Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-07 Thread Saravan1109
Great, Thanks Rob. In which event I need to handle this process? In DetectPackageComplete I can able to get the state of the packages. My bundle having "InstallCondition" in chain/MsiPackage element. Is this condition enough for handle selected MSI on Uninstallation? -- View this message in con

[WiX-users] issue when using IniUtil functions

2014-04-07 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi all, I'm in the process of rewriting some ini handling to us the functions from iniutil.h. The following is the ini file I'm trying to parse: [Environment] CurrentlyActiveLanguage=enu AppScriptFile=SurfaceReader.JSB DefScriptFile=DEFAULT.JSB ActiveSpotFile=C:\Users\tim\AppData\Roaming\Freedom

Re: [WiX-users] Burn and uninstall shortcut

2014-04-07 Thread Van
Thanks very very much! It works! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-and-uninstall-shortcut-tp7587878p7593986.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

[WiX-users] .NET Framework for WiX development

2014-04-07 Thread Jun Yin
Hi, As you know and as posted in the article below, WiX v3 has moved to .NET Framework 2.0 while WiX v2 will stay on .NET Framework 1.1 SP1. http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/12/7/wix-v3-on-the-.net-framework-2.0-eminent However, I did not find much information on the plan of .NET Framewo

Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

2014-04-07 Thread Carter Young
Just a comment here, as I haven't been "watching" this thread. This is the inevitable Chicken and Egg Argument. Application A Installs DLL Component A, Version X, Application B installs DLL Component A, Version Y. Now Consider the following: If X > Y Application B should not install

Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

2014-04-07 Thread Phil Wilson
Understood, but if there's a choice I'd rather go with the component rules than rely on the GAC. If shared assemblies that relied on the GAC behavior were all going to be installed from their different products into a common non-GAC location you'd need the sharing to work in the conventional way. -

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Burn select msi and apply mst dynamically

2014-04-07 Thread Phill Hogland
You can do it that way, but there are other approaches. For most of my MSIs I use the EmbedTransforms tool as described here: http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/transforms/morphing-installers Then I just deploy the the MSI without any payloads. MSI automatically selects the embedded transform

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Burn select msi and apply mst dynamically

2014-04-07 Thread Rob Mensching
IIRC, there is a feature request open to support this. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Jerome [mailto:jero2r...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 7, 2

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-07 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Saravan1109 [mailto:biggodannau...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 3:17 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourcefo

Re: [WiX-users] Component GUID rules clarification

2014-04-07 Thread Phill Hogland
I right-click on the project file, and 'unload' the project, then edit the project and add InstallerPlatform as follows (to each Property Group Condition= 'test for configuration' ... x64 .. ... x86 .. -- View this message in context: http://windows-

Re: [WiX-users] Component GUID rules clarification

2014-04-07 Thread Jerome
Do we need to edit the project file manually to set InstallerPlatform property ? I don't see visual studio 2012 saving the settings when I add a new platform target in the build settings for the wix project. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Phill Hogland wrote: > I used the information from th

Re: [WiX-users] Component GUID rules clarification

2014-04-07 Thread Phill Hogland
I used the information from the following link to configure a project to build either a 32 bit or 64 bit installer. http://alekdavis.blogspot.com/2011/05/build-32-and-64-bit-installers-using.html My projects are for drivers and I need to install the full driver tree regardless of which platform is

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-07 Thread Saravan1109
Thanks for your reply. I need some clarifications in uninstalling MSI using burn. Is it possible to remove only the selected MSI files while uninstallation? Scenario : If launch the bundle uninstall from ARP, it shows the installed MSI packages list. I will select any of one MSI from that list and

[WiX-users] Component GUID rules clarification

2014-04-07 Thread jero2rome
I have to create seperate installer's for 32bit and 64bit platform since my app and third party libraries are different for each platform. But, there are many common files compiled as target any cpu. I should have different GUID's for components of each platform installer ? Or I can use the same G

[WiX-users] Wix Burn select msi and apply mst dynamically

2014-04-07 Thread Jerome
I have MSI's in english, german and a MST transform file for german installer. Now in burn boostrapper how to bundle these MSI's and MST's so that appropriate localized MST is applied to the msi during runtime ? Is this the right way to include MST in the bundle ?

[WiX-users] problem with installer

2014-04-07 Thread Илья Циликов
Hello, I'd like to ask a help for the following question. I'm creating an install package for a server application that can be run in console application mode without more UI, but when I create shortcuts the following way: After its installation the shortcut