Re: [WiX-users] failed install, error is Failed to open XML file

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Jokinen
action directly? -Original Message- From: Chris Jokinen [mailto:chr...@directron.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:15 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-users] failed install, error is Failed to open XML file This extract is from my msi log

Re: [WiX-users] failed install, error is Failed to open XML file

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Jokinen
about the perceived need to delete the value/element/attribute first (instead of file?). -Original Message- From: Chris Jokinen [mailto:chr...@directron.us] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:58 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] failed

Re: [WiX-users] failed install, error is Failed to open XML file

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Jokinen
the config file. One rule to make code more maintainable is to reduce the repetition of the same information over and over again. One way to do that is to reference code instead of recreating it all the time. -Original Message- From: Chris Jokinen [mailto:chr...@directron.us] Sent: Thursday

Re: [WiX-users] failed install, error is Failed to open XML file

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Jokinen
[...@name='project'[\]]/value Bah! Well thanks for the helpnow on to the next step! Chris -Original Message- From: Chris Jokinen [mailto:chr...@directron.us] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:48 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] help with error LGHT0204: ICE03: Invalid formatstring

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Jokinen
have been temporarily misguided. -Original Message- From: Chris Jokinen [mailto:chr...@directron.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] help with error LGHT0204: ICE03: Invalid format string error LGHT0204: ICE03: Invalid format

Re: [WiX-users] help with error LGHT0204: ICE03:Invalid formatstring

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Jokinen
-are-escaping], NOT \whatever-you-are-escaping. -Original Message- From: Chris Jokinen [mailto:chr...@directron.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:03 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] help with error LGHT0204: ICE03: Invalid formatstring

[WiX-users] failed install, error is Failed to open XML file

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Jokinen
This extract is from my msi log file. MSI (s) (6C:D8) [16:49:36:281]: Executing op:

Re: [WiX-users] silent install, command line, parameter and writting to registry or file

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Jokinen
Blair, Yes I was speaking of the installer's command line parameter. I have been reading over some blogs and examples and I want to make sure I have this correct. I can use the session to access the command line parameters and then assign those to Wix in this kind of structure File

[WiX-users] help with error LGHT0204: ICE03: Invalid format string

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Jokinen
error LGHT0204: ICE03: Invalid format string; Table: XmlFile, Column: ElementPath, Key(s): RollCall.exe.config.project util:XmlFile Id=RollCall.exe.config.project Action=setValue ElementPath=/configuration/applicationSettings/RollCall.Properties.Settings

[WiX-users] silent install, command line, parameter and writting to registry or file

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Jokinen
Hello All, I have a small project that is a windows service, but I need to make an installer to run via the command line and pass 3 parameters that will be used to set the configuration in the registry or the apps config file. I also need to run the generated msi from the command line for