Re: [WiX-users] Error while building WXS file.

Can you post the .wxs fragment it's complaining about? Michael -Original Message- From: Sravan Kumar Rangaraju [mailto:sravan_rangar...@mindtree.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:13 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-use

[WiX-users] Optional Install or Upgrade

)? Regards Michael -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev

Re: [WiX-users] MSI install log

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223300 -Original Message- From: Sohail Somani [mailto:soh...@taggedtype.net] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:55 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] MSI install log This is probably a MSI question more than a WiX question bu

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall not removing files

The Component ID needs to have a GUID I believe. -Original Message- From: Sudhakar Pasupuleti [mailto:sud...@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:49 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall not removing files Hi, I am trying to understand why unin

Re: [WiX-users] CreateDatabase custom action error

privileges in SQL Server or, the account that SQL Server is running under does not have file permissions to the folder where the database files are specified to be (assuming that is what you are doing in the installation). Michael -Original Message- From: Tomasz Telepko

Re: [WiX-users] Managed code CA succeeds but still fails with 1603

Hi Bassam, You're right, it does sound related to the .NET custom action issue that I posted about earlier in the year. What OSes are the problematic machines running? Are they virtual machines? I have not yet found a solution to my problem unfortunately, although it only occurs rarely so it h

Re: [WiX-users] WixFirewallExtension from 3.5

oject files, but it does work with other items in other project files. Michael -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 4:01 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WixFirewallExtension

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

While extracting it from the temp folder, or the cached location mentioned in a log file will work, why not just perform an administrative install? This way you can drop the .msi file wherever you'd like. http://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/robo/projects/installshield12helplib/IHelpSetup_EXECmdLine

Re: [WiX-users] About running "Any CPU" custom EXE from 32bit MSI on 64bit machine

t a command-line argument that is passed in by the custom action. Fixing either will likely resolve your behavior, but fixing both feels cleaner to me. -- Michael Urman On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 04:45, Chirag Goradia wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We are running custom EXEs ( .NET 2.0 cons

Re: [WiX-users] Require reboot before re-installation

If you target MSI 4.0 or later, you might see this reflected in the MsiSystemRebootPending property. The MSDN page for this property suggests authoring it into a launch condition. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:08, Samuel Larsen wrote: > Hmmm.  That was a good idea, but no, it looks like the > Pendi

[WiX-users] Auto Restart on Install

require any reboots. The customer's support engineers have suggested there is a setting that makes the server restart after any installation, I have never seen anything like this other than in Windows Update. Thanks Mi

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency on Sql Server

Hi Another angle, to determine the location of an instance, connect to the instance and use the SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') and compare to your local name. You may need to be careful where the instance is running on a cluster. Michael -Original Message- From: Blair

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with SpawnDialog

Sorry as usual I figured it out on closer inspection I needed to make the following adjustment -Original Message- From: Michael Clark [mailto:mcl...@fullarmor.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:36 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject

[WiX-users] Problem with SpawnDialog

I have the following UI sequence 1 1 VALIDUSER = "0" 1 I also tried In the ValidateUser function I return 1/0 based on if the user name and password are validated, and I want to Display the invalidUser dialog if the value is 0. I have validated in the log tha

Re: [WiX-users] I broke my project somehow...

I don't think gapearce can create a new wixproj since it sees that the wixproj is no longer registered with VS2008. Try to use the VSPackage Load Failure Analyzer (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491684.aspx) to analysis the problem. Thanks, Michael On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:

Re: [WiX-users] Detach Databases on Uninstall

tabase not existing, perhaps you should wrap the detach process in a test of the database existing instead. Michael -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2010 4:12 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject

[WiX-users] Finally a GUI solution with WiX

I was just getting ready to start a new WiX project except it was looking like I would have to do a lot of custom GUI, then I came across this http://sharpsetup.eu/ -Michael Clark

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and TFS Build

The easiest way I have found to do this is to maintain multiple configurations. Use one configuration for the build server and one for development systems. Then pass in the variable into the preprocessor variables in the Wix Project. -Michael Clark -Original Message- From: pmdarrow

Re: [WiX-users] How to retain feature selection during major upgrade?

Matt Do you have the action MigrateFeatureStates in your Install and UI execution sequences. Michael -Original Message- From: Matt Johnson [mailto:ma...@timeamerica.com] Sent: Friday, 7 May 2010 6:54 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] .NET Custom Action fails intermittently on some machines

Kleinman [mailto:d...@microsoft.com] Sent: 04 May 2010 15:15 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; Michael Bednarek Subject: Re: [WiX-users] .NET Custom Action fails intermittently on some machines Hi, I'm facing the same problem for quite some time. Same OS (W2K8R2), same

[WiX-users] Development Help

Howdy. New to WiX. I have a bunch of install projects to make, and look forward to learning the environment. However, I have not a lot of time to get the first one out. Is there anyone on this list that will do a contract job? What better way to learn than from example. Job is fairly simple i

[WiX-users] Issue using ps:snapin versus installutil.exe

: 1.0 Description : Michael Clark Release Engineer mcl...@fullarmor.com <mailto:mcl...@fullarmor.com> www.fullarmor.com <http://www.fullarmor.com/> ___ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may contain Full

Re: [WiX-users] Action: 'DuplicateFiles' in InstallExecuteSequence table must come after the 'InstallFiles' action.

then create a Registy Key that does this for you. -Michael -Original Message- From: doglin82 [mailto:karen@solarsoft.com] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Action: 'DuplicateFiles' in InstallExecuteSequence table

Re: [WiX-users] WiX, Votive, installed files and incremental builds

Thanks for all the responses so far guys. I have added the custom action project as a reference to my WiX project and it is now rebuilding the WiX project correctly when I change the custom action code. However, what about keeping track of additional files like config files, text files, etc for

[WiX-users] WiX, Votive, installed files and incremental builds

Hi all, This is potentially a silly question but I haven't found a clear answer on the web yet. Our installer consists of: 1) WiX source files (WXS) - defined in the WiX project file 2) Additional files used in the MSI package e.g. banner images - defined in the WiX project file 3)

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

d the build targets from any cpu to x86 in our .net compliation, forcing the assmblies to be 32 bit. Its also possible to detect what os you are on in the .net application and to override any redirection in the registry access calls. Dave -Original Message- From: Michael Osmond [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

n the code reads the registry it is 64 bit and does not do the redirection (unless you actually try to detect this and code around it). Result was a broken app. Would be interested if anyone had a way around this. Michael -Original Message- From: Richard Horsley [mailto:richard

Re: [WiX-users] Create MS SQL Server 2008 database during installation.

Hi Error 0x80004005: failed to create to database: 80004005 - is Access Denied. Regards Michael -Original Message- From: Asiri Wanigarathne [mailto:waas...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 3:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX

[WiX-users] Service Control / Service Install Wix 3.0/3.5 ICE03 Error

\SetupProjectService\Files.wxs:7 Thank you, -Michael Schlitt -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune

Re: [WiX-users] "Per-machine" and "Per-user" in the same package?

nding is MSIINSTALLPERUSER support relies on capabilities of Windows 7, so a backport of MSI 5.0 or later would not expose MSIINSTALLPERUSER's behavior on earlier operating systems. Michael -- Michael Urman -- Do

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to add a version umber to the built MSI?

to the details tab. Example Michael -Original Message- From: s...@pacaccess.com [mailto:s...@pacaccess.com] Sent: Tuesday, 16 March 2010 12:27 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Is it possible to add a version umber to the built MSI? I&#

Re: [WiX-users] Minor upgrade tutorial

. Michael -Original Message- From: John Aldridge [mailto:j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 16 March 2010 8:39 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Minor upgrade tutorial I'm confused about minor upgrades... the tutorial at

[WiX-users] SqlExtension bug with existing databases

SqlExtension to create databases. Our testing suggests that this bug has been resolved sometime in the three years since that statement was written. Can someone quickly confirm that for us? We are using 3.0.5419. Thanks, Michael C. Bazarewsky

Re: [WiX-users] Toggle shield icon for button depending on administrator/user installation?

on with MSIINSTALLPERUSER. So unless you can depend on Windows 7, the (non-UI) behavior is an impossible requirement to fill. Michael -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed co

Re: [WiX-users] display warning if shared components not removed on uninstall

These sound like odd requirements to me. But that said, I'd use the action states of the components to figure this out. If you want to consider it from the first-installed product perspective, it will have to poke in and know at least one of the merge module's components (or perhaps create a config

Re: [WiX-users] wixproj question

Ya, I have tried all permutations. It looks like it's a bug. -Michael 2243 -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 6:18 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] wixproj question A

Re: [WiX-users] wixproj question

That's what I thought to, but adding that line to the project file prevents the file from being loaded into VS. VS throws "Value does not fall within expected range" -Michael 2243 -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Friday,

[WiX-users] wixproj question

Quick question. when using is it possible to do . I have tried several permutations and can't seem to get it correct. Release Engineer mcl...@fullarmor.com FULLARMOR Corporation 399 Boylston Street 11th Floor Boston, MA 02116 Phone:

Re: [WiX-users] Nested installation of downloaded prerequisites

The biggest problem with installing dependencies from your UI sequence is that they do not get called if your MSI is run with silent or basic UI. And then, since your MSI can't show any UI, it's harder for it to explain the failure. One hopes that if a person runs the MSI silently, they know how to

Re: [WiX-users] .NET Custom Action fails intermittently on some machines

Update: I installed/uninstalled the product 100 times on a particular machine (using a script) and the problem with my custom action occurred just once out of those 100 attempts From: Michael Bednarek Sent: 02 March 2010 08:37 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

[WiX-users] .NET Custom Action fails intermittently on some machines

Hi all, Our product fails to install (seemingly at random) once every so often. Once this failure occurs on a given machine, it is not usually possible to reproduce the problem again (re-installing the product will work fine). The machines on which the install fails are VMs which all come from

Re: [WiX-users] Problem installing a .NET installer-based service using InstallUtilLib.dll

Raz, I do not know of a built in property. You want something like (I have mocked this up, so you will need to check the values for account names, and the VersionNT value for XP which i think is 510): Michael -Original Message- From: Rajendra Magar [mailto:rma

Re: [WiX-users] Problem installing a .NET installer-based service using InstallUtilLib.dll

resources LocalSystem in fact also has this ability. Regards Michael -Original Message- From: Rajendra Magar [mailto:rma...@newfrontieradvisors.com] Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 8:38 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Probl

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the behaviour of custom actions during patch uninstall

endedType column was added (instead of a widened Type column) to allow for its use in a patch. -- Michael Urman -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and A

Re: [WiX-users] WiXNetFxExtension conditions

325(VS.85).aspx that could be used in a condition instead of a version-specific property. Michael On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 13:49, John Vottero wrote: >> >> There is no guarantee that your product would work just fine with CLR >> 4.0 just because it works with CLR 2.0 (Framewo

Re: [WiX-users] Deploying SSRS reports using Wix Installer.

. Its messy passing in variables A possible alternative would be to put them in a folder and then call a small application to upload the reports to SSRS post install. Michael -Original Message- From: Adam Langley [mailto:alang...@winscribe.com] Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 10:23 AM

Re: [WiX-users] Creating MSI for 64bit machine

Check out the following ... http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/08/09/4317654.aspx Good luck -Michael -Original Message- From: Sagar [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:25 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Creating

Re: [WiX-users] correct syntax for checking component state in condition

Hi & is for features not components I think you want ?component=2 or possiblye NOT ?component=3 (which would cover all of the different not installed situations). Regards Michael From: Amy Rosewater [arosewa...@spectrumhr.com] Sent: Thursday

Re: [WiX-users] Instance transforms with the msi

y as well. Michael From: kelly.le...@milliman.com [kelly.le...@milliman.com] Sent: Tuesday, 8 December 2009 9:32 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Supplemental shell extensions installation

a) Objectively, is WiX the right option, or should I look at other installers for this purpose? [Michael] It's a great tool for this purpose and its free! b) Are there any samples of scripts that install shell extensions? I have looked around, but found nothing. Reinventing the wheel is some

[WiX-users] Browse issue in our installation

e SelectionPath event. Another related problem is, that we want to be able to use the browse dialog without the SelectionTree control because we only have one feature in this installation so there is no need for it. Th

Re: [WiX-users] SendTo shortcut for default and all user profiles on multiple OS's

This isn't directly answering your question but if you are willing to continue living with VBScript you could ask it for the folder path. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0ea7b5xe(VS.85).aspx) -Original Message- From: Evan Beeton [mailto:ebee...@informasoftware.com] Sent: Thurs

Re: [WiX-users] Why isn't my property evaluating??

Ah!! I figured it out... It's because the CustomAction was executing before AppSearch (because I had After="FindRelatedProducts")! Once I specified After="AppSearch" it works great... -mdb -Original Message- From: Michael Bray Sent: Friday, October 23,

Re: [WiX-users] Why isn't my property evaluating??

the UI sequence, with the singular exception of using MsiProcessMessage (or equivalent API) to send error messages from CAs running in InstallExecuteSequence. The actions are acceptable in either sequence since it does the same thing (a MsiProcessMessage-like action). -Original Message- From: Mic

[WiX-users] Why isn't my property evaluating??

I'm trying to simulate the InstallURL property of a VS.net install MSI... I've got to the ponit where the WIX MSI will open a browser to the download page that I want it to go to. I thought things were going great because on my test machine, the web page opened when I didn't have the MSXML6 compone

Re: [WiX-users] How to write a Bootstrapper

Hi maybe you should test the DotnetInstaller http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/ Regards Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sankha Biswas (Extended Results Inc) [mailto:v-sab...@microsoft.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Oktober 2009 09:59 An: General discussion for Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] How to get USERDOMAIN?

account logged on is the local administrator for the server, in this case the %USERDOMAIN will actually be the server name, as this is a local account. By the way, I have not found an easy way to get the domain in this case, other than prompt for it. Michael -Original Message- From

Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up

the package. Because it is not doing an uninstall (as a major upgrade would) it should replace the cached MSI. Michael From: Rob Hamflett [...@snsys.com] Sent: Wednesday, 14 October 2009 2:50 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] SqlString roleback options

epair your application. Michael -Original Message- From: d8x...@hotmail.com [mailto:d8x...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 13 October 2009 1:27 AM To: Wix-Users Subject: [WiX-users] SqlString roleback options I need to add an existing user to an existing SQL database role. I am not creating th

Re: [WiX-users] Creating SQLServer Users/Logins....

Farooq Thanks for that Michael From: Farooq Mahmud (Hotmail) [farooq...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2009 7:44 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating SQLServer Us

Re: [WiX-users] Creating SQLServer Users/Logins....

Dominique I think your right that the SPs are still in 2008, I tested this yesterday on 2008, it looks okay. Michael From: Dominique Louis [dominique.lo...@amxeurope.com] Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2009 4:10 AM To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Creating SQLServer Users/Logins....

---Original Message- From: Michael Osmond [mailto:mosm...@baytech.com.au] Sent: 6. oktober 2009 23:32 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating SQLServer Users/Logins Louis You need to look at SqlDatabase, SqlScript and SqlString. I use S

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to use Xpath expressions

Hi Blair, a useful tool to check your Xpath expression is http://xpathtester.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3600 I had the same problem but after the correct Syntax it works fine. BR Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Gesendet

Re: [WiX-users] Creating SQLServer Users/Logins....

also use this to do the attach process, passing the file The alternate method to attaching databases is to script out you database creation into SLQ Scripts and use the WIX SqlScript custom actions to create the database. Michael -Original Message- From: Dominique Louis

Re: [WiX-users] How to save connection Information during installation

the Registry Search). Finally you will need to make sure that the AppSearch action is scheduled. Regards Michael -Original Message- From: danimian [mailto:miand...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Re: [WiX-users] How to save connection Information during installation

properties a default value. Michael -Original Message- From: danimian [mailto:miand...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 6 October 2009 8:42 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to save connection Information during installation Hi Experts, How can i save the Information

Re: [WiX-users] how to add language neutral Everyone user to a group

Hi Lian, Our installer had a similar situation. The approach we went for was: 1) Create a custom action VBScript that runs early on in your installer to do the following: - Look up the localized names of the accounts AND GROUPS you care about - Store these localized names in MSI properti

Re: [WiX-users] launching page localization

s). You will need to supply this, since the WiX-provided translations in the UI extension don't include this string. It is always assumed that the user understands the language of the system they are running AND the language of the MSIs that they run. It is up to you to enforce the latter via t

Re: [WiX-users] launching page localization

] launching page localization On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:07:55 +0100, Michael Bednarek wrote: Mike, > value of this attribute is "1033" then the text will always display > in English, even on non-English systems. If you want the text to > display in the system language, y

Re: [WiX-users] launching page localization

Actually, I've found that the language of this initial dialog depends on the languages that your MSI publishes in its summary information stream. In WiX, this corresponds to the value of the "Languages" attribute of the "Package" element. For example, if the value of this attribute is "1033" the

[WiX-users] Migrate WIX2 to WIX3

Hi all, is there a tool to migrate WIX2 files to WIX3 files? Best Regards Michael Berger Corporate IS | Infrastructure and Operations Palfinger Service- und Beteiligungs-GmbH F.-W.-Scherer-Straße 24 A-5101 Bergheim Salzburg tel: +43 (0) 662 4684-2208 fax: +43 (0) 662 4684-148

[WiX-users] Problem with curly braces in Registry

"SharedMemory,TCPIPHOST=testamondis01" Thanks Mit freundlichen Grüßen Michael Mössler _ Beratung uhb consulting AG Chiemseering 1 84427 St. Wolfgang Tel.: 08085/939   131 Fax: 08085/939 - 2131  -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Raj, Vijay [mail

Re: [WiX-users] SQLExtension create database and access denied error

install will then deal with the appropriate permissions and your installer can just ride on the back. This option would be good if you are doing some sort of pre-packaged SQL Express install). Regards Michael -Original Message- From: Crusty Applesniffer [mailto:crusty.applesnif

Re: [WiX-users] failed to connect to database

Xavier The actual connection error is -2147467259, which converts to hex 80040005 which I believe is a generic access denied error. Michael -Original Message- From: BOURDET Xavier [mailto:xbour...@generixgroup.com] Sent: Saturday, 22 August 2009 12:26 AM To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Heat Generated component not being included

-Original Message- From: Michael Clark [mailto:mcl...@fullarmor.com] Sent: 03 August 2009 16:17 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Heat Generated component not being included I have the following fragment generated using Heat http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006

[WiX-users] Heat Generated component not being included

I have the following fragment generated using Heat http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>

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

John No worries. Sorry I could not think of something more useful. Regards Michael -Original Message- From: John Stevenson-Hoare [mailto:john.stevenson-ho...@ffei.co.uk] Sent: Monday, 3 August 2009 5:21 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help: '

Re: [WiX-users] wxs in 2008 server

What exactly isn't working, could you provide a log file of the failure -Michael 2243 -Original Message- From: Eswari [mailto:sravi...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 5:59 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] wxs in 2008 server Hi, I have msi file

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ services fail to start

90AEA82}\6.0\9\win32 Process Name: RunDll32.exe Comsvcs.dll file version: not loaded -Original Message- From: Michael Clark [mailto:mcl...@fullarmor.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:55 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM+ service

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ services fail to start

Try not canceling the install an manually start the service and see what errors your receive. The message your getting in the msi is pretty generic. -Michael 2243 -Original Message- From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:james.macdiar...@eds.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:29 PM To

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ services fail to start

Are there any event messages indicating the failure. Your implementation seem correct. -Michael -Original Message- From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:james.macdiar...@eds.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:23 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] LGHT 0204

I just completed creating a x86/x64 installer using the information I found here http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/08/09/4317654.aspx Good luck -Michael 2243 -Original Message- From: Eswari [mailto:sravi...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:08 AM To: wix-users

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

my memory from some years back when we had to find a memory problem in the SQL custom action. There is also some information on MSDN here (but its about using MsiBreak) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368264(VS.85).aspx Hope this helps. Regards Michael _

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

FROM fn_trace_gettable('c:\temp\my_trace.trc', default); Michael From: John Stevenson-Hoare [john.stevenson-ho...@ffei.co.uk] Sent: Monday, 27 July 2009 6:06 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help: 'Error 26201.

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

efault the Administrators group should be an SQL Admin - but you may need to double check this. Hope this helps Michael From: John Stevenson-Hoare [john.stevenson-ho...@ffei.co.uk] Sent: Friday, 24 July 2009 8:04 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-u

Re: [WiX-users] Error using WindowsVolume predefined folder...

As the error message states it's a Public property, thus the reference should be " WINDOWSVOLUME" -Michael -Original Message- From: Ravikumar Gopinath [mailto:bgr...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:31 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-use

Re: [WiX-users] Run an MSI from within WIX

Check out this link http://softwareinstall.blogspot.com/2008/06/fun-with-msiembeddedchainer. html -Original Message- From: Damien Karkinsky [mailto:d...@adelard.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:58 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Run an MSI from within WIX

Re: [WiX-users] 64bit package compiling

I just completed createing a x86/x64 installer using the information I found here http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/08/09/4317654.aspx Good luck -Michael -Original Message- From: Igor Lemsky [mailto:igor.lem...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:36 AM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] create installer with dll

Without a log file it's hard to tell what happened. Try running your installer with a log file msiexec /l*vx installer.log /I Your.msi -Original Message- From: A.S [mailto:ansic.s...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] 32-bit app launching 64-bit MSI problem

one in the SysWow64 folder rather than the 64-bit one? Phil Wilson -Original Message----- From: Michael Ballou [mailto:mbal...@ee...] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:47 PM To: wix-us...@li... Subject: [WiX-users] 32-bit app launching 64-bit MSI problem I have a simple 64-bit MSI that I made

[WiX-users] 32-bit app launching 64-bit MSI problem

I have a simple 64-bit MSI that I made install 1 64-bit dll to System64 folder. Under the following circumstances, MSI gets an error: 1. That file already exists in the real C:\Windows\System32 folder 2. The install is launched through a 32-bit app (not explorer.exe). Anything that can launch an

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveFile and LongName

le to file a bug on if one is not there? Thanks, Michael C. Bazarewsky -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:41 PM I apologize, I should have specified: 3.0.5217.0. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:10 PM Bazarewsky, Michael C. wrote: > Hello, >

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveFile and LongName

toolset are you using? Bazarewsky, Michael C. wrote: > Hello, > > I have a WIX MSI that removes a runtime-generated file. The applicable > fragment looks like this: > > LongName="FrameworkDeploy.sql" >

[WiX-users] RemoveFile and LongName

Name attribute. However, as I said, using a long name in Name doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Thanks, Michael C. Bazarewsky -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified lice

Re: [WiX-users] What's the difference between [# and [!

documentation on MsiFormatRecord) at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368609(VS.85).aspx -- Michael Urman -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option tha

Re: [WiX-users] Drop SQL Server database during uninstall

but is run against master so that the target db is not "in use", it allows you to embed properties in the sql string. See below (this was adapted from something else where I use a similar technique so be aware it is not tested).

Re: [WiX-users] SqlDatabase trusted connection

different user. Bob indicated that the CA was running in impersonate, you maybe able to change that somehow so it runs as system (I have never tried this.) Michael From: Neil Sleightholm [n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 4:07 PM To

Re: [WiX-users] SqlDatabase trusted connection

with the OS it is as the acount that the SQL Server service is running as (which may be network service, system or a named account). Michael PS: I have been using trusted in SQL for about 3 or 4 years with pretty much no issues. From: Neil Sleightholm [n

Re: [WiX-users] questionabout HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[ProductCode]

uctCode] > > is written on Windows Server 2003 machines, but not on Windows Server > 2008 machines.  :S > > Amy -- Michael Urman -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to

Re: [WiX-users] Problems building Vs2008 wix project on local DesktopVS TFS Server build

Additional info. To build from a command line I can use the following >msbuild TFSBuild.proj /p:SolutionRoot="\.." -Original Message- From: Michael Clark [mailto:mcl...@fullarmor.com] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:18 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-us

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