[WiX-users] version upgrade problem

Hi All, I am using following code for installer creation. This installer does not detect the existence of previous version of itself. Please help me if somebody has to share something. Product Name='!(loc.ApplicationName) $(var.EditionName) $(var.version)' Id='*'

Re: [WiX-users] Show Dialog from Custom Action

Hi All, I am using following code for installer creation. It does not detect the existence of previous version of itself. Please help me if somebody has to share something. Product Name='!(loc.ApplicationName) $(var.EditionName) $(var.version)' Id='*' UpgradeCode='$(var.Upgradecode)'

[WiX-users] Common Standard Protection: Prevent common programs from running files from the Temp folder Action blocked: Execute

Hi users I have created a Custom Action to invoke a .exe CreateWBCustomLog.exe.(This exe will create Event Log folder while installation) CustomAction Id=CreateCustomLogs Directory='TARGETDIR' ExeCommand='[MyInstallationRootPath]\CreateWBCustomLog.exe' Return='check'

Re: [WiX-users] CreateFolder, Permission, ignore errors

Am 03.04.2010 15:23, Bob Arnson wrote: No, MSI doesn't offer that feature. thanks Bob Alex -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively,

[WiX-users] dotNetInstaller 1.9 released

As usual, forgive me for shameless advertising. dotNetInstaller 1.9 was released today, April 5th, 2010. Here're some highlights. Features include support for windows patch installers (.msp), many improvements to uninstall support, improved registry checks and registry variable substitutions,

Re: [WiX-users] Annoying dialog in the beginning of installation

I added another request: I got a report that the bug occurs most often on Virtual PC virtual machines and it seems to be a common issue on various blogs. On 4/4/2010 2:50 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: Please see http://www.joyofsetup.com/2010/04/04/bug-hunting/ for details how you can help track

Re: [WiX-users] Error code:0xC00E5201 - Failed to create patch.

Good Morning! I found the error. In the path do file.pcp there was space and special character. Path - C:\Dev\usr\carolina.amaral\Patch -PatchCreation\Patch\Patch.pcp Thanks, Carolina Zuqueto. -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: quinta-feira,

Re: [WiX-users] Adding a .Net 3.5 web-install prerequisite

Yes, and this is what my project file has: ItemGroup BootstrapperFile Include=Microsoft.Windows.Installer.3.1 ProductNameWindows Installer 3.1/ProductName /BootstrapperFile BootstrapperFile

[WiX-users] error CNDL0200

Hi, When I run this commond: candle.exe -dVersion=1.1 C:\Dev\usr\carolina.amaral\PatchCreation\Product\Product\Product.wxs -out C:\Dev\usr\carolina.amaral\PatchCreation\1.1\Product.wixobj The following error occurs: error CNDL0200 : The Component element contains an unhandled extension

Re: [WiX-users] MSI error 1935 (0x80070003) installing sharedWin32 assembly - but only when installerincludes DifxAppdriver component

I have tracked down what's going on using Process Monitor. MsiExec is shooting itself in the foot using RunOnce. Here's what happens ... MsiExec creates a folder with a random 7-digit decimal number name ... C:\Windows\WinSxS\InstallTemp\5755208 ... adds a registry entry ...

Re: [WiX-users] version upgrade problem

Hi Sanjay, Do you have RemoveExistingProducts scheduled? Alex -Original Message- From: Sanjay Rao [mailto:s...@noida.interrasystems.com] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 12:06 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] version upgrade problem Hi

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig results in ICE27 failure

so you are saying you did the following Component Id=WebConfig Guid={4B1930CE-1331-4754-855E-77A5FAFFE18B} Directory=INSTALLLOCATION CreateFolder/ File/File --- YOU added this like that? util:XmlConfig Id=WEBCONFIG_section File=[NETFRAMEWORK40FULLINSTALLROOTDIR]config\web.config

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig results in ICE27 failure

so you are saying you did the following Component Id=WebConfig Guid={4B1930CE-1331-4754-855E-77A5FAFFE18B} Directory=INSTALLLOCATION CreateFolder/ File/File --- YOU added this like that? util:XmlConfig Id=WEBCONFIG_section File=[NETFRAMEWORK40FULLINSTALLROOTDIR]config\web.config

[WiX-users] Investigating use of WiX

Hi Everyone, I'm a newbie here, so thank you all in advance for your patience and understanding. I'm investigating whether or not I want to use WiX to build my setup/deployment project for my application. I have read through the tutorial and explored the WiX sourceforge site already, but now

[WiX-users] On managing dependency hell with WiX and C#

Hi everyone, I posted the following question originally at Stack Overflow (here: http://tinyurl.com/yb6n9qb) and it was suggested I bring it up here: We are on the eve of product launch, and at the last minute I am being bombarded with crash reports that appear to be related to our

[WiX-users] Action: 'DuplicateFiles' in InstallExecuteSequence table must come after the 'InstallFiles' action.

Hi: I have got this error when I was trying to compile my WiX Project. I looked for solution online, but none of which seems to fix my problem. Here is a snippet of the custom action ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi;

Re: [WiX-users] Adding a .Net 3.5 web-install prerequisite

In my case, I had to deal with two different locations of the bootstrapper files. This is what works for us. Just make sure that you have the bootstrapper files in the correct directory (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper for example). There is a packages directory

Re: [WiX-users] How to dynamically include external WXS files?

Hi John As you indicated the wxs file is not known until build time :( I've managed to solve the problem with a touch of code generation though. I moved all the wxs and wxi files into the solution but I don't reference them anywhere (thus they won't be included in the final msi). In order to

[WiX-users] Setting a registry value to an XML string

Hi All One of the registry keys for our product consists of an XML string. I've been trying to find out how to add this string to our WiX installer but I haven't been very successful. I've noticed that CDATA sections are not allowed and obviously normal XML isn't allowed either. Unfortunately