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.

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

2011-03-10 Thread Christopher Painter
S without any issues. 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 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Wed,

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

2011-03-09 Thread Christopher Painter
message in the log 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 To: Gen

[WiX-users] Votive and Visual Studio Question

2011-03-09 Thread Christopher Painter
developers.   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?

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

2011-03-08 Thread Christopher Painter
it's so awesome to have 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 To: General discussion for Windows Instal

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

2011-03-08 Thread Christopher Painter
information to debug the error. >From 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

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 To: wix-

[WiX-users] x86 MSI registry search Win64

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Painter
ierd problem that my eyes aren't seeing so 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 --

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

2011-02-22 Thread Christopher Painter
table 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 Engine

Re: [WiX-users] Creating just a web app pool on Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5, WiX 3.5 RTM

2011-02-17 Thread Christopher Painter
Ah, good to know.  Certainly sounds like a bug to me.  I wonder how that works in a merge module consumed by an installer.   I'll have to try it.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attenti

Re: [WiX-users] Creating just a web app pool on Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5, WiX 3.5 RTM

2011-02-17 Thread Christopher Painter
irectory.I'm not sure if they ever fixed ( changed ) that or not  so it's good to know this trivia about the IIS Extension if I ever decide to start using it instead.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good t

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally invoking ServiceInstall Element

2011-02-16 Thread Christopher Painter
I usually try to do two different file names to avoid the ICE warning about conditional components.  Will smart cabbing  work on two files with different names but the same hash?   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1939 when using on Windows Server 2008 R2

2011-02-15 Thread Christopher Painter
ic service name  which could be different depending on how things get deployed in the field.   (E.g.  MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS would be a different name for full blown SQL server )   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good threa

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1939 when using on Windows Server 2008 R2

2011-02-15 Thread Christopher Painter
Jerra- Read: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223300 you can also say  msiexec /i foo.msi /l*v install.log   --- 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] Execute Custom Action after dialog

2011-02-15 Thread Christopher Painter
ProductName can not be changed during an install.  It can only be transformed and applied as part of the execution of the installer.   --- 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] Read value from database query

2011-02-15 Thread Christopher Painter
action that  can do ExecuteScalar type queries and assign the result to specified properties.  I guess you could go farther (  PROPA={0};PROPB={1} and even  PROPA={R1:C0};PROPB={R1:C1} ) but I think it would get messy fast.  Personally ExecuteScalar has met all of my needs so far.   --- Christo

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally invoking ServiceInstall Element

2011-02-14 Thread Christopher Painter
but you could give it a try. Personally if it is a .NET service, I can't imagine it taking more then a few hours to factor out, build and test.    --- 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] Conditionally invoking ServiceInstall Element

2011-02-14 Thread Christopher Painter
all together they can say: msiexec /x foo.msi  /qn  or msiexec /i foo.msi REMOVE=ALL /qn --- 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: Gregg Sw

Re: [WiX-users] WCF server cannot connect to the remote database.

2011-02-14 Thread Christopher Painter
 David-  Please accept my apologies for going too far.  I wouldn't want to be responsible for driving anyone away. 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-Ma

Re: [WiX-users] WCF server cannot connect to the remote database.

2011-02-14 Thread Christopher Painter
; developers who want me to do crazy things in setup.  I've seen that snarky attitude that looks down at build and installs so many times that I have a habit of going into battle mode the moment I sense it.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a

Re: [WiX-users] WCF server cannot connect to the remote database.

2011-02-14 Thread Christopher Painter
Well, Evil Genius,  you clearly no more about installs then myself and Rob Mensching combined so knock yourself. --- 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] WCF server cannot connect to the remote database.

2011-02-14 Thread Christopher Painter
this thread further.  I've said what there is to be said on the subject. --- 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: Rune Moberg To: Gener

Re: [WiX-users] Drop database on Uninstall not working

2011-02-13 Thread Christopher Painter
elete user data.   If the user reinstalls they might expect to still have their data.   This doesn't hold much water though if your database is actually just code tables and lookup data and in that case I'd suggest not using a full blown database engine in the first place.   --- Christo

Re: [WiX-users] WCF server cannot connect to the remote database.

2011-02-13 Thread Christopher Painter
to press 'repair' to save his neck,  well I think he should just be let go.    Repair is meant to be the standardized approach to resolving these problems rather then guessing some EXE is a service and what the command line to install it should be. --- Christopher Painter, Author of De

Re: [WiX-users] CAQuietEXEc

2011-02-13 Thread Christopher Painter
to the EXE to make sure you don't have man in the middle attacks.   I ended up doing this and wrapping it in quotes.   --- 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 - Ori

Re: [WiX-users] Unmanaged c++ window service installation

2011-02-13 Thread Christopher Painter
ch doesn't support transactional installations and hence why the copy is delayed until Commit execution  but I'm not sure what MsiPublishAssemblies uses under the covers when dealing with WinSXS. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret o

Re: [WiX-users] Unmanaged c++ window service installation

2011-02-12 Thread Christopher Painter
XP+)    You can use this to manually define your service and is useful in the development environment.  --- 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:

Re: [WiX-users] Unmanaged c++ window service installation

2011-02-12 Thread Christopher Painter
ing: http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2006/07/msi-vs-net.html http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2011/01/augmenting-installshield-using-windows_19.html --- 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] Immediate custom actions with and without UI

2011-02-11 Thread Christopher Painter
t what the user passed in.   --- 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: Peter Shirtcliffe To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML tools

Re: [WiX-users] Wix and "tricky" environment variables

2011-02-10 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 - Original Message From: Mark Modrall To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 8:13

Re: [WiX-users] Wix and "tricky" environment variables

2011-02-10 Thread Christopher Painter
ing the VS version specific icon then typing say ildasm.   --- 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: Wilbert van Dolleweerd To: General disc

Re: [WiX-users] Wix and "tricky" environment variables

2011-02-10 Thread Christopher Painter
7;m just an old drunk old sailor today. (PS- No offense meant for any squids that might be out there.  Oorah  ) --- 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] Wix and "tricky" environment variables

2011-02-10 Thread Christopher Painter
stom action to do your own parsing ( dedupication, sorting, appending and so on. )  I'd test it really good though because I've never done this and I'm not sure what the gotchas would be. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a r

Re: [WiX-users] -reusecab doesn't work on dynamic views

2011-02-07 Thread Christopher Painter
x27;d think the cost should be less. PS-  While we are constantly refining, we've already optimized and parallelized.   :-)   I won't go into the details but basically our product is really massive and we run 100,000+ builds a year.   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment E

Re: [WiX-users] -reusecab doesn't work on dynamic views

2011-02-07 Thread Christopher Painter
s much as 18 hours to build all the way up.  --- 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: "maksim.vazhe...@emc.com" To: wix-users@lists.

Re: [WiX-users] Update property in deferred action

2011-02-06 Thread Christopher Painter
No, it is not possible.  Deferred actions don't have the ability to set properties of any type.   --- 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] -reusecab doesn't work on dynamic views

2011-02-04 Thread Christopher Painter
ed my own ClearCase UCM with a program called ViewMaster.  It's kind of like the child's toy where you click the button and get to see a different picture.  Developers pick from a (filterable ) list of builds and select Open and their dynamic view is reconfigured for that baseline.

Re: [WiX-users] install location not preserved while upgradation

2011-02-02 Thread Christopher Painter
Has no one read :-) http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2011/1/14/ARPINSTALLLOCATION-and-how-to-set-it-with-the-WiX-toolset --- 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] WiX v3.5 released!

2011-01-31 Thread Christopher Painter
Congrats, Rob!   --- 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: Rob Mensching To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Mon

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall failure?

2011-01-31 Thread Christopher Painter
start the service.   Even if the account is locked while the service is running you may not notice if the service doesn't do anything to authenticate itself such as connect to another service.  It's only when loading the security token would it matter.   Christopher Painter, Author of De

Re: [WiX-users] Migrating from InstallShield to WIX Issue

2011-01-31 Thread Christopher Painter
o". As an aside, just because you have an .ISM file doesn't mean it's an MSI project type.  Pure InstallScript projects store their information in an ISM to leverage the same infrastructure ( ability to save in DTD / XML ).   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering

Re: [WiX-users] Migrating from InstallShield to WIX Issue

2011-01-31 Thread Christopher Painter
hield project to Wix?  It's easy. Step 1: Become an expert in InstallShield, MSI and WiX Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit I say ??? because the answer is: it depends.  You'd have to look at the InstallShield project and source to understand what it's doing and how you would do it

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall failure?

2011-01-28 Thread Christopher Painter
vice could not start.  Again, this manifests as a problem in StartServices not I   --- 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,

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall and KeyPath

2011-01-25 Thread Christopher Painter
ne feature and FooService.exe and Foo.dll should belong to another feature. You can repeat this pattern so each of these 5 services all belong 1 one atomic feature or to seperate features to give the user fine grain control.  Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot t

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-23 Thread Christopher Painter
Here's a couple back articles from my archives on the subject: http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2006/10/vista-deferred-ca-consideration.html http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/05/welcome-back-sebackupprivilege.html   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.5 Final Build?

2011-01-20 Thread Christopher Painter
e are happy using WiX with VS2008 and we delegate our IIS configuration to InstallShield 2010.  I'd be interested in all the other things in 3.5 that would interest us.  The really cool stuff for us would be Burn in 3.6. Chris   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog

Re: [WiX-users] Questions about the Certificate Element

2011-01-20 Thread Christopher Painter
nd you'd accept doco updates I could invest the time to contribute.   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: Rob Mensching To: General di

[WiX-users] Questions about the Certificate Element

2011-01-19 Thread Christopher Painter
Path need to be an http address or something?  I'm trying to get a feel for the infrastructure and use case this fulfills. Thanks, Chris ---  Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good th

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions - C++ vs C# vs VBScript - Emailfound in subject - Email found in subject - Email found in subject

2011-01-18 Thread Christopher Painter
Perhaps SourceForge is swallowing my messages again but here are links and notes I sent you yesterday.     - Original Message From: Christopher Painter To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 11:00:52 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom

Re: [WiX-users] Update InstallExecuteSequence Condition Programmatically using DTF

2011-01-17 Thread Christopher Painter
e element could also be used to generate a simple update statement. 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)&

Re: [WiX-users] How to execute in VBScript-custom action

2011-01-17 Thread Christopher Painter
Since you are using VBScript, am I correct in assuming that this DLL you are calling into is a COM object?   Are you planning on registering that puppy from within your VBScript CA or something? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a

Re: [WiX-users] Wix upgrade process does not consider 4th part of the version string

2011-01-16 Thread Christopher Painter
and 1.0.0. I'm pretty much left saying  "you are right, that is the tail wagging the dog.  But that's the framework we use so deal." I'd appreciate your detailed thoughts on this. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a

Re: [WiX-users] newbie: heat, new VS setup project and TFS

2011-01-16 Thread Christopher Painter
ce code and see how it comes together.  It's built using TFS TeamBuild. It might not be your cup of tea but probably worth the look just to get ideas.   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] upgrading custom actions to be data driven

2011-01-15 Thread Christopher Painter
Before I begin describing how to refactor hard wired custom actions to data driven custom actions,  I have to ask:   Can your problem be solved using Windows Installer's built-in Condition table?   What is unique about your story that requires a custom action in the first place?   Christ

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions - C++ vs C# vs VBScript - Email found in subject

2011-01-14 Thread Christopher Painter
right? -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 6:32 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions - C++ vs C# vs VBScript - Email found in subject  VB/JS

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions - C++ vs C# vs VBScript

2011-01-14 Thread Christopher Painter
ne jump on my InstallScript comment unless you know what you are talking about. :-)   Prior is IS 12 I'd agree with you 100%. 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 - Origi

Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3.5 - Adding active directory user to a local group

2011-01-14 Thread Christopher Painter
ller. Any thoughts from others who have been there? 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: David Watson To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.ne

Re: [WiX-users] The same Windows Service installed under different names

2011-01-14 Thread Christopher Painter
I know from experience that this can be done from an installer perspective.  However, one gotcha that I've seen over the years is that at one company someone had written a C++ windows service that would fail if the service wasn't installed at the service name the application code expected.   At

Re: [WiX-users] error compiling large MSI

2011-01-13 Thread Christopher Painter
Just something to be aware of.   I've also seen XP test VM's configured with less memory ( say 512MB ... damn ESX Admins are stingy )  fail and there is no patch for XP.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good th

Re: [WiX-users] Collateral learning Opportunity

2011-01-13 Thread Christopher Painter
'm not sure what is wrong with your solution.  I'd suggest googling "WiX Extensions" and reading the first few links to get an understanding of what it's all about.    Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a r

Re: [WiX-users] error compiling large MSI

2011-01-13 Thread Christopher Painter
very long time to do the verification. Be sure to read: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925336 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 --- On Thu, 1/13/11, Tim McDaniel

Re: [WiX-users] Burn issue

2011-01-12 Thread Christopher Painter
ing behaved and some issues with unicode multilingual type stuff but generally I really did like it. I sometimes wish MSFT would just fix a few things and make a few improvements. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good

Re: [WiX-users] XML <-> DOM

2011-01-10 Thread Christopher Painter
Sascha, If my memory of StackOverflow is correct, you also use InstallShield. If so, the Text XML Changes feature is pretty helpful in working out these types of issues. Then you can transplant your XPath statement into WiX and give it a try. Chris --- On Mon, 1/10/11, Sascha Trenz wrote

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action dll that depends on another dll

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Painter
I would need more information to be able to answer that. Do you install the DLL's then call them or do you call A.dll out of the Binary table? Is A.DLL C++ or C#/DTF? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread

Re: [WiX-users] component state during rollback

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Painter
Deferred custom actions ( including commit and rollback ) can't access component state API's. They can only access what was serialized to them through the CustomActionData property. I think your question might indicate a misconception on how it all works. During the script generation phase t

Re: [WiX-users] Burn issue

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Painter
P seems to come out 6 months or so after the MSI  so I find myself wasting time 1,2,3,4 years later when if I just had a full up service release ISO  I could do it in one shot.   There's probably good business arguments on why this is done but personally I prefer it the other way. Chri

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Painter
Sorry, I haven't been following Burn enough.  I thought it was using WPF, my mistake.   I don't remember the last time I wrote an installer for a non-managed application so I'm not sure what that type of longevity buys me.   Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engine

Re: [WiX-users] Burn issue

2011-01-04 Thread Christopher Painter
So back to burn... how does it manage the uninstall experience? If Visual Studio was done with Burn, would it have a "take it all off" experience? Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deser

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-04 Thread Christopher Painter
ustom actions based on managed code? 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 --- On Tue, 1/4/11, Rob Mensching wrote: > From: Rob Mensching > Subject: Re: [WiX-user

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-03 Thread Christopher Painter
only authoratative way I know is to call into IIS's API and ask it what the document directory is. BTW, I wouldn't write a custom action to "fix" it since it's not your registry resource that you are messing with. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering B

Re: [WiX-users] ComponentSearch and *

2011-01-01 Thread Christopher Painter
Funny, I've used the Upgrade table in Merge Modules ( msidbUpgradeAttributesOnlyDetect ) for about 5 years now without any problems.  There's no reason why it "can't"  be done.  Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a sec

Re: [WiX-users] ComponentSearch and *

2010-12-30 Thread Christopher Painter
ing the Upgrade table to do a search and property assignment would be problematic in a merge module. 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 --- On Wed, 12/29/10, Rob Mensching

Re: [WiX-users] ComponentSearch and *

2010-12-30 Thread Christopher Painter
I read this article from MSDN and it doesn't make any reference to Upgrade not being allowed in a Merge Module. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369823(VS.85).aspx Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good t

Re: [WiX-users] obtaining a features install state

2010-12-27 Thread Christopher Painter
And: http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/05/data-driven-cas-made-easy-with-dtf.html Read the comments. Michael Urman translated it into C++. 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] obtaining a features install state

2010-12-27 Thread Christopher Painter
that inside of your CA when calling MsiEvaluateCondition(). 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, 12/27/10, Christopher Painter wrote: > From: Christopher Painter &g

Re: [WiX-users] obtaining a features install state

2010-12-27 Thread Christopher Painter
Checkout: MSICONDITION MsiEvaluateCondition( __in MSIHANDLE hInstall, __in LPCTSTR szCondition ); http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370104(VS.85).aspx Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that

Re: [WiX-users] Display dialog despite LIMITUI

2010-12-21 Thread Christopher Painter
ire before ever getting a failure message. So if you really really want to do what you want to do, you will have to write a custom action that provides it's own UI. ( e.g. MessageBox() ) Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a rea

Re: [WiX-users] Sequencing Components in Feature Element

2010-12-20 Thread Christopher Painter
Kim- I answered your question over at stackoverflow. If you are interested, I could possibly take some time on the phone to answer your questions in depth. ( It's a slow time of the year. ) Chris --- On Mon, 12/20/10, kim wrote: > From: kim > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Sequencing Componen

Re: [WiX-users] Setting installation location from command line

2010-12-12 Thread Christopher Painter
eally want to skip the UI.  Having someone double click an MSI and it just takes off with absolutely no indication of what it's going to do and whether it did it or not is crazy IMO.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really g

Re: [WiX-users] packaging large number of files

2010-12-06 Thread Christopher Painter
but in the end another company made me a better offer. 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: James Johnston To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] What does Custom/@OnExit do?

2010-12-06 Thread Christopher Painter
msiDoActionStatusUserExit msiDoActionStatusFailure msiDoActionStatusSuspend 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: Neil Sleightholm To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Saving the MSI file

2010-12-01 Thread Christopher Painter
ack and asks to elevate for the next one and no one hits yes in 30 seconds then it could fail. And yes, it's a ton of prereqs but all of the customers in my industry believe in reusing off the shelf components regardless of what that means for the deployment story.   Christopher Painter,

Re: [WiX-users] Saving the MSI file

2010-12-01 Thread Christopher Painter
27;s simply not the case for me.  Heck, many/most things I download from MSFT (  .NET, C++, SQL so on ) are EXE's not MSI's. So sure, I'd love to just click on an MSI, do my feature selection then elevate and chain all my MSI's together but it's just not an option for m

Re: [WiX-users] Saving the MSI file

2010-12-01 Thread Christopher Painter
How does it handle the case where a user could select per user or per machine?   Does it cache and install or does it install then cache and update sourcelists? ( or any other interesting questions that didn't occur to me to ask. ) Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering

Re: [WiX-users] Saving the MSI file

2010-11-30 Thread Christopher Painter
Yes.  Althought I believe it's better to use PackageCode rather then ProductCode to make sure that it's unique.   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 - Origin

Re: [WiX-users] Saving the MSI file

2010-11-30 Thread Christopher Painter
the size is typically quite small. I'd look at WiX 3.6 and see what approaches Rob is taking with Burn.   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] Saving the MSI file

2010-11-30 Thread Christopher Painter
I usually just let my bootstrapper handle the caching for me before invoking the MSI.   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: Quinton Tormanen

Re: [WiX-users] using a file during installation

2010-11-30 Thread Christopher Painter
How do you code against something you can't build against?  How do you know the source file will actually compile?   How do you test your installer in-house?   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that des

Re: [WiX-users] using a file during installation

2010-11-30 Thread Christopher Painter
your build environment, compile your source against it and then include the binary file in your installer. 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

Re: [WiX-users] using a file during installation

2010-11-30 Thread Christopher Painter
and then creates the compiled output.  Or change your design entirely.    The course you are taking right now would make me uneasy.   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] VC80 runtime is in pkgs, but not installed

2010-11-30 Thread Christopher Painter
f a bootstrapper to lay down the x86 and/or x64 c++ redists is a much better solution. 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: Chris Ridd To: Ge

Re: [WiX-users] Question with Program size in "Programs and Features"dialog box

2010-11-30 Thread Christopher Painter
Actually you can write a custom action scheduled after PublishProduct to directly update value.  Checkout: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/317647/using-the-estimatedsize-value-inside-a-program-uninstall-key-to-correctly-display Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog

Re: [WiX-users] Visually Editing WXS Files

2010-11-16 Thread Christopher Painter
merge modules which are then consumed by InstallShield. One of these days I'll get te code refactored to support other scenarios but I'm currently working 60+ hours a week between my day job and client work so I'm not very optimistic on when this will actually happen.   Christo

Re: [WiX-users] avoiding GUID decoration in merge module propertyname

2010-11-16 Thread Christopher Painter
to assemble all of the modules together  especially considering InstallShield only applies property configuration to the first module merged and not the child modules that are merged. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a re

Re: [WiX-users] avoiding GUID decoration in merge module property name

2010-11-16 Thread Christopher Painter
Once again, here's another post below  that didn't make it to the list.   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 T

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig's dependency on MSXML

2010-11-15 Thread Christopher Painter
Search and LaunchCondition to abort the install for these machines and let the user know they have a problem.  Or bring msxml along for the ride via bootstrapper and try to fix it for them first. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a r

Re: [WiX-users] Deploying sql server express

2010-11-14 Thread Christopher Painter
I sent the below response yesterday morning but I never saw it appear in the list.  Either SourceForge is dropping messages or I am being censored for some reason. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that

Re: [WiX-users] Usage of Merge Module for multiple projects(updatesetc.)

2010-11-12 Thread Christopher Painter
being removed and then design/invoke  your custom actions around that knowledge. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012(VS.85).aspx   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Ma

Re: [WiX-users] Usage of Merge Module for multiple projects(updates etc.)

2010-11-12 Thread Christopher Painter
If Product A has files with an lessor version number then Product B  then Product B's higher versioned numbers will remain installed.     Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Ma

Re: [WiX-users] How do I force an uninstall that does not meet the conditions?

2010-11-12 Thread Christopher Painter
REINSTALLMOVE?  Yeah, that's special.  I'm sorry about that.   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: Ryan Taylor To: General disc

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