[WiX-users] InstallFinalize is executed twice

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Osman
I have noticed that InstallFinalize is executed twice and I've also noticed that one of my custom action is also executed twice. Here is part of the log: SI (s) (3C:54) [17:45:23:438]: Skipping action: SetWebLogFolderProperty (condition is false) MSI (s) (3C:54) [17:45:23:438]: Skipping action:

Re: [WiX-users] License agreement dialog does not display the license agreement text

2011-04-07 Thread faxedhead
Thanks, opening and saving-as in WordPad worked for me. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/License-agreement-dialog-does-not-display-the-license-agreement-text-tp5560514p6252248.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabbl

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.5: Culture zh-HK ICE03 errors

2011-04-07 Thread Francisco Gabriel Malbrán
Thanks for the references Tobias. Are the problems only related to "[" symbols not being escaped? I mean: the translations seem completed. If so I would like to use them so I escaped the characters that gave errors. I would just like the confirmation that the file has no other things to be aware o

Re: [WiX-users] GAC File Update

2011-04-07 Thread CoolBreeze
Thanks everyone for your help. I have everything working now. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) < edwin.cas...@fiserv.com> wrote: > I would remove the line. > InstallExecute gets scheduled at the right time automatically. > > > NOT > Installed > After="InstallFin

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] msi and combo box

2011-04-07 Thread Tobias S
To be honest I'd recommend you not to do the Update License Agreement thing as it is not trivial. There you have to update MSI ttables e.g. in DTF of a running session object. Maybe another way would be to add 3 license agreement dialogs into the installer and select the needed one depending on th

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.5: Culture zh-HK ICE03 errors

2011-04-07 Thread Tobias S
Use zh-TW instead. Zh-HK is a known issue that localization is incorrerct: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3162829&group_id=105970&atid=642714 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3163411&group_id=105970&atid=642714 zh-HK and zh-TW differ in few strings and my company us

[WiX-users] A RegistrySearch question and Multi-Instance questions.

2011-04-07 Thread Tyler Walters
1. RegistrySearch. I am trying to do a registry search and it is not working. Now I thought it was just this simple, but the property is not being set. Here is part of the log. (If you need more of the log, let me know). I have gone into the registry and manually verifie

[WiX-users] WiX v3.5: Culture zh-HK ICE03 errors

2011-04-07 Thread Francisco Gabriel Malbrán
Whenever building my project in zh-HK culture I get the following errors (vs2008 sp3): Error 1 ICE03: Invalid template string; Table: Error, Column: Message, Key(s): 1306 C:\delivery\Dev\wix35_public\src\ext\UIExtension\wixlib\ErrorProgressText.wxs 120 1 IFRInstaller Error 2 ICE03: Invalid templat

Re: [WiX-users] Building with a .dll from GAC

2011-04-07 Thread Brinkmeier, Doug
Yes, I've seen this, and this was also just an example reference - the general case is "referencing a .dll that is known to be installed only to the GAC". -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.

Re: [WiX-users] Building with a .dll from GAC

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
This may help if you've not seen it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251723.aspx -Original Message- From: Brinkmeier, Doug [mailto:doug.brinkme...@countryfinancial.com] Sent: 07 April 2011 18:01 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building with a .dll f

Re: [WiX-users] Building with a .dll from GAC

2011-04-07 Thread Brinkmeier, Doug
Eh, that wasn't the answer I was hoping for; I was hoping it would be a straight 1:1 conversion from our .vdproj project over to our .wixproj. Currently the .vdproj defines the reference like this: "AssemblyRegister" = "3:1" "AssemblyIsInGAC" = "11:TRUE" "Ass

Re: [WiX-users] GAC File Update

2011-04-07 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
I would remove the line. InstallExecute gets scheduled at the right time automatically. NOT Installed ASPNETREGIIS AND NOT Installed Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Digital Channels Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environmen

Re: [WiX-users] Building with a .dll from GAC

2011-04-07 Thread David Watson
Hi, The best way of doing this is exactly what you think is a bad idea. Store this dll in a well know location or source control and refer to it as part of your build process. The Gac is actually a more complex structure than it appears in the simplified windows explorer view. You can investigate

Re: [WiX-users] GAC File Update

2011-04-07 Thread CoolBreeze
I'm getting an error 2613 "RemoveExistingProducts action sequenced incorrectly" when I run my installer and below is my InstallExecuteSequence. What is causing this to be incorrect? NOT Installed ASPNETREGIIS AND NOT Installed On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Wilson, Ph

[WiX-users] Building with a .dll from GAC

2011-04-07 Thread Brinkmeier, Doug
I've been doing some research, and seeing a lot of posts about installing a .dll to the GAC, but (at least to me) it seems like the much more common scenario is just simply using a known .dll/assembly name installed in the GAC in the build (just to deploy to the install directory). I won't know

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] msi and combo box

2011-04-07 Thread Thomazeau Michel
Hi Tobias, Thanks for you quick reply. I already have the differents rtf files (one per language) integrated in my visual project, So at least for this part I think I am ok! I have a custom license page (a title/a textfield/a checkbox, and the buttons) and I wanted to integrate a combobox in thi

Re: [WiX-users] Too many CA:s (LGTH0179)

2011-04-07 Thread Christopher Painter
I speak from experience when I say ESRI is not a good roll model when it comes to installer best practices.  There is a reason why everyone reimages their machines around my office.  Have you ever tried to get ArcGIS off of a machine?   Pure awesomeness... --- Christopher Painter, Author of De

Re: [WiX-users] (no subject)

2011-04-07 Thread Stelios Kyprou
I do want to run the command as the user that fired up the msi though... If I do Impersonate="no", wouldn't that run as LocalSystem (which is admin)? > -Original Message- > From: Aaron Klor [mailto:aaron.k...@gmail.com] > Sent: 07 April 2011 12:39 > To: General discussion for Windows Inst

Re: [WiX-users] perUser vs perMachine and elevation (bestpractices?)

2011-04-07 Thread Pally Sandher
According to MSDN yes -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371865.aspx Palbinder Sandher  Software Deployment Engineer T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the ** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered i

Re: [WiX-users] (no subject)

2011-04-07 Thread Aaron Klor
Try Impersonate="no". With that attribute set to yes, that CA tries to impersonate the user who ran the msi, because the deferred CA is already running as admin. On Apr 7, 2011 6:13 AM, "Stelios Kyprou" wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to deploy a SharePoint WebPart from my installer, and the

Re: [WiX-users] ICE60 and DefaultLanguage

2011-04-07 Thread Pally Sandher
We've upgraded our Salford Fortran compiler to version 6.0 & I'm now getting the following warning for the run time DLL as it has no language specified in its attributes: warning LGHT1076: ICE60: The file SALFLIBC.DLL is not a Font, and its version is not a companion file reference. It should

[WiX-users] (no subject)

2011-04-07 Thread Stelios Kyprou
Hello everyone, I am trying to deploy a SharePoint WebPart from my installer, and the way I found to do that in WiX is to create a deferred custom action, which: 1) Will fire up "cmd.exe" 2) Run a .bat file which: i) Run "stsadm.exe" (located under "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsof

Re: [WiX-users] perUser vs perMachine and elevation (bestpractices?)

2011-04-07 Thread Rune Moberg
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Pally Sandher wrote: > Don't do anything which needs to access per-machine areas of the system & > you'll be fine =) I.e. tag my package as "perUser", and if that user happens to be admin then all users will see the shortcuts that are installed? Isn't this where

Re: [WiX-users] perUser vs perMachine and elevation (bestpractices?)

2011-04-07 Thread Pally Sandher
Don't do anything which needs to access per-machine areas of the system & you'll be fine =) Palbinder Sandher  Software Deployment Engineer T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the ** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited

Re: [WiX-users] perUser vs perMachine and elevation (best practices?)

2011-04-07 Thread Rune Moberg
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe wrote: > Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I don't see how that can work. A > standard user doesn't have permission to change permissions or write to > ALLUSERSPROFILE.  You need elevation to affect any machine-wide locations as > a protectio

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] msi and combo box

2011-04-07 Thread Tobias S
HI, Think this is a bit more tricky: adds the source file for the ScrollableText during binding of the installation. Actually here you would need 3 different rtf files and so you have to work around to populate the ScrollableText control. At first glance it seems that you need some addit

Re: [WiX-users] perUser vs perMachine and elevation (best practices?)

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I don't see how that can work. A standard user doesn't have permission to change permissions or write to ALLUSERSPROFILE. You need elevation to affect any machine-wide locations as a protection for other users. -Original Message- From: Rune Moberg [m

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] msi and combo box

2011-04-07 Thread Thomazeau Michel
Hi, I see your point Tobias, thanks for your quick answer. If the solution with the combo box doen't work/doesn't fit my expectation, I will go for the transform. I have a question about the combo box. I have set the combobox with its property and it seems to works fine