Re: [WiX-users] Installing VSTO as pre-requisites from Bundle.wxs Failed

2014-09-17 Thread Chetan Rajakumar
Thank you very much Licha. -Original Message- From: Liz [mailto:chang@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:57 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing VSTO as pre-requisites from Bundle.wxs Failed This is the fwlink that alwa

Re: [WiX-users] XMLConfig updates only from command line

2014-09-17 Thread Stabiplan Development
Hi J, Yes this is possible. Are you using just an MSI or do you use a burn bootstrapper? In case of an MSI you can define a property that you pass on the command line, similar to INSTALLDIR=... You can create your own property say UPDATEXML= where value can be yes or no so something like that.

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction to execute batch file causes uninstall to fail

2014-09-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Or better, associate with a Component's state. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Pavan Konduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] Sent: Wednesday, September

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction to execute batch file causes uninstall to fail

2014-09-17 Thread Pavan Konduru
Phil is right. Just add this to the custom action sequence: -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 4:16 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction to execute batch file causes u

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction to execute batch file causes uninstall to fail

2014-09-17 Thread Phil Wilson
You're referring to it as an "install" custom action, but I see no condition that causes it to be called only on install. In other words it's also being called at uninstall time and failing. --- Phil Wilson On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:08 PM, newuser2014 wrote: > Hi, > > I have a custom

[WiX-users] CustomAction to execute batch file causes uninstall to fail

2014-09-17 Thread newuser2014
Hi, I have a custom action during the installation process to execute a batch file to replace some config file. ... The installation goes smoothly. However, uninstallation fails. Do you know what might be the issue and a potential fix for this problem? Thank you very much in advance!

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Could ship a newer bundle that knows about new MSIs and use bundle updates. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread robert_ortega
Thanks Phil - that tiny piece of information looks to have cleared up most of my confusion. Thanks! -Robert -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:43 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Insta

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread Phill Hogland
Rob's advice was to use a "Related Bundle" , which would involve creating a bundle.exe for each "addon", and using the RelatedBundle element in each Bundle to establish the relationships. If you use 'Related Bundles' Burn does a lot of work for you tracking not only the install but the uninstall p

Re: [WiX-users] .NET FX 4.5 as the supportedRuntime and supportedFramework in BootstrapperCore.config

2014-09-17 Thread Yari Serve
I believe the following line is the interesting one: [1E2C:0F98][2014-09-17T23:23:07]i000: Loading prerequisite bootstrapper application because managed host could not be loaded, error: 0x80070490. For the sake of completion, here's the log: [1E2C:0F98][2014-09-17T23:23:07]i001: Burn v3.8.1128.0,

Re: [WiX-users] .NET FX 4.5 as the supportedRuntime and supportedFramework in BootstrapperCore.config

2014-09-17 Thread Sean Hall
It's impossible to tell what's wrong without looking at the log in the %TEMP% directory. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Yari Serve wrote: > Sean, > > Even this does not work: > > > > Still opening the PreReq BA instead of my custom BA. > > -Original Message- > From: Sean Hall [m

Re: [WiX-users] XMLConfig updates only from command line

2014-09-17 Thread Jeremiahf
Also the command line parameters do update the config file. Just wanted to be clear that the XML config file should only be written to when a command line parameter is used. Thanks again for any assistance. J On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Jeremiahf wrote: > Hello, > > I have an installer th

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread robert_ortega
Thanks Phil. However I'm still not clear about the entire workflow. I only have one bootstrapper application which includes no addons. Addons will come later as separate MSI's (on their own physical DVD to make things more interesting). So on the DVD I'll literally have just one MSI and mayb

Re: [WiX-users] .NET FX 4.5 as the supportedRuntime and supportedFramework in BootstrapperCore.config

2014-09-17 Thread Yari Serve
Sean, Even this does not work: Still opening the PreReq BA instead of my custom BA. -Original Message- From: Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.h...@gmail.com] Sent: Mittwoch, 17. September 2014 22:51 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] .NET FX 4.5 as th

Re: [WiX-users] .NET FX 4.5 as the supportedRuntime and supportedFramework in BootstrapperCore.config

2014-09-17 Thread Sean Hall
Starting with .NET 4.5, there is no client profile. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Yari Serve wrote: > Greetings, > > > > I'm currently writing my own Bootstrapper Application with WPF and .NET > 4.5. > > > > Because all applications installed with the BA will be run using .NET 4.5, > I > want

Re: [WiX-users] Ensure a Windows Feature is enabled?

2014-09-17 Thread Jeremiahf
What feature? Did you try looking in the registry? On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:15 AM, neslekkim wrote: > Ensuring that it's there should not be the same as you install it :) > > Anyway, I need to detect if this feature is installed, so i can abort the > install if it's missing, It's easy to detect

[WiX-users] .NET FX 4.5 as the supportedRuntime and supportedFramework in BootstrapperCore.config

2014-09-17 Thread Yari Serve
Greetings, I'm currently writing my own Bootstrapper Application with WPF and .NET 4.5. Because all applications installed with the BA will be run using .NET 4.5, I want set this as the supportedFramework. Unfortunately, this does not work and only opens the Prereq-Installer instead of my c

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread Phill Hogland
I am not an expert and am still learning this topic, but I think it boils down to: In the "main" bundle preemptively add a line like: In the future add-on, update, or patch, (as indicated) add this to tell it that it is related to the main product. I also set Bundle/@Tag to a unique string in

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread robert_ortega
Is this still possible even if I do not know what add-ons will be available at the time of my main BA release? It is so difficult finding examples of relatedbundle addons in the archives... Robert -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: Wednesday, Sept

[WiX-users] XMLConfig updates only from command line

2014-09-17 Thread Jeremiahf
Hello, I have an installer that writes "default" property values to an XML config file every time the installer runs . I have a new requirement that does not allow me to "hardcode/set" those default property values within the installer but just install the config file and only update the config fi

Re: [WiX-users] Installing VSTO as pre-requisites from Bundle.wxs Failed

2014-09-17 Thread Liz
This is the fwlink that always points to the latest VSTO 2010 download page: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=140384 After you click Download and lands on the page after, you can find the direct download link at "If your download does not start after 30 seconds, Click here" On Wed, Sep 17

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Instance and Product Code

2014-09-17 Thread John Cooper
1) Yes, the ProductCode attribute corresponds directly to the ProductCode for the particular installed instance. 2) The Product Codes are static. You can generate them using Perl or with the tool included with Visual Studio. 3) I would recommend that you set the ProductName attribute for each in

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Instance and Product Code

2014-09-17 Thread newuser2014
Thanks for your reply John! Just to clarify, I would create an InstanceTransform that looks like follows: ... My question is does the productCode correspond to the http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Multiple-Instance-and-Product-Code-tp7596863p

Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Related bundles. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: robert_ort...@agilent.com [mailto:robert_ort...@agilent.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:44 AM T

[WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper Application Bundle

2014-09-17 Thread robert_ortega
Greetings, I have a custom C# bootstrapper application that chains a few MSI's together and installs them. No problems here. However, we plan on introducing other add-ons to our software which are not included in our original bootstrapper app chain. These other add-ons will be MSI's (develop

Re: [WiX-users] Issue with installer in windows 2012 server

2014-09-17 Thread Phill Hogland
We also target 2012R2 with Burn setups and the message "System restore disabled, system restore point not created." is common in successful logs with no other failures. I notice that you have posted this message multiple times. Maybe you could collect more details or post a complete failure log

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Instance and Product Code

2014-09-17 Thread John Cooper
You populate an InstanceTransforms element with Instance elements. The InstanceTransforms element as a Property Attribute which you'll want to have a public property that will key into each of the Instance@Id attributes. Each Instance element, in addition to an ID, also has a ProductCode attribu

[WiX-users] Multiple Instance and Product Code

2014-09-17 Thread newuser2014
Hi All, The product requirement at my work changed. We're being asked to support multiple instances of the same product. I've read fromthe forum that InstanceTransform is the way to go and that requires different Product Code for each instance. I've used http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolse

Re: [WiX-users] Installing VSTO as pre-requisites from Bundle.wxs Failed

2014-09-17 Thread Chetan Rajakumar
Hi Licha, Thanks for the reply. Can you please let me know how can I get the permanent link? Regards, Chetan. -Original Message- From: Liz [mailto:chang@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 3:57 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Inst

Re: [WiX-users] Check that at least one Feature is selected

2014-09-17 Thread Tony
Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I thought you didn't want to leave the feature selection dialog until at least one feature was selected for install. Looking back at your original post, I'm still not clear what you are trying to accomplish/solve. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Noel Farrug

Re: [WiX-users] Intermittent errors setting Windows 8 properties on shortcuts

2014-09-17 Thread John Hall
David, Thank you for that - I will take a look and see if that helps. Regards, John -Original Message- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: 17 September 2014 10:15 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Intermittent errors setting Windows 8 p

Re: [WiX-users] Intermittent errors setting Windows 8 properties on shortcuts

2014-09-17 Thread David Watson
My notes indicate that you need to set a System.AppUserModel.ID for these to work (I did this research a while ago and don't remember the details and if it is still accurate under windows 8.1). I understand though that if you don't do it explicitly windows will allocate you one on the fly, but m

Re: [WiX-users] No progress in installation

2014-09-17 Thread Vadivel Natarajan
Hi All, We didn't deleted any stuff out of our package cache. We are facing this installation problem in some rare machines configuration. Could anyone provide solution to this problem? We don't want to follow the work around anymore. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...

Re: [WiX-users] No progress in installation

2014-09-17 Thread Vadivel Natarajan
Hi, No. We don't have installed any antivirus in an effected machines. In fresh machine also, we are getting an same error. Kindly can anyone look over this problem and provide solution? -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: 25 August 2014 1