Re: [WiX-users] How to create Pinned Start menu items

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/03/54760.aspx -Original Message- From: Scott Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 08 October 2008 15:30 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] How to create Pinned Start menu items How can I

Re: [WiX-users] Induce Sleep in the MSI script

Use a custom action to play some soothing music? Maybe turn down the LCD backlight? Or did you mean one of the following? 1. Wait for a defined time -- i.e. ::Sleep(milliseconds) or Thread.Sleep(whatever) 2. Put the computer into standby. I'm joking around, but you'll need to be more

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if .NET framework 2.0 or higher is installed

Look at it this way: You wrote your application and tested it against .NET 2.0. Because 3.0 and 3.5 are like feature packs for .NET 2.0, they register themselves as .NET 2.0, and your application still installs and works. If Microsoft bring out .NET 4.0, and it's compatible with .NET 2.0,

Re: [WiX-users] MSI with an icon?

How icons work in Windows Explorer: On Windows, the icon is associated with the file extension. For example, if you look in the registry, under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, you'll see a key named .msi. This has a key under it called Msi.Package. If you follow this key to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Msi.Package,

Re: [WiX-users] Build behavior for WiX projects

Agreed. This is precisely why the Configuration Manager dialog box has those little check boxes labelled Build :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dB. Sent: Thu 17 April 2008 06:01 To: Candy Chiang; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build

Re: [WiX-users] Disable autoplay on multi-disk installs?

Could you not put an AUTORUN.INF file on each disk that deliberately does nothing? I think that this will override the default Windows behaviour without having to poke around in the registry. You could even have it run a really small EXE that checks to see if the installer's running. If not,

Re: [WiX-users] Some STUPID Limitations in WiX

Steve, would you care to explain some more about the following? -Original Message- It also allows unit testing of installs! Developers can create their wixlib and a separate MSI project to test it with to validate they got all the right pieces and parts installed correctly. But since the

[WiX-users] WiX 2.0, SqlDatabase, non-default instance and port

I've got a customer who's running their Microsoft SQL Server 2005 instance on both a non-default instance name, and on a non-default port number. How do I specify the port number in a SqlDatabase element? Cheers, Roger. - 1E can save a company

[WiX-users] Setting a property from a database search?

I'm completely new to WiX (and to MSI in general), and I'm probably barking up the wrong tree, but I was hoping to find a way to conditionally run a SQL script, for upgrading a database schema. I'd like a way to run a SQL command and store the scalar return value in a property. Something like

[WiX-users] Detecting VC80.CRT as a prerequisite?

[Yes, I know this isn't specifically a WiX problem] We don't particularly fancy the idea of including the VC80 merge modules in every installer we ship, so, a question: How do we detect whether or not a version of the VC80 redistributables have been installed? We'd prefer to use ordinary

[WiX-users] Votive under VS2005 reports This installation is forbidden by system policy when running as LUA

[Please excuse me if this is a stupid question: I'm just getting started with WiX] I'm just playing with WiX v3.0 and Votive. I've created a new WiX MSI project, and when building it (and changing all the PUT-WHATEVER-HERE values), Light reports the following error: Error LGHT0216: An