Re: [WiX-users] Setting List folder contents permission on folder

change we made was to key on the component, account, AND the inheritance flags. I need to update our code-base to WiX 3.5, and then I can provide a Mercurial bundle with our changes. I can provide the files from our modified 3.0.4923 if you would like. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer

Re: [WiX-users] QtExecDeferred and using a property in the cmd line

=QtExecDeferred BinaryKey=WixCA DllEntry=CAQuietExec Execute=deferred Return=ignore Impersonate=no/ InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=QtExecDeferred_Cmd Before=CostFinalize/ Custom Action=QtExecDeferred After=RemoveExistingProducts/ /InstallExecuteSequence Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer

[WiX-users] Getting the name of the currently executing CustomAction

fear I already know the answer... Thanks, -- Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap

Re: [WiX-users] Problem building a WIX project using devenv

Solutions and projects for VS 2005+ (and perhaps earlier; I skipped 2003) are well understood by msbuild. The project files use their own msbuild tasks. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] Problem building a WIX project using devenv

Thanks! I figured as much about solution files, since they aren't even XML. :-) Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem building a WIX project using devenv From: Christopher

Re: [WiX-users] IIS virtual web directory modification/settings

, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] IIS virtual web directory modification/settings From: John Trump john_tr...@symantec.com To: tomtr...@artizan.com, General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] IIS virtual web directory modification/settings

future. I noticed that a setting of - will clear the default documents (undocumented); it also looks like the default documents will get set (the code does not append them to any existing default documents), so you should have full control over the ordering. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior

Re: [WiX-users] binary dependencies in binary stream

. Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] binary dependencies in binary stream From: Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Registering votive in build\debug\x86 with VS 2005

-in MSBuild actions)? Trying to determine where the files are going just by looking at the project files is quite difficult; hopefully I'm missing something easy. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name - Description attribute value versus port settings?

, we will also have to wait for tools to support it. RELAX NG doesn't even cover this case (is it still supported?). Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't

Re: [WiX-users] Calling a external setup package

Still probably safer to use a bootstrapper rather than a pseudo-nested install. Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Calling a external setup package From: Madden, William william.mad

Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name - Description attribute value versus port settings?

Hopefully my earlier response will post shortly; this is absolutely correct for adding new sites, but does not take into account the fact that SiteId = * does, in fact, trigger a search for the existing site by description. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http

Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name - Description attribute value versus port settings?

and have time to clean up the code and submit it for inclusion). Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using

Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name attribute value versus port settings?

using the WebAddress element associated with the web site. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence ofexisting website using just

Re: [WiX-users] Current executing action

. So, while it may seem redundant to have property ca1 which contains ca1, that's the way of Windows Installer. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: [WiX-users] Current executing action From: Matt

Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: Error 0x80070057: failed to create web application: /Root/MyWebSite

Not that it necessarily helps, but 0x80070057 is Windows error 87: The parameter is incorrect. I don't see anything obviously wrong with the WXS, but it is getting late... Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name attribute value versus port settings?

sensitive Unicode comparison against the Description field. So, a hash of the description is not actually being used. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug

[WiX-users] Registering votive in build\debug\x86 with VS 2005

, then I think I will modify things further to have the zip targets copied to sub-folders below %WIX_ROOT%\build\debug\x86\ and set the template directories accordingly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http

Re: [WiX-users] Error when trying to add LocalSystem to a group

insensitive). The calls in the CA's are by user name, not by SID (although the latter can be). I can see where you might be confused, since the util:PermissionEx processing does turn LocalSystem into its associated SID. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http

Re: [WiX-users] OT: Windows Installer version number

number... Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] OT: Windows Installer version number From: Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] Installing to multiple disks

Thanks! I will have to see what each approach does to the MSI... Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing to multiple disks From: Neil Sleightholm n...@x2systems.com To: tomtr

[WiX-users] Does anyone know how best to capture the registry changes made by RegAsm / RegTlib?

. Thanks, -- Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source

Re: [WiX-users] Does anyone know how best to capture the registry changes made by RegAsm / RegTlib?

interesting it was to write a thunk to push an extra parameter onto the stack in VB (nothing like storing assembly in data structures). I will scour the web for a TLB utility that generates a reg file. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com

Re: [WiX-users] Re-ordered cab files

/). It should be possible to get a stable ordering based upon the ordering in the wxs / wixobj files. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Re-ordered cab files From: Gareth gmor

Re: [WiX-users] Installer for an WebProject

properties; the sad part is that things will most likely continue to function, we'll just open up a security hole. I suppose the remedy for that is human oversight. ;-) Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] DLL failing to register on a SeflRegCost file

the DllRegisterServer entry point to invoke self-registration 3) It captures the results in the mapped keys, translating them into WiX Of course, tallow may do the same thing; I've never used it. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original

[WiX-users] WebApplication associated with WebDir

the overhaul of the IIS extensions. Once I've got stuff minimally working, I may be able to own / co-own the IIS extension. Thanks, -- Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ -- Open

Re: [WiX-users] WebApplication associated with WebDir

Heh; here's the line from IIsCompiler.cs in ParseWebDirElement: row[5] = null; // TODO: why isn't there a way to supply this value? So, I've added code to supply the value; now to make sure the CA actually uses it. Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http

Re: [WiX-users] WebApplication associated with WebDir

The fix is just in the compiler; the CA already handles the Application_ column. I will send along a patch (attached to a bug report), but it will end up including enhancements for extended log properties and default logon domain. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet

Re: [WiX-users] Question about including large number of modified files...

into a WXS file, and off we go. We are still working out some of the kinks in terms of nested information; forcing a separate component for each file and directory certainly helped. Hope that helps, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com

Re: [WiX-users] Re-ordered cab files

, since the WiX classes already the MSI functions neatly wrapped and there are numerous script examples using the COM classes, maybe directly modifying the MSI wouldn't be so bad. Just a thought. Anyone foresee any particular dangers of modifying the .wixobj? Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan

Re: [WiX-users] Creating VirtualDir within existing WebDir

create arbitrary paths and set arbitrary properties within the metabase, it doesn't make sense to do so. It would nice if one could be assured that they weren't going to end up with stranded metabase references because the file / directory was deleted (and vice versa). Thanks, Thomas S. Trias

Re: [WiX-users] Metabase read immediately after AppSearch and Vista SP1

Yeah, I figured as much. Hopefully running the package with administrative privileges (keeping UAC in mind) will be sufficient. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Metabase

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

While I knew that the Component_ column was a reference, I never realized that the trailing underscore was a naming convention that indicates a reference to another table. That is really good to know. Thanks! Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com

Re: [WiX-users] Metabase read immediately after AppSearch and Vista SP1

Sigh. If I schedule the action deferred, is there any good way to propagate the results to the directory setting? I don't think that there is... Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Feature request: extending PermissionEx element with inheritance option

Yan, Take a look at the mailing list posts from and related to Cody Cutrer's enhancements to PermissionEx. I will also build a patch from my latest efforts and attach it to issue tracker item 2612975. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com

Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions

Use a different delimiter; the WiX CA's use EUR. I've been tempted to use XML (just because it makes reading the logs so much easier - probably overkill for anything short of serializing .NET objects)... Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com

Re: [WiX-users] creating wix extensions

it into a full-blown extension. If you mentioned what you hope to accomplish with the extension and / or CA, that would definitely influence people's recommendations. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registering VBScript and JScript under HKCU?

Yeah, right up there with advertised COM components. g/ Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registeringVBScript and JScript under HKCU? From

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

be wrong. g/ Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall From: Neil Sleightholm n...@x2systems.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI

That works; dark.exe can do it too. Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Files in an MSI From: Jim Williams jimwilliam...@comcast.net To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development From: Richard legal...@xmission.com To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com,General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Attributes specify existing IIS website?

this is somewhat easily remedied with a script Custom Action, I am going to bite the bullet and provide on in C++ as part of the WiX IIS extensions. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development From: Richard legal...@xmission.com To: tomtr...@artizan.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Selecting log settings for IIS ...

So do we; I added several properties to the WebLog element along with changes to the Custom Action to apply them; I just haven't had achance to send in the code, yet. I will do so shortly. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com

Re: [WiX-users] How does one use a WebSite locator in order to set the file path for content?

to the found web site. Of course, if I had thought about that, it makes sense; having a ca attempt to update the MSI database is probably a really bad idea. I am going to add an entry point for a ca that returns the directory for a web site matching an IISWebSite entry. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias

[WiX-users] How does one use a WebSite locator in order to set the file path for content?

? If I'm going to do that, I might as well write a custom action that takes an arbitrary Windows Installer query and returns the result as text... Thanks, -- Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com