Hi,
I have an issue in building WIX MSI. The scenario is explained below.
I have created an WIX MSI that has huge number of components and building this
MSI takes lot of time.
Now in order to make small change in any binary I do not want to re-build the
whole MSI.
Again I can create MSPs to tak
No, this is a silliness in the Windows Installer. If you signed your MSI,
they modify the cached MSI (in the "Installer" directory) to add some
information to it... invalidating the signature.
Windows Installer "fixed" this in MSI5.0 by caching the entire MSI. That's
why you'll start to see me sug
Do we need to add another "entry" for XmlConfig that is set
@PatchUninstall="yes"? Except that only works for MSI 4.5 and above, and we
have the problem of archiving/obtaining the data that is being removed (the
only link we have is the patch's GUID in the MSIPATCHREMOVE property). Oh,
Great and Wo
The closest thing we have today is $(sys.PLATFORM) (which the documentation
says comes from the Package\@Platform attribute but IIRC actually comes from
Candle's "-arch" command-line switch). That doesn't help you with the WixLib
which may have been compiled using a separate invocation of Candle,
h
In the set of actions that SpawnDialog is a part of, continue with further
actions that either end there or move onto the next dialog (based on the
value of the property you set in the warning dialog).
-Original Message-
From: Matt Johnson [mailto:ma...@timeamerica.com]
Sent: Monday, Janu
As I understand it, it uses the fragmentation of the updated installer (and
ignores the fragmentation of the original), but Peter is a much better
authority than I on that.
-Blair
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From: Aaron DeMarre [mailto:adema...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:12 AM
T
Hi,
My app has big data(about 3GB), not so changed.
And other programs(about 10MB), many changed.
So I want to divide data and programs, is it possible?
And hopefully, only file copy is needed to merge to main msi without building.
Comments?
Kanryu
Here is a XSLT that should add the Shortcut element:
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:wix="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
startmenuImport
Test Import App
You are matching the entire document and processing only a subset of the data.
The result of that match will replace the entire document with your processing
results. The reason the processing results are NULL is that you are not
properly addressing nodes using the necessary namespaces.
You sho
Thanks for the reply.
What I want to do, is not updates/upgrades. It’s just change the
installation:
I have FeatureA and FeatureB, previously I’ve installed FeatureA, and now I
want to add FeatureB.
I notice one thing strange: when I try to uninstall my foo application, by
click the Uninstall but
I was looking at this option, but I am not sure what is going on.
I created the following XSL file:
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:wix="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
Thank you. I will look at this and I will use the link in the future to do
searches for questions I have.
Thank you,
Brian Wilson
Programmer Analyst, Associate
Department of Human Resources - Administrative Services
Phone #: 334-353-5025
Email: brian.wil...@dhr.alabama.gov
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You'll need to properly specify and use XML namespaces.
See http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg42889.html
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Software Developer - Staff
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Please consider the environmen
Have you tried doing it with an xslt instead?
See the "-t" option.
-Original Message-
From: Wilson, Brian [mailto:brian.wil...@dhr.alabama.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:29 PM
To: 'WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [WiX-users] Modify Heat Generated Fragment with C#
Hello
Setup:
Windows 7 64-bit (fully patched)
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
WiX 3.5 build 2430 (latest weekly)
I've recently noticed a problem with all my WiX projects. Trying to
build after a change or after a clean, I get a set of ICE errors. So
rebuilding always gives me these errors and follow
Hello,
I have a Heat generated WXS file that I am trying to modify, so I can add the
shortcut node to the file node for my application. I am trying to use a C#
program to do this for me.
I am using the following code:
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(@"C:\Wix Files\wix_impo
I have a few MSI packages that do not uninstall because a couple of custom
actions at failing at uninstall. I don't want those custom actions to execute
so we can "uninstall" these packages.
Although, now that I think about this a little bit more... the reason the
custom action fails is that t
Those scenarios you mention are not major upgrades, they are patches. If you
want a major upgrade then obey the three version digits rule; if you want to
update or patch an existing version that's fine, but it can't be an upgrade
based on RemoveExistingProducts.
Phil Wilson
949-639-1680
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If you really need best compression don't pack the files with WiX in a
cab but leave them separate (Compressed="no") and afterwards use 7zip
( http://www.7-zip.org/download.html -> 7z Library, SFXs for
installers, Plugin for FAR Manager) and compress them with a sfx
header as self extracting exe. T
Never mind. Apparently there was a previous installation that was
messing things up. Install on a clean OS works fine.
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@ophir-spiricon.com]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 1:33 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-u
1. Windows Installer probably automatically elevates for you since the
program was already installed it is "trusted". I think.
2. I think this holds true:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robmen/archive/2004/12/08/278746.aspx
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Elfe Xu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a foo.ms
WiX sources are widely available, knock yourself out.
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Aye, LZMA is much better [see my thread on MakeMSI's use of UPX for more info]
But nothing stops utilisation of a test mode to overwrite all
compression within the files with each supported algorithm in order,
and checking the outputted MSI against eachother; then give the user
the result =]
On W
$ should come before the opening parenthesis:
$(var.MessagesProject.TargetPath)
-Original Message-
From: Rune Moberg [mailto:jjfl...@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 January 2011 14:51
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Where are my project variables?
Looking at the output wind
My bad, $(var works a lot better than ($var...
Kindly disregard previous message. Thx.
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Looking at the output window, I see this:
candle.exe (...)
-dMessagesProject.TargetPath=C:\src\Flamingo\Main\bin\Messages.exe
which (admittedly after reading the help) lead me to believe that the
following might work:
But light.exe fails with:
"C:\src\Flamingo\Main\src\setup\MessagesMSI\Produc
Perhaps SourceForge is swallowing my messages again but here are links and
notes
I sent you yesterday.
- Original Message
From: Christopher Painter
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 11:00:52 AM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Ac
Thanks, Rob - that's exactly what I was after.
In all my Googling, I was looking for a way to retrieve the version number and
then do my own comparison (with no luck). This is a slightly different way but
acheives my exact aim.
Many thanks
- Shaun
From:
Because the Cabinet file format doesn't track compression by each individual
file. The cabinet file itself has a compression level set & all files compiled
into the cabinet file are compressed using that compression. The Cabinet file
format is outlined in the Windows SDK documentation.
It would
Why isn't there a "best" setting?
Like with NSIS; one which tries each one and gives you the best compression =]
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Pally Sandher wrote:
> Try CompressionLevel="high" as it's better than "mszip" in my
> experience.
>
> Also your MSI itself will be a significant par
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