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

2010-11-12 Thread Christopher Painter
other components you authored directly into 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 - Original Message From: Tobias Erichsen To: wix-users

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

2010-11-11 Thread Christopher Painter
Is this on a dev box or deployed?  If dev box, the easiest way out of this problem is to fix the msi and recache it with msiexec /i foo.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMOVE=vomus.  Then you should be able to do your uninstall.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade, Patch, or something else...

2010-11-08 Thread Christopher Painter
wing: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367850(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-Mail Me - Original Message From: Rob Mensching To: General discussion f

Re: [WiX-users] - File short names

2010-11-06 Thread Christopher Painter
BTW, it looks like starting in XP ( not sure about 2003 ) there's a command line tool called fsutil that has an option for setting the short file name of a file.  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil.mspx?mfr=true   Christopher Pa

Re: [WiX-users] - File short names

2010-11-06 Thread Christopher Painter
I don't know how big these CHM's are but  I wonder if a quick hack would be to have 1 set of long file name CHMs in a place the user can find them but stashed away in a deep folder have short filename CHM's that the application actually uses.   Christopher Painter, Autho

Re: [WiX-users] - File short names

2010-11-05 Thread Christopher Painter
happy and I never concern myself with it.  The only time I've been bit by long | short names is in the media table which only understands shortnames.  InstallShield has a bug where you can get bit real bad when installing from a CDROM.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Painter
needed.   One of the things that I 'love' about MSI.  http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/search?q=sms+patching   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 Messag

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action entrypoints

2010-11-03 Thread Christopher Painter
I have multiple .CA.DLL files in my installer so I'm not sure what that problem is.  As for the 16 entry points per DLL, I think I recall someone writing that they were able to alter the source to SfxCA ( EntryPoints.def and EntryPoints.h ) to get around that limitation.     Christopher Pa

Re: [WiX-users] To beta or not to beta

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Painter
they have special automation / validation in place to confirm the results? In other words, just because all your friends are jumping off a bridge doesn't mean you should do it.   They might have a bungee cord you don't know about. Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engine

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-user] Run Oracle script

2010-10-27 Thread Christopher Painter
It won't be me; I've been to busy contributing to the community on other fronts.    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 Men

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-user] Run Oracle script

2010-10-22 Thread Christopher Painter
InstallShield has MSSQL, Oracle and MySQL support.  That's as official as you are going to get.  Anything else for Oracle is going to be roll your own or punt and don't have installer do it.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret

Re: [WiX-users] How to change/define the size of the main UI form

2010-10-21 Thread Christopher Painter
To me, that pretty much defeats the purpose of wrapping the UI up into a nice extension.  I wish  WiX had another mechanism to inherit / extend / transform / override  the Mondo experience other then ditching the reference and using the source.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment

Re: [WiX-users] WiX book available

2010-10-18 Thread Christopher Painter
Hope it helps... http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2010/10/new-bookebook-available-wix-developers.html 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

Re: [WiX-users] Convert AllUsers Install to PerUser

2010-10-14 Thread Christopher Painter
mework?  Create a service?  Configure a website?  Forget about it.   Perhaps that's not a problem for you though.     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 Mes

Re: [WiX-users] Unset property on command line?

2010-10-12 Thread Christopher Painter
try: setup.msi SOME_PROPERTY="" 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 Simonetti To: General discussion for Windows Installer X

Re: [WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions?

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Painter
M.   Of course there is always more expensive disk solutions.   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: Bill Packard To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Application registry keys best practise

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Painter
That problem can be mitigated: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/5/2/The-WiX-toolsets-Remember-Property-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 - Original

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with packages bigger than 2Gb

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Painter
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204770(VS.85).aspx#reduce_size 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: Jeremy Farrell To: General

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe registry harvesting: ProxyStubClassId

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Painter
uild automation and lab virtualization along with some good old fashioned sluething until I get it working correctly.   Then I leave it the hell alone. Oh, and keep muttering COM sucks to developers to encourage them to use more managed code.    Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineer

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe registry harvesting: ProxyStubClassId

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Painter
ing Implemented Catagories from .NET ComVisible classes.   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: Blair To: General discussion for Windows Instal

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with packages bigger than 2Gb

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Painter
is likely better off built as an MSI and multipel cab's. 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: vivekanandan balaguru To: wix-users@lists.sourc

Re: [WiX-users] Patching with WiX

2010-10-05 Thread Christopher Painter
quite a bit of work but it seems doable. I'd use a NAnt task written in C#/DTF.  I want to dig deeper until I understand your first option before deciding to play with the second. Thanks, Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or r

[WiX-users] Patching with WiX

2010-10-04 Thread Christopher Painter
o do alot more automation then IS (seems to) allow. 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-Mail Me --

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple actions when a launch condition fails

2010-10-01 Thread Christopher Painter
til the execute sequence.  Still you can pass the users choice in a property down stream for later processing. 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] Overwrite files with higher version on major upgrade

2010-10-01 Thread Christopher Painter
on the topic: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04138.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 - Original Message From: Alex Ivanoff To: w

Re: [WiX-users] how to get error code returned by custom action

2010-09-30 Thread Christopher Painter
Windows Installer has no such concept of return codes when calling custom actions.   To get the behavior you are looking for will depend on what kind of custom action you are using.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good

Re: [WiX-users] Continuing questions about WiX

2010-09-30 Thread Christopher Painter
extracting EXE that handles the problem of chunking your MSI into multiple files and delivering a complete MSI on the other end. That said, InstallShield has really nice media support including a Custom option where you can specify how many KB for each chunk.   Christopher Painter, Author of De

Re: [WiX-users] Square brackets in variable value

2010-09-29 Thread Christopher Painter
Sounds like you are doing this in a merge module.   Just add It'll teach the compiler to not do that but also not create a row in the property table since you didn't give it any value.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or rea

Re: [WiX-users] How to create an installer looks like Visual Studio 2010

2010-09-29 Thread Christopher Painter
VS does.   For that matter, I don't think it'd be a half bad idea to incorporate WiX into the SDK.   It's great that WiX is trying to do all of this for  but 10 years and counting of development is simply too long to wait.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineeri

Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation;

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
of  VDPROJ merge modules and InstallUtil custom actions.   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)" To: Gene

Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation;

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
morrow night we are going to be in breach of contract.  Sometimes I feel like the dreaded bathtub curve never goes away.   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 Me

Re: [WiX-users] BadImageFormatException, Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller - RESOLVED!

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
I haven't really played with DTF and 4.0 much yet.   Is there a solution for writing a CLR 2.0 Custom Action and then have it work if you have either .NET 2-3.5 or .NET 4 installed? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really

Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation;

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
Tell your customer that this is by design and if they have a problem with it they should call Microsoft.  BTW, it looks like this was just covered on WiX-Dev. http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/how-to-stop-msiserver-net-stop-msiserver-td5516817.html   Christopher

Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation;

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
our problem to close it. 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: "Bisht, Pradeep" To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolse

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Painter
I also liked the CodePlex link that was provided earlier in this thread.  I'm going to have to play with that some time soon.   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] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
alance.  If you can't win this argument,  there are ways to get it done.  I just don't think it's the best way to go. 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] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
taller fix something on the back end.  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: pcristini To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Mon, September

Re: [WiX-users] Reading Assembly Information

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
s are dumping it off on to the build / install team to make the magic happen.   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: "Wilson, Phil" To: Gen

Re: [WiX-users] Two CheckBoxes, Same Property

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
exclusive Control Condition expressions so that only one of them will be displayed. Then again, I might not be tracking you 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

Re: [WiX-users] Two CheckBoxes, Same Property

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Painter
I would need to understand what you are trying to do.     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: gapearce To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 Module GUID Deprecated

2010-09-24 Thread Christopher Painter
Right, sorry if it wasn't clear when I first said that.  PackageCode is more for MSI's and not really important to MSM's.   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 3.5 Module GUID Deprecated

2010-09-24 Thread Christopher Painter
no adverse side effects.   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 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 Module GUID Deprecated

2010-09-24 Thread Christopher Painter
Yes, what I was trying to say is  that WiX v3 uses the Module Id along with the Package Id to create the Module.GUID you see in the ModuleSignature table.   Just build your old, tweak it up and build the new and you'll see they are the same in Orca if you did it right.    Christopher Pa

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 Module GUID Deprecated

2010-09-24 Thread Christopher Painter
Merge modules are recognized by their Module Signature.  I know of no purpose for the Summary Information Package Code other then it must have one becaues it's an MSI database.  I  know of no harm in changing it and this is probably the reason why the schema no longer requires it.   Christ

Re: [WiX-users] How to allow 32-bit installer to writetoC:\ProgramFiles

2010-09-20 Thread Christopher Painter
install, uninstall, maintenance and patch / upgrade.   If you think it through you should be fine as long as the MSI team never "fixes" this which I'm guessing they never will. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or rea

Re: [WiX-users] How to allow 32-bit installer to write toC:\ProgramFiles

2010-09-20 Thread Christopher Painter
it all the way to atleast Vista when they do otherwise it becomes one of those "that's nice but doesn't help me at all" features. Chris    Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves atte

[WiX-users] Bootstrapper Web Downloads of Microsoft Packages

2010-09-18 Thread Christopher Painter
ment the fwlink ID's anywhere and do they want us linking to Microsoft so that they can control the availability or is this a bad practice which is just leaching off of Microsoft?   Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really

Re: [WiX-users] How to allow 32-bit installer to write toC:\Program Files

2010-09-18 Thread Christopher Painter
iting the undocumented behavior of MSI to fail to redirect short paths like it does long paths.      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: Travis

[WiX-users] Meet the new GAC

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Painter
l they end up in the right place? Is there anything else I need to know here?   My head is just spinning from this design decision ( although I seem to be in good company ). Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good

Re: [WiX-users] How to allow 32-bit installer to write to C:\Program Files

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Painter
Officially it's not possible in a 32bit install but unofficially ( and at your own risk ) I found a way.    Convert the C:\Program Files to C:\Progra~1 and you'll sneak past Windows Installer trying to "fix" it for you.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering

Re: [WiX-users] ICE Validation and MSI failure 2738

2010-09-16 Thread Christopher Painter
Try disabling UAC also.  We had a problem like this on our build machine and I couldn't launch ORCA and run validation as a limited user. 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] not able to access unc locations in deffered custom actions

2010-09-15 Thread Christopher Painter
Your CA is running as System which will use different authentication credentials to try to access the network then those that you are logged in with.   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] Set Value of Edit Control on ComboList Change

2010-09-15 Thread Christopher Painter
Windows Installer UI capabilities is very limited here.  Short of putting the Combo on one dialog and your Edit on the next or throwing it all out the window and using an external UI handler your going to find it impossible to do what you want.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment

Re: [WiX-users] ComboBox question

2010-09-15 Thread Christopher Painter
the associated property is set to the value.   To reverse the process, set the property to the associated value prior to displaying the ComboBox to get the correct row to be selected. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really

Re: [WiX-users] properties in merge modules

2010-09-15 Thread Christopher Painter
e-of-merge-modules.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 - Original Message From: Hinrich Aue To: "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Wed, September

Re: [WiX-users] properties in merge modules

2010-09-15 Thread Christopher Painter
This avoids the potential conflicts that I mentioned. 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: Hinrich Aue To: "wix-users@lists.so

Re: [WiX-users] How to change to a directory and run customaction inside that directory?

2010-09-11 Thread Christopher Painter
tual setup requirements I'd write my own solution that was data driven and supported rollback.   You could very well find out that it's doing nothing more then writing some registry values.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a rea

Re: [WiX-users] How to change to a directory and run customaction inside that directory?

2010-09-10 Thread Christopher Painter
=myapp.dll  sounds a lot like a home grown  SelfReg pattern which brings all sorts of other problems.   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] how to call java from wix

2010-09-09 Thread Christopher Painter
Windows Installer doesn't have support for .NET custom actions either and yet it's possible. I wouldn't do this in an install but checkout IKVM.NET. Then you can use DTF to present it as a type 1 to MSI.    Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-03 Thread Christopher Painter
vil evil evil   IMO.     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: Bruce Cran To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: chr...@deploy

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-03 Thread Christopher Painter
You know what would really be cool?   An MSI/WiX summit.  I could get a trip to Redmond funded for sure if there was some event I could put on the expense report.   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] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-03 Thread Christopher Painter
Well said other then I don't agree that InstallShield is the reason people don't want to write installs.  ( Although this seems to be supported by tweats and blogs that I read. )  I just can't buy it based on my experience using the tool for the last 14 years.  Maybe I'm just hard headed enough

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-03 Thread Christopher Painter
that I did. 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: dB. To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Fri, September 3, 20

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-02 Thread Christopher Painter
#x27;s trying to be great at .NET doesn't want to touch MSI with a ten foot pole and most people who are decent in installs don't have a strong development background. Oh well... end rant.  Email me if'd you like your quarter back. :-)   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engine

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-02 Thread Christopher Painter
 I agree with you Bob except for one problem.  I've found so few setup experts who also have the broader application development experience.Too few developers want to specialize in this space. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-02 Thread Christopher Painter
Pally,  I'm sorry, but you don't have a clue.   I'll let you be the one to go into the CEO's office tomorrow morning and tell him that we can't bid on a $200 million USD RFP because we don't like the customers requirements. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher Painter
t and then cycle through upgrades with the 2nd DISC.   When they have problems they are better able to understand that it wasn't our fault.   - Original Message From: Christopher Painter To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Wed, September 1, 2010 7:4

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher Painter
does and provide an extensible UI / UX layer.  Currently with InstallShield the only way to do this is to create middle-man EXE's that get called by setup.exe, present a custom UI and invoke the actual package and surface exit codes back to setup.exe.   Not a very good design IMO. Chr

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-08-31 Thread Christopher Painter
Yup, InstallShield has some really strong areas and some real weak areas.  That's why I blend WiX, IsWiX and InstallShield as needed.   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] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-08-31 Thread Christopher Painter
bullet proof.  Don't  believe me?   How many years has burn been in development? That said, I'm very interested in seeing Burn come to life.  I will evaluate it against InstallShield and decide which one is better for my needs. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineeri

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-08-31 Thread Christopher Painter
ield as my authoring tool.   I don't like NSIS because it's a procedural programming language that goes against leverage the benefits of Windows Installer. The same can be said of legacy InstallScript projects. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip,

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-08-31 Thread Christopher Painter
NSIS?  Sorry, I'd rather go to the dentist.   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: "Goryuk, Alex" To: General discussion for Wi

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-08-30 Thread Christopher Painter
I've looked at dotNetInstaller and while it looks very interesting,  there is no way you are going to learn that tool and get a working bootstrapper in 15 minutes.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-08-30 Thread Christopher Painter
I use WiX for all of my component authoring and then glue it together with IS.   Hopefully one day (year) burn will be ready. 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] Bootstrapping and Burn

2010-08-30 Thread Christopher Painter
apper / chainer does so much more then wrap up your MSI into an EXE.  In fact, if you aren't using any of these other capabilities the question then becomes 'why do you need a setup.exe anyways?   just deploy the msi'. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions in VB.Net

2010-08-30 Thread Christopher Painter
WiX / Votive provides a WiX | VB.NET Custom Action project in Visual Studio.   Just run the project wizard and all the plumbing will be handled for you. 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 properties not being persisted from a WXI () to a WXS ()

2010-08-28 Thread Christopher Painter
Can you send a log file?   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: Rafael Campana To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sat, August 28, 2010 1

Re: [WiX-users] Exceeding version limits

2010-08-27 Thread Christopher Painter
t;I'm sorry, I can display your custom version scheme on the dialog but I cannot possibly assign it to the ProductVersion."   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] Problems running 32-bit WIX on 64-bit Windows 7

2010-08-27 Thread Christopher Painter
suprised because we use buildforge and I thought the build agent ran as a service where the service account was in the local administrators group and wouldn't be effected by UAC since it was a service but I guess it is. Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have

Re: [WiX-users] WIX Licensing

2010-08-26 Thread Christopher Painter
s be for having this get released under a newer open source license? -James On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Christopher Painter < chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > That's interesting.  I also work for a very large software company and we > have > a highly formal proces

Re: [WiX-users] WIX Licensing

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Painter
scans and I had to track down any false positives with the  help of Rob to justify the alerts ) nobody made any such statement about the EULA.  I'm suspecting the person who made this decision is misinformed but unless we know there exact complaints it's hard to address them.   Chri

Re: [WiX-users] How to debug CustomAction DLL

2010-08-24 Thread Christopher Painter
I think I recall you sometimes have to reboot and/or restart the Msiexec service after setting MsiBreak because the Service Control Manager doesn't get the env update.  I haven't used it in a long time so I could be wrong.  on the C#/DTF side I tend to use MessageBox during intitial development

Re: [WiX-users] NativeImage Question

2010-08-21 Thread Christopher Painter
the Source from the first module merged.  Is there a better way to handle this? Yes, I know about Fragments, but I can't consume Fragments into other MSI tools so I am using Modules. Regards, Chris   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret o

[WiX-users] NativeImage Question

2010-08-21 Thread Christopher Painter
ve to keep updating this pesky Id attribute. Also seems like it would make for more expressive 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?

Re: [WiX-users] Removing a Directory Tree on Uninstall

2010-08-21 Thread Christopher Painter
Has there been an MSI update that I haven't noticed?  Last time I checked  the RemoveFile table doesn't support recursive deletes as implied by Directory Tree.  It can at best do a [DIRPROP]\*.* and remove DIRPROP only if it's empty.   Correct? - Original Message From: Bob Arnson To

Re: [WiX-users] Release feature of Installshield in WIX

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Painter
#x27;t have it on my roadmap yet. 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 - Original Message From: akshi_gupta To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, Aug

Re: [WiX-users] How to run custom action on install rollback

2010-08-16 Thread Christopher Painter
Files )  that it will be before whatever action failed.   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: Joe Osman To: General discussion for Wi

Re: [WiX-users] setting INSTALLDIR using a CustomAction

2010-08-14 Thread Christopher Painter
has data ( in case someone passed a value a the command line )  and to only fire if Not Installed as once a product is installed the directory is immutable save a major upgrade in which case the new ProductCode is not yet installed. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog

[WiX-users] Upgrade Element in Fragment

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Painter
I was reading in the CHM/XSD that an Upgrade Element can belong to a Fragment element.  Is this really true?  I'm not sure I see what could reference it (UpgradeRef? ) in the schema.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really

Re: [WiX-users] Updating msiexec status window from custom action

2010-08-06 Thread Christopher Painter
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-Mail Me - Original Message From: Gary Gocek To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 8:02:15 PM Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] running ngen from an msi?

2010-08-06 Thread Christopher Painter
Google "wix ngen" and the first hit is: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2007/03/03/how-to-ngen-files-in-an-msi-based-setup-package-using-wix.aspx   - Original Message From: Mark Modrall To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 10:55

Re: [WiX-users] Modify Group Policy with WiX

2010-08-05 Thread Christopher Painter
on any user machines. Is this supported natively in WiX? Jacob On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Christopher Painter < chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > I shudder at the thought.  I would be so angry if I installed software that > did > this to my machine.  Software should

Re: [WiX-users] Modify Group Policy with WiX

2010-08-05 Thread Christopher Painter
I shudder at the thought.  I would be so angry if I installed software that did this to my machine.  Software should never be this tightly coupled to a specific visual style and if you are otherwise authorized to make these types of changes because you own the environment it shouldn't be done t

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Logging Problem

2010-08-04 Thread Christopher Painter
Nevermind, I worked it out in my mind.   This CA is called as a DoAction ControlEvent.. ugh I love msi, I love msi, I love msi (repeat)   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E

[WiX-users] DTF Logging Problem

2010-08-04 Thread Christopher Painter
orking correctly and I've noticed that my calls to Session.Log() don't actually log anything.   Has anyone ever seen this?   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that

Re: [WiX-users] Does WIX / MSI support product downgrade - still doesn't work

2010-08-02 Thread Christopher Painter
What does the log say?  Does FindRelatedProducts find the product and set the property?  One common problem is a Major Upgrade can go from a Per-User to Per-Machine install or the other way around.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read

Re: [WiX-users] Does WIX / MSI support product downgrade ?

2010-08-02 Thread Christopher Painter
e our roll back strategy in case of application problems was to readvertise the package for the previous version.   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 Me

Re: [WiX-users] WiX proposal on Area51

2010-07-28 Thread Christopher Painter
Haven't we always said setup development IS development?  Seems like stackoverflow proper with the tags we already have is the way to go.  Seems like Area 51 would be for competely other subjects like scuba diving or something.   Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog H

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service installation error

2010-07-27 Thread Christopher Painter
t your fix. 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: "rahul.ekb...@sungard.com" To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tue, July 27, 201

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service installation error

2010-07-26 Thread Christopher Painter
the problem back to development with an offer to assist in troubleshooting. 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: Blair To: General discussion for W

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