Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

2011-10-27 Thread Christopher Painter
If you dislike the CustomerInformation dialog, then turn it off. You can do it with two clicks: Step 1: Click the Project Assistant Tab Step 2: Click No on Do you want to prompt users to enter their Company Name and User Name? There is no one optimal UI experience for every installer in

[WiX-users] Wierd Installer File Copy Problem

2011-10-12 Thread Christopher Painter
I have a really simple MSI that installs a bunch of files and then creates and starts a service. One of the files it installs ( privately to the installdir ) is log4net.dll and is a dependency of the service. I'm getting bug reports from dev that occasionally the service won't start. The

Re: [WiX-users] LaunchCondition question

2011-10-05 Thread Christopher Painter
Pretty annoying, heh? Out of the box? No. Some custom tables and custom action / custom dialog work? Sure. Here's an article describing something I created back in 2006 for a former employer: http://blog.iswix.com/2006/07/short-comings-of-launchconditions.html

Re: [WiX-users] C# Custom Action Fails when Inserting Temoporary Rows.

2011-10-04 Thread Christopher Painter
Sure. In .NET you use try catch blocks rather then checking the exit code of functions. In DTF, the View class (and others) will raise an InstallerException which then exposes the GetErrorRecord() method which is a wrapper for MsiGetLastErrorRecord().

Re: [WiX-users] GUID vs. * for components (Was: RE: WiX-users Digest, Vol 64, Issue 49)

2011-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Christopher Painter chr...@iswix.com wrote: Rob, Has WiX implemented * for Merge Modules yet? I understand Merge Modules are retargetable but then again any MSI is really retargetable by changing the value of TARGETDIR/INSTALLDIR/INSTALLLOCATION et al. That of course has

Re: [WiX-users] GUID vs. * for components (Was: RE: WiX-usersDigest, Vol 64, Issue 49)

2011-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
based on the first version, the unresolved path. This is still valid under the component rules because they allow the same component to be installed into multiple locations by different installers as long as the unresolved paths are the same. -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
I did some googling but had decided not to post since I'm not an expert. I found some doco in MSDN describing a structure with Date and Time fields and a note saying that it's generally date modified but that the meaning is up to the application. Nothing in the datatype seemed to be UTC

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
WiX / MSI doesn't have any elements/table data to express file timestamps. This is a function of when the file is compressed into the CAB. I don't see anything strange about the behavior as it's expected since windows is aware of UTC and Local time and will use UTC internally but show

Re: [WiX-users] A question from a complete Newbie

2011-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
InstallShield doesn't hide any of the details. It's all right there in the Direct Editor if you choose to look at it. (Which you should.) WiX has some advatanges and disadvantages as compared to InstallShield but at the end of the day it's the skill and the dedication to quality of the setup

Re: [WiX-users] GUID vs. * for components (Was: RE: WiX-users Digest, Vol 64, Issue 49)

2011-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
Rob, Has WiX implemented * for Merge Modules yet? I understand Merge Modules are retargetable but then again any MSI is really retargetable by changing the value of TARGETDIR/INSTALLDIR/INSTALLLOCATION et al. That of course has always struck me as odd about the whole MSI Component ID

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-25 Thread Christopher Painter
my .wixproj project up now and have gotten to the point where I need to pass the version number from the TFS build in. You said it takes a little bit more work: how did you end up doing that? -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-24 Thread Christopher Painter
setting my .wixproj project up now and have gotten to the point where I need to pass the version number from the TFS build in. You said it takes a little bit more work: how did you end up doing that? -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com

Re: [WiX-users] Update Registry with Patch

2011-09-22 Thread Christopher Painter
Eliminating the registry key would be high on my list of priorities also. I wonder what purpose it serves and consider refactoring . From: Peter Shirtcliffe pshirtcli...@sdl.com Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:40 AM To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] Download packages automatically (showing progress bar) during install

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
Windows Installer XML ( WiX ) is a toolset that authors Windows Installer databases. Windows Installer is Microsoft Windows operating system component and is not open sourced. From: Alec Taylor alec.tayl...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, September 21,

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
Yes. If you don't have it you'll get an msbuild error saying it can't find $(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x\Wix.targets. From: David Rickard (USA) davri...@microsoft.com Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:05 AM To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
a merge module of files based on a directory. Could this hook in somehow? -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:09 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
on a directory. Could this hook in somehow? -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:09 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Best

Re: [WiX-users] WiX TFS Source Control bindings in a WixProj - Problem with a manual fix.

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
: SccProjectNameSAK/SccProjectName SccProviderSAK/SccProvider SccAuxPathSAK/SccAuxPath SccLocalPathSAK/SccLocalPath The project has these elements as being blank when it prompts for the source control binding. -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] WiX TFS Source Control bindings in a WixProj - Problem with a manual fix.

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
(at least to me) is that you cannot add a new build configuration (ie, debug, release, etc) from the UI, you have to manually edit the wixProj file. -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:14 PM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
unnoticed. From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 10:48 AM To: David Rickard (USA); General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow? Open the solution up and click

Re: [WiX-users] WiX TFS Source Control bindings in a WixProj - Problem with a manual fix.

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
Control bindings in a WixProj - Problem with a manual fix. Is that with 3.5 'RTM', or one of the 3.6 builds? -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:34 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-20 Thread Christopher Painter
The simplest way is to use Votive to generate a .SLN / .WIXPROJ and then add the sln configuration | platform to to the build parameters in the build definition. You shouldn't have to do any customizations in workflow as the Default Template will work out of the box. Passing a

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect a x64 SQL Server with a x32 wix setup

2011-09-16 Thread Christopher Painter
Maybe I'm missing something but I get nervous checking the registry to find out something about a sql server instance. Perhaps the server isn't even on the machine I'm installing to. I've been known to put connection dialogs in an installer just to validate a connection and write settings

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions on a Fragment

2011-09-05 Thread Christopher Painter
Fragments are a compiler/build concept not an installer/runtime concept. Take a look at component conditions ( Condition element nested under a Component element ) and the VersionNT property. From: Anil Patel apatel...@googlemail.com Sent: Monday,

[WiX-users] DTF Generated Transform seems broken and gets fixed by Orca

2011-09-02 Thread Christopher Painter
I'm seeing a wierd problem that I've never seen before and I'm hoping someone has come across it before. I created a C# application using DTF to programatically make a copy of an MSI, update the copy and then generate a transform against the original MSI. I am able to take this MST and

Re: [WiX-users] How should I be upgrading one of multiple installed instances of an application?

2011-09-02 Thread Christopher Painter
I've done a lot of multiple instance work ( even within the last couple of months ). The big reason why I could see why UpgradeCode can't be * is because it would break major upgrades. The UpgradeCode property is far stickier then ProductCode and PackageCode. I've written some code that

Re: [WiX-users] How should I be upgrading one of multiple installed instances of an application?

2011-09-02 Thread Christopher Painter
the SummaryInfo should have been populated. The method only has one overrload with no mention on SummaryInfo. From: Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 1:58 PM To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] How should I be upgrading one of multiple installed instances of an application?

2011-09-02 Thread Christopher Painter
. From: Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 2:06 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location

2011-08-11 Thread Christopher Painter
directory. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: John Daintree jo...@dyalog.com To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Installing Microsoft Enterprise Library's merge module with Wix

2011-08-09 Thread Christopher Painter
do the same thing with fragments.  We don't because we use InstallShield as our container instead of WiX.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Bob Arnson b

Re: [WiX-users] Automate vendor installs

2011-08-04 Thread Christopher Painter
.   If this is a one time need for you, I could look at it on a contract basis.     --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Gary Zelmanovics glzel...@verizon.net To: wix-users

[WiX-users] UAC Prompt on Minor Upgrade

2011-07-30 Thread Christopher Painter
the MSIDEPLOYMENTCOMPLIANT  property.   There is something here that I should probably already understand but for some reason I am drawing a blank. Thanks, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E

Re: [WiX-users] UAC Prompt on Minor Upgrade

2011-07-30 Thread Christopher Painter
Nevermind, I figured it out.  I cleared bit 3 of the Word Count Summary Property and all is behaving as I need it now. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Christopher

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a custom table

2011-07-20 Thread Christopher Painter
Try representing it as #009;   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Robert Perona robert.per...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 20

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Christopher Painter
Mark,    I would start with reading the following article.    http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/isnews/200108/index.htm   Regards, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me

Re: [WiX-users] Off Topic - MSI Setup Jobs EMail List?

2011-07-15 Thread Christopher Painter
.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Rob Mensching r...@robmensching.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, July

Re: [WiX-users] Feedback on our new SiX toy?

2011-07-14 Thread Christopher Painter
. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Ted Shroyer tedshro...@miraclelabs.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:03 PM Subject: [WiX-users] Feedback

[WiX-users] Data Execution Prevention Opt Out List

2011-07-12 Thread Christopher Painter
and haven't found any hits.    Does anyone on this list have previous experience with automating the configuration of this portion of Windows? Thanks, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 Merge Module

2011-07-04 Thread Christopher Painter
been associated correctly.     --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Rob Mensching r...@robmensching.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 Merge Module

2011-07-02 Thread Christopher Painter
( the root folder of the local fixed volume with the most space; typically c:\ ) --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Jaxon rfjack...@gmail.com To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 Merge Module

2011-07-02 Thread Christopher Painter
I'm glad that I've been able to help.  However I don't think it would sell many copies.  I don't seem to be making any friends at either Microsoft or Flexera by not picking one over the other.  I can't help it though as blending the two makes sense for my customers. --- Christopher Painter

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Community package definitions

2011-06-29 Thread Christopher Painter
definitions. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Rob Mensching r...@robmensching.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Execute Sequence In Change Mode

2011-05-25 Thread Christopher Painter
and REMOVE=ALL.  These tend to not scale/behave well when your design goes beyond a simple install.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Bradley Ward bradley.w

Re: [WiX-users] Detection of run-time DLLs

2011-05-16 Thread Christopher Painter
To be honest, that's not a feature of InstallShield that I like or use.  Magically Easy buttons are a great concept but I don't like switching off my brain. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves

Re: [WiX-users] Detection of run-time DLLs

2011-05-16 Thread Christopher Painter
to apply domain and engineering knowledge to make the right call.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Mon, 5/16/11, Helge Kruse helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net wrote: From

Re: [WiX-users] Detection of run-time DLLs

2011-05-16 Thread Christopher Painter
authoring/coding your source, checking it into source control and running a build.  I don't expect the magic to happen during the build without any effort from me.   But that's just me and my 16 years of experience writing installers talking... :-)     --- Christopher Painter, Author

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-15 Thread Christopher Painter
Who actually uses GPO deployment?  It's capabilities are s limited compare to tools like SCCM(SMS) which has no problems handling multiple files including exe's.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread

Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together

2011-05-13 Thread Christopher Painter
but you can't do /qn or /qb.   Personally I like InstallShield's feature/setup prereq pattern the best.  Sure, it would be nice to not have an EXE but 8 years of working with MSI tells me that it's a pipe dream for all except the smallest, simplest installs for various reasons. --- Christopher Painter

Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC

2011-05-11 Thread Christopher Painter
Kurt-     Are you in the united states?  If so, I can provide hourly consulting services to look at your problem in depth.  I haven't really followed this thread in depth but I doubt it would be more then $100.   Regards, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread Christopher Painter
the underlying capabilities.   2) When the time comes that you really need custom actions, the .NET replacement for InstallUtil is Deployment Tools Foundation and is included in WiX 3.5.     http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/05/deployment-tools-foundation-dtf-custom.html       --- Christopher

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread Christopher Painter
DTF is a direct replacment of InstallUtil.  Also I'm not sure where in the post it was stated what exactly the InstallUtil classes were doing. ( e.g. Registry )   Although my experience tells me that whatever it is they are doing,  it's generally not good.  wink/ --- Christopher Painter

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil.exe alternatives

2011-05-10 Thread Christopher Painter
project and you'll see how it all comes together.   And yes,  Binary, CustomAction, Sequence and so on  as shown here:   http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2009/02/msi-tip-how-to-reuse-customaction-for.html   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple runs of same installer

2011-05-09 Thread Christopher Painter
installed.   Here's a StackOverflow exchane with links addressing the question at hand:   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5046712/msi-wix-assigning-component-guids-during-multiple-instance-transforms   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] Less than completely random ProductCodes

2011-05-09 Thread Christopher Painter
of the instance transforms.   I have no intention of trying to put that level of meaning to a really big ass random number.  I track my UpgradeCodes and release / labels and versions but not my ProductCodes and PackageCodes.  I just let them be randomized.   Chris   --- Christopher Painter, Author

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] Less than completely random ProductCodes

2011-05-09 Thread Christopher Painter
generally needed to know very little that it was another instance of an existing install.  I had very few custom actions.   Regards, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple runs of same installer

2011-05-08 Thread Christopher Painter
Sure.  Just follow this link:   http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wix-users+unsubscribel=1   The option you seek is at the bottom of the page. Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me

Re: [WiX-users] FindRelatedProducts does not find any of my old installers

2011-05-07 Thread Christopher Painter
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Re: [WiX-users] Multiple runs of same installer

2011-05-07 Thread Christopher Painter
-Proposed-Simple-Addition-to-WiX-to-Make-Them-Easier-td708828.html   l --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Sat, 5/7/11, CoolBreeze coolbreeze...@googlemail.com wrote

Re: [WiX-users] FindRelatedProducts does not find any of my old installers

2011-05-06 Thread Christopher Painter
name of the cached MSI.   From there you could look at it in Orca to get the UpgradeCode.  Or you could spelunk through the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer  Products\UpgradeCodes  to figure it out but that requires calculating Darwin Transforms. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering

Re: [WiX-users] Creatin User Group and add current user into it

2011-05-05 Thread Christopher Painter
this in the first place as the Group element under a Component element would be a logical extension to the pattern. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Thu, 5/5/11

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to launch an HTA from an MSI built using WiX?

2011-05-02 Thread Christopher Painter
.hta files are documents not programs.  You have to invoke the Microsoft HTML Application Host ( mshta ) to open/process them. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Mon

Re: [WiX-users] Creatin User Group and add current user into it

2011-04-29 Thread Christopher Painter
Correct. I had to write (DTF) custom actions for this functionality.  --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Fri, 4/29/11, Dick Van den Brink d_vandenbr...@live.com

Re: [WiX-users] VC++ redistributable questions

2011-04-28 Thread Christopher Painter
packages instead.  Now all of a sudden another group within MSFT comes out and says trust our merge modules  and well frankly, I have a hard time doing that.     --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves

Re: [WiX-users] Wix merge module troubles

2011-04-27 Thread Christopher Painter
Are you saying that you have a custom action that sets a registry value and then you use AppSearch to read the registry value in a custom action?   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention

Re: [WiX-users] Multi-Instance Major Upgrades

2011-04-18 Thread Christopher Painter
useful when you want shortcuts on the desktop meaning their Directory is the same. )   I had to use a custom action to emit temp rows for that one also. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention

Re: [WiX-users] Wix installers and Continuous Integration

2011-04-12 Thread Christopher Painter
solution.   Prototype it out and see if the performance is acceptable or if you have pain that's not tolerable.  --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Nick Porter

Re: [WiX-users] Silly question about WiX licensing and generated MSIs.

2011-04-12 Thread Christopher Painter
with nothing from WiX itself included.   I imagine that those resources are considered CPL licensed code.   Common sense tells me a great number of things but as IAMNAL I won't go there.  Hope that somewhat helps. Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know

Re: [WiX-users] InstallFinalize is executed twice

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Painter
That is normal.  I suggest reading:   http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/isnews/200108/index.htm   Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Joe Osman joe.os

Re: [WiX-users] Too many CA:s (LGTH0179)

2011-04-07 Thread Christopher Painter
I speak from experience when I say ESRI is not a good roll model when it comes to installer best practices.  There is a reason why everyone reimages their machines around my office.  Have you ever tried to get ArcGIS off of a machine?   Pure awesomeness... --- Christopher Painter, Author

Re: [WiX-users] Too many CA:s (LGTH0179)

2011-04-06 Thread Christopher Painter
into our real WiX, tweak some ID's and move along. The only real pain we had was people forgot that we did that when they switched to CLR 4 so we had to go back and change some runtime version attributes. Chris   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip

Re: [WiX-users] Cannot execute Custom Action

2011-04-01 Thread Christopher Painter
I just came across this error today when upgrading a WiX 3.0 C++ project that someone wrote to WiX 3.5. The kicker is neither 3.0 nor 3.5 ( on an upgrade or new project creation ) project wizards generate the resource file for you and there's no build warning either. It just blows up at runtime.

Re: [WiX-users] Condition element not working

2011-03-30 Thread Christopher Painter
When did you schedule the CA? Hopefully before CostFinalize. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368014(v=vs.85).aspx -- read the remarks carefully   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves

Re: [WiX-users] Condition element not working

2011-03-30 Thread Christopher Painter
of the actual WiX elements.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: kim contactme...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, March 30

Re: [WiX-users] Problem searching GAC for installed assembly

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Painter
or Null depending on whether the custom action could use the Fusion API to resolve the assembly.  I suppose you could set it to the file path of the assembly instead of 1 but I can't think of a good reason to care where exactly in the GAC the file is physically stored. Chris   --- Christopher

Re: [WiX-users] Passing values to CA not working

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Painter
( sorry, don't remember which right now ) that allows you to constructor it using a different property name. Make sense?   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original

Re: [WiX-users] Passing values to CA not working

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Painter
installation context. Chris    --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Passing values to CA not working

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Painter
/library/aa371571(v=vs.85).aspx http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_property.htm   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: kim

Re: [WiX-users] Passing values to CA not working

2011-03-28 Thread Christopher Painter
What is the name of the custom action that is reading the property and how is it scheduled? ( Immediate., Deferred? )   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original

Re: [WiX-users] Passing values to CA not working

2011-03-28 Thread Christopher Painter
Re: IndexOutOfRange,  are you using the CustomActionData class?   Sorry, it's hard to gues the problem without seeing all the details. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional ServiceControl entry

2011-03-25 Thread Christopher Painter
a reboot or there's a race condition because something else hasn't laid the ground work for it to wrok. So I'm just saying... you might be able to get this to work but I think you might be solving the wrong problem. Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have

Re: [WiX-users] how to create a single component in output wxs file for whole directory using heat

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Painter
this and I can speak from experience that I know of a number of situations where I would want to author in a non 1:1 fashion. Defining Installer Components: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368269(v=vs.85).aspx Regards, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcuts and Recent Programs list

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Painter
Yes, but the original question applied to Windows 7 which is MSI 5.0.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Michael Tissington

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcuts and Recent Programs list

2011-03-22 Thread Christopher Painter
Take a look at the built MSI in Orca and rule out incorrectly authored table data.  Then log the installer and see if it gives you any clues.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E

Re: [WiX-users] Multilanguage install

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Painter
Nice.  Too bad there doesn't seem to be a way to do through Votive's UI ( Project Properties ).  I'll give it a try and see how it works for me.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E

Re: [WiX-users] Using Util:Permission from UtilExtension, getting this warning

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Painter
a row with the same Id but a different error message you could have an integration error. You'll have to investigate your final integrated environment but in general I think you'll be OK ignoring that warning.  --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know

Re: [WiX-users] Multilanguage install

2011-03-17 Thread Christopher Painter
the precompression build event to do the swap out. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Tobias S tobias.s1...@gmail.com To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Modules and Custom actions design

2011-03-17 Thread Christopher Painter
it works just fine. Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Stelios Kyprou stelios.kyp...@formicary.net To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Multilanguage install

2011-03-17 Thread Christopher Painter
a little checkbox next to cultures to build ( generate language transforms ). BTW, you don't need a man in the middle to sniff out the command line,  you can use wmic ( windows management instrumentation console )  to do that.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have

Re: [WiX-users] Run the installer as administrator

2011-03-16 Thread Christopher Painter
You can't set it, only the Windows Installer can.  You can only use the property ( say in a Condition ). --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to have two root directories in WIX

2011-03-12 Thread Christopher Painter
the default and tell them  that was a best effort to tailor to their environment otherwise it must still be able to work in other environments. Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail

Re: [WiX-users] C# Custom Action questions

2011-03-11 Thread Christopher Painter
 You might find this an interesting read: http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/05/deployment-tools-foundation-dtf-custom.html --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me

Re: [WiX-users] Votive and Visual Studio Question

2011-03-10 Thread Christopher Painter
. Really cool stuff.  These three tools together make a pretty interesting IDE for authoring installers.  What can I say, I love MSBuild and Votive. Chris - Original Message From: Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] C# Custom Action questions

2011-03-10 Thread Christopher Painter
later. One of the worst dependencies I ever had to take.  It wasn't fun.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro

[WiX-users] Votive and Visual Studio Question

2011-03-09 Thread Christopher Painter
.   These tend to be content producers, tech writers, and so on.  I want to try to leverage the Votive story with these people also.       --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me

Re: [WiX-users] C# Custom Action questions

2011-03-09 Thread Christopher Painter
file where the value is the data you are trying to log. Chris   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Kevin Burton kev...@buyseasons.com

Re: [WiX-users] Setting up efficient environment for testing installation packages?

2011-03-08 Thread Christopher Painter
the install side I don't sweat these things too much as my only requirement is that we are able to install silently.   At home I manage my snapshot trees so I can do my boundry testing and then move on.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret

Re: [WiX-users] Setting up efficient environment for testing installation packages?

2011-03-08 Thread Christopher Painter
that server always available. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Jerra beddel...@gmail.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

[WiX-users] x86 MSI registry search Win64

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Painter
I was just hoping for a sanity check. Chris   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me -- What

Re: [WiX-users] x86 MSI registry search Win64

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Painter
Hmm, it's working now.  I must have wired something up incorrectly.   --- Christopher Painter, of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Christopher Painter chr

[WiX-users] State of WiX 3.6 - Burn?

2011-02-22 Thread Christopher Painter
enough to do this? Is Burn capable of using the MSI's native UI after running the prereqs or must Burn provide the UI? My thanks in advance as I may not be able to respond to this email in the near future but I will read follow ups. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog

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