On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:17:32 -0700, Blair wrote:
Blair,
the last time I heard this question mentioned from some of the developers,
maybe Rob, the answer always was that the only real reason for short names was
that some old Novel servers couldn't cope with long names and removing this
would
That and if you try to use the install an MSI over HTTP (which is such a
pain to deal with it isn't worth it) the Windows Installer will use short
names as well. Oh, and the user can technically speaking always pass in the
SHORTFILENAMES Property and force your MSI to use short filenames.
I don't
Unfortunately, the WiX toolset does not provide a standard CustomAction to
support this scenario today. Thus you'd need to write your own. Writing
CustomActions a bit of reading the MSI SDK to understand all the scenarios.
In your case you want to use Properties to pass the data in and out of the
I think the point is all of this is pointless and yes, quite useless to the
vast majority of the world.
Case in point.. Rename SomeDotNetAssembly.dll to SomeDo~1.dll or some other
hashed/transformed representation like WiX does and try referencing the classes
in it after it's installed. The
Dave Kolb wrote:
Is there any way to control the # of service start attempts on
ServiceControl or elsewhere in the .msi file?
No, MSI doesn't offer that configurability.
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Robert O'Brien wrote:
in the wix 3.5 release work is a file | new | project | wix | patch project
template going to eventually get included?
There's an open feature request but nobody's implemented it yet.
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Deepin Jose wrote:
Is there any way to automatically resize the button as the button text
increases?
No; you need the controls to be large enough for all languages you support.
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Peter Shirtcliffe wrote:
Bob, could you tell us why this is the case ? The SDK seems to imply
that you can use UI dialogs as long as you respect the UILevel property
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368281(VS.85).aspx and dont
use it to report errors back to the installer.
Is it
Dan Vasilov wrote:
However the toolset raises an error about the dialogs being defined twice.
If you customize your UI, you need to replace the WixUI set fragment
entirely so there aren't two dialogs at the same time with the same name.
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Alastair Smith wrote:
Is there a recommended way of accomplishing these actions inside an MSI
package? Presumably it will need a custom action. Would it be a simple task
to add this behaviour to the Util Extension?
Not necessarily simple but I suspect the logic would be similar to the
Igor Paniushkin wrote:
I have three dialogs which have the same edit boxes (5 edit boxes), but
values should end-up in different properties, what is the best approach?
Should I create three separate dialogs which will be different only in
names of properties and some dialog description and
Blair wrote:
What I am about to say is only a semi-informed opinion. I know the members
of the core WiX team although I wasn't in attendance when this extension was
added, I am confident in my conjectures given my experience in this space
and in the way that the teams that tend to contribute
Don't forget that the WI team are still living back before UNICODE was invented.
WI, the team that time forgot.
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:27 PM
To: d...@tramontana.co.hu; General
There are some deployment tools (Radia) that support only Short file
name deployment of msis.
On Oct 17, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Jeremy Farrell
jfarr...@pillardata.com wrote:
Don't forget that the WI team are still living back before UNICODE
was invented.
WI, the team that time forgot.
This worked quite well to start my service instead of using ServiceControl
and in my case, and lets my service install even if it does not start after
trying only once which is what I wanted. I do use ServiceControl for
uninstall though! Thanks for all the help that is given in this list! - Dave
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