Re: [WiX-users] Show help file during installation

2010-05-09 Thread Sascha Beaumont
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1792782/wix-how-can-i-launch-a-help-file-after-installation-wixui-exitdialogoptionalc Basically you just need to launch [WindowsFolder]hh.exe with your CHM as a parameter, rather than trying to launch the CHM itself. Sascha On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:40 PM,

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a shortcut : using shell32 common icons ?

2010-05-09 Thread Sascha Beaumont
You need to manually extract the required icons. Your desired behavior is to only embed the required icon, but WiX just provides a way to declare Windows Installer packages and this behavior isn't the way Windows Installer works due to how packages are handled when advertised. As specified in the

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and TFS Build

2010-05-09 Thread Rob Mensching
If you install the WiX toolset on the build machine, I believe you can use the built in project variables to reference the other projects. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:27 AM, pmdarrow wrote: > > Here's what I'm trying to do: I have two solutions - one for my main > application and its associated pro

Re: [WiX-users] lowercase GUIDs

2010-05-09 Thread Rob Mensching
The WiX toolset does exactly that. I thought the warning about specifying mixed cased GUIDs only shows up in pedantic. The reasoning behind that pedantic warning is that there were cases where copy and pasting the mixed case GUIDs between different processes might make them not match (because the W

Re: [WiX-users] shortcut element

2010-05-09 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Try "[WindowsFolder]hh.exe,0" for the icon On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:53 PM, subramanyeswari wrote: > > thanks. > > I have added non-advertised shortcut in my code.  here is the code > > Name="Test Books Online" >                                                                 > WorkingDirectory=

Re: [WiX-users] Avoid showing removable drive in the BrowseDlg

2010-05-09 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Not as far as I know, check Heaths blog for a relevant post on this (windows installer setting TARGETDIR to a USB drive for example) - http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2010/02/26/testing-for-components-that-install-under-targetdir.aspx The underlying problem is technically that USB drive appe

[WiX-users] lowercase GUIDs

2010-05-09 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
Rob, it might have come up earlier (I only found a single reference to it using Google but no answer). Is there any theoretical reason for WiX not accepting lowercase or mixed case GUIDs? I don't mean passing them on like that, I know this is not allowed. But why not simply call ToUpper automat