Sounds like you have sequenced RemoveExistingProducts towards the end of
the
execute sequence.
I followed the tutorial
InstallExecuteSequence
RemoveExistingProducts After=InstallInitialize /
/InstallExecuteSequence
If you add a reference to your WixExample01 project then you can use
$(var.WixExample01.TargetFileName),etc throughout your WiX project
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Subject:
You are normally using this construct for downgrade prevention meaning
when a newer version of product is already installed on system
2011/8/18 Kurt Jensen kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com:
MigrateFeatures=no
I searched WiX and MSDN for documentation and an example.
-please- explain how to '...set
Interesting clue. The GUID and component are being created on-the-fly by
heat, maybe there is a problem. I will look into it.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 1:42 PM
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Thanks all. I missed the Disallowing installation of component. That
lead to finding where I had messed up.
Thanks again!
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of the files, one of which is the missing file.
Later on I see references to all four files – “no binary patches”,
“ComponentRegister”. Nothing that singles out the missing file.
Any ideas what I am missing here?
Kurt Jensen
Senior Software Engineer
Ophir-Spiricon LLC
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somehow difficult to describe with few background information.
what information do you need?
Maybe take the Tramontana tutorial as starting point:
yes, I am following the tutorial
Are you handling the whole installer as major upgrade ?
yes
Did any of the assembly versions decrease ?
this is a
that is working, just an
idea.
Do these files contain Version information or are they version-less type
of files? Is each file in its own Component?
Just some thinking points.
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-an-msi-major-upgrade.aspx
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] New file not installed
OnlyDetect=yes
???
You might also check
.
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To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC
yes, two components with different guids and different directories as
outlined
authoring from project references. --
ComponentGroupRef Id=Product.Generated /
/Feature
/Product
/Wix
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rebuild the vs2010 as v1.1.0.0 then it is installed in the GAC
apparently there is a bias against v1.0.0.0?
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now (all of a sudden...) something quit working
we have a C# custom action that requires a couple of assemblies. in
wix3.0 these assemblies were copied into the
CustomAction.Install.WiX.CA.dll-# directory where the custom action was
invoked. but now using winx3.5 it is failing because it cannot
Yes, the assemblies are referenced by project in the CA project
set the build action to Content?
do not know what this means...
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toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0c6xyb66.aspx
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what is wrong?
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was just to add the -fv
switch to Light, but that only solves upgrade issues.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Kurt Jensen
kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.comwrote:
yes, we set the Assembly=.net otherwise we would not get the log entry
listing our assembly. the assembly is properly listed in the
MsiAssembly
during a clean install, upgrade
or both?
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I remember reading about
search the log and see what
Windows has to say about them.
Exactly what is the MsiAssembly table of the MSI file for the assembly? If
it's going into the GAC there must be an entry for the assembly with a
null File_Application column.
Phil Wilson
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From: Kurt Jensen
I am trying to build a very simple WiX project through our TFS 2010 build
system. The project uses the default Product.wxs and contains only one
component with one file. But I keep getting “error LGHT0217”. The linked
WiX FAQ is of no use since I am not using any custom action and certainly
not
found this blog post -
http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2009/11/14/wix-projects-vs-tfs-2010-team-build.aspx
whatever account is used to run the TFS Build must be a member of the local
administrators group in order to the Internal Consistency Evaluators
*From:* Kurt
-dSpiricon.Histogram.Manager.ProjectDir=E:\BaseI\CodeBase\Applications\AllProject\Spiricon.Histogram.Manager\
-dSpiricon.Histogram.Manager.ProjectExt=.csproj –
…
obviously Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath is defined. why is candle
confused?
Kurt Jensen
Senior Software Engineer
Ophir-Spiricon LLC
converting a v3.0 project to v3.5.
on the command line I find the following.
…
dSpiricon.Export.TargetDir=E:\BaseI\CodeBase\Applications\Assemblies\
-dSpiricon.Export.TargetExt=.dll
-dSpiricon.Export.TargetFileName=Spiricon.Export.dll
-dSpiricon.Export.TargetName=Spiricon.Export
-dSpiricon.Histogram.Manager.Platform=AnyCPU
-dSpiricon.Histogram.Manager.ProjectDir=E:\BaseI\CodeBase\Applications
\AllProject\Spiricon.Histogram.Manager\
-dSpiricon.Histogram.Manager.ProjectExt=.csproj -
.
obviously Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath is defined. why is
candle confused?
Kurt
] Undefined preprocessor variable
'$(var.Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath)'
Am 03.05.2011 18:30, schrieb Kurt Jensen:
The full command line contains over 70 other projects with variable
definitions all of which contain one or more .
None of the other $(var.Spiricon.projectname.TargetPath
Never mind. Apparently there was a previous installation that was
messing things up. Install on a clean OS works fine.
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Subject: [WiX
: Adding i386DIRECTORY property. Its value is
'E:\Spiricon\PyrocamKMDF\i386\'.
Anybody have any idea what the heck is going on? TIA.
Kurt Jensen
Senior Software Engineer
Ophir-Spiricon
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Settings for the project in the solution. But I do not see
this option on the command line in the log and I am not getting any more
information.
How can I get information detailing exactly which files are being
included by candle and light?
Kurt Jensen
Senior Software Engineer
Ophir
OK, well sort of...I had the wrong Configuration and Platform selected.
Now I see -v on the candle and light command line. But, not seeing
any more info than not verbose. I guess I am not quite sure what to
expect here.
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Never mind, I found the cause of the problem I am working on. Think
about this verbose thing another time.
Thanks for listening... :)
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calledduring install
Were you performing a major upgrade?
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From: Kurt Jensen
I changed the first InstallExecuteSequence to
Custom Action=CAInstall After=InstallFilesNOT Installed/Custom
Now each CA runs at the appropriate time.
This seems like a bug somewhere. Who would be interested?
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at the very end and appears to be running CAUninstall.
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?
Are the installer and machine it is running on both 32-bit ?
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Subject: [WiX-users] Windows 7 Custom Action Registry problem
I have a custom action
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Installer XML toolset.
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also, this solution was developed by another less install oriented
programmer for the original vsproj under VS2008. I moved the code
as-is over to WiX on a 32-bit install and it worked
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that seems to indicate that your custom action is running as 32-bit, if you run
them as 64-bit things should just work..
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Kurt Jensen
Could WiX be launching the CA as in 32-bit mode?
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because you can't tell
from a script what bitness it should run with, unlike compiled binaries.
Phil Wilson
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Here's one example how to do it with P/Invoke:
http://www.roelvanlisdonk.nl/?p=915
Kurt Jensen kurt.jen...@ophir-spiricon.com wrote:
That's
, it will lose elevation if that wasn't supplied before
invoking MSI.
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in a location
appropriate for the impersonation-level the CA will run at. For File
table
CAs, you have to ensure that. If a deferred CA is impersonating the
installing user, it will lose elevation if that wasn't supplied before
invoking MSI.
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less scary.
Thanks again!
Kurt Jensen
Senior Software Engineer
Ophir-Spiricon
Ph: 435-755-5429
Cell: 435-764-2122
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action. Again, I thought deferred custom actions were executed with
elevated privileges.
Please note that I am using WiX v3.0.
TIA!
Kurt Jensen
Senior Software Engineer
Ophir-Spiricon
Ph: 435-755-5429
Cell: 435-764-2122
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P.S. I have incorporated the tools in 2-4, without any of these
problems, in our current installation using Visual Studio vdproj.
Surely there is some setting I am missing but have not found yet.
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P.S. I
has a quick insight into how
this could 'fixed'.
Kurt Jensen
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Running the build now...
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To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] including the wrong include during tfsbuild
background:
My solution can be built three
Build failed. adding the wixproj path as the first Include Path did not
help.
Will do some more digging into the context...
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To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] including the wrong include
cannot find the file
'Restrictions.wxi'with type 'include'.
No, not at all, but if you add the property IncludeSearchPaths that
contains
a semi-colon delimited list of paths to search for .wxi files to the
wixproj
that fails that might resolve the issue.
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In my VS2008 solution I have three wixproj. One of these projects
contains a file called Restrictions.wxi. The other two projects
reference the existing Restrictions.wxi file as a link so that there is
only one actual copy. One project referencing the file as a link
compiles ok. Another
then the other or go at them
both at one time?
Kurt Jensen
Senior Software Engineer
Ophir-Spiricon
P.S. I removed the previous posts because it keeps saying Is being held
until the list moderator can review it for approval because Message has
implicit destination. But the moderator is not responding
.
What -exactly- does Message has implicit destination? Maybe I can fix the
post.
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both at one time?
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this week I will have to find some other solution.
I will repost my question that got no response.
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I've tried multiple times to respond to a post, RE: [WiX-users] msbuild
command line parameters, without success. I even deleted all the
previous stuff being carried along. But every time I get a message
saying that the message Is being held until the list moderator can
review it for approval
never mind...I guess...it worked sending to
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
but did not work replying to General discussion for Windows Installer
XML toolset wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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crazy?
If it has then you can't answer that questions.
Great.
I love mail lists...
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I'll try. It is being built under VS2008 and TFS2008.
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in another recent thread.
Any ideas how I can pass these strings from one main component to
various other common components?
Kurt Jensen
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. Of course, a repo would be nice.
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Repro is simple. From a default wixproj created in VS2008, I added
This looks promising.
1) Where does it would go? wixproj? wxs? tfsbuild.proj?
2) I am building the solution twice, can it be specified for each
SolutionToBuild?
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Did you try my suggestion?
CreateProperty Value=WiXProductName=BeamGage
Professional;WiXProductVersion=$(WiXVersion);$(DefineConstants)
Output TaskParameter=Value PropertyName=DefineConstants /
/CreateProperty
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values are nowhere to be
seen.
Just for fun I will try putting CreateProperty under BeforeBuild and
remove the existing DefineConstants.
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=$(WiXVersion)/DefineConstants
?
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The PropertyGroup code
find anything obvious either.
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I'm trying to understand wixlib. I've spent an hour searching do, web,
and archives.
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be seeing -dWixProductName= and -dWixProductVersion= on the
command line.
Any idea why the DefineConstants is not being passed to candle?
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I have two similar problems
1) I want to install two files with the same name into two respective
folders. The solution stores the same file under two different
projects. The current vdproj installation references the two files and
puts them into their separate folders. But light throws an
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Subject: [WiX-users] Files with the same name
I have two similar problems
1) I want to install two files with the same name into two respective
I'm now trying to include my wixproj with the daily builds. But it is
telling me it cannot find Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller when
trying to build a custom action. I deployed the tools as described at
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/daily_builds.htm.
But now I am not sure what
oops. Another assembly reference moment...
I changed the reference to the file under my source control directory.
Now it works fine.
sorry 'bout that.
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