[WiX-users] Custom UI sequence

I am trying to customize the WixUI_Minimal sequence. Following this: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/08/customised-uis-for-wix.html And this: http://www.dizzymonkeydesign.com/blog/misc/adding-and-customizing-dlgs-in-wix-3/ My first step was to just copy WixUI_Minimal.wxs, rename it to

[WiX-users] Random patching failures - pesky error 1328

For a while patching errors like: MSI (s) (28:48) [13:52:25:298]: Product: MyProduct -- Error 1328. Error applying patch to file C:\Config.Msi\PTCCC8.tmp. It has probably been updated by other means, and can no longer be modified by this patch. For more information contact your patch vendor.

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading wixproj

Thanks Rob, I'd like to avoid having to upgrade all our projects at this time. Is there a version at http://wix.sf.net/releases that will work with my \Microsoft\WiX\v3.5\Wix2010.targets style wix projects? -Eric On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Rob Mensching wrote: > And to answer the actual

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action - Dll C++

On 05/01/2011 17:15, Andy Clugston wrote: > Yes, that was it! > I am glad it worked. note: extern "C" is not needed. > I guess I have been out of native development too long... Thanks for the > reminder on the function export. > > Thanks again! > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Leonidas Spyrop

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action - Dll C++

Yes, that was it! I guess I have been out of native development too long... Thanks for the reminder on the function export. Thanks again! On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos < leonidas.spyropou...@formicary.net> wrote: > On 05/01/2011 15:30, Andy Clugston wrote: > > Hi Users,

Re: [WiX-users] Burn issue

Yeah, pretty much all teams at Microsoft use the WiX toolset to create their MSI files. And yes, both Office and Visual Studio (and Expression and SQL Server and Windows Live Essentials) have built their own bootstrapper/chainers. All of those served as input into (and a few were influenced by) th

Re: [WiX-users] Burn issue

VS Setup is only one part of my team. Over the holiday's, I think I've just decided to go spend more time there. Yes, patching in the Windows Installer is truly horrid. There are also business decisions made at VS SP time frames that stress patching even further. It's not a great situation right

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action - Dll C++

On 05/01/2011 15:30, Andy Clugston wrote: > Hi Users, Hey Andy, > > I am running into a bit of an issue while attempting to hook a C++ dll > custom action into my installer. From all my research and debugging it > appears that I have things setup properly. I have some tracing (message > boxes) to

Re: [WiX-users] Burn issue

Well summed up Rob! Am I right in thinking that both Office and Visual Studio use WiX for creation of MSI's, or at least some of them, with an additional proprietary UI that handles the installation experience? A while back I took a good dig into the Office installer and was very impressed at

[WiX-users] Custom Action - Dll C++

Hi Users, I am running into a bit of an issue while attempting to hook a C++ dll custom action into my installer. From all my research and debugging it appears that I have things setup properly. I have some tracing (message boxes) to indicate when DLLMain is entered/exited as well as my CA functio

Re: [WiX-users] Burn issue

Heh, I was hinting at my opinion of VS Install but I didn't want you to feel attacked since that's now your team.   Personally, my biggest complaint is having to install VS then VS SP1.  It always takes longer to install the service pack then it does the MSI.   Typically the SP seems to

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

Sorry, I haven't been following Burn enough.  I thought it was using WPF, my mistake.   I don't remember the last time I wrote an installer for a non-managed application so I'm not sure what that type of longevity buys me.   Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have

[WiX-users] Pyro not creating deltas despite using the -delta flag

Hi, I'm using Wix version 3.0.5419.0. The project I'm working on is a fairly plain single featured installer. The bulk of the installer is made up of several large (30MB+) zip files. I've found that the patches between versions end up very large as a result, and have determined that the zip fi

Re: [WiX-users] -----SPAM----- Re: problem with XmlConfig when migrating from Wix 3.0 to Wix 3.5

Many months ago, Mike did a lot of clean up to remove unnecessary dependencies causing more custom actions to be included in MSI packages than should have been. That fix caused the SchedXmlConfig to move to its most natural position, after InstallFiles. The action should be overridable, so you can

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

1. Burn doesn't require NETFX. A bootstrapper application for Burn may require NETFX (for example, I wrote the WiX Bootstrapper Application against NETFX4 to show how it could be done) but it doesn't have to. A pure native solution (wixstdba.dll) is provided that runs on WinXP SP2 straight up. It p