[WiX-users] Patching with melt.exe and pyro - Custom Action and Merge Module issues.

fails-td7590635.html#a7590638 I've picked up the development build and ran with the -xn switch, which fixes up the custom action issue, but I am still left with the merge module one. Is there a way around this?

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

Thanks for the fantastic detailed clarification on this issue! I will endeavour to use the melt approach outlined in Bob's post. -Nick -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET i

[WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

Hi All, I am using light.exe to create .wixout files with the -bf flag, I now get a warning saying that this flag is deprecated. I can't find information on why. I'm using .wixout files with bundle binary data to create patches (as described in the Wix 3.6 book) and am now wondering if this is

Re: [WiX-users] Signing the burn bootstrapper

Hi, I haven't started using burn yet - but I'd like to - and signing will be an issue for us. At the moment, I hand an unsigned MSI over to the release manager for signing. He is the only person with access to the certificate. Can we still do this with burn? From what I've seen of this discussi

Re: [WiX-users] Abdoulaye Souleymanou/RSD ist außer Haus.

Please make it stop! -Original Message- From: abdoulaye.souleyma...@rohde-schwarz.com [mailto:abdoulaye.souleyma...@rohde-schwarz.com] Sent: 01 July 2011 14:38 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Abdoulaye Souleymanou/RSD ist außer Haus. Ihre Nachricht betreffend:

Re: [WiX-users] Burn issue

Well summed up Rob! Am I right in thinking that both Office and Visual Studio use WiX for creation of MSI's, or at least some of them, with an additional proprietary UI that handles the installation experience? A while back I took a good dig into the Office installer and was very impressed at

[WiX-users] Patch creation

Hi All, I'd like a quick pointer as to how to plan for and create simple patches. Most of the time, it looks like we'll be replacing one or two files, so I'm keen to author a patch file myself, rather than rely on any difference tools. I also want the MSI to run by itself, without using the msiex

Re: [WiX-users] .Net 4 bootstrapper with Windows Imaging Component

;d be tempting to try out wix's burn, but I haven't been following where it's up to, or how it compares feature wise to the DotNetInstaller. -- Matt -----Original Message- From: Nick Ball [mailto:nick.b...@grantadesign.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 6:56 PM To: General disc

Re: [WiX-users] .Net 4 bootstrapper with Windows Imaging Component

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFX40 -Nick -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] Sent: 08 September 2010 10:53 To: Nick Ball Cc: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] .Net 4 bootstr

Re: [WiX-users] .Net 4 bootstrapper with Windows Imaging Component

neral discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Nick Ball Subject: Re: [WiX-users] .Net 4 bootstrapper with Windows Imaging Component On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:55:43 +0100 "Nick Ball" wrote: > We ended up switching to DotNetInstaller for bootstrapping .Net 4.0 > > http://dotn

Re: [WiX-users] .Net 4 bootstrapper with Windows Imaging Component

Hi Matt, We ran into this problem recently too. Installs were failing on XP 64 bit (no SP3, just SP2 and no windows imaging component). I felt the problem was exactly as you mentioned - we just want to launch the .Net installer with the full UI, where it reports the prerequisite error 'gracefully

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn

dB is right; it is a management problem. I'm the lead developer for the product I'm involved in (BTW - for both the software AND the installation). We used Wise for many, many years until it got so creaky that I had to replace it - and WiX was the obvious choice. The problem I had is that manag

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 35

I had a quick stab at this, it was looking like a lot of work so I backed off. The Expression suite installer uses WPF and has a similar set of classes (I had a look using reflector) but even that installer runs to many thousands of lines of code this was enough for me to realise that I couldn'

[WiX-users] Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements...

Hi All, On one machine here, my installer is getting stuck showing a dialog 'Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements...' It never completes and the installer just needs to be cancelled (can wait half an hour; no joy!) This has been on here a couple of tim

Re: [WiX-users] Fragments or Merge Modules?

odules? For me this more sounds like a bug in heat. IDs should be GUID -- *unique* IDs. Regards Markus > -Original Message- > From: Nick Ball [mailto:nick.b...@grantadesign.com] > Sent: Dienstag, 3. November 2009 16:07 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Fragments or Merge Modules?

I've had a problem using wixlibs in that auto-generated (heat.exe) libraries can end up having the same ID's for components, which then fails to build. This doesn't happen with merge modules - which is what I've ended up doing. -N -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] S

Re: [WiX-users] File searching and SourceDir

o the "source"). Look at a verbose debug log and see what properties you have set in each sequence. Then backtrack in that same log to see where things are going wrong (feature state or filesearch). -Original Message- From: Nick Ball [mailto:nick.b...@grantadesign.com]

[WiX-users] File searching and SourceDir

Hi All, I'm trying to write some conditional feature code, based on whether a certain file is available on the installation media. I've been setting a property like this: And then using it like this: NOT Installed AND Feature1="" <..>

[WiX-users] DTF and external UI

Hi All, I've been looking at the Deployment Tools trying to figure out how to write an external UI handler. Here is what I'm assuming: 1. I can write an external (Winform/WPF) UI to gather some user information, such as install location. 2. I can call Installer.SetExternal

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcuts for peruser/permachine

sure to run smoke regularly on your MSIs to evaluate all reports to ensure that you don't have any surprises that ICE tests for if you can't suppress just one report at a time. -----Original Message- From: Nick Ball [mailto:nick.b...@grantadesign.com] Sent: Wednesday

[WiX-users] Shortcuts for peruser/permachine

Hi All, I've read the How To in the WiX documentation on this, but I am confused. My application is typically installed by administrator, yet students need to be able to log on and use it, so it makes sense to make the installer perMachine. The example of how to create a shortcut, however, see

Re: [WiX-users] Modular install configurations based on availablefiles

ogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove <-- NEW On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Nick Ball wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I have a product that ships with several different databases - or > combinations thereof. I would like my installer to show a

[WiX-users] Modular install configurations based on available files

Hi All, I have a product that ships with several different databases - or combinations thereof. I would like my installer to show all available databases as features that the user can install - and those that didn't get shipped should be greyed out. I'm thinking of one main setup program

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting WPF and .Net 3.0 correctly

21/09, Nick Ball wrote: > From: Nick Ball > Subject: [WiX-users] Detecting WPF and .Net 3.0 correctly > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 6:21 AM > Hi All, > > > > I have a question relating to the installation of .Net > 3.0.

[WiX-users] Detecting WPF and .Net 3.0 correctly

Hi All, I have a question relating to the installation of .Net 3.0. According to this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480217.aspx#winfxdeployreadme_ topic6a it is possible for a sys-ad to deploy .Net through active directory without certain elements, such as WCF/WPF

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 42

Hi, I've been thinking of trying this, but I have one question before I do. How does uninstall work? I presume you need to handle this in your Windows Forms program? Nick -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:46 AM T

[WiX-users] Prerequisites in a separate file

Hi All, I want to check for the presence of the .Net framework, so I've followed the instructions in the WiX help and added the code successfully to the project. It works fine. However, to simplify my project slightly, I thought I'd take this code and put it in a file of its own and inclu

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

I'd be interested to hear how other do this too. I've been investigating this a bit, and I believe that certain installers, such as MS Expression and MS Office, I think, use WiX to generate MSI's and then hook it together with their own UI. I think Expression's installation UI is written in WPF.

Re: [WiX-users] wixlib and media/diskid settings

Sent: 06 July 2009 18:38 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] wixlib and media/diskid settings What about using an XSL transform to modify the heat output? Nick Ball wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm creating a wixlib, and then using it in

[WiX-users] wixlib and media/diskid settings

Hi, I'm creating a wixlib, and then using it in my main setup program, but I'd like the lib to go into a separate cab file. Because the contents of the lib have been generated by heat, I've put the disk ID on the directory, rather than each component. This code, understandably, does not work:

Re: [WiX-users] heat and UNC paths

Turn your slashes round the other way: heat.exe dir \\mycomputer\shared_folder\thedir -ag -sfrag -out thewxsfile.wxs -Nick -Original Message- From: Frédéric Viollet [mailto:frederic.viol...@evidian.com] Sent: 23 March 2009 08:31 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

[WiX-users] Heat and msbuild

Hi All, I'm trying to find out how I can add a task to a wixproj file that will call heat, something like this: heat dir "Folder" -gg -sfrag -template:module -out "heat.wxs" And additionally, I've written a heat extension that writes the module name, which I've specified with a -m tag.

[WiX-users] Installing large amount of files

Hi All, My installation needs to install several thousand files, most of which are quite small. I can use heat to harvest these, but this isn't great, because if a file changes I am in trouble. Furthermore, I have several root folders, each of which constitutes a feature. If I run heat on each

Re: [WiX-users] Installing files only if they exist

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[WiX-users] Installing files only if they exist

Hi All, Firstly, let me confess that I'm new to Windows Installer and WiX, coming from a rather antiquated WISE install system (10 years old!) and finally embracing the modern way. Amongst other things, something I'm trying to do is install files only if they exist. Our system ships with