[WiX-users] Fade out?

2015-05-05 Thread Jason Ohler
put CSS code in the HTML editor, what results is simply showing the CSS code, rather than executing it? Thank you. -- Jason -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box

[WiX-users] adding a twitter feed work around?

2015-05-02 Thread Jason Ohler
Hello. I have followed WIX support to the letter to add a Twitter feed to my WIX page. But to no avail. It produces Tweets from Jason Ohler as link. If I click on it in Firefox, the link goes away and nothing happens. If I click on it Chrome or Safari, the link remains, but nothing happens

[WiX-users] COM Plus uninstallation failure

2015-01-05 Thread jason liang
#x27;t mind upgrading to Wix 3.9 My Comp Plug Wix segment code is shown below:

Re: [WiX-users] Repairing permanent files

2014-08-19 Thread Jason Liquorish
RUEFALSETRUETRUETRUE > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Jason Liquorish > wrote: > >> I have some files that I don not want to be removed when uninstalling but >> I >> want to be reinstalled when the installation is repaired. So far I have >> tried var

[WiX-users] Repairing permanent files

2014-08-18 Thread Jason Liquorish
guid blank. I can easily get the component to not be removed when uninstalling but getting the repair option to work on these files has not worked so far. What am I doing wrong? -- Jason Liquorish

[WiX-users] Heat + Harvesting a 64bit COM component

2013-07-01 Thread Jason Stephenson
it process and my assembly is 64bit? Any guidance on how I would be able to harvest my latest 64bit version of this assembly? Many Thanks Jason ++ This e-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). Content is not to be relied upon by any person other than t

Re: [WiX-users] Using DTF to Retrieve String Entries in Resource DLL

2011-03-18 Thread Jason Ginchereau
t of some other functionality in DTF, so I didn't put a lot of effort into making it really easy to use or documenting lots of examples. But, it should serve your purpose well enough. -Jason- -Original Message- From: jnewton [mailto:jonathan.new...@ni.com] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 6

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall issues

2011-01-24 Thread Jason Jibben
ProductCode {8B696937-064A-4A31-8249-7BC62885F793} then you can place it in one of the other two paths listed ("C:\Program Files\Acme\Our Program" or "D:\") and try removing it again. At that point it should successfully remove. -Blair -Original Message- From: Jaso

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall issues

2011-01-19 Thread Jason Jibben
:687]: SOURCEMGMT: Processing media source list. MSI (s) (C8:D0) [11:48:30:921]: SOURCEMGMT: Trying media source D:\. MSI (s) (C8:D0) [11:48:30:921]: Note: 1: 2203 2: D:\Updater.ClientSetup.msi 3: -2147287038 MSI (s) (C8:D0) [11:48:30:921]: SOURCEMGMT: Source is invalid due to missing/inaccessible packag

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall issues

2011-01-19 Thread Jason Jibben
the \installer directory where the security settings made it inaccessible, but I can't find any docs on that. Phil Wilson -----Original Message- From: Jason Jibben [mailto:jason_jib...@starkey.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 8:11 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XM

[WiX-users] Uninstall issues

2011-01-13 Thread Jason Jibben
Hello WiX Users! I've been running into an issue more often that I care to see. When uninstalling a package via ARP, a dialog pops up stating the installer cannot be found, and prompts the user to locate the MSI on a network share / CD drive. This also shows up when running a major upgrade.

Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft.Deployment.Compression support for ADS?

2010-11-17 Thread Jason Ginchereau
might be feasible to add support, but if it is it would also depend on a .NET library for NTFS alternate data streams, and I'd rather not add such a dependency. -Jason- -Original Message- From: christopher.m.er...@hotmail.com [mailto:christopher.m.er...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tu

Re: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom action with supportedRuntime=v4.0

2010-08-13 Thread Jason Ginchereau
2.0-targeted applications do not activate with .NET 4.0 by default -- that was a deliberate compatibility policy decision made by.NET 4.0, for better or worse. You'll need to add useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=true attribute to the element in your CustomAction.config. For more information,

[WiX-users] Uninstalling patch, requires orginal MSI

2010-07-28 Thread Jason Jibben
Hello fine WiX-Users! Here's my dilemma, I'm testing patch creation with WiX. I take my setup.msi and make a patch (msp) for it. The patch is something simple, such as changing an .ico file. The patch works great. When I uninstall the patch, it prompts for the original MSI. If you target

Re: [WiX-users] DTF limit on number of CA EntryPoints?

2010-07-09 Thread Jason Ginchereau
The limit of 16 is somewhat arbitrary. The way the build process works, a fixed number of entrypoints must be reserved at compile time in the sfxca.dll unmanaged stub for managed CAs. The limit can be increased by changing the sfxca.dll source code and rebuilding. The entrypoint reservations don

Re: [WiX-users] How to run Managed Custom Action (Wix 3.0) in dotNet 4.0 only machine?

2010-06-29 Thread Jason Ginchereau
2.0-targeted applications do not activate with .NET 4.0 by default -- that was a deliberate compatibility policy decision made by.NET 4.0, for better or worse. You'll need to add useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=true attribute to the element in your CustomAction.config. For more information,

Re: [WiX-users] sfxca.dll 32 and 64 bit version in visual studio 2010 (wix 3.5)

2010-06-29 Thread Jason Ginchereau
is on line 87 of wix.ca.targets: -Jason- -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:53 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] sfxca.dll 32 and 64 bit version in visual studio 2010 (wi

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4

2010-06-18 Thread Jason Ding
ll EXE-ZIP the entire resulting target directory and when double-clicked the self-extract exe will run the setup.exe. Bootstrappers run all installation packages one-by-one, with your MSI simply being one of the packages (usually the last one). -Original Message----- From: Jason Ding [mailto:

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4

2010-06-17 Thread Jason Ding
ges before launching your MSI. Thus, your original launch condition looks appropriate. However, launching the MSI does not run the bootstrapper, as the MSI can't realistically install prerequisites. In your testing, are you launching the bootstrapper or the MSI? -Original Message----- F

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4

2010-06-17 Thread Jason Ding
ive.com] Sent: June 17, 2010 4:33 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4 What specifically is your LaunchCondition associated with that error text? -Original Message- From: Jason Ding [mailto:jas...@geo-s

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4

2010-06-17 Thread Jason Ding
run, click the OK button below to install. Action ended 15:18:30: LaunchConditions. Return value 3. MSI (c) (6C:04) [15:18:30:996]: Doing action: FatalError -Original Message- From: Jason Ding [mailto:jas...@geo-slope.com] Sent: June 17, 2010 3:12 PM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4

2010-06-17 Thread Jason Ding
pp -- Installation failed. -Original Message- From: Jason Ding [mailto:jas...@geo-slope.com] Sent: June 17, 2010 12:11 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4 Thanks Blair for pointing to the place. When I install o

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4

2010-06-17 Thread Jason Ding
si.com] Sent: June 16, 2010 5:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4 This works for me: True .NET Framework 4.0 True > -Original Message- > From: Ja

Re: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4

2010-06-17 Thread Jason Ding
Framework 4.0 True > -----Original Message- > From: Jason Ding [mailto:jas...@geo-slope.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:51 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4 > > I am tring to use Bootstrapper to install .N

[WiX-users] Install .Net Framework 4

2010-06-16 Thread Jason Ding
I am tring to use Bootstrapper to install .Net Framework 4.0 by using a sample from this site: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/install_dotnet.htm I got a message like this: warning MSB3155: Item 'Microsoft.Net.Framework.4.0' could not be located in 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 error with .net 4

2010-06-15 Thread Jason Ginchereau
same process, which was not possible previously. -Jason- From: John Ketchpaw [jketch...@panopto.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 4:55 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 error with .net 4 Right

Re: [WiX-users] DTF: Missing Session Tables?

2010-05-19 Thread Jason Ginchereau
t the results to be consistent. -Jason- -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:57 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF: Missing Session Tables? I don't think J

Re: [WiX-users] C# Pack a Cab with Progress

2010-04-28 Thread Jason Ginchereau
more questions. -Jason- -Original Message- From: κevin bui [mailto:freedompe...@live.com.au] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:39 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] C# Pack a Cab with Progress Hey, I've installed WiX 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008

Re: [WiX-users] Heat 3.5.1419 not harvesting VS2010 ASP.NET MVC2 project correctly

2010-03-16 Thread Jason Stangroome
ges\logo.jpg All of these files (and many more) are harvested from the web project but the compiled binaries end up in the wrong folder. Jason Stangroome Readify | Senior Developer M: +61 422 924 675 | E: jason.stangro...@readify.net | W: www.readify.net -Original Message- From: Tony Pal

[WiX-users] Heat 3.5.1419 not harvesting VS2010 ASP.NET MVC2 project correctly

2010-03-16 Thread Jason Stangroome
suspicion is that the MVC2 project is not being detected as a web project but as a normal C# project instead. Is this a bug or is there something I'm doing wrong? Thank you, Jason Stangroome Readify | Senior Developer Head Office: Suite 408, Life.Labs Building, 190 Harbour Esplanade, Dock

Re: [WiX-users] Problem detecting different version already installed...

2009-12-17 Thread Jason T.
o occur directly > after "FindRelatedProducts" - the FindRelatedProducts action is what > would actually search the upgrade table and set NEWERVERSIONDETECTED > and OLDERVERSIONDETECTED... can you tell from the logs if this action > is being executed? > > Sascha > &g

Re: [WiX-users] Problem detecting different version already installed...

2009-12-17 Thread Jason T.
>                    Property="NEWERVERSIONDETECTED" >                    IncludeMinimum="no" /> > >                        Maximum="$(var.version)" >                    Property="OLDERVERSIONDETECTED" >                    IncludeMaximum="no" /> > >

[WiX-users] Problem detecting different version already installed...

2009-12-17 Thread Jason T.
Hello, I'm trying to detect when a different version of my package has already been installed so that I can abort the installation. I'm not looking to do the "major upgrade", I just want to abort if either an older or a newer version is found (if the version is the same the repair/remove logic al

Re: [WiX-users] SQL Script sequencing/committing issues

2009-12-03 Thread Jason Jibben
2009 1:50 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SQL Script sequencing/committing issues Was this ever addressed? -Original Message- From: Jason Jibben [mailto:jason_jib...@starkey.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:46 AM

[WiX-users] SQL Script sequencing/committing issues

2009-11-18 Thread Jason Jibben
Hello WiX-Users, I've been working on an installer that uses quite a few SQL scripts that are triggered based on conditions set during the UI prompts. The issue I've been having is that the SQL statements that are scheduled with a lower sequence number doesn't seem to be fired off (or complete

Re: [WiX-users] how to get pdb file for customaction.CA.dll

2009-11-04 Thread Jason Ginchereau
The PDB for the unmanaged CA wrapper is always sfxca.pdb, regardless of what your managed custom action code is. Sfxca.pdb is included in wix3-pdbs.zip published with every build. If you like, you could add a postbuild step to copy and rename sfxca.pdb to YourCustomAction.CA.pdb. -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Can you create a shortcut that is "Pinned to Taskbar" in an install?

2009-10-04 Thread Jason
You should not even be considering doing this. Please read these blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/03/54760.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/01/922449.aspx On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Gareth wrote: > > Since Microsoft have deprecated the QuickL

Re: [WiX-users] is wix project always in the same sln of application

2009-10-01 Thread Jason Ding
than everything is in a single sln and when build the wix project it requires dll from another plathforms built first. Anyone has experienced the release of more than 1 platform by using wix? How do you handle the case I mentioned above? Appreciate any shared experience. Jason -Original Me

[WiX-users] is wix project always in the same sln of application

2009-09-30 Thread Jason Ding
just merge them to 1 sln, but I need the expert confirmation from the mail list. Can someone help clarify? Thanks. Jason -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer

[WiX-users] x86 platform on wix project

2009-09-28 Thread Jason Ding
roblem. Is there any other options available in wix to fix this? I am using wix 3.0.5419. I can certainly upgrade wix to the latest version, but not sure if that would fix it. Thanks advance for any help. Jason -

[WiX-users] Burn Documentation

2009-09-01 Thread Jason Jibben
I know it's early, but I'm looking for some documentation on Burn. I have a project that sounds right up Burn's alley, and looking forward to seeing what Burn can do. I keep up to date with Rob's and boB's blogs, and downloaded WiX 3.5 (Latest weekly release), including source. Specifically s

[WiX-users] setupbld.exe: errors, messages not very clear "The process terminated unexpectedly"

2009-08-19 Thread Jason Woodall
Fairly new to working with setupbld.exe and finding that it doesn't handle errors very nicely. I currently have the bootstrapper combining two MSI's (Visual Studio setup projects). The problem is the first msi is failing because it is a newer version with the same version number (its a build v

Re: [WiX-users] How best to write an msi that calls other msis?

2009-08-18 Thread Jason Woodall
ne in development > (see http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/7/14/Lets-talk-about-Burn > ). You can't call one MSI from another. If you really don't need > separate .msi packages, you could combine them, using WiX f

Re: [WiX-users] External Installer App with UI quietly controlling MSIinstallation

2009-08-12 Thread Jason Ginchereau
DTF, part of WiX, includes a complete MSI .NET library with support for external UI handlers. -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:46 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-user

Re: [WiX-users] DTF: How to Decide whether to Schedule or Execute Custom Actions

2009-07-28 Thread Jason Ginchereau
>> I was hoping it would be as easy as checking whether I'm running in >> InstallRunMode.Deferred but I see that value doesn't exist. The enumeration value you're looking for is InstallRunMode.Scheduled. Yeah it's not the most obvious naming, but DTF tries to stay consistent with the terminolog

Re: [WiX-users] strong name for C# custom action project

2009-07-22 Thread Jason Ginchereau
u say "all binaries are signed" I guess you are referring to authenticode signing? That's totally separate from strong name signing and definitely unrelated to the error. -Jason- -Original Message- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 22,

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with DTF CustomAction in 3.0.5419

2009-07-09 Thread Jason Ginchereau
There have been a few minor changes to DTF CA code between 4805 and 5419, but no breaking changes. Without more information I have no idea what this problem might be. Can you check the build log where the CA package is built? (MakeSfxCA.exe and related lines) -Original Message- From: Sh

Re: [WiX-users] DTF and PDB files for better error logging

2009-07-08 Thread Jason Ginchereau
PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF and PDB files for better error logging Jason, I did this at one point but it was ineffective. On the installation side it appeared that the .PDB was not being extracted to the temporary directory. Are you certain this actually

Re: [WiX-users] DTF and PDB files for better error logging

2009-07-08 Thread Jason Ginchereau
You can add additional items to the CA package by manually adding a CustomActionContents property to your project file. For example, to include your assembly PDB when building in debug mode: $(IntermediateOutputPath)$(AssemblyName).pdb -Original Message- From: Rob MacFadyen [mailt

Re: [WiX-users] ExtractFiles() Method Doesn't Work on Merge Modules

2009-06-29 Thread Jason Ginchereau
It's a bug (oversight) in the implementation of ExtractFiles(). Can you create a bug report on SourceForge? -Original Message- From: jnewton [mailto:jonathan.new...@ni.com] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 2:46 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] ExtractFiles() Method

Re: [WiX-users] How much of patch pcp database makes it into msp?

2009-06-15 Thread Jason Ginchereau
The patch sequence information is stored in a table in the MSP directly; unlike the rest of the stuff in the MSP it does NOT get applied to the target product database. So, to get at that table for an installed patch you first need to get the PatchInstallation.LocalPackage, open that package as

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 19

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Zhang
Rob: that link is broken: 404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. do you have alternative links ? --Jason > -- > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Property calculation (Rob Mensching)

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Zhang
to do with opensource tools, I will be glad to follow, :-) --Jason > -- > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:56:21 -0700 > From: Rob Mensching > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix Property calculation > To: General discussion for Win

[WiX-users] component and guid

2009-06-03 Thread Jason Zhang
that OK or bad practice ? Best Regards Jason -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Property calculation

2009-06-03 Thread Jason Zhang
Thanks. That really help! I created an vbscript to handle this case. --Jason -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:01:55 -0700 From: Rob Mensching Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix Property calculation To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

[WiX-users] WiX 3.0: SQL Database being dropped on Rollback.

2009-06-03 Thread Jason Jibben
e that would cause an error. This is happenign on both new DB creation, and upgrading existing DBs. Any suggestions? -- Jason -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the nex

[WiX-users] Wix Property calculation

2009-06-02 Thread Jason Zhang
d the MY_PORT based on calculation Best Regards Jason -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Su

Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedUI Install Execute Sequence

2009-05-29 Thread Jason Ginchereau
You're not doing anything wrong -- EmbeddedUI was unfortunately not designed in a way that allows that kind of flexibility. You'll need to use an external UI handler for the things you want to do. -Original Message- From: AG Crum [mailto:crum.and...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 200

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Projects wont Load in VS2008 ?

2009-05-01 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Try this command: devenv.exe /resetskippkgs -Original Message- From: Connatic [mailto:richardpgi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 12:28 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix Projects wont Load in VS2008 ? Bump Nobody got any idea ??? or suggestio

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Return MessageResult.Retry from ProcessMessage() not considered

2009-04-30 Thread Jason Ginchereau
What build are you using? Prior to build 3.0.5106.0, the MessageResult enumeration had incorrect values (bug 2621662 on SourceForge). I'm ashamed that it went so long without being discovered, but at least it's fixed now. -Original Message- From: CristianG [mailto:cristian.gherghine...@g

Re: [WiX-users] IIS Extension - Short File Name?

2009-04-30 Thread Jason Birch
Bob Arnson wrote: > Use [!fileId] to get the short path of the installed file. > See "Formatted" in the MSI SDK for details. Thank you very much, and for your patience with this kind of "fundamenta

[WiX-users] IIS Extension - Short File Name?

2009-04-29 Thread Jason Birch
rmat it doesn't work, and I'm wondering if switching to the IIS extension will magically solve all of our problems :) Thanks, Jason -- Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operation

Re: [WiX-users] On Team Build and WiX, and why it hates me.

2009-04-28 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Here's an idea: check the public-key-token of the assembly reference from your extension to wix.dll. If you're building the extension against wix.dll with one key but then trying to run it with wix.dll with a different key, the assembly loading may succeed but the types won't resolve as the same

Re: [WiX-users] Rollback Handling of Custom C# Action

2009-04-27 Thread Jason Ginchereau
eanup those temp files. -Jason- -Original Message- From: tgoffice [mailto:tgoff...@web.de] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:07 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Rollback Handling of Custom C# Action Hello, I have written a custom action in C# which performs

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Coder forums

2009-04-24 Thread Jason Birch
I and WiX, but often real-world deadlines mean that you have to start with cookie-cutter recipes, and gain that understanding as you muddle your way through. Anything that can be done to bring the relevant information together in fewer places and make the experience less... muddlesome?... wo

Re: [WiX-users] Using DTF to merge a merge module into an msi package

2009-04-24 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Any of those "merge tools that are available from independent software vendors" are actually just wrappers around mergemod.dll. WiX itself uses mergemod.dll to merge MSMs. Sure in theory it should be possible to duplicate the logic of mergemod.dll, because everything it does can be done with MS

Re: [WiX-users] Using DTF to merge a merge module into an msi package

2009-04-21 Thread Jason Ginchereau
copied to the target database. The real logic for merging merge modules is in mergemod.dll, which DTF does not attempt to use or expose. So I would not recommend using DTF for this purpose, unless you augment it with the object model of mergemod.dll using COM interop. I don't have any exam

Re: [WiX-users] CA scheduling question

2009-04-20 Thread Jason Birch
Brian Rogers wrote: > If you already have custom actions doing this you could > put the files you are looking for into the Binary table in > the MSI and stream them over (immediate CA -> > deferred CA) and then invoke you actions on those files. Thanks Brian, I'll lo

[WiX-users] CA scheduling question

2009-04-14 Thread Jason Birch
- Running the CAs immediate doesn't work because the installer (running as current user) doesn't have permissions to access the IIS7 config files. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Jason -- This SF.net em

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 32bit vs 64bit

2009-04-12 Thread Jason Ginchereau
ecessary to harvest registry keys from a 64bit COM DLL, but I know if anybody has even asked for that as not many are doing 64bit COM. -Jason- -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 8:27 AM To: wix-users@lists

Re: [WiX-users] Trim trailing slash from property to use as physicalPath in IIS7 appcmd?

2009-04-10 Thread Jason Birch
Bob Arnson wrote: > Jason Birch wrote: > > There was another thread about this a while ago, but I'm wondering if there > > are any new > > CAs available in WiX to manipulate property strings? > > Nobody's volunteered any, no. Ah well... thanks for the u

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723. A DLL required for this install tocomplete could not be run. C#

2009-04-10 Thread Jason Ginchereau
If you're using a project created from a WiX C# or VB Custom action project template, you need to set the "Copy Local" property to true for any referenced assemblies to be included in the custom action package. (That affects the inputs to MakeSfxCA.exe which is the build tool that creates the CA

[WiX-users] Trim trailing slash from property to use as physicalPath in IIS7 appcmd?

2009-04-10 Thread Jason Birch
ng if there are any new CAs available in WiX to manipulate property strings? Thanks, Jason -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of R

Re: [WiX-users] DTF build issue

2009-04-08 Thread Jason Ginchereau
s at least?) that can result in a slightly different size compressed output. -Jason- -Original Message- From: mcheshier [mailto:mchesh...@usa.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:26 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] DTF build issue Hi, I've been slowly conv

Re: [WiX-users] Votive not working in build 3.0.5207

2009-04-08 Thread Jason Ginchereau
100% -- If nothing else, I'll back out the change that caused this regression. -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:24 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; Jason Ginch

Re: [WiX-users] Votive not working in build 3.0.5207

2009-04-07 Thread Jason Ginchereau
f DTF and Votive, as there are no assembly references between them. -Jason- -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:17 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] V

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction following specific CustomAction fails

2009-04-03 Thread Jason Ginchereau
. Fortunately, I fixed that bug last week. Unfortunately, there wasn't a build published last week, I'm not sure why. Please try this week's WiX build 3.0.5203, it should be published later today. -Jason- -Original Message- From: jballe [mailto:j...@visionpeople.dk]

Re: [WiX-users] Using Wix and Visual Studio

2009-04-02 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Any characters in the project name that are invalid for WiX preprocessor variable names get automatically converted to underscores. So without renaming the project this should work: $(var.My_Test_Project.TargetFilename) -Original Message- From: Alex Cater [mailto:alex.ca...@apdcomms.co

Re: [WiX-users] Getting Error "A reference to ... could not be added. Make sure its a valid WiX reference" When Using Votive

2009-03-30 Thread Jason Ginchereau
you...) -Jason- -Original Message- From: jnewton [mailto:jonathan.new...@ni.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Getting Error "A reference to ... could not be added. Make sure its a valid WiX reference" When Using V

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure

2009-03-25 Thread Jason Ginchereau
@lists.sourceforge.net; Jason Ginchereau Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure One question... I haven't looked through the code but I've noticed in a logfile where it works it mentions that it has extracted the custom action to temporary directory but when it fails it just says it

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure

2009-03-25 Thread Jason Ginchereau
March 25, 2009 7:58 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Jason Ginchereau Subject: RE: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure Rundll32.exe exists in system32 and system32 is at the front of the path. I type a command like below I get a dialog as expected: RUNDLL32.EXE SHELL32.DLL,Control_R

Re: [WiX-users] Heat & xsl

2009-03-25 Thread Jason Ginchereau
n't be able to help with coding a much more complex transform. -Jason- -Original Message- From: PoKrec [mailto:p.pot...@poczta.fm] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:40 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Heat & xsl hi I use heat to generate wxs: "

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure

2009-03-24 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Error code 2 is file not found. The file in this case that wasn't found was rundll32.exe... which is a bit strange. Is that file missing on the target system or is %PATH% set to not include the SYSTEM32 directory? -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengi

Re: [WiX-users] DTF: Managed Custom Action Dialog.

2009-03-11 Thread Jason Ginchereau
is only used by custom UI handlers (external or embedded). -Jason- -Original Message- From: Murray Hipper [mailto:mhip...@snowdengroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:57 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] DTF: Managed Custom Action Dialog. Hi Guys,

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action/DTF and determin if immediate or deferred

2009-03-05 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Use Session.GetMode(InstallRunMode) -- it's just a very thin wrapper around the MsiGetMode Win32 API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370125.aspx) -Original Message- From: Mark Knutson [mailto:markknut...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:26 PM To: wix-users@lists.s

Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions

2009-03-05 Thread Jason Ginchereau
veral patterns: >> >> 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship >> 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship >> 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the >> way Jason describes in the above link. ) >> >> When using #1 or #2,

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Session object properties

2009-03-03 Thread Jason Ginchereau
can do that query yourself, as you have done. The FeatureInfo.GetCost() method should work from within a CA, since the MsiGetFeatureCost API does get remoted. So there might be a bug in that method. When I get a chance, I'll try to add a test case to verify GetCost(). -Jason- -Orig

Re: [WiX-users] MakeSfxCA and project output

2009-02-27 Thread Jason Ginchereau
tation and testing. If someone really needs that capability, please log a bug on sourceforge. I know the DTF bugs have been piling up a bit recently, but I hope to dedicate some time soon to getting those cleaned up. -Jason- -Original Message- From: John Nannenga [mailto:john.nanne...@mic

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

2009-02-19 Thread Jason Ginchereau
ystems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com> ____ From: Jason Ginchereau [mailto:jason...@microsoft.com] Sent: Thu 19/02/2009 03:10 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall Use

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

2009-02-18 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Use Session.GetMode(InstallRunMode) -- it's just a very thin wrapper around the MsiGetMode Win32 API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370125.aspx) -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:51 PM To: General discu

[WiX-users] Using util extension in include file.

2009-02-17 Thread Jason Person (TEKsystems)
tion 14." Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Jason -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterpri

Re: [WiX-users] DTF LINQ Question

2009-02-16 Thread Jason Ginchereau
It's a bug in the LINQ to MSI implementation. There's an easy workaround: include a WHERE clause before the SELECT. Any where clause will do, for example: where files.FileName != null -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Monday, F

[WiX-users] configuring a firewall exception

2009-02-11 Thread Jason Person (TEKsystems)
: error CNDL0008 : The fire:FirewallException/@Port attribute's value, '[PORT]', is not a legal integer value. Legal integer values are from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647. I'm very new to wix, so any help would be greatly appreci

Re: [WiX-users] Managed CA fails to extract to temp directory (on one machine)

2009-01-23 Thread Jason Ginchereau
ndows\Installer directory or the user temp directory? If the CA binary is not even being extracted from the MSI, then it's not a DTF-specific issue because no DTF code ever gets to run. -Jason- -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Frida

Re: [WiX-users] "MSI Inventory" Sample Application

2009-01-13 Thread Jason Ginchereau
tures, components, files, and patches. If you download the WiX v3 source code you'll find it in the DTF\Samples directory. Note it may be a little rough around the edges because I haven't worked on it in many years, and I was only just learning WinForms at the time I wrote it. -Jason-

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] DTF DoAction throw exception

2009-01-07 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Sorry I haven't looked into that any further. Can you create a bug on sourceforge to track this issue? From: Matt Ziegler [mailto:idaho...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:35 AM To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list; General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedUI

2009-01-02 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Sorry I can't help much more than the error messages that are already there. There was some problem extracting the embedded UI payload files to that temp directory. That could be a permissions issue or more likely because of a duplicate filename. Please double-check the issue pointed to by the e

Re: [WiX-users] Reading custom record (column type = Formatted) from DTF custom action

2009-01-02 Thread Jason Ginchereau
The formatting process is intentionally not that automatic, because often you want to know what is the unformatted raw string. To get the formatting/substitution to happen you need to to pass the string through Session.Format(). -Original Message- From: Ajay Bhandari [mailto:aja...@micr

Re: [WiX-users] WindowsInstaller.View.Modify() fails on Vista / Server 2008

2008-12-31 Thread Jason Ginchereau
The most common reasons for a table insert to throw a "function failed" error are because there's already a record in the table with the same primary key, or because a required (non-nullable) field is missing/null in the inserted record. I would not expect those cases to behave differently with

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with error handling of managed custom actions

2008-12-16 Thread Jason Ginchereau
ld be the same. I also posted the above to the thread on Acresso forums. Those other InstallMessage enums are only used by external UI handlers -- they are documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369545.aspx. InstallStart/InstallEnd are MSI 4.5-only (for multi-package

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