[WiX-users] WiX v3.7 - Publish install event

I am creating a WiX installer, and have configured it to show a prompt when the user clicks 'install' if the user is missing a certain file. I added this line in order to link my custom prompt to the rest of my dialogs (My prompt is called Custom_Cancel): If the user is missing a certain

[WiX-users] WiX v3.7 - Two PathEdit dialogs in one MSI (error 2343 - Specified path is empty)

I am creating a WiX installer, and I want to allow the user to select the path of the installation directory as well as a data directory. I added two InstallDirDlg's to my code and named one Custom_Dir and the other Custom_DirData. In Custom_DirData, instead of using the WIXUI_INSTALLDIR propert

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions that need to call unmanaged DLL

1) yes 2) you could 3) yes, you could but you would need to manually extract the dll in you managed ca (after embedding it in the msi) and then pinvoke that dll. Fairly certain .net requires the native libs to exist as its loading your assembly, so you would need to build the reference to the n

[WiX-users] Patch Installation Privileges

Hi , I have installed our main Installer(msi) with administrator rights, now i want to install the *.msp with Standard Users Rights(Non-administrator) Thanks and Regards Ravi Shankar -- This SF.net email is sponsore

[WiX-users] Custom Actions that need to call unmanaged DLL

I would like do something like this: CustomActions.cs: [CustomAction] Public static ActionResults MyCustomAction(Session session) { ... NativeMethod.XYZ xyz = new NativeMethod.XYZ(); } NativeMethods.cs: internal static class NativeMethods { Intern

Re: [WiX-users] Update: Best Practice? name of dependency changes in update

For major upgrade case: yes. The easiest way is to use generated component guids (when the keypath's name changes (or the directory "chain" changes in the case of filesystem keypaths) the computed guid will differ, and changing the guid means (from the POV of Windows Installer) that you delete

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

> Burn is very self-contained and only uses files it carries with it, although > a custom BA can do anything. I'm not using any custom BA (that I know of). My Bundle source is below this message, for your reference. Please let me know if you see anything wrong (or don't see something that shoul

Re: [WiX-users] per-user/per-machine in MSM, MSI and bundle

I have been following this thread, and while I am pretty new I decided to play with this problem as a learning experience. I created the following modules, which are slightly different from your code, which compile and do not generate any warnings or errors. I think the main change I made was to

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Patch in Wix 3.6 is empty. warning PYRO1079: The cabinet '***.cab' does not contain any files

I think I was having similar issues, and I reverted to using http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/patch_building.htm It does have some shortcomings (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2010/08/24/comparison-of-patchwiz-and-wix-v3-patch-build.aspx ) , but it allowed me to create patches o

Re: [WiX-users] Heat + Harvesting a 64bit COM component

http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Re-Wix-3-5-Heat-Cannot-harvest-64-Bit-COM-DLL-Registry-Data-td7583833.html http://sourceforge.net/p/wix/feature-requests/399/ The first is a reference to someone having a possible solution, the second is a link to the feature request

Re: [WiX-users] Download packages only if custom action returns some value

Sounds like you need to write your own UX/BA. You shouldn't depend on a CA "securing" an install, as there are several tools out there that would make it easy to modify and remove said check. You could base your UX off of WixStdBA (C++), or you could write a managed one (.Net). If you clone t

Re: [WiX-users] Need heat.exe to include extra file source subfolder

Thank you very much for the information. - Miaohsi -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 3:00 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Need heat.exe to include extra file source subfolder I'm

[WiX-users] Download packages only if custom action returns some value

I want to make an installer that lets the user enter a key, which is then evaluated by a custom action. Depending on the result of this evaluation, the installer should download a set of MSI's from a remote location and install them with no further action from the user. As far as I know, in order t

Re: [WiX-users] SQL CE 4.0 Package

Great, I've been looking for version comparision for a long time. I've updated the conditions (see below). This seems to work, but I didn't do a lot of testing, yet. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=253117"; DetectCondition='NOT VersionNT64 AND

[WiX-users] Heat + Harvesting a 64bit COM component

Hi All, Hopefully this is the correct place to post this.. I've currently got a 64bit win32 com component that requires registering via regsvr32.exe I've been reading that the correct way to use this in WIX is using heat.exe to extract what will end up in the registry and including that in my

Re: [WiX-users] per-user/per-machine in MSM, MSI and bundle

I'm still rather struggling with this My own MSIs I can fix if needs be by not using an MSM however I still need an MSM to supply to customers to include our redistributable component in their own installers. I want to allow the MSM to be used in per-user and per-machine installers. In ord

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Patch in Wix 3.6 is empty. warning PYRO1079: The cabinet '***.cab' does not contain any files

Hi Guys, we are using the way of building patches as described in WiX help "Patch Building Using Purely WiX", meaning that we are building the delta from the wixpdb's using torch. The only difference to the sample is that the files for the different versions are always in the same location during