Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to add a version umber to the built MSI?

Cool! That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Jeff > Jeff > > I set the name and version information in the Description field of the > Package definition (as well as the version of the Product). This becomes > part of the SummaryInfo. > > This is available through the file properties

Re: [WiX-users] WIX 2.0 on IIS 7.5 with IIS 6.0 Compatiblity Mode

I should mention that that errors are primarily trivial with the exception of the following: 1>src\setup\common\common.wxi(15) : error CNDL0005 : The Product element contains an unexpected child element 'WebDirProperties'. 1>src\setup\common\common.wxi(18) : error CNDL0005 : The Product element

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to add a version umber to the built MSI?

Jeff I set the name and version information in the Description field of the Package definition (as well as the version of the Product). This becomes part of the SummaryInfo. This is available through the file properties of the final MSI - ie right click on the MSI, select Properties and go t

Re: [WiX-users] Sub-folders in ONE component?

On 3/15/2010 6:31 PM, Kristoffer Danielsson wrote: > Do you always have to define a separate component for a sub-folder? > Yes. See the MSI SDK for "Component Table." -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download

[WiX-users] Is it possible to add a version umber to the built MSI?

I'd like to add the build number somewhere within the properties of the MSI which is generated, so I can easily tell the version of my product which will be installed. I've set: ...but this seems to only set the version the system's Add/Remove programs sees. (When I get properties on my M

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_InstallDir + shield icon?

On 3/13/2010 3:03 PM, Kristoffer Danielsson wrote: > In v3.5, is it possible to add a shield icon to the Install-button when using > WixUI_InstallDir + WixUI_ErrorProgressText? > It's already there, if ALLUSERS is set. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

[WiX-users] Call custom action at beginning of installation?

I'm new to WiX and am still getting my feet wet. I've build a custom action. The action runs after the installation has finished, but I'd like ti to run at the beginning. Here's what I currently have: The custom actio

Re: [WiX-users] ICE038 - revised

On 3/15/2010 5:57 PM, Kristoffer Danielsson wrote: > 1) I don't want to specify a registry key for each one of my 100 files! > Cost of doing business: MSI doesn't offer a better way. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] ambiguous short name warnings after dark

On 3/15/2010 11:13 AM, Bill McCormick wrote: > How can I clean this up? > Notepad: Edit the file and remove those attributes; they're almost certainly vestigial. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Int

Re: [WiX-users] Parsing a registry string

On 3/15/2010 4:13 PM, Dane Anderson (Acro Service Corp) wrote: > HOW do I parse that registry string from inside of WIX at runtime? MSI (WiX is the build toolset, not the runtime) doesn't have parsing support. You need an immediate custom action. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Bad formatting when printing a Eula from the Welcome screen

On 3/15/2010 1:09 AM, Adrian Tulloch wrote: > Should the last line be something like this? > > rcPage.bottom = MulDiv(nVertRes, ONE_INCH, nLogPixelsY); > Sounds right. Please file a bug so we don't lose this. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] setupbld.exe is giving error Error 0x80070002: Failed to CreateSetup.

On 3/15/2010 8:11 AM, MYFLEX wrote: > setupbld.exe -out "c:\mysetup.exe" -ms "c:\aa.msi" -titile "myapp" -setup > "c:\mysetup.exe" > The -setup switch is for pointing to the setup.exe stub that comes with WiX (or your own for custom UI). -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional check for existing GUIDs

On 3/15/2010 9:07 AM, Alex Wernecke wrote: > How would I do a check for certain GUIDs as a conditional check for an > install? ComponentSearch -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval

Re: [WiX-users] WIX 2.0 on IIS 7.5 with IIS 6.0 Compatiblity Mode

Thanks Mike! I gave WiX 3.0.5329.0 a try but ended up with literally thousands of warnings/errors. I am planning on rewriting our entire setup (by migrating it to MSBuild) so going through and fixing all these errors is a nonstarter. I need to provide a solution for this current release. The re

Re: [WiX-users] Generating sections of componentgroup using heat

On 3/15/2010 4:11 PM, Steve Huston wrote: > Is there an easy way to do this? Can I somehow tell heat to process > multiple files, or to filter out specific files? > Yes: Use your build tool (e.g., MSBuild) to create a staging directory. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] install service

Really? You removed that option. Was that done in 3.5 or 3.0? I was able to specify the user that the service ran as, and it installed correctly. What I was unable to do was to get the package to uninstall when I did. John -Original Message- From: Rob Hamflett [mailto:r...@snsys.co

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 - current state of Burn

Hi Jacques, I tried to use setupbld.exe to create a my bootstrap with 3 MSI installers. It can install one by one but the silent install doesn't work as I expected.  I used the following command to create the bootstrap. setupbld -setup "C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\setup.exe" 

[WiX-users] Best way to add virtual directories that correspond to fixed drives?

Hi, I'd like to add virtual directories to a web site that correspond to fixed drives on the server. For instance: C_drive maps to C:\ D_drive maps to D:\ E_drive maps to E:\ What would be the best way to accomplish this with WiX? I'd really like to be able to show a checkbox per drive, and ha

[WiX-users] Default Icon for Advertised Shortcuts

Hi, I have a component with an advertised shortcut setup as follows: This gives me a blank icon. Is there a way to use default windows icons on advertised shortcuts? I have tried using non-advertised (which works) but it seems way over-complicated, and I st

Re: [WiX-users] Minor upgrade tutorial

Hi John That is correct for a minor upgrade. You keep the UpgradeCode and ProductCode the same, and the PackageCode and Version must change (see the MSI SDK for details). FindRelatedProducts is not used for a minor upgrade. Also be aware when you start an MSI with a minor upgrade it is act

[WiX-users] Generating sections of componentgroup using heat

Hi, I'm a relative newbie to WiX, and I'm trying to generate the entries for a componentgroup from a set of dlls. The dlls are in a known directory but there are other files in that directory I don't want. I tried using 2 executions of heat to generate the .wxs I need for the 2 dlls. I specified

[WiX-users] Minor upgrade tutorial

I'm confused about minor upgrades... the tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php#4.1 describes how to author the WiX package, keeping the product code the same, and including an element which insists that a previous version of the product is installed (and that a later one isn

[WiX-users] Sub-folders in ONE component?

Wix 3.5. Consider this example: I cannot add "Sub" and its content to the "ParentWithSub" component. Do you always have to define a separate component for a sub-folder? Seems very odd... Thanks! __

Re: [WiX-users] WIX 2.0 on IIS 7.5 with IIS 6.0 Compatiblity Mode

I don't know what would cause this issue in 2.0, but have you considered upgrading to WiX 3.0 or even WiX 3.5? A *huge* number of improvements have gone into WiX's IIS support in the WiX 3.0 RTM release. Going even further, WiX 3.5 actually has native support for IIS7, so it doesn't require the

[WiX-users] ICE038 - revised

I'm trying to make a 100% per-user MSI that will work in XP/Vista/W7. http://osdir.com/ml/windows.devel.wix.user/2005-03/msg00297.html Obviously, I'm not alone... What's the best solution? Please help! __

[WiX-users] WIX 2.0 on IIS 7.5 with IIS 6.0 Compatiblity Mode

I am having an issue deploying to IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 using WIX 2.0.3719.0 with IIS 6.0 Compatibility Mode. The problem is that anytime we deploy a virtual directory it "destroys" the parent site. To clarify, the virtual directory gets installed correctly but the parent site no lon

Re: [WiX-users] Moving from Windows Installer to Wix

Basically that's all the event publishing stuff associated with conditions. That's possible, but I can't find a good example out there after a quick search. Phil Wilson 949-639-1680 -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:wpmccorm...@ace-co.com] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010

[WiX-users] Parsing a registry string

I have a Wix installer package that I need to modify. The package is doing a registrysearch to extract a string from a given key (sorry, the key is covered by an NDA). The current string format is "##.#..#" (minus the quotes of course). The # should be replaced by a digit. The previous format

Re: [WiX-users] Moving from Windows Installer to Wix

Thanks Phil. I'll update my lexicon. Can you answer my question #5? The answer to that question is the one I'm most looking forward to. I'm still working my way through the tutorial and unfortunately, I haven't been able to quickly get to that answer in any other way. Bill Wilson, Phil wrote: >

Re: [WiX-users] How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function

Thanks for the replay, My requirement is i have a config file, in that i will set the values. I will use those values while deploying msi package in server. In my wix file i will use xmlfile tag. Like below in cofig file : based on LogPath i ha

Re: [WiX-users] How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function

Thanks for the replay, My requirement is i have a config file, in that i will set the values. I will use those values while deploying msi package in server. In my wix file i will use xmlfile tag. Like below in cofig file : based on LogPath i have to copy t

Re: [WiX-users] How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, banda wrote: > > i am new ro wix, > How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function > This is an XML thing... a CDATA section is interpreted exactly as it's entered, so you can just use < and > as normal characters. e.g. To do this without the CDATA (which in terms

Re: [WiX-users] How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function

< > Try googling "xml escape characters". > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:26:41 -0800 > From: srinivas.ba...@igate.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function > > > i am new ro wix, > How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function >

[WiX-users] How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function

i am new ro wix, How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function Please help on this. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-use-and-in-CDATA-function-tp4738881p4738881.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Multilanguage Merge Module

I was looking at what would be involved for a postbuild msbuild task to merge the modules together and I got an error from torch ( TRCH0240 ) saying that it was expecting a '.msi' file extension.   Does torch not support merge modules?     Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blo

Re: [WiX-users] Moving from Windows Installer to Wix

Just in case there is some misunderstanding, there is no "from Windows Installer" in this picture. There might be a "from Visual Studio 2008" or a "from InstallShield" but these are all just tools to generate MSI file setups. WiX has a better solution than Visual Studio setups for many tasks, p

Re: [WiX-users] Combobox Display Question/Problem

Ah, perfect, thanks for the tip! On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:24 -0800, Nick Ramirez wrote: > Add the ComboList="yes" attribute to the control. Also, you may want to add > Sorted="yes". Hope that helps. > > -- Download I

[WiX-users] ComboBox list not showing on Windows 2000 Server

Hi All, I've got a couple ComboBoxes each of which have some values. When I run the installer on Windows XP the values show up in the dropdown list as expected. When running on Windows 2000 Server, the dropdown list is empty--it drops down but there's nothing in it. Is there something I should

[WiX-users] ambiguous short name warnings after dark

After running dark on an existing MSI db, I've got over 200 warnings that begin like: The Directory/@ShortSourceName attribute's value ... or The File/@ShortSourceName attribute's value ... How can I clean this up? Thanks, Bill --

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional check for existing GUIDs

Hi, The below snippet may be helpful --> Thanks, Satheesh. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Conditional-check-for-existing-GUIDs-tp4736767p4737086.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

[WiX-users] Conditional check for existing GUIDs

Hi, How would I do a check for certain GUIDs as a conditional check for an install? I want to check for GUIDs other than the ones within the product. The install must not continue if one or more is found. Is it possible to do a condition check like this ? VersionNT>=501 Ma

Re: [WiX-users] Multilanguage Merge Module

Hi Rob-    Does Votive currently have the ability to do this?  What would be nice for me is a merge module project with a set of wxl files that ultimately generate a single MSM with all of the transforms embedded.    Another question, academic at this point since I currently consume my merge mod

[WiX-users] setupbld.exe is giving error Error 0x80070002: Failed to CreateSetup.

Hi , I have some doubts about setupbld.exe. I am using wix3.0.5419. a) is this creates setup.exe bootstapper for the msi? b) after creating setup.exe from setupbld.exe, can it handle major and minor upgrade? b) I tried running the following command ... setupbld.exe -out "c:\mysetup.exe" -ms "