[WiX-users] Installation with Windows restart - how to maintain consistency?

Hi, I'm having problem with a scenario where the user has a program running while he installs an update (implemented as Major upgrade). The Windows Installer cannot replace all the files so it finishes with error code = ERROR_SUCCESS_REBOOT_REQUIRED. After the installation is completed the

Re: [WiX-users] Installation with Windows restart - how to maintain consistency?

Unfortunately, no. The Windows Installer cannot do what you desire. It would have been nice if they had though. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Ondrej Zarevucky ondrej.zarevu...@fine.czwrote: Hi, I'm having problem with a scenario where the user has a program running while he installs an

[WiX-users] GAC: Sometimes yes; sometimes no

Hey all, I've got an MSI that is a MajorUpgrade to an existing product. The existing product has assemblies in the GAC and the new MSI needs to replace them. Using the standard Wix file element it all works great except if some app (e.g. w3wp.exe) is using the assembly in the GAC needing to

Re: [WiX-users] Problems applying patches

Hi Rob, Thanks for that, that was useful. The new file was unversioned (I'd just hacked in a binary blob that I knew was very different to the original file). We've addressed that, and we've looked at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368599%28VS.85%29.aspx and we are making some

Re: [WiX-users] Installation with Windows restart - how to maintain consistency?

:-( I have multi-MSI installation chained by our External UI application. Is there a way, how to detect locked files before the whole installation chain is run? I know about INSTALLMESSAGE_FILESINUSE, but I'd like to display one message containing all blocking programs instead of one message

Re: [WiX-users] GAC: Sometimes yes; sometimes no

Although you're not getting the behaviour consistently, the symptoms sounds like this problem http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238 -Original Message- From: Maillet, Ed [mailto:email...@unum.com] Sent: 28 February 2011 15:25 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] GAC:

Re: [WiX-users] GAC: Sometimes yes; sometimes no

That was it. You are my hero for the day. -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 11:20 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] GAC: Sometimes yes; sometimes no Although

Re: [WiX-users] How to change the Windows Integrity level in Vista/Win7 when launching the application

Sorry to bring up the issue again. Does anyone happen to know the answer of this issue? Thanks. From: little.forest little.for...@ymail.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011