On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Thai-Hoa Nguyen wrote:
> A way to solve this, I no longer use Wix / ServiceInstall. I used
> InstallUtil.exe instead. Then the database connection issue goes away.
> I'm wondering if there is another way to register the WCF service hosted by
> the windows servic
I have a WCF service which is run as a windows service. This WCF service
connects to a SQL server. I used Wix / ServiceInstall to register the WCF
service. There is no database connection issue when both WCF service and SQL
server are on the local machine. When installing WCF server on mach
If the Components are mutually exclusive, then you can probably get away
with the same GUIDs. I personally would start planning to get the GUIDs to
be different (auto-guid is ideal) just in case the mutual exclusivity runs
out.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Quinton Tormanen
wrote:
> We've dist
What version of WiX v3.5 are you using?
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:50 AM, kim wrote:
>
> Receving following error when trying to create a website from msi. Target
> machine is Windows 7-32 bit machine. To my surprise, this same code has
> work
> numerous times before on different hadrware without
Thanks for the help! I also had to change to use XmlFile versus XmlConfig. The
following fragment is working.
Thanks,
Gregg
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From: bharat jasti [mailto:bharat.ja...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 4:51 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Instal
Hi Pally,
Thanks for your response.
I included the component in my Features.I verified the installer with InstEd
and could see class id's in registry table.
Coming to Component Id and File Id, i have just change them for the email sake
so that it will be generic.
What i am wondering is this som
Modify the Configurations as below and try
Action = "createElement" is to create a new element. As the element is
already existing you should use Action = "setValue"
Thanks & Regards,
Bharat Jasti
Web Applications Developer
Rainbow Design Services, Inc.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Sharad
I haven't tried this in WiX itself but because you want to get to the
child node shouldn't your XPath query have "/value" at the end?
Something like this:
"/configuration/applicationSettings/Microsoft.Lexicon.Framework.Backgrou
ndLocalFileSettings/setting[@name='DatabaseServer']/value"
Cheer
Hello,
I am looking for some help using XmlConfig, assuming that XmlConfig is the
correct hammer for this issue.
I have an app.config file that I would like to modify when it is installed, a
sample config file -
Receving following error when trying to create a website from msi. Target
machine is Windows 7-32 bit machine. To my surprise, this same code has work
numerous times before on different hadrware without any issues.
Snippet from log file:
Action 12:34:42: StartIIS7ConfigTransaction. Starting IIS C
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> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:21:12 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dave Andersen
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0170
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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>
>>
> 18>C:\delivery\Dev\wix35_public\s
We've distributed our application for some time as a 32-bit app, and
then later we added a 64-bit installer to get the 64-bit USB drivers
installed, but still installed our native application as 32-bit (using
WOW64). Now I need to make the 64-bit installer use the 64-bit EXE
(while the 32-bit insta
Hi Pally,
Thanks for the reply, unfortunately you lost me somewhere around "externalise
your ui".
Could someone elaborate on that for me please? Perhaps provide some links?
Thanks
Jamie
-Original Message-
From: Pally Sandher
Sent: 07 February 2011 18:27
To: General discussion for Window
No a bootstrapper runs the SQL install and then your install.
Neil
-Original Message-
From: kim [mailto:contactme...@gmail.com]
Sent: 07 February 2011 18:01
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction fails with error code 1603??
Thanks so much for the sug
The FileName column in the File Table isn't of Formatted type so that's
not likely to work -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa368596.aspx
No harm in trying though.
If that doesn't work I think the only way to do it properly would be to
externalise your UI from Windows Installer & then modify
I believe that would still require restarting the app during the installation
process. Mark was asking for a way to install without shutting down the
current instance, and the next time it loads have it start with the new
instance.
Andreas
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From: "Wilson, Phil"
Da
Thanks so much for the suggestions guys :-)
I will definitly look at the dotNetInstaller bootstapper.
Please correct me if I have misunderstood:
I can still call this bootstrapper from my msi, which will install all the
prerequisites and once all is successful, my msi can resume with
installat
You could look at Restart Manager and have your exe integrate with that, then
the install will shut your app down and restart it with the new version.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373524(v=vs.85).aspx
Phil Wilson
-Original Message-
From: Mark Turek [mailto:turekm...@hot
Hi Kim,
I think you still need a CA for enumerating the array returned from the
MULTI_SZ;
You cannot assume that your instance is the only one installed (or the
first in the list).
If you don't want to use a CA then you should register the instance with
your application during install in the reg
You should build / use a bootstrapper for this.
Installing other MSI files from within a CA (especially managed ones) are a
scenario for deasaster (As far as I have seen at least) and are highly
discouraged!
Check out if you can use Burn; I have good hopes for it, although I haven't
found the time
It is not possible to install SQLExpress from within an MSI as nested
installs are not supported by Windows Installer, you will need to use
some sort of bootstrapper. I use dotNetInstaller
(http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/) to do this.
Neil
-Original Message-
From: kim [mailto:contact
I am in need to check if SQLExpress is installed on target machine before
installing my product. If not installed, my product's msi will install
SQLEXpress first.
I created a C# custom action to install SQLExpress using command line. When
executing this command directly on cmd prompt SQLExpress g
I think you just include Properties in square brackets to use them? So:
But that seems too easy so I'm probably wrong!
-Original Message-
From: Jamie Thomson [mailto:ja...@jamie-thomson.net]
Sent: 07 February 2011 16:29
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Using a
Hi folks,
WiX newbie here trying to get up to speed on a few things. Google has been a
big help so far but am currently drawing a blank so am hoping some folks here
can help.
I have a custom dialog that prompts for a value called SystemShortName:
http://opdatw.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p_QvSKN5W
Thanks for your reply!
Pally,
I did checked the verbose log, and SQLSERVER variable is having name of the
instance installed on system. But I need to populate a property with this
instancename, which I am not able to get.
Albert,
Yes I am checking the InstalledInstances in the registry as follow
The main point is to reduce the time of nightly builds which run on dynamic
views. So I don't argue that snapshots are good, but I also want to make
dynamic views better:)
Rob, will an option '-forcereusecab' (or something like that) be considered as
an improvement for light.exe (so I will writ
Thanks Peter, I got it corrected. There was problem with single quotes also.
I have corrected it too.
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Not built-in. Just feed the converted files to Wix when you build the
installer.
-Original Message-
From: John Daintree [mailto:jo...@dyalog.com]
Sent: 07 February 2011 14:45
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Change text file line-endings on install
Hello all,
Hello all,
I have a number of text files with UNIXy line endings that I want to install
onto a Windows machine. Is there a WIX mechanism I can use to change the
line endings to Windowsy ones on install?
Thanks,
John.
Robocopy to a temp directory is not a very good solution for it... There can be
problems, if many people will build package at one time on a build server,
there can be not enough space in %temp% directory.
Maksim.
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymenteng
How does a dynamic view save you time? A well crafted config spec should load
only what is needed to do the build. Whether you load it all up front or
whether you load it when WiX needs it should be about the same cost, no? If
WiX is going to go off validating things repeatedly then I'd thi
HKLM\\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\InstalledInstances
offcourse :)
Check out: http://madbutcher.dyndns.org/snippets/SQLMsiCA
for a nice example on how to let the user select a SQL instance
installed on this computer or, if you wish, any computer in the network.
-Oorspronkelijk beri
HKLM SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server returns a MULTI_SZ so
you'll need to parse it to a string first...
But how should your code function when there are more instances
installed
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Van: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com]
Verzonden: maandag 7
It was just a little block of build log, maybe it was confusing. Build is ok.
Snapshot views are certainly good for it, but I also want to make it faster on
dynamic views.
Is it possible to introduce something like '-forcesreusecab' command line
option for light.exe to skip files' validation (so
Check a verbose log.
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Really? It seems like your build is broken to me. I already provided a work
around, use a snapshot view. Use a dynamic view to robocopy to a temp
directory
on NTFS.
There was a discussion on StackOverflow that Light in v3.5 has been updated to
look at md5 checksums and time date stamps.
Probably a stupid question but is your Fragment actually getting
included in your MSI? Do you have a ComponentRef for that Component in
your Features? Open the MSI in InstEd! or Orca & see if any of your
Class Id's or TypeLibs from the Fragment below are listed in the
Registry table. If they aren't
The recommended method to create shortcuts is almost as per your code. See
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/create_start_menu_shortcut.htm
I don't particularly like putting HKCU keys in a per-machine package either but
that seems to be the accepted method so I've learned to live with it.
There is a 'hacky' way to do it but bear in mind that once you follow
the 'hacky' method, all future patches will be required to be built the
same way. Also because you've 4 Products, your patches are going to be
around 4 times as big as each Product will have it's own CAB (since it
has it's own tr
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