Re: [WiX-users] Desktop Shortcut to a Folder

2010-04-19 Thread Sach
Yes I did what's in it but still I keep getting error messages. I'll elaborate what exactly I did. I have a directory in "C:\ProgramData\MT\STR" and I want to place a short cut to this "STR" directory on Desktop using the installation. I placed the following code in the structure.

Re: [WiX-users] Error on uninstall

2010-04-19 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Your custom action is failing... try setting CustomAction/@Return="ignore" On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Pierson Lee (PIE) wrote: > > Trying to uninstall a service and it fails to uninstall. Log shows: > > MSI (s) (68:00) [17:20:43:678]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: > C:\Windows\Ins

Re: [WiX-users] Shared DLL install locations

2010-04-19 Thread Sascha Beaumont
This sounds like a design problem, not a setup problem and *definitely* not a WiX problem... you will get a better answer by asking on stackoverflow.com or some other developer forum. Some suggestions off the top of my head... - build a Merge Module that 3rd party apps can consume (and so can inst

Re: [WiX-users] Checking for Self install

2010-04-19 Thread Sascha Beaumont
So you want to prevent repair, uninstall and upgrades? Ugh. If the Product ID isn't changing, Windows Installer should bail automatically with "Another version of this product is already installed" from memory, if you're using an automatically generated Product ID you can use the fact that Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Burn [Re: Bootstrapper]

2010-04-19 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Have you tried searching the mailing list archive? This same question has been asked and answered virtually *every single week*. The official answer from the team has been "when it's done". Try asking in another 6 months and you might get a better response :) Personally I use the irmakebootstrap

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple dummy websites creation on IIS7

2010-04-19 Thread Houssam Hamdan
Thank you John for your reply. The IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility is already installed. -Original Message- From: John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies) [mailto:john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:09 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML too

Re: [WiX-users] How to overwrite forcibily a file.

2010-04-19 Thread Akihiro.Shibuta
Thanks MikeR. For example, The FileA sets file version , and FileB depends on FileA's version. In this case, I write the code as follows : Is this correct? Thanks, Akihiro. > -Original Message- > From: MikeR [mailto:michael.ru...@gmail.com] > Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Getting directory for "located" WebSite

2010-04-19 Thread Rob Mensching
Unfortunately, not supported today. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Anthony Nelson wrote: > Hey all, > > > > How can I get the current location of the "located" website? > > > > For example if I have > > > > Id="WS.DefaultWebSite"> > > > > > > > > I would like to change WEBINSTALL

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe warning: limit of 1600 components per feature: what will happen?

2010-04-19 Thread jeff00seattle
Thanks for the reply I compared source and MSI extraction using http://winmerge.org/ WinMerge , and it showed no difference. - Thanks Jeff in Seattle -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/heat-exe-warning-limit-of-1600-components-per-feature-what-will-happen-tp4928703p4928

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe warning: limit of 1600 components per feature: what will happen?

2010-04-19 Thread Brian Rogers
Actually, this has been deprecated in Wix 3.5. Windows Installer no longer has this restriction. To your questions, WiX would have been fine. The issue would have been on machines before Windows 2000. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove On

[WiX-users] heat.exe warning: limit of 1600 components per feature: what will happen?

2010-04-19 Thread jeff00seattle
heat.exe : warning HEAT5155 : Although there are no limitations to the size of a ComponentGroup, Windows Installer has a limit of 1600 components per feature. Please consider reducing the size of ComponentGroup '$(var.ComponentGroupName)' from current count of '3037'. What is the impact of my ins

[WiX-users] Error on uninstall

2010-04-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Trying to uninstall a service and it fails to uninstall. Log shows: MSI (s) (68:00) [17:20:43:678]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSI42ED.tmp, Entrypoint: ExecXmlFileRollback ExecXmlFileRollback: Error 0x80070003: Failed to get modified date of file E:\PricingManager

Re: [WiX-users] 64-bit WiX

2010-04-19 Thread Navid Azimi-Garakani
Thanks Gary. You are spot on! I just figured this out too but now I am stuck with HeatProject failing. It looks like the Heat task in Wix.targets does not honor the RunWixToolsOutOfProc property. This looks like a very simple fix (just pass the property) -- so I hope this gets into WiX 3.5. Hea

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple dummy websites creation on IIS7

2010-04-19 Thread John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies)
I think you need to install the IIS 6 metadatabase support for IIS in order to get this to work for you. -Original Message- From: Houssam Hamdan [mailto:houssam.ham...@netiks.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:35 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Multiple dummy

Re: [WiX-users] 64-bit WiX

2010-04-19 Thread Gary Schorer
To be a little more specific, the _SetDefaultPathValues target is likely what's causing you grief. It looks at registry keys to try and detect if the 32-bit version of Wix is installed. If so, it sets the WixToolPath property accordingly. It then checks if the WixToolPath was set, and if not (i.e.

Re: [WiX-users] 64-bit WiX

2010-04-19 Thread Gary Schorer
In my case, I just stopped running the Wix tools in process. true On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Navid Azimi-Garakani wrote: > I am using WiX 3.5.1602.0. If you look at the executables with corflags, > you'll see that they are compiled for the 32-bit architecture. > > d:\wix\3.5.1602.0>corflags

Re: [WiX-users] 64-bit WiX

2010-04-19 Thread Navid Azimi-Garakani
I am using WiX 3.5.1602.0. If you look at the executables with corflags, you'll see that they are compiled for the 32-bit architecture. d:\wix\3.5.1602.0>corflags candle.exe Version : v2.0.50727 CLR Header: 2.5 PE: PE32 CorFlags : 11 ILONLY: 1 32BIT : 1 <-- 32-bit flag Signed

[WiX-users] Shared DLL install locations

2010-04-19 Thread Bruce Cran
I've created an installer for a driver. It installs the driver itself, 32-bit and 64-bit DLLs and import libraries. 3rd-party applications will link to the DLL in order to use the driver. I know that I shouldn't install files to system32, but if not there then where? If I install to Program Fil

Re: [WiX-users] bug in Light

2010-04-19 Thread Mike Rerick
Thanks Dave. I don't know why I didn't see that. I looked at it several times. On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Dave Brotherstone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Mike Rerick wrote: > > > > > Is there a work-around I can do to get this installer to build? > > > > [exec] light.exe

[WiX-users] Checking for Self install

2010-04-19 Thread Andy Clugston
I am attempting to determine if a specific version of a product is already installed on the system. I basically want to do this to disallow/bail out of an install if the MSI that is being executed is already installed on the system. Here is my authoring using 3.0 RTM. I must be missing something

Re: [WiX-users] bug in Light

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Brotherstone
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Mike Rerick wrote: > > Is there a work-around I can do to get this installer to build? > > [exec] light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Item has already been added. Key in > dictionary: 'MyWelcomeDlg/Title' Key being added: 'MyWelcomeDlg/Title' > Height="60

[WiX-users] bug in Light

2010-04-19 Thread Mike Rerick
I am attempting to build an installer with a couple of modified standard screens in the FeatureTree UI: CustomizeDlg and WelcomeDlg. I copied the FeatureTree UI wxs file and modified it. The CustomizeDlg screen builds without any problems. I get an error on the WelcomeDlg - see below. I run the com

Re: [WiX-users] Cannot Create Site on IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003

2010-04-19 Thread Igor Paniushkin
It is not about creating web site, but creating of app pool is failing :( It is already in bug database. -Original Message- From: Rob Jarratt (MCS UK) [mailto:rjarr...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 6:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Cannot Creat

Re: [WiX-users] How to fire 2 Custom Actions when userclicks Finishbutton?

2010-04-19 Thread Zhou, Lei
Phil, Thank you very much for the tip. That's exactly what I'm looking for. I already started writing a CA DLL for launching both CAs. But I like the simple solution. If you happen to be in Dallas, TX, let me buy you a beer. :) Louis Z. -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Digital Signature to MSI

2010-04-19 Thread Mike Carlson (DEV DIV)
If you sign external cabs, you can try the new tool "Insignia". If you use Insignia, you don't need to use the DigitalSignature element. This tool only exists in WiX 3.5. To use insignia, don't use any "DigitalSignature" elements. Sign your cabs, and then run insignia, and it will update your MS

[WiX-users] Cannot Create Site on IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003

2010-04-19 Thread Rob Jarratt (MCS UK)
I am trying to create a package that installs a web site on Windows Server 2003, using WiX 3.5.1602.0 (the latest I am aware of). No matter what I do I get errors like this: MSI (s) (1C:D4) [16:58:25:165]: Executing op: CacheSizeFlush(,) MSI (s) (1C:D4) [16:58:25:165]: Executing op: InstallProte

Re: [WiX-users] How to fire 2 Custom Actions when user clicks Finishbutton?

2010-04-19 Thread Wilson, Phil
I don't know the exact syntax, but you should be able to just add another to the Publish, or add another Publish. That Order value (when there is more than one) is the order you want them to happen in. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Zhou, Lei [mailto:lz...@sychip.com] Sent: Sa

Re: [WiX-users] How to overwrite forcibily a file.

2010-04-19 Thread MikeR
You can make this file a companion file to a file that you know will overwrite/update properly due to the file versioning rules. There is a companion file attribute on the File node within WiX, which forces the file to follow the versioning rules of the specified companion file. Akihiro.Shibuta

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Digital Signature to MSI

2010-04-19 Thread Ondrej Zarevucky
Hi, I'm signing external cabinets using signtool.exe after the MSI is created. I would like to learn more about the "DigitalSignature" element and I'd like to know, how to tighten the security of the setup even more. Do you have any examples or tutorials describing the "DigitalSignature" elemen

Re: [WiX-users] Burn [Re: Bootstrapper]

2010-04-19 Thread fiordean dacian
Hi, Can anyone help with my question below on Burn? Is there a release data for this much awaited tool? Thanks, --- On Fri, 4/16/10, fiordean dacian wrote: From: fiordean dacian Subject: [WiX-users] Burn [Re: Bootstrapper] To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Date:

[WiX-users] How to overwrite forcibily a file.

2010-04-19 Thread Akihiro.Shibuta
Hi, How to overwrite forcibly a file which ignores file version and timestamp? I want to overwrite forcibility a file during patch install or update install, upgrade install. The file is set file version, and a file included new msi is older than installed file. Thanks, Akihiro. -

Re: [WiX-users] SQL Extension broken in WIX 3.5 Beta build 1602?

2010-04-19 Thread Asiri Wanigarathne
Hi Rob, I have attached log files for both builds. On build 1602 installer doesn't pop-up the database already exists dialog. Also it doesn't create the database or run the scripts. thanks. Regards, Asiri Wanigarathne http://www.asiri.name On 17 April 2010 10:48, Asiri Wanigarathne wrote: >

Re: [WiX-users] Install x64-DLL

2010-04-19 Thread Rob Hamflett
I've had a look but can't find it. The only other other option that would work I think is to use selfreg or create custom actions to call regsvr32, but they have their own fair share of problems. Rob On 17/04/2010 10:06, Thomas Kehl wrote: > Hi. > > Rob, can you remember, where you have read