Re: [WiX-users] How to get the SourceDir in a MSI package that is bundled within burn?

Hm... no answer yet? Are my questions not understandable or too strange? ;-) Ok, as perhaps some users might be interested in a solution, I present the way I have chosen for now: Basic Idea is to simply write a small C# Program, that gets the Path from a wix burn bundle via CLI, shortens it by

Re: [WiX-users] About Commercial Use

There is no fee for using wix to produce your own installers. See http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2012/8/20/The-WiX-toolset-license -Original Message- From: ?? ?? [mailto:satoshi.mizuko...@jp.advantest.com] Sent: 27 August 2012 10:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

[WiX-users] Read a property

Hi, Is there any way to do this? I have a Custom Action that's sets the property: Property Id=PRODUCTNAME Secure=yes / That's 100%, But now I would like to read that property value as it can be a few different outcomes and if it is outcome 1 then I would like to run a second custom

Re: [WiX-users] About Commercial Use

Thanks Peter, I can adopt WiX without anxiety.:) (2012/08/28 19:34), Peter Shirtcliffe wrote: There is no fee for using wix to produce your own installers. See http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2012/8/20/The-WiX-toolset-license -Original Message- From: ?? ??

Re: [WiX-users] Read a property

Custom actions can have conditions, which can be based on property values http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/events-and-actions/extra-actions In UI or execute sequence Custom Actrion=doIt...PRODUCTNAME=Coral/Custom -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr

Re: [WiX-users] Read a property

Thank you so much, knew it would have been something simple..:) -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: 28 August 2012 12:07 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Read a property Custom actions can have

[WiX-users] Windows 8 NetFX3.5

I have an installation which has the .NET Framework 3.5 etc. as prerequisites. In the past I've been able to install the .NET Framework by calling the redistributable package. What is the correct approach for Windows 8? Most of my target market does not have internet connectivity. IT

Re: [WiX-users] Windows 8 NetFX3.5

The approach I am using is to run ocsetup NetFx3, this seems to work ok and does not require internet access. Neil -Original Message- From: Neil Hayes [mailto:neil.ha...@syspro.com] Sent: 28 August 2012 1:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Windows 8 NetFX3.5

[WiX-users] Managed Custom Action using CAS

Hi, I have upgraded an old installer to a wix 3.7 custom action project that uses the old CAS policy methods. I've upgraded the solution to runtime 4 and resulted receiving the exception This method explicitly uses CAS policy, which has been obsoleted by the .NET Framework. // Get the policy

Re: [WiX-users] Managed Custom Action using CAS

I guess the real question would be do you even need this in .Net 4? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnfa/archive/2010/02/24/so-is-cas-dead-in-net-4-or-what.aspx What is the custom action trying to accomplish with CAS? -Original Message- From: Christoffel le Roux

Re: [WiX-users] Managed Custom Action using CAS

Hi Jacob, Thanks for the reply, I'm installing an office 2003 VSTO project and using the custom action which in turn needs the CAS policy methods to register the DLL as safe to be consumed by Office. Kind regards, Christoffel le Roux -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob

Re: [WiX-users] Assistance with Burn

I really could use some assistance with this. I have changed WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.cpp as I mentioned, but I can't figure out what to build (do I build at the ext source level or where), how to build it (I get lots of errors and warnings that files are missing when I try to open

[WiX-users] Conditional Uninstall - Need to workaround WiX Certificate custom action bugs

We have a product that installs a few certificates on the system using the IIS extension using WiX 3.0. Evidently, there is an issue with the certificate action(s) in this version of the toolset. We are unable to uninstall/upgrade from this specific version in the field. I would like to know if

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Uninstall - Need to workaround WiX Certificate custom action bugs

As far as I can think, you can only selectively uninstall entire features without using permanent components. If the conditions are broken, would patching/minor updating them solve your problem ? I'm not sure what the WiX bug is that you're referring to. Otherwise, you could write an extra

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Uninstall - Need to workaround WiX Certificate custom action bugs

Okay, so what you are saying is that I cannot skip individual components during uninstall, correct? I am not sure if these would work or not. We don't have minor installs, we use the third digit, but it is a full install. This product installs the certificate, and another product re-installs the

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Uninstall - Need to workaround WiX Certificate custom action bugs

Correct. Having thought about it a bit more, this might be a better idea: Take the original installer (or whatever is the current release). Make a major upgrade out of it in the normal way. Schedule RemoveExistingProducts in one of the latter two places mentioned in

Re: [WiX-users] Managed Custom Action using CAS

I've never done one of those myself, but a bit of search engine foo shows a few potential links http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/vsto/thread/f46b54a0-0fc3-4a76-a47c-aad05e31bb86 , http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vsto/thread/890cb60c-11f6-4fea-8a44-e520341f3331 , and

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Uninstall - Need to workaround WiX Certificate custom action bugs

I assume when you say take the original installer you mean bump one of the three version digits and generate a new product version installer, i.e. 1.1.0 to 1.1.1, generate new product GUID, etc. Where this all started was trying to get a newer version of the product on the system. If I can make

[WiX-users] Install Wix37.exe using command line.

Hello all, We had a build machine which used to install Wix3.6 msi using msiexec /qr /i WiX\wix36.msi Now, we are updating our build scripts to use Wix37.exe , but I dont know is there a way to install latest wix using command line ? Are there any options with this exe so that i can silent

[WiX-users] Overriable variable are case sensitve.

Commandline parameters are case sensitive when setting up overriable variables and passing them to an MSI using the stdba. Is there a way around this? i.e. How to we recognize command line parameters coming in where case doesn't match? Thanks. Darwin

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Uninstall - Need to workaround WiX Certificate custom action bugs

So I created a new version (major upgrade) of the product. I adjusted RemoveExistingProducts to run after InstallFinalize. This didn't seem to help at all. It still attempts to remove the cert, and I have the same errors. Thanks. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Andy Clugston clug...@gmail.com

Re: [WiX-users] Install Wix37.exe using command line.

wix37.exe -quiet On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:21 PM, vchauras vivekchauras...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, We had a build machine which used to install Wix3.6 msi using msiexec /qr /i WiX\wix36.msi Now, we are updating our build scripts to use Wix37.exe , but I dont know is there a way to

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage

UPDATE: OK, using the recommendation of creating a stub EXE I have got this working. Here's what I did in case anyone else needs to handle this type of installer. 1. Created a stub executable that manages the installation and removal of the package. The stub exe does a few things: a) Parses