Re: [WiX-users] File from local location

2010-03-01 Thread hila toronchik
But I don't have the real file the msi will point to (it'll be placed next to him at the installation), so I use a dummy file with wrong details. Is there a different way to install such a file? -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010

[WiX-users] Checking the space in the install path(Please help me)

2010-03-01 Thread S.P
Dear All,I have a problem with publish element, which couldn’t find its solution. One of the files which is going to be installed on the target machine can not work if there is a space in the path, so I need to check the install path to ensure there is no space in it. I need to show a custom war

[WiX-users] Pass selected Features as parameters to custom action

2010-03-01 Thread Asiri Wanigarathne
Hi Folks, I am trying to pass selected features to a executable in custom action for vaalidation. the following condition doesnt get evaluated TRUE when feature selected. *(&Feature_AccessControl=3 OR !Feature_AccessControl=3)* The SetProperty custom action works fine if I take out the above con

Re: [WiX-users] Creating files from user input

2010-03-01 Thread Tim St. Clair
Custom config file, but it resembles an ini file without any tags/keys. Cheers, Tim On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Blair wrote: > Xml files? Ini files? > > -Original Message- > From: Tim St. Clair [mailto:timoth...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:22 PM > To: wix-users@li

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting if IIS is installed

2010-03-01 Thread Nathan . Banek
I did consider this, and I suspect it would work by providing a different error. The problem is that that error will not be caught as a part of the conditions, which makes the condition code kind of useless. In addition, the lengthy delay (3 to 5 minutes) when "calculating space needed" that is pro

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 fails installing IIS7 website

2010-03-01 Thread Igor Paniushkin
I had the same issue with Wix 3.5. I could not find existing bug in the tracker, so I added new one: 2961215. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 3:58 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: R

Re: [WiX-users] Simple upgrade for existing app replacing two binaries files

2010-03-01 Thread Semion Prihodko
OK. Thanks. 2010/2/28 Bob Arnson > On 2/28/2010 1:09 PM, Semion Prihodko wrote: > > So how can I make a patch replacing two files in old installation which > is > > probably doesn't presume patches? Is there really no way to simply > replace > > two files? Thanks. > > > MSI doesn't support downg

Re: [WiX-users] windows services installed using wix installer not removed on windows server 2008

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Arnson
On 2/28/2010 5:06 PM, Sanjay Rao wrote: > MSI (s) (7C:90) [03:01:26:656]: Component: CheckerServerServiceComp; > Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Null > I am not able to find any issue in this file. please suggest. There are several entries of the form MSI (s) (7C:90) [03:01:26:656

Re: [WiX-users] WixCop (v3.0) silently succeeds if the source file is not found

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/1/2010 5:39 AM, Paul Baker wrote: > Is this the intended behavior? > Sounds like a bug, though it might be intentional, to let you run WixCop over a tree. Please file a bug so the triage group can debate it. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] Simple upgrade for existing app replacing two binaries files

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Arnson
On 2/28/2010 1:09 PM, Semion Prihodko wrote: > So how can I make a patch replacing two files in old installation which is > probably doesn't presume patches? Is there really no way to simply replace > two files? Thanks. > MSI doesn't support downgrades except via patching. If you didn't create

Re: [WiX-users] File from local location

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/1/2010 1:13 AM, hila toronchik wrote: > The problem is - that an empty file named Global.jpeg need to be placed the > development machine in order to build the msi. > WiX needs the file to fill out the details of the file (size, e.g.) in the MSI database. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup

Re: [WiX-users] WixComPlusExtension and Wix3.5.1426

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/1/2010 5:22 AM, Igor Paniushkin wrote: > Is it a bug? Yes, it's a bug that's already been filed. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself.

[WiX-users] WixCop (v3.0) silently succeeds if the source file is not found

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Baker
I'm using the version of WixCop which shipped with the final build of WiX v3.0, passing it a single settings file and a single source file. If the settings file is not found, WixCop displays an error and exits returning 1, "fatal error", as expected. However, if the source file is not found, WixCop

[WiX-users] WixComPlusExtension and Wix3.5.1426

2010-03-01 Thread Igor Paniushkin
It seems to me that WixComPlusExtension is missing in Wix 3.5.1426 installer (x86 version). I tried to find it by orca in msi itself with any success, but I checked that file exists in wix binaries zip file and copied it to my target folder created by msi installer. Is it a bug? Does somebody else