Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best?

I got my 64 bit C# Custom Action running just fine and it can set some properties that I can use to set my account and password on my ServiceInstall element. Thanks to everyone. Wix is pretty cool! I have two other questions though: 1. When my CA sets properties they print in the log How can

Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best?

1. There are several issues that are resolved by using DTF to run managed code custom actions, among which is a problem whereby if a custom action instance of msiexec loads the managed runtime and is reused for a different action, it can't load a different version of the runtime (if needed). By

Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best?

To report what I found on my questions: 1. I guess the !(var.Property_XXX_Password) syntax is a pre-processor variable and not a property! 2. Property Id=Property_XXX_Password Hidden=yes/ --- this worked to hide the password was replaced with *'s! - Dave -Original Message- From:

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade Detection (FindRelatedProducts) with EmbeddedUI

You certainly can. You just can't easily alter the UI due to the upgrade. EmbeddedUI was intended to provide a replacement for ExternalUI if the only reason for using a bootstrapper was to avoid using InternalUI. Since most bootstrappers make all of their determinations and then call the packages

Re: [WiX-users] installing a file to more than one directory

You can also create a second component with a CopyFile element in it. -Original Message- From: AG Crum [mailto:crum.and...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:23 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] installing a file to more than

Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best?

Good information thanks! -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 3:01 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best? 1. There are several issues that

Re: [WiX-users] Problems with deactivating a component while package removal

Guten Tag Blair, am Samstag, 10. Oktober 2009 um 23:58 schrieben Sie: What are the criteria used to determine which of the four components operates on the file? The components are bound to a feature for each component which is designed to change exactly one config value. I have a feature and

[WiX-users] Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who builds WIX and helps support it, this mailing list and the documentation and examples! Got my 64 and 32 bit installs running with CA's that dynamically set the ServiceInstall account and password tags and create registry sources for my application and two services!

Re: [WiX-users] Thanks!

were you able to get this to work completely through CA or did u install the service through WIX?can u share snipet of code if u were able to do this in WIX; thnx From: Dave Kolb [mailto:d...@dotnetcodeslingers.com] Sent: Sun 10/11/2009 7:15 PM To:

[WiX-users] LCID and language/culture fallback

Hi, My installer has a wixproj for each culture/locale. For example, I have LCID=1028 for Chinese-Taiwan, LCID=1033 for en-US. However, this requires one wixproj for each culture/locale instead of each language. For example, Chinese-Taiwan culture and Chinese-Hongkong culture cannot share one

Re: [WiX-users] Thanks!

I installed the service with WIX using the ServiceInstall element. What snippet are you looking for? - Dave -Original Message- From: Jahanzeb Khan [mailto:jk...@commondesk.com] Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 9:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] LCID and language/culture fallback

I've built several cultures using one wixproj. If you are using votive, the setting is in the wixproj properties window in the Build tab. Otherwise simply make a semi-colon delimited list of cultures (e.g. zh-TW; en-US) as a property called Cultures. produ...@language can be set using a

[WiX-users] CopyFile Question

I want to copy files from the [source]\Files\ directory to the root of the target directory. I added the following line into the main executable component. CopyFile Id=MyFiles SourceName=*.* SourceProperty=EXTRAFILESDIR DestinationProperty=MYINSTALLDIR Delete =no / It works, but on uninstall,

[WiX-users] Shortcut Names

Is there a way to set the displayed name of a shortcut via property, rather than static text? If so, how? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Shortcut-Names-tp3806142p3806142.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] How to modify a file during install using a CA

Yes, that is the approach I went with to get it to work, and it worked beautifully, so as it turns out, I was basically just wondering why I couldn't access the installer properties in a deferred action. Thanks for the answer, it helped a bit with my understanding of the beast called Windows

[WiX-users] Out Of Office Reply

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[WiX-users] Using resource strings but not localizing the MSI

I have another problem with my installer, or rather, not so much a problem as an annoyance. I have collected all string in my WiX project in a .wxl file, like this: WixLocalization Culture=en-us xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization;        String