Hi Can I control the UI when uninstall in the xml?

Re: [WiX-users] Reference to Wixproj file

2009-07-14 Thread Anton de Wit
Hi, I suppose those references you saw being used were references to .wixlib projects or Wix Library Projects. Those types of projects can indeed be referenced in Wix projects and (afaik) are mainly used for reusable wix sections. Not sure if regular wix projects can be referenced. That would

Re: [WiX-users] Can I control the UI when uninstall

2009-07-14 Thread zhihai guo
In reality I just don't want the uninstall can be interrupted. It is possible? Thank you. 2009/7/14 zhihai guo zhh...@gmail.com Thank you for your answer. And can I disable the cancel button of the prepareDlg and the progressDlg when uninstall? 2009/7/3 Rob Mensching

[WiX-users] Vs90Setup from WixVsExtension

2009-07-14 Thread Anton de Wit
Hi all, new to the list and thought I should start out with a question :) At work we recently migrated to Wix 3 and visual studio 2008. I need to build some installers that will install our visual studio packages. In our previous version we used wix 2 and targeted Visual Studio 2005. At that

Re: [WiX-users] Reference to Wixproj file

2009-07-14 Thread kathik.shenoy
Hi Anton. Thanks for the reply. Project I saw had a reference to wixproj. The reference properties had description as WiX project reference, which is why I felt if wixproj could be referred? -Original Message- From: wix-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] How to localize wix package in this way?

2009-07-14 Thread Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare)
Hi Dirk, Thank you for your reply. I tried the way as you suggested that write an setup.exe with dialog, where the user can select the language. The next button will call the appropriate language msi to install the package. Therefore, the setup.exe is only a small program to perform the

Re: [WiX-users] How to localize wix package in this way?

2009-07-14 Thread Dirk Räder
Hi Chunyan, do you have one msi per language? If so, you could merge them into one msi and call it with the necessary TRANSFORM parameter to use the correct language. I've done that and am pretty satisfied with the outcome. Hope it helps, Dirk 2009/7/14 Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare)

Re: [WiX-users] 64bit package compiling

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Ridd
On 14 Jul 2009, at 05:29, Igor Lemsky wrote: I have x64 Windows XP. I tried to make 64 bit package by setting attribute: Package Id=* Platform=x64 / and during compilation got an error: light.exe : error LGHT0310 : Failed to open package for validation. The most common cause of

Re: [WiX-users] Vs90Setup from WixVsExtension

2009-07-14 Thread Bob Arnson
Anton de Wit wrote: Now I have a problem. I'm using the 5419 build of Wix 3 and started out doing the same. Place files in GAC and create registry keys. If your VSPackage is in the GAC, it's not available until the setup is finalized, after InstallFinalize, so trying to run VS90Setup then

Re: [WiX-users] Can I control the UI when uninstall

2009-07-14 Thread Bob Arnson
zhihai guo wrote: In reality I just don't want the uninstall can be interrupted. Installation can always be interrupted, even without a cancel button. Your setup should tolerate that with proper rollback. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Modular installation

2009-07-14 Thread Bob Arnson
Makrai Jozsef wrote: I could get things this far is to use different product/package codes, which seems to imply different entries in the add/remove progs list. There is no clear ordering between the modules, so making them as upgrades doesn't seem viable. And merge modules, AFAIK, can only be

Re: [WiX-users] 64bit package compiling

2009-07-14 Thread Bob Arnson
Igor Lemsky wrote: I have x64 Windows XP. I tried to make 64 bit package by setting attribute: Package Id=* Platform=x64 / and during compilation got an error: light.exe : error LGHT0310 : Failed to open package for validation. The most common cause of this error is validating an x64

[WiX-users] create installer with dll

2009-07-14 Thread A.S
Hi, I create simple wix installer, I want add 5 *.dll file to my specjal folder in Program Files I can compile without errors or warnings in Visual Studio 2008, but when I run compiled installer, I have only 3 from 5 *dll files.

Re: [WiX-users] Vs90Setup from WixVsExtension

2009-07-14 Thread Anton de Wit
Thanx for your reply! I'll dive into it first thing tomorrow. Cheers, Anton, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: Anton de Wit wrote: Now I have a problem. I'm using the 5419 build of Wix 3 and started out doing the same. Place files in GAC and create

Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit

2009-07-14 Thread Phil Sayers
If you are using the visual studio plugin Votive...to link to wixca.wixlib...add a reference to WixUtilExtension, the same way you would add a reference to any 3rd party assembly. You can find it located here: C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML Toolset 3.{some

Re: [WiX-users] create installer with dll

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Clark
Without a log file it's hard to tell what happened. Try running your installer with a log file msiexec /l*vx installer.log /I Your.msi -Original Message- From: A.S [mailto:ansic.s...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] create installer with dll

2009-07-14 Thread Matthew S. Yost
Out of curiosity, did you mark any off your 5 DLLs as Assembly=.net ? -Original Message- From: Michael Clark [mailto:mcl...@fullarmor.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:17 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] create installer with dll

[WiX-users] The version of sources doesn't correspond to the version of release

2009-07-14 Thread Yan Sklyarenko
Hello WiX Community, I've just done cvs up and built WiX 3.0, but I've got 3.0.5412.0 version as an output, not 3.0.5419.0, which is a release. Does anyone know why version don't correspond? I assumed that starting from July, 4 there should be 5419 revision... Thanks. -- Yan

Re: [WiX-users] Subscribe Edit to SelectionChanged event of ListBox

2009-07-14 Thread Natalia
I thought that this kind of dialog - choosing start menu folder - is rather common... Does anyone have a working sample by any chance? Natalia wrote: Hello all, I'm facing the problem while trying to make a dialog for choosing start menu folder for creating application shortcut. There

Re: [WiX-users] create installer with dll

2009-07-14 Thread A.S
Component Id=SubComponent1 Guid=3AD63215-4F9E-4416-A24F-A5CF91F86329 File Id=Microsoft.Office.Interop Name=Microsoft.Office.Interop.dll Source=../zzz/Microsoft.Office.Interop.dll / /Component Component Id=SubComponent2 Guid=D6C9E1E5-29D2-4bfa-AD24-02982FD8E281

Re: [WiX-users] create installer with dll

2009-07-14 Thread Matthew S. Yost
You may want to check the root folder (C:\) to see the files were placed there. I've had setups in the past in which the files ended up being placed there. Matthew Yost Software Engineer GLD Solutions, Inc. -Original Message- From: A.S [mailto:ansic.s...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: [WiX-users] create installer with dll

2009-07-14 Thread Konstantin Vlasenko
Please remove Name attribute from the file element. Also avoid the hardcoded guids. I hate duplication :) Component Id=SubComponent1 Guid=* File Id=Microsoft.Office.Interop Source=../zzz/Microsoft.Office.Interop.dll / /Component Component Id=SubComponent2 Guid=* File Id=RTM

Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit

2009-07-14 Thread Erica Chang (PROJECT)
It appears that we are still using version 2 of wix, not 3...and so I do not see WixUtilExtension.dll Is there a way to do this in version 2 of wix? From: Phil Sayers [p...@cds-am.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:36 AM To: 'General discussion for

[WiX-users] Cannot deploy a Web Setup project to Web sites by using host headers or IP addresses in Visual Studio 2003

2009-07-14 Thread Jirong Hu
Hi All In this article, MS gives a solution for the above issue: replace DPCA.dll, generate the msi, and run the EnableHostHeaders.js against the msi file to insert a new screen. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821335 Now this project is using Wix 2.0 creating the msi

[WiX-users] How to add a screen in Wix 2?

2009-07-14 Thread Jirong Hu
Hi All This article tells how to add customized screen in Wix 2. It's very easy to use. http://www.dizzymonkeydesign.com/blog/misc/adding-and-customizing-dlgs-in-wix-3/ How can I add a screen in Wix2? We have one project still used Wix2. Thanks Jirong Hu Build Master 780-644-5488 This

Re: [WiX-users] Need a Good Working Sample

2009-07-14 Thread Ravi Patt
I took WiX3.msi and decompiled it using dark.exe. I got the wxs also working. Then, re-compiled the project and was able to successfully install the new msi. Where can I get the Custom Actions and their source? CustomAction Id=CA_SetLatestDevenv_2005 Property=LATEST_DEVENV_EXE

Re: [WiX-users] Modular installation

2009-07-14 Thread Makrai Jozsef
Bob Arnson wrote: This is similar to plugin installations where the plugin later needs to be uninstalled together with the main product. Is there a good solution for these cases? MSI doesn't support that. However, composing a product of multiple MSI packages is increasingly common and the

Re: [WiX-users] Can I control the UI when uninstall

2009-07-14 Thread zhihai guo
Can I make my installation without cancel button? 2009/7/14 Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com zhihai guo wrote: In reality I just don't want the uninstall can be interrupted. Installation can always be interrupted, even without a cancel button. Your setup should tolerate that with proper

[WiX-users] Complete .NET 3.5 sp1 installer bootstrapped into the installer

2009-07-14 Thread Mark Roden
Hi all, I have an application that will be distributed on CD, primarily, to extremely non-technical users who very rarely have internet connections. Some of them are, and I'm not making this up, located in Outer Mongolia. Others are our salespeople who, at tradeshows, will not have access to

Re: [WiX-users] 64bit package compiling

2009-07-14 Thread Igor Lemsky
No, there are no 64 bit files, I just remake x86 installer to x64, and all files is x86. So there are must be no x64 Components. Did anybody test x64 work of light? On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Chris Ridd chrisr...@mac.com wrote: On 14 Jul 2009, at 05:29, Igor Lemsky wrote: I have x64