Re: [WiX-users] Help: 'Error 26201.Error -2147467259: failed to create SQL database'

2009-08-03 Thread John Stevenson-Hoare
Hi Michael, Thanks for all your help in trying to resolve my issue. In the end I had to give up on trying to understand the cause. I did try downloading the source but could not build it with the tools that the make file says that I need. There were just too many compile errors and too little

Re: [WiX-users] Help: 'Error 26201.Error -2147467259: failed to create SQL database'

2009-07-28 Thread John Stevenson-Hoare
Michael, I do have access to a standard edition of SQL Server and so I used the SQL Profiler from that to analyse what was happening during the install. With my WiX generated installer I saw all the login, database creation and stored procedure addition stuff that I expected. However, when I

Re: [WiX-users] Help: 'Error 26201.Error -2147467259: failed to create SQL database'

2009-07-27 Thread John Stevenson-Hoare
Hi Michael, The property SQLSERVER is being set to '(local)\SQLEXPRESS' from within the MSI database, although if I edit this using Orca to some other value it gets reset back to the above value when the setup program is run (as observed from the log file). I think that the above value is

[WiX-users] Help: 'Error 26201.Error -2147467259: failed to create SQL database'

2009-07-24 Thread John Stevenson-Hoare
I have created a merge module using Wix v3 that successfully installs several databases in to SQL Express 2005 SP3 when integrated in to a Wix generated MSI of my own making. However, when I ship this merge module to my customer, he integrates it into an InstallShield Setup program and it

Re: [WiX-users] warning LGHT1055: The InstallExecuteSequence table contains an action 'SchedXmlFile' which cannot be merged

2009-05-01 Thread John Stevenson-Hoare
Thanks. Rob Mensching-6 wrote: Because both Merge Modules have the CustomAction but a CustomAction can only exist in a Product once. So the warning is telling you one of them is being dropped. John Stevenson-Hoare wrote: Does anyone know why I get this warning and the following

[WiX-users] warning LGHT1055: The InstallExecuteSequence table contains an action 'SchedXmlFile' which cannot be merged

2009-04-29 Thread John Stevenson-Hoare
Does anyone know why I get this warning and the following warnings when I include two merge modules in my installation package that each contains a reference to WixUtilExtension? warning LGHT1056: The CustomAction table contains a row with primary key(s) 'SchedXmlFile' which cannot be merged