Re: [WiX-users] Running application after install wizard leaves install wizard unclosable

2010-01-19 Thread Reinier Lamers
Hi, 2010/1/18 Blair os...@live.com: You need to use the Return attribute, and the value you need is asyncNoWait. So, your CustomAction tag should look like this:    CustomAction Id=LaunchLicenseManager BinaryKey=WixCA                  DllEntry=WixShellExec Return=asyncNoWait / It appears

Re: [WiX-users] Running application after install wizard leaves install wizard unclosable

2010-01-19 Thread Reinier Lamers
Hi, 2010/1/19 Reinier Lamers lam...@textkernel.nl: Besides, if the waiting were the problem, I would expect the installer to exit when I quit the application it started. That does not happen however. And in the howto in the manual, the customaction is given as: CustomAction

Re: [WiX-users] Administrative Setup UI

2010-01-19 Thread Pally Sandher
Post the relevant sections of code e.g. the dialog where you ask the user for the installation directory, any associated properties and/or custom actions the section of the directory tree it relates to so we can try see what's going wrong. Also looking at a verbose log (msiexec /a yourmsi /l*vx

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a bootstrap for minor upgrade

2010-01-19 Thread akash bhatia
used cmdbld.exe shipped with WiX 3.0... now eagerly waiting for the Burn utility ( http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/7/14/Lets-talk-about-Burn ) that will be shipped along with WiX 3.5 where we can set some look and feel as well. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:39 PM, akash bhatia

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a bootstrap for minor upgrade

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Sleightholm
used cmdbld.exe shipped with WiX 3.0... I think you mean setupbld.exe Neil -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for

[WiX-users] How can I skip certain actions during upgrade?

2010-01-19 Thread CP YEH
Hi, I have posted a question yesterday about minor upgrade and it seems to me that it would be better to use major upgrade. However, with major upgrade I want to know how I can skip some actions/UIs. Here are my requirements. - I do not want to remove some configuration files that the user has

Re: [WiX-users] Administrative Setup UI

2010-01-19 Thread Blair
Also, everyone that follows you would appreciate if you contribute the fixes back to the community. -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:53 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] How can I skip certain actions during upgrade?

2010-01-19 Thread Blair
There is[are] a property you associate with the previous product(s) that you will remove/replace when performing your upgrade. The UpgradeVersion elements that don't have OnlyDetect set to yes. If any of them are populated then you know that you are upgrading. You can use that in your conditions

Re: [WiX-users] How can I skip certain actions during upgrade?

2010-01-19 Thread CP YEH
Thank you very much for your reply. I am sorry to bother you but it is not quite obvious to me how to alter installer's behaviors. My code does check for upgrade and set certain property if it is upgrade but I just do not know how to pass this value to actions/UIs. For instance, I have a code

Re: [WiX-users] how to create a DisplayResourceDll for ShortCut element

2010-01-19 Thread Lian Jiang
Thanks for reply Blair. My shortcut points to a managed exe instead of a native exe. Can I use a native resource dll for DisplayResourceDll in this way: Component ... Directory=InstallDir File Source=ManagedCode.exe/ Shortcut Id=MainEntry Target=[#ManagedCodeExeFileId]

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a bootstrap for minor upgrade

2010-01-19 Thread akash bhatia
Yeah Neil, thanks for correcting me ... sometimes brain do go wrong doing multitasking :) On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Neil Sleightholm n...@x2systems.comwrote: used cmdbld.exe shipped with WiX 3.0... I think you mean setupbld.exe Neil

[WiX-users] Patching custom actions

2010-01-19 Thread Tony Juricic
At which point in the patching process are custom actions that are executing the updated ones? I have custom actions that execute before and after PatchFiles action. Custom action executing before PatchFiles finds MSI DB already transformed. Based on that I would expect that table containing

Re: [WiX-users] Patching custom actions

2010-01-19 Thread Richard
In article 89030b4a18eccd45978a3a6b639d1f24030ac82...@fl01exmb01.trad.tradestation.com, Tony Juricic tjuri...@tradestation.com writes: At which point in the patching process are custom actions that are executing the updated ones? If they are custom actions that execute out of installed

Re: [WiX-users] How can I skip certain actions during upgrade?

2010-01-19 Thread Blair
Please post everything you have in your *.wxs and *.wxi files that falls inside of any Upgrade tags. -Original Message- From: CP YEH [mailto:ntde...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:18 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How

Re: [WiX-users] how to create a DisplayResourceDll for ShortCut element

2010-01-19 Thread Blair
Yes, that should work. -Original Message- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:jiangok2...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:28 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to create a DisplayResourceDll for ShortCut element Thanks for reply

Re: [WiX-users] How can I skip certain actions during upgrade?

2010-01-19 Thread CP YEH
Here are my code. I also added custom actions that are related to upgrade section. Thank you very much. Upgrade Id=$(var.UpgradeCode) UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect=yes Property=NEWFOUND Minimum=$(var.ProductVer) IncludeMinimum=yes Language=1033 /

[WiX-users] Multiple languages issue: 'Error applying transforms' when select English in Danish 'Standards and format'

2010-01-19 Thread little.forest
Our installer supports multiple languages. We are using the trick from here(http://jpassing.com/2007/06/14/authoring-multi-language-msi-packages/). Basically these are what we do: - We compile the wxs files - then link with different languages(we support en-US, es-ES, fr-FR, de-DE, pt-BR and

Re: [WiX-users] Confused by File in use

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Barnes
2010/1/18 Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com: On 1/15/2010 2:52 AM, Robert Barnes wrote: actually a part of my product! However this same dll is used by both my product and the other program - same dll, same name but installed into two different directories, so the other program is not actually

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple languages issue: 'Error applying transforms' when select English in Danish 'Standards and format'

2010-01-19 Thread Blair
The automatic match based on the transform having the same name as the locale id is officially unsupported by Windows Installer. Usually when something is officially unsupported, something goes wrong when you try it at some point in the system. My recommendation is to always use the bootstrapper