Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.5 Final Build?

2011-01-20 Thread Dandre Jansen van Vuuren
I checked the source repository just now and I managed to update the changesets. Thanks On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Rob Mensching wrote: > Should have been up there this morning. > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Dandre wrote: > > > Hi Rob > > > > When will those changes reflect on co

Re: [WiX-users] Questions about the Certificate Element

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Assignment process is *very* streamlined now. Just email wixad...@microsoft.com and it's all electronic. You used to have to mail stuff in (crazy, I know). Dcoumentation is also very easy to contribute to. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Christopher Painter < chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wro

Re: [WiX-users] Confusionm around Privileged property

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Windows Installer always sets Privileged because people used it wrong more often than right. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Alex Ivanoff wrote: > Windows 7, UAC is off, user is not an administrator, Windows Installer > sets Privileged and AdminUser properties no 1: > > MSI (c) (08:8C) [15:45:57

Re: [WiX-users] Using Remember Property pattern to remember DirectoryIds

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Hmm, I don't remember that being necessary. I think the Windows Installer remembers folders correctly to handle uninstall. Have you seen it not work? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) < edwin.cas...@fiserv.com> wrote: > Should we use the "Remember Property" pattern to

Re: [WiX-users] Patch Creation Issues

2011-01-20 Thread Blair
I'm not sure how you exclude your default config file changes with PatchWiz, but then again I gave up on PatchWiz after it hung my build system one too many times. -Blair -Original Message- From: Aaron DeMarre [mailto:adema...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:36 PM To: Gene

Re: [WiX-users] Wix library project does not support heat's HarvestProject in wix2010.targets

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Ahh, heh, yeah, I got that backwards. Bummer. Yeah, that should work. Feel free to open a WiX v3.6 bug and it might get fixed there (or WiX v4). On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Murray H wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Other way around. I want to harvest c# projects into a wix library, which > will then be

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.5 Final Build?

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
WiX v3.5 is basically: * Visual Studio 2010 support * IIS7 Custom Actions (without II6 metabase compatibility) * Minor improvements to language (i.e. MajorUpgrade element) * More bugs fixed than WiX v3.0 (if you haven't seen the bugs, you probably don't care ). On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:28 AM,

Re: [WiX-users] Wix library project does not support heat's HarvestProject in wix2010.targets

2011-01-20 Thread Blair
Please post a feature request on SourceForge against v4. In-build harvesting improvements have been directed towards v4 in an effort to wind v3 down and get it out the door. Blair -Original Message- From: Murray H [mailto:w...@seravy.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:57 PM To: Gene

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.5 Final Build?

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Should have been up there this morning. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Dandre wrote: > Hi Rob > > When will those changes reflect on codeplex? > > Thanks > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 20 Jan 2011, at 7:43, Rob Mensching wrote: > > > We took a couple last minor bugs to WiX v3.5 yesterday and

Re: [WiX-users] How to continue on close of modal popup?

2011-01-20 Thread Blair
Yea, sorry, that's true, isn't it. Sorry, I validate (including calling DoAction to call CAs that assist in my validations) and then SpawnDialog to report/or-otherwise-deal-with errors or NewDialog to move on, depending on the results of my validation. I hadn't tried a warning. -Original Messa

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-20 Thread Andy Clugston
Well I think I have figured out why the issue is occurring. The call that is failing in the custom action is LoadUserProfile(). This needs the SeBackupPrivilege which the windows installers service *does not* have on a UAC-enabled system. Some details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vistacompatteam/arc

Re: [WiX-users] Wix library project does not support heat's HarvestProject in wix2010.targets

2011-01-20 Thread Murray H
Hi Rob, Other way around. I want to harvest c# projects into a wix library, which will then be consumed in the normal manner by a wix product. Program c# Projects > Harvested reference into > Program 1.wixlib > Referenced in > Program suite.wixproj This scenario does not currently work. Using a c

[WiX-users] Using Remember Property pattern to remember DirectoryIds

2011-01-20 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
Should we use the "Remember Property" pattern to remember DirectoryIds like INSTALLLOCATION? http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/5/2/The-WiX-toolsets-Remember-Property-pattern Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291

[WiX-users] Confusionm around Privileged property

2011-01-20 Thread Alex Ivanoff
Windows 7, UAC is off, user is not an administrator, Windows Installer sets Privileged and AdminUser properties no 1: MSI (c) (08:8C) [15:45:57:221]: MSI_LUA: Setting AdminUser property to 1 because this is the client or the user has already permitted elevation MSI (c) (08:8C) [15:45:57:221]: PROP

Re: [WiX-users] Patch Creation Issues

2011-01-20 Thread Aaron DeMarre
Thanks for the info. I played around with this a bit, but still could not get a patch I was happy with. I switched to the patchwiz.dll process and it is giving me the behavior I expect when adding new files to the patch. -Aaron On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Blair wrote: > As I understand it,

[WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-20 Thread Andy Clugston
Hi Users, I am working on a product that needs to support Windows 7 w/ UAC enabled. The MSI has a few custom actions that perform various configuration items that I would like to keep contained within the MSI/product install. The custom actions are Execute='deferred' with Impersonate='no' and the

Re: [WiX-users] First build gives ICE errors; subsequent builds don't

2011-01-20 Thread Blair
Some of the MSFT-supplied ICE tests use VBScript (most use C/C++ native code). 2738 Could not access VBScript run time for custom action [2]. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2007/05/31/windows-installer-errors-2 738-and-2739-with-script-custom-actions.aspx Could also be related to an ant

[WiX-users] Major Upgrade Rollbacks

2011-01-20 Thread Sam Domonkos
Hi, Is there any way to have a ini file only be written and never removed even on rollback? Here is the snippet I have tried both the default afterInstallValidate and An uninstall does not remove the ini, which is desired, but if the user cancels late enough the rollback removes the in

Re: [WiX-users] Set property from feature

2011-01-20 Thread Simon Topley
I also seem to get 2 log entries for the same thing: Action ended 08:01:24: CostFinalize. Return value 1. MSI (c) (7C:10) [08:01:24:535]: Skipping action: SetCONFIGREQUIRED (condition is false) and Action ended 08:01:43: CostFinalize. Return value 1. MSI (s) (5C:2C) [08:01:43:067]: Doing action

Re: [WiX-users] Set property from feature

2011-01-20 Thread Simon Topley
tell me about it. I've just tried $cWIAServices=3 and I still get the property set to "1" when that component isn't being installed. I must be missing something but I can't think what. -Original Message- From: maksim.vazhe...@emc.com [mailto:maksim.vazhe...@emc.com] Sent: 20 January 201

Re: [WiX-users] Set property from feature

2011-01-20 Thread maksim.vazhenin
Conditions $cWIAServices=3 and &feWIA=3 should work correctly. Maksim -Original Message- From: Simon Topley [mailto:simon.top...@mwhsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Set property from feature just to clarify t

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.5 Final Build?

2011-01-20 Thread Christopher Painter
Per my comment on your blog, the 3.0 / 3.5 side by side with Votive is an issue for us.  I'm trying to consider ways to mitigate it and it would be helpful to get a ReleaseNotes style bulletin the highlights the benefits of 3.5 that make it worthwhile to consider the upgrade. For me, we are hap

Re: [WiX-users] Questions about the Certificate Element

2011-01-20 Thread Christopher Painter
I'd be willing to help with the doco,  do you think it would work out?   I had this impression from past threads that it was very difficult to get IP assignment agreements in place and to get the diffs accepted if you didn't work for MSFT on the West or East team.  If I'm wrong and you'd accept

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the version number...

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
If you don't want to generate another file (this is what WiX does), then my new favorite trick is to do: Product/@Version="!(wix.FileVersion.SomeFileIdInYourMsi)" On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:31 AM, David Watson wrote: > I should also say that in our build process a list of .cs files are updated >

Re: [WiX-users] Driver without an INF file

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Hamflett
So I finally got this working and thought I'd best post the reply here for other people having the same issue. Specifically, the dirver I'm installing is a file system driver. Here's my INF file: -- START OF FILE --- ; Copyright

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the version number...

2011-01-20 Thread David Watson
I should also say that in our build process a list of .cs files are updated automatically from the master build number. -Original Message- From: Rune Moberg [mailto:jjfl...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 January 2011 11:20 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-u

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the version number...

2011-01-20 Thread Rune Moberg
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Dandre wrote: > assemblyinfo.cs files and update the version numbers. Then using a wix > include file using the variable holding version 1.0.0.0 we update that > file and so all installers referring to that include file will get I was hoping to avoid generating y

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the version number...

2011-01-20 Thread David Watson
Hi, Our builds run a custom TFS build task that checks out a build number file, updates it and checks it back in. This is used as a msbuild property that is passed to our wixprojs which are built from a .sln. In the 'Define preprocessor variables' setion in votive we have a mapping from msbuild "b

Re: [WiX-users] Set property from feature

2011-01-20 Thread Simon Topley
just to clarify that this doesn't work for me if I use the component state instead of the feature state Simon -Original Message- From: Simon Topley Sent: 19 January 2011 18:10 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: RE: Set property from feature sorry the first one of them uses t

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the version number...

2011-01-20 Thread Dandre
Hi Rune I haven't checked your links but what we use is the Tfs build server's ability to download the new source from repo, look for all assemblyinfo.cs files and update the version numbers. Then using a wix include file using the variable holding version 1.0.0.0 we update that file and s

[WiX-users] Setting the version number...

2011-01-20 Thread Rune Moberg
I have googled my eyes out recently, trying to figure out an easy way of setting my installer's version number to match that of my product. I found three alternatives. None of them appeals to me, because they are either kludgy, involves some kind of plug-in or ...well, kludgy: http://morten.lyhr.