[WiX-users] Patch and searching for date

Hi, i try to create a patch in which the change in data is compared. Only those with altered change data should be overwritten. Is this possible? Christoph -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What ev

[WiX-users] ProtectFile

Hi, Are there any good examples about ProtectFile? Can't find anything useful about it. This foreign key is more confusing than helpful. Is it the File column in the File table in the MSI? Thanks, Christoph --

[WiX-users] Suppress Feature selection in patch

Hi, is there a way to suppress the feature selection in a patch? Thanks, Christoph -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Int

[WiX-users] Ignoring config files with patch

Hi, I'm creating a patch following http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/patch_building.htm. It seems, that the config files get changed back. I tried PatchIgnore on the config file in the installer. But from the documentation is seems that it just helps to prevent changes from one installer t

Re: [WiX-users] Property Behavior in Repair vs. Upgrade

Blair, thank you so much for this. I was about to go down the dark road of invoking a custom action to harvest this info from the registry and parse the directory from a component's path. I did not know about ComponentSearch, it is exactly what I needed. My major upgrades are now working just as t

Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC

The difficulty is that there is no flow chart to figure out why the files aren't there, responding to your previous comment. In another thread you admitted to looking in the wrong GAC! There's a bunch of basics that are too tedious to list, including looking in the right place and knowing for a

Re: [WiX-users] Testing the UI

Thanks Tobias. This is most interesting. I've got several custom texts that are not WiX's default, that's why I'm intending to test the layout. The information about languages and placeholders is pretty useful! Finally, I didn't quite get what user settings may affect the layout? Thanks 2011/5/1

Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action

helps if you look in the right GAC... :( Note that for .NET 4.0 the GAC location is now: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\assembly\... -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:01 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML t

Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0c6xyb66.aspx -Original Message- From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:44 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custo

Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action

Yes, the assemblies are referenced by project in the CA project > set the "build action" to "Content"? do not know what this means... -Original Message- From: Dick Van den Brink [mailto:d_vandenbr...@live.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:35 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subje

Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action

You set source and resource files to content  ( .cs, .xml, .jpg )  for assembly references you set them to CopyLocal=true to get them to come along for the ride.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that dese

Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action

Did you add the dll to the CA project and set the "build action" to "Content"? > From: kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com > Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 08:27:10 -0600 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action > > now (all of a sudden...) some

[WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action

now (all of a sudden...) something quit working we have a C# custom action that requires a couple of assemblies. in wix3.0 these assemblies were copied into the CustomAction.Install.WiX.CA.dll-# directory where the custom action was invoked. but now using winx3.5 it is failing because it cannot

Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC

a clue! we are moving our vs2008 solution to vs2010. all of our vs2008 assemblies are stuck at the last release v5.5.4127.3070. all of our vs2010 assemblies are set to the default v1.0.0.0. when I used the v5.5.4127.3070 assembly in the test (below) then it was installed in the GAC. if I rebui

[WiX-users] Burn: installing IIS6, WindowsRoles, MSDTC

Hello. I wonder if there any possibility to declare IIS6, WindowsRoles, MSDTC installation inside Bundle chain? They use Windows executables from System32 folder, so theoretically it should not be embedded in a container (Compressed="no"): First problem is that 'SourceFile' is not a formatte

Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC

ok, here it is trimmed down to its essence. I created a new project, enabled the default component, added a dummy file, then added my GAC component. on running the MSI, Spiricon.Interfaces.ConsoleService.dll is not in the GAC http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>

Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC

Kurt-     Are you in the united states?  If so, I can provide hourly consulting services to look at your problem in depth.  I haven't really followed this thread in depth but I doubt it would be more then $100.   Regards, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have

Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC

sorry but did we run out of ideas? you say "There's not really a lot of info..." what info do you need? please ask. if I knew what info was pertinent then I might still be able to look for a solution. I searched bugs but could not find any related. I searched the web but could not find any rela

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

QuietExec is nice for those occasions where you *must* call an EXE during the install but in general I avoid doing that in the first place.   I prefer to write my own code for interacting directly with the underlying API so that I can have better error handling and control of the process.    Whe

Re: [WiX-users] Illegal identifier Directory Id="WindowsFolder" ?

It looks completely fine to me & should work. I just tested Which is fine & almost identical to your code. The only thing I can think it could be is some formatting characters are present in the Identifier but even that would show up in the error message. You could try pastin

[WiX-users] AUTO: Kenneth L Resler is out of the office. (returning 05/12/2011)

I am out of the office until 05/12/2011. I will be out of the office, with limited email and phone access. Note: This is an automated response to your message "[WiX-users] Illegal identifier Directory Id="WindowsFolder" ?" sent on 5/11/2011 12:20:53 AM. This is the only notification you will

Re: [WiX-users] Testing the UI

In general the given WiX translation should fit the UI already and I'd consider only doing a short test of the given WiX translation. Maybe check if the longest string (checked with Orca or InstEd in table Error) fits. For the custom strings the same... Regarding language placeholders and layout.