Re: [WiX-users] How do I add both a HKLM and a HKCU key to the registry?

2009-10-25 Thread Rob Mensching
If you mark your custom action as a 64-bit action it should run in a 64-bit process. I haven't tried it with DTF since I write all my custom actions in C/C++. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Dave Kolb d...@dotnetcodeslingers.comwrote: Good information Blair and thanks. I did not know about the

Re: [WiX-users] Folder permission question

2009-10-25 Thread Rob Mensching
CreateFolder does not delete folders. I do believe that Permission element will explictily set the ACLs on the directory though. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Balu Swaminathan bswa...@hotmail.comwrote: Hello All: Is it possible to author a wix file which can grant permission to a folder

Re: [WiX-users] How do I add both a HKLM and a HKCU key to the registry? And THANKS!

2009-10-25 Thread Dave Kolb
Good to know for future reference as I have take Blair's good advice and no longer fool with CA's to touch the registry or the event source and do those with wix elements. My only custom action left decodes a des256 string to get credentials for when I create the service and that works well.

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question on Multi Language Installer

2009-10-25 Thread Markus Karg
Rob, my suggestions to improve the documentation are below. If you think that this information is *explicitly* found in the existing documentation, I would be glad if you could post the particular excerpt here (maybe I just missed them). :-) (1) wix.chm shall contain a note how to author a .wxl

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question on Multi Language Installer

2009-10-25 Thread Markus Karg
Just answered to this implicitly in my answer to Rob's request for doc improvements. :-) Thanks for all Markus -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Samstag, 24. Oktober 2009 23:18 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question on Multi Language Installer

2009-10-25 Thread Markus Karg
Oops, forgot one item: -- SNIP -- light.exe myinstaller.wixobj -cultures:en-us;en -loc mystrings_en-US.wxl -loc mystrings_en.wxl -ext WixUIExtension -out myinstaller-en-us.msi This will cause light to build an en-us installer first using localization variables from the en-US

[WiX-users] String concatenation/formatting.

2009-10-25 Thread Vova Froimchuk
Hi, I'm completely new to WiX, and my search in HowTos and reference didn't give me a desired answer. Is there any way to concatenate string. My problem is to write a path of one of the installed files to registry inside *quotation marks*. Using *Value=[DirName]FileName.exe * code writes the path

Re: [WiX-users] Folder permission question

2009-10-25 Thread Benjamin Podszun
In other words, PermissionEx should work, imho. On Oct 25, 2009 7:17 AM, Rob Mensching r...@robmensching.com wrote: CreateFolder does not delete folders. I do believe that Permission element will explictily set the ACLs on the directory though. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Balu Swaminathan

[WiX-users] Having trouble if uninstall. The installed product does not match the installation source.

2009-10-25 Thread danimian
Hello, i want to uninstall the product but getting the following message The installed product does not match the installation source(s). Until a matching source is provided or the installed product and source are synchronized, this action can not be performed. I tried with other softwares to

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question on Multi Language Installer

2009-10-25 Thread Rob Mensching
Great, specifics. Can you capture them in a bug (or multiple bugs) so we knock them down and not lose them in email. On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Markus Karg markus.k...@gmx.net wrote: Rob, my suggestions to improve the documentation are below. If you think that this information is

[WiX-users] WiX API

2009-10-25 Thread Leo Leong
Can someone kindly point me to any samples in using WiX extensions to generate WiX source files? Thanks. Leo -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need

Re: [WiX-users] String concatenation/formatting.

2009-10-25 Thread Dave Kolb
What variable set does #FileId come from? I don't recognize the # syntax. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:31 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] String