[WiX-users] wix shortcut "run as administrator".

2010-08-19 Thread MYFLEX
Hi , we are creating the shortcut from our installer on desktop. But the shortcut is not having the option "Run As Administrator" . How can I this menu Item when the user right clicks on the shortcut. If I create a shortcut manually, I am able to get that option. Any help is appreciated. --

[WiX-users] SourceDir

2010-08-19 Thread Satyaprakash J
Hi I run the following command to generate the attached .wxs file. heat dir "\\192.168.10.61\Share\WebAppBuildDef\WebAppBuildDef_20100808.2\Debug" -gg -sfrag -sreg -template:product -out directory.wxs -cg WebAppComponentGroup In the directory.wxs

[WiX-users] Removing a Directory Tree on Uninstall

2010-08-19 Thread Kyle McClellan
Is there a way to say 'Remove the entire directory tree on uninstall'? Everything I install is removed, but other directories that are added programmatically are not. Thanks. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an

[WiX-users] ustomizing WIX messageboxes

2010-08-19 Thread Umesh Joglekar
Hi, Is there a way to customize WIX MessageBoxes? Thanks Umesh -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challeng

Re: [WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question

2010-08-19 Thread Wilson, Phil
Yes, correct. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Sohail Somani [mailto:soh...@taggedtype.net] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:38 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question On 10-08-19 1:10 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote: > and it might help t

[WiX-users] Shared files/registry question

2010-08-19 Thread Sohail Somani
Hi, I have 4 products for which I need installers. Each installer requires 3 DLLs from another of my products. In my reading on the Internets, it appears that the "right" way to share these DLL components is to use a merge module. However, the WiX way appears to be to use a ComponentRef. Whet

Re: [WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question

2010-08-19 Thread Sohail Somani
On 10-08-19 1:10 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote: > and it might help to look at it in terms of a product line. Using two > products as an example: > > Prod1 v1.0 => Prod1 v2.0 => Prod1 => v3.0 > > And > > Prod2 v10.0 => Prod2 v11.0 => Prod2 => v12.0 > > Each of these is a product line where each

[WiX-users] WebBrowser control in custom UI dialog

2010-08-19 Thread Pratapa Reddy Sanaga
Hi, I'm trying to solve the following problem. The MSI will enroll the client into my service only if the user provides LiveID credentials and the MSI is able to get a federated token from LiveID service. Currently LiveID does not support using ws-trust endpoint to get a token, so I will have to

Re: [WiX-users] bitmap error 2858

2010-08-19 Thread Umesh Joglekar
Hi, I was able to solve this problem and the earlier reported problem of custom action not running on XP. I am reporting this so others can benefit from it. The custom dialog used a background image which was in jpg format. Windows 7 could handle it. XP HOME SP3 also could handle it though

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with VS 2010 and winterop.dll

2010-08-19 Thread Warren O Merrill
I installed WIX (version 3.5), my first install of any version of WIX last week. I'm also on XP and using VS 2010. I too immediately hit that error. The answer comes from 'Working with Dll's 101' :-) 1) Locate the dll on your machine, mine was in C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3.5\

Re: [WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question

2010-08-19 Thread Wilson, Phil
and it might help to look at it in terms of a product line. Using two products as an example: Prod1 v1.0 => Prod1 v2.0 => Prod1 => v3.0 And Prod2 v10.0 => Prod2 v11.0 => Prod2 => v12.0 Each of these is a product line where each new version is intended to replace any already-installed p

[WiX-users] x64 wixlibs?

2010-08-19 Thread David Watson
Hi, I am just starting to build x64 and x86 MSIs from a single set of source using two wixprojs, it's all going fine until I tried to re-use some of my wixlibs. In my x64 msi I am getting an ICE80 error stating that I can't put 32 bit files under the ProgramFiles64Folder directory, the files that

[WiX-users] Component Rules Question

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Lord
Hi All, This should be dead quick. Despite reading through numerous pieces of information, both on MSDN and in the archives, I am still a little confused by the Component Rules and I'd like to get some clarification if someone has a moment. I have an installer that installer an .EXE and a num

Re: [WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question

2010-08-19 Thread Pally Sandher
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372379.aspx Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the ** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No.

Re: [WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question

2010-08-19 Thread Yan Sklyarenko
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372379(VS.85).aspx -- Yan -Original Message- From: gapearce [mailto:mr_gapea...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 18:28 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question What is the point of the UpgradeGUID

[WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question

2010-08-19 Thread gapearce
What is the point of the UpgradeGUID? It appears that it is something independent of the product code - which means that we could leave the upgrade GUID the same for a variety of versions which means "uninstall anything w/ this upgrade code". Or, does it mean that we can specify all known prod

Re: [WiX-users] Both Install and Uninstall Custom Actions called during install

2010-08-19 Thread Kurt Jensen
I changed the first InstallExecuteSequence to NOT Installed Now each CA runs at the appropriate time. This seems like a bug somewhere. Who would be interested? -Original Message- From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@ophir-spiricon.com] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:04 AM To: Gen

Re: [WiX-users] Both Install and Uninstall Custom Actions calledduring install

2010-08-19 Thread Kurt Jensen
No, this happens during a first time installation. P.S. We see MSI log data from CAInstall but no log data from CAUninstall. We verified that both were running by creating separate files during each call. Both files are created during one install. -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with VS 2010 and winterop.dll

2010-08-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Aug-10 07:26, Nicolas Laurent wrote: > I create a wix project in my solution. Whenever i try to build it, i get the > following error message : > light.exe : error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL 'winterop.dll': The specified Please file a bug. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] VWD2010EXPRESS_IDE

2010-08-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 18-Aug-10 07:41, Cristian Libardo wrote: > However, when I try to find this guid in *vs_setup.msi I can't find this > component guid*. What I do see is this component: VWDExpress_Exe_27323.* > 3643236F_FC70_11D3_A536_0090278A1BB8*. Is it possible the component guid has > changed? Yes. Please

[WiX-users] Problem with VS 2010 and winterop.dll

2010-08-19 Thread Nicolas Laurent
Hi All,I've started using WIX (version 3.5) a couple of days ago. I encounter the following problem using VS 2010. I create a wix project in my solution. Whenever i try to build it, i get the following error message : light.exe : error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL 'winterop.dll': The specified

[WiX-users] Big problem with IIS and not IIS components!!

2010-08-19 Thread Igor Lemsky
I have installer which have some components for IIS (Virtual Directory and so on) and other components doesn't have any connections to IIS, just installing files. So, for them IIS is not needed. But when I install them and no IIS on server Installer get an error: "Cannot connect to IIS". This is bi

Re: [WiX-users] Date value and string formatting

2010-08-19 Thread Pally Sandher
Or just use the Date Property -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368261.aspx Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the ** Integrated Environmental Solutions Li

Re: [WiX-users] Both Install and Uninstall Custom Actions called during install

2010-08-19 Thread Blair
Were you performing a major upgrade? -Original Message- From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@ophir-spiricon.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 5:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Both Install and Uninstall Custom Actions called during install We have a C#