On 13-Dec-11 21:25, Sunny Li wrote:
> Is there anyway to turn off the verbose logging for the MSI's included in
> the WiX bundle?
No.
> If not, is there anyway we can log the msi errors into the bundle log?
MSI doesn't support that.
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On 14-Dec-11 02:52, Toru Takeguchi wrote:
> pyro -delta .\v1.3.0\patch.wixmsp -out .\v1.3.0\Product.msp -t RTM
> .\v1.3.0\Diff-v1.2.0.wixmst -t RTM .\v1.3.0\Diff-v1.1.0.wixmst
>
> pyro.exe : error PYRO0001 : The specified arguments are not within the range
> of valid values
> parameta managed
> Exc
On 14-Dec-11 16:01, Sunny Li wrote:
> [0AFC:05D0][2011-12-14T15:53:26]: Error 0x80004005: Failed to open
> container: WixAttachedContainer.
Known bug that's been fixed for the next build.
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On 12-Dec-11 07:43, Francois Human wrote:
> Where can I find documentation or a tutorial on how to use the Clickthrough
> Project?
ClickThrough is currently unsupported. It will come back in a new form
in a future version of WiX.
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On 07-Dec-11 11:29, Robert Hermann wrote:
> Anybody have any ideas
Use Orca to look at the ControlEvent table.
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On 06-Dec-11 12:35, Gary Gocek wrote:
> Is it correct to say that if LIGHT is allowed to run the internal
> consistency evaluators (ICEs, light runs them by default), and if NIT is
> used to run unit tests, that the account performing these actions requires
>
> admin rights? (WIX 3.5, Windows Serve
On 07-Dec-11 16:19, Brad Wildenborg wrote:
> and am using NAnt 0.91. I'm mostly just after getting access to the Burn
> utility, so if anyone could help me get it built or link to where I could
> download a prebuilt version, that would be wonderful.
It's part of every WiX v3.6 build: x86\burn.exe.
On 08-Dec-11 02:09, Nevskiy, Alexander wrote:
> On executing light.exe I got the following error:
> error LGHT0094 : Unresolved reference to symbol
> 'CustomAction:[CustomSerialValidateProp]' in section
> 'Product:{3E8964C7-5FA5-4740-A3D6-191E2043963C}'
>
> According to
> http://msdn.microsoft.c
On 10-Dec-11 13:43, Roy Chastain wrote:
> Is there a mechanism to employ a custom detection in the Burn
> ManagedBootstrapperApplication that would affect the install/no install
> status of an ExePackage?
OnPlanPackageBegin lets you change the request state.
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On 18-Nov-11 06:46, Tomaž Koritnik wrote:
> WIX settings:
That's not WiX; that's the .NET Framework bootstrapper. You might have
better luck with the MSDN forums.
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On 09-Nov-11 03:59, Aled Hughes wrote:
> So I've got the Permanent="yes" flag set, however it seems this is being
> ignored as when I come to uninstall my app the uninstaller bombs out - as
> it appears to be trying to uninstall .NetFx4. (The actual error is due to
> it not finding the redistributa
On 10-Nov-11 11:33, Christian Andersen wrote:
> I try to customize the native standard bootstrapper application using
> a custom theme XML-file. Unfortunately I have some problems
> implementing our design requirements:
The ThmUtil engine underlying theming doesn't support those things.
Please fi
On 23-Nov-11 18:31, David P. Romig, Sr. wrote:
> After installing WiX 3.6 beta, I'm receiving the error as described in
> bug report 1908338. Is this a regression?
That bug is about what happens when the values aren't defined (i.e.,
CNDL0150).
> The solution contains 12 C# projects, a DDK proj
On 22-Nov-11 16:07, Sunny Li wrote:
> That's great, but is there anyway to customize the look of the bootstrapper
> that installs the .NET framework?
You can swap in your own theme XML file by setting a WixVariable named
PreqbaThemeXml to the path of your file.
> On another note... The prerequis
On 13-Nov-11 19:38, Keith Moore wrote:
> This dialog will result in an empty ComboBox list because the
> property is referencing indirectly but in the element I have no
> way of dereferencing it. Is this a bug or is there some syntax of which I am
> not aware?
Looking at the MSI SDK for the
On 18-Nov-11 05:26, Michael Stoll wrote:
> is it possible to enable/create a ICMP Firewall exception using
> WixFirewallExtension?
No, that's not supported.
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On 22-Nov-11 03:18, ppremk wrote:
> 2. How to launch a payload file (exe) after installing running the
> bootstrapper? I am using my own custom theme file and noticed that there is
> a launch button, I am not sure how to include a launch condition into that
> section.
Create a Variable named Launc
On 02-Nov-11 22:09, Phong wrote:
> Thanks Bob, I do have my own custom bootstrapper application. Is there a
> hook that I can use so that if the bootstrapper app was called to Uninstall
> with the "-quiet" switch, I can just call Engine.Plan(Uninstall), then exit
> before my UI code loads?
No, yo
On 05-Nov-11 17:50, Kjartan Þór Kjartansson wrote:
> Has no-one else had this problem that users can't click on shortcuts placed
> in the start menu when the ALLUSERS property is set to 1? Maybe it is
> relevant but this is happening on Windows 7 32-bit, I don't have an
> oppertunity to test how
On 03-Nov-11 04:49, Nicolas Penin wrote:
> [0F8C:0F90][2011-11-03T09:47:10]: Loading prerequisite bootstrapper
> application because managed host could not be loaded, error: 0x80131700.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2252691.
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On 03-Nov-11 10:35, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> "error LGHT0103: The system cannot find the file ..."
>
> I suspect this file name is too long (72 characters). However, when this
That's not a problem as long as the full path fits in MAXPATH characters.
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On 03-Nov-11 14:39, john.burak wrote:
> new). It would be nice if pyro just fetched them from the MSIs.
In addition to admin images, you can use Melt.exe to build an image you
can use without -ax.
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On 02-Nov-11 17:25, Reddy, Narasimha wrote:
> I have an MSI Installer which is generated using Wix and the size of MSI
> is>2GB so I have written multiple media tags having multiple embedded
> cab files, no error are shown during generation of MSI.
I'm not sure you'll be able to get an .msi bigger
On 02-Nov-11 19:28, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> I know the external files are automatically harvested in the msiPackage
> element. Is there a way to get this from heat?
No, they're entirely separate processes.
> Or is there an option with dark?
Not that I know of.
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On 02-Nov-11 09:10, Kjartan Þór Kjartansson wrote:
> I have a wix project that places a shortcut in a subfolder in the users start
> menu, when I change the source to set the ALLUSERS property to 1 I get the
> shortcut in the correct place but the permissions of the shortcut are
> incorrect resu
On 02-Nov-11 13:44, john.burak wrote:
> Anyone know, is this simply a known characteristic of the hashing algorithm
> used to detect changes?
It's not a hash: If two files are the same length, the binder does a
byte-by-byte comparison. If you can repro this with a simple case,
please file a bug.
On 02-Nov-11 04:45, Nicolas Penin wrote:
> I have this issue regarding the Managed Bootstrapper application :
Which version of WiX are you using?
> In the log, the only information I have is : "Loading prerequisite
> bootstrapper application because managed host could not be loaded".
Is there a
On 31-Oct-11 09:00, Albert van Peppen wrote:
> When will the next (weekly release?) version appear on Codeplex?
Not for a while. We want people to use the beta, after all. And at the
moment, we need to figure out how to automate the weekly drops; I'm not
sure we want to put them all on Codeplex.
On 02-Nov-11 07:55, Mathias Bauer wrote:
> [0BBC:11CC][2011-11-02T12:47:18]: Setting string variable
> 'DotNet30InstallRegValue' to value '1'
> [0BBC:11CC][2011-11-02T12:47:18]: Setting string variable 'DotNet30Version'
> to value '3.0.30729.5420'
> [0BBC:11CC][2011-11-02T12:47:18]: Detected rel
On 02-Nov-11 17:37, Dieter Lunn wrote:
> I was looking at the wix installer for help on using burn however the
> .net 4 prerequisite isn't working for me. It says it can't find the
> source file when I have specified the download url. Is there something
> I am missing?
You still need to specify a l
On 01-Nov-11 21:35, Phong wrote:
> When I say fail, I mean the Chain_version2.exe will kick off the
> Chain_version1.exe (from cache, to do the uninstall?) and wait for users to
> click through the Chain_version1.exe steps of uninstall.
Burn (at least in the current version) asks the older bundle
On 02-Nov-11 11:43, Gareth wrote:
> So what is the correct usage of Localizable="no" as an attribute of String?
It might be helpful to quote a message you're replying to, especially
when it's 2.5 years old. @Localizable is ignored; it's documentation
for people doing the loc work.
> Perhaps thi
On 26-Oct-11 22:57, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> What is even weirder, is /layout pulls them out in the correct folder.
> They also show up in the ProgramData\Package Cache\GUID folder just fine.
If Burn's putting them in the same relative place as they were
originally, there must be something pe
On 29-Oct-11 01:27, Roee Shenberg wrote:
> Also, I got an extra UAC dialog for the uninstall process (though that might
> be because it has a somewhat older burn version).
There were changes in Burn recently to provide more consistent behavior
around MSI packages that aren't clearly per-user or p
On 27-Oct-11 01:52, Ravi Roy wrote:
> My initial requirement is to write a simple MSI installer which can
> eventually trigger the Sun JDK and JRE installation silently from whithin
> the parent MSI, but i could not really find a good example explaining this
> kind of installation or like.
It's no
On 27-Oct-11 16:14, Tim Walters wrote:
> MSI (c) (74:58) [12:32:12:069]: Doing action: FindRelatedProducts
> Action 12:32:12: FindRelatedProducts. Searching for related applications
> Action start 12:32:12: FindRelatedProducts.
> Action ended 12:32:12: FindRelatedProducts. Return value 1.
If any p
On 26-Oct-11 16:31, Tobias S wrote:
> Will there be a way to customize the wixstdba thm.xml file?
There already is. You can specify a replacement theme .xml file, which
lets you completely replace the stock UI -- though that doesn't let you
change behavior.
> For multi language Burn UI I didn't
On 26-Oct-11 16:48, Gary Gocek wrote:
> Well, duhh. I' m not sure what I was expecting, but of course, scheduling
> the CA causes it to run, which sets the property, and then the UnitTest
> sees the match and it passes. It's kind of a lot of work to hack up a test
> MSI, but there was (of course) n
On 26-Oct-11 12:48, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> Any suggested file extension to use? Is it a cab file?
It is, though that's an implementation detail.
> But I don't have the install working yet. It seems not all "loose files"
> were harvested.
Only those referenced in the .msi would be automatical
On 26-Oct-11 16:15, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> Once a detached container is created, how do you reference it? I added
> a ContainerRef in the in the bundle, but how do I get the payload into
> the chain from the container? Do I create the container with one
> project and suck it in as a Payload
On 26-Oct-11 16:29, Tobias S wrote:
> When having a look at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ it seems
> that there exists nothing else than the RSS feeds (No WiX.exe , msi
> ...)
We won't be putting them on SourceForge any more; SF has a bandwidth
quota we were exceeding with all the downloads
On 26-Oct-11 02:46, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
> Mainly 2 but to achieve that 1 would be nice. I don't have a problem with
> current WiX UIs everyone understands them and they are simple; every attempt
> I have seen to replace that simple interface doesn't impress me (the VS 2011
> doesn't look any
On 25-Oct-11 17:12, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
> That isn't really what I meant, I was hoping to use the existing WiX
> authoring as the burn UI
As in:
1. You want Burn to understand MSI UI?
2. You want Burn to mimic the WixUI dialog sets?
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On 25-Oct-11 13:51, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> Basically, I have a legacy install program that I would like chained.
> Specifically, it is Microsoft's Point of Service for dotNet. There is
> no "ClickOnce" install, instead it is delivered as a self extracting
> zip. It has a setup bootstapper wi
On 25-Oct-11 12:03, john.burak wrote:
> Okay. I wonder what the difference is between doing an uninstall via
> the usual method and doing an uninstall via "Change > Remove".
ARP is in charge: You click Uninstall and if it gets a success code, it
refreshes. Otherwise, it does nothing. It doesn't
On 24-Oct-11 10:10, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> I was hoping output from heat payloadgroups and containers would help me
> understand how to create such an animal. Where do you suggest I look for
> clues on how to take a legacy install and "containerize" it?
Maybe you could explain what "containeriz
On 19-Oct-11 08:27, Thomas Due wrote:
> However, I still need to know how I pass a command-line argument to the
> application I run on ExitDialog exit.
That's not supported by shell execute. Use
CustomAction/@FileKey,@ExeCommand.
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On 19-Oct-11 13:36, Gregory Swanson wrote:
> But maybe you are right about the components. The files are in the same
> directory location, but the IDs and GUIDs of the components have
> changed. If that is the issue, it would be difficult to fix because we
> create the Wix code using an automated
On 21-Oct-11 19:52, john.burak wrote:
> Anyone know, is this perhaps a minor bug in the UI/dialogs, Candle, or
> Light? It might make my QA person happy to know it's been reported ;)
Nope. ARP/P&F doesn't do a wholesale refresh of the program list for MSI
packages. When you click Uninstall and i
On 24-Oct-11 16:02, Bill Tutt wrote:
> In what kind of situations would you recommend using the wcautil
> custom action scripts (WcaCaCreateScript, etc...) instead of
> serializing data into the CustomActionData property?
Only when an immediate custom action cannot determine the machine state.
The
On 13-Oct-11 04:55, Thomas Due wrote:
> However since my installer requires elevated priviliges I don't understand
> why it is not possible to run the application.
MSI UI isn't elevated, even if the rest of the install is.
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On 17-Oct-11 16:28, John Bergman wrote:
> I was going to update the reference paths to support different configurations
> for builds, however, the condition do not appear to work currently. Are
> there plans to support this like the C# user file does?
No plans that I know of. If it isn't suppor
On 10-Oct-11 16:29, Brad Lemings wrote:
> I have a package with a background process that is normally running. When
> the user uninstalls the software, Wix and/or Windows Installer prompts to
> shutdown both the process and Explorer (to unregister extensions) but it does
> not restart Explorer.
On 12-Oct-11 22:02, Rory Primrose wrote:
> I can't see anywhere in my project that still has a reference to
> WixUI_Advanced. Any idea how to fix this?
Try removing this:
>
That's the only thing that comes to mind as connected.
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On 08-Oct-11 15:58, Dave Combs wrote:
> directory is created, which is correct.) However, when I run the installer
> again and choose Uninstall, everything is correctly uninstalled except the
> registry entry.
Generate a verbose log and search it for the component name and GUID.
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On 06-Oct-11 19:53, Martin Kulov wrote:
> files in ProgramFiles, Windows and ProgramData. Should it install per-user or
> per-machine mode?
Per-machine; the big reason to use per-user packages is so they don't
require elevation.
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On 08-Oct-11 15:45, John Bergman wrote:
> Is this intentional, or are there issues with these two builds?
Wix36.exe now has the MSI and cabs attached.
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On 04-Oct-11 02:00, Paul A. Steckler wrote:
> Does anyone know if macros like VS11_ROOT_FOLDER, etc., will be
> available in a coming version of the WiX toolset? Soon, maybe?
Historically, the detection properties were added during beta.
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On 03-Oct-11 12:43, Brad Lemings wrote:
> So I located the .wxl sources with the appropriate text strings. I'm
> assuming I don't need the special markup in comments (e.g. _locIDText,
> _locComment)?
No, they're just comments for the localization team that contributed the
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On 04-Oct-11 15:06, Brian Lemke wrote:
> Because most of these are nested in folders created by the application. I
> would really like to use the RemoveFolderEX element found in Wix 3.6 but I am
> not allowed to use that version yet. I am forced to stay on 3.5
1. That's a false economy: The t
On 04-Oct-11 15:29, McCain, Jon wrote:
> If that is the case then you shouldn't need to worry about being a good
> install writer and just whack the folder or its subfolders that you don't
> control with your install.
Of course you should. If there's a failure or other rollback, the user's
data
On 02-Oct-11 17:32, Dave Combs wrote:
> I've been asked to customize some WiX dialogs we're using, and one of the
> requests was to be able to highlight (bold) part of the text in a localized
> string. Specifically, they'd like to change the welcome text "The Setup
> Wizard installs [ProductName]
On 03-Oct-11 06:41, Igor Solodovnikov wrote:
> Here is my log. It looks like bootstrapper do found .NET framework but i
> still don't understand why it asks to install it again. Please give me some
> advice.
It can't load your custom BA; you need to diagnose your BA code and
configuration file.
On 03-Oct-11 11:12, Vadym Verba wrote:
> Thus I have a simple question: how to elevate BA?
That's not supported: The BA is always run at medium integrity level.
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On 30-Sep-11 18:06, Brad Lemings wrote:
> Is it possible to change the text of the Typical button? If so, how? How
> about the text below the button? Yes, I'll have to localize custom text. :)
You can override all localization strings by specifying a .wxl file in
your project. Copy the strin
On 01-Oct-11 00:32, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Thank, Bob. It was all him. I think I actually broke it.
I wasn't going to mention it...It's still broken for native C++ .vcxproj
projects but managed C++ and all other MSBuild-based project systems
work. (I have the fix for native C++ ready but it's no
On 28-Sep-11 15:57, john.burak wrote:
> Execution ERROR There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.
> A
> DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your
> support personnel or package vendor.
>
> This merge module has no custom actions. That error doesn
On 30-Sep-11 17:49, john.burak wrote:
> Right now when I try to view any pages in the Wix manual (v2 or v3) I get
> this from SourceForge:
FYI: Wix.chm ships in every build and isn't subject to quota.
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On 29-Sep-11 06:27, Neil Hayes wrote:
> I for example would like to move the opening UI more to the middle of the
> screen, change the white background colour to fit our branding (Already done
> the WixStdbaLogo), perhaps add some advertising.
>
> I found ThmViewer.exe and RtfTheme - under the so
On 28-Sep-11 17:01, Jim Treinen wrote:
> Is there a way to create a shortcut to a virtual location using WiX ?
That's not supported by MSI.
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On 30-Sep-11 17:45, John Bergman wrote:
> I downloaded 3.6.2116.0 and was going to upgrade to the latest version
> (hoping that maybe the exception issue I was having previously would already
> be fixed); however, now all of the projects that have WiX projects (Merge
> Modules and Installs) fail
On 29-Sep-11 22:07, Gavin Dodd wrote:
> This is called for files that have a gaming extension element to determine
> if the custom action should try to process the Game Explorer data.
> The check is incomplete it only checks for install / uninstall states not
> WCA_TODO_UNKNOWN (seems to mean 'do n
On 30-Sep-11 10:11, Igor Solodovnikov wrote:
> Of course .Net 4.0 should not be installed if it is already on the target
> machine. Unfortunately during my testing i found my bundle shows "Microsoft
> .NET Framework required for application setup" message even on machine with
> .NET 4.0 installed.
On 27-Sep-11 19:23, Albert Attia wrote:
> The property is named plural for multiple paths (which light.exe supports by
> multiple -b arguments), however how do we specify multiple paths on the
> property?
>
> I have tried separating the paths with ";" and ",", both do not work.
How does it not work
On 26-Sep-11 13:18, John Bergman wrote:
> That's right.
>
> We use the workflow based logic to perform additional functionality, such as
> bundling files into zip files, backing up databases and running automation.
> (not to mentioning deploying and running the automated builds in the lab
> env
On 26-Sep-11 12:00, John Bergman wrote:
> The other is new in 2010, and uses windows workflow 4 to define how the build
> works.
But not for typical compilation. For Team Build, Workflow is for
higher-level build automation, not running csc.exe or light.exe; that's
left to MSBuild in .sln or .*p
On 26-Sep-11 08:41, Yuri Sevastyanov wrote:
> There is no point to see the log because I know which file is locked.
The log will show details around why it's showing the files-in-use dialog.
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On 25-Sep-11 09:01, Gary Gocek wrote:
> Yes, in my opinion, it's a bug. I had a dialog with no selectable controls
> (only Text controls) except for the Back-Next-Cancel button strip. The Next
> button was the only one marked as default, but the Back button (incorrectly)
> came up as default. If I
On 22-Sep-11 17:50, john.burak wrote:
> I assumed Light runs
> validation on merge modules, but maybe not?
It does by default. Look at verbose build output to make sure -sval
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On 23-Sep-11 21:16, Gary Gocek wrote:
> For example, I had a problem with my Next button not being the default
> button, even when it was the only control on the dialog marked as "default".
> I fixed the problem by moving the XML for the Next button to be BEFORE all
> the other buttons.
Are you sa
On 24-Sep-11 15:06, Mark Modrall wrote:
> I know that's what the error message description says, but I'm not seeing
> what I'm missing.
Use Orca to see if the resources in the merge module were merged in. If
they weren't, the warning is telling you the merge module wasn't merged
into the .msi.
On 23-Sep-11 12:48, Uma Harano wrote:
> On my machine, I have another process running (not developed by me) that also
> uses javaw.exe from a different location. When my setup program detects this
> javaw.exe process, it throws the FileInUse dialog.
There's a bug in at least some older versions
On 15-Sep-11 19:17, Dave Combs wrote:
> What I'm trying to find out is whether this post (from 10/31/09) is
> still in force (I assume so.)
Yes.
> I'm also trying to make sure I understand what it's saying. Am I
> correct that this means that I now have to offer two different MSIs,
> one for
Please keep wix-users on the thread so everyone can participate.
On 16-Sep-11 08:21, Sheehan, Andrew wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation. I'm using this [really small] implementation;
> it works fine, but I need to pass in the location of the shortcut to the
> Id="PediPortal" MSI.
I'm not su
On 15-Sep-11 22:34, Gary Gocek wrote:
> With WIX 3.5.2519, I started with the minimal GUI and added a few dialog
> pages. I copied several of the GUI dialog files from the source directory.
> Among other things, I replaced the left-side dialog bitmap and the top
> banner bitmap on various dialogs.
On 14-Sep-11 19:12, Daniel Pratt wrote:
> uninstall mode. I've tried many different permutations of command lines, but
> the typical error message is "Invalid command line argument. Consult the
> Windows Installer SDK for detailed command line help".
>
> Now I suppose that this error message is tr
On 14-Sep-11 10:29, Sheehan, Andrew wrote:
> A better question to ask everyone, is how can I set a from a
> command-line property within a ? Or, is there a better way?
The Burn engine processes only a few command-line switches; it doesn't
directly support NAME=VALUE arguments. That's somethi
On 07-Sep-11 12:42, john.burak wrote:
> I'm also curious why WixUI_Advanced needs to put anything in
> InstallExecuteSequence, where Mondo does not. Both dialog sets allow
> the same basic functionality.
WixUI_Advanced supports per-user and per-machine scope selection; none
of the other dialog
On 08-Sep-11 17:06, Orlando wrote:
> When I added more installers to my configuration file (Bundle.wxs) it breaks
> the installer.
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On 07-Sep-11 13:24, john.burak wrote:
> I'm curious why WixUI_Advanced uses APPLICATIONFOLDER instead of the
> well-known INSTALLDIR property which Mondo and other popular msi build
> technologies use?
>
> I'm also curious why WixUI_Advanced requires the ApplicationFolderName
> property. I already
On 06-Sep-11 13:51, john.burak wrote:
> I'm curious why sequencing was altered by the Advanced UI + particular merge
> modules. With Mondo the sequence numbers were correct even with the same
> merge modules. If this might be a bug in the Advanced UI let me know there
> is anything you'd like me
On 02-Sep-11 20:01, Randy Kroeger wrote:
> I have built a custom BA and the screens display when the setup is executed.
> However, my MSI's that I have setup in my bundle, do not execute. I am
> OBVIOUSLY missing something and am embarassing sending this email because I
> just need to get th
On 06-Sep-11 20:36, Caio Monteiro wrote:
> Does anyone knows how to get the site name from IIS, that was created in
> installation stage?
You need to persist it. See
http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/5/2/The-WiX-toolsets-Remember-Property-pattern.
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On 06-Sep-11 16:28, Shaun Hayward wrote:
> When I run Detect(), the DetectPackageComplete event and DetectMsiFeature
> event tell me that the package and features are all absent, even though the
> package is installed and at least one of the features is installed. So this
> *seems* to be wrong.
On 05-Sep-11 11:24, Rob Hamflett wrote:
> I'm having some occasional crashes when running "devenv /setup" during an
> install. It's not
> completely reproducible and only happens occasionally.
Use WinDbg or ProcDump to get dumps when the crashes happen.
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On 01-Sep-11 10:36, tob...@gmx.net wrote:
> correctly resolved to the one set via command line. Is the resolving of path
> in directory not equal for files and shortcuts? since both (file and
> shortcut) tables reference the direcory table in msi, my thought is the
> directoies referenced are resol
On 29-Aug-11 11:15, Sheehan, Andrew wrote:
> Does v3.6 support the indication/usage of a custom EULA/License file?
Yes. See "Specifying the WiX Standard Bootstrapper Application License"
in wix.chm.
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On 29-Aug-11 18:47, Shaun Hayward wrote:
> My impression that ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT told the MSIEXEC not to write any ARP
> registry entries came from an MSDN blog from some 6 years ago:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2005/08/05/448198.aspx
>
> So the information may not be correct.
It's
On 28-Aug-11 17:31, Sameer Arora wrote:
> Why is UI sequence table missing/empty when repair is triggered by the
> advertised shortcut?
Because resiliency repairs are always run in basic UI. That can't be
changed.
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On 25-Aug-11 16:29, Alexander Stock wrote:
> issue. Therefore it seems we stumbled over a serious but rare "apply
> delta patch bug", most probably within the MSI functionality on
> Windows XP.
Quite probable: For example, Office patches used to ship in both
binary-delta and full-file versions; f
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