Re: [WiX-users] EventManifest - broken or wrong usage?

2014-02-04 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
ided paths. This is already done by the WIX custom action and the parameters are therefore not required. You should verify that the file paths are adjusted after the installation. The error must be something else. Kind regards, Georg -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Thoma

Re: [WiX-users] EventManifest - broken or wrong usage?

2014-02-03 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
I remember correctly, the hard part for using ETW was not the installation but to get the manifest and native resources right in .NET. Also don't forget to close the event viewer when testing your installation... Kind regards, Georg von Kries -Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von:

[WiX-users] EventManifest - broken or wrong usage?

2014-02-03 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
After some more research the question again. Is the EventManifest (in the utility namespace) broken or do I just use it wrong? EventManifest is the WIX version of wevtutil. In order to properly register one needs three parameters - the manifest and 2x the compiled manifest. Regardless how I a

Re: [WiX-users] Event Source Manifests and Wix .... is there a good example?

2014-01-31 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
x27;t have all the WiX helper libraries (yet) so that made creating the custom actions for IIS, SQL, and FileShare (and others) even more challenging. At least you can get a head start on that process. -Original Message----- From: Thomas Tomiczek [mailto:t.tomic...@nettecture.com] Sent: Fri

Re: [WiX-users] Event Source Manifests and Wix .... is there a good example?

2014-01-31 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
7;d be ideal to help improve it rather than one off your own custom action. -Original Message- From: Thomas Tomiczek [mailto:t.tomic...@nettecture.com] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:44 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net)

[WiX-users] Event Source Manifests and Wix .... is there a good example?

2014-01-30 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
Now that the .NET team finally has released a usable version of the event source at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource with v 1.0.16 - one that also supports the admin channel - the task is on me to get it into some of our programs. I am stuck in the insta

Re: [WiX-users] Support for VS2013 Express

2014-01-11 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
NO extension is supported in any express product - because the extension points are disabled. That is the "price" of using an express product. https://support.firegiant.com/entries/24003561-WiX-toolset-support-for-Visual-Studio-Express- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16616876/is-wix-compatib

[WiX-users] Using WIX with the new ETL EventSource mechanisms...

2012-12-18 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
...for .NET 4.5. Anyone has a more detailed walkthrough? I am trying to figure out the nw tracingmechanism for a windows service we distribute to various computer as a HPC cluster (so they do processing jobs in the background). I would love to use ETC: I have created a tracing class in a separa

[WiX-users] Handling project output that is NOT primary output (xml, pdb)...

2011-04-11 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
...any support for that? Or do I have to construct the file name myself? Given the following component: There is a file Adapters.xxAdapters.dl that I can "address" via var.Adapters.xxAdapters.TargetPath. What about the two "side artifacts" that I also want t

Re: [WiX-users] Best Practice in Deploying Database

2011-03-29 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
)? Thank you, Dikhi -Original Message- From: Thomas Tomiczek [mailto:t.tomic...@nettecture.com] Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 1:11 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Best Practice in Deploying Database I wold be carefull with the create database task.

Re: [WiX-users] Best Practice in Deploying Database

2011-03-28 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
I wold be carefull with the create database task. This will NOT Scale into enterprise environments. I normally keep database creation AND population to a separate small tool. Reason: In enterprise environments the people running the db setup (retion, rights) are not the people installing softwa

Re: [WiX-users] transactions in db scripts

2010-05-07 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
No transaction. Standard operating procedure is that the admin makes a full backup before an update. Point. Admins not doing backups - should be fired. Run the script. Use transactions for small data changes - but nothing else. If something goes wrong, tell the admin to put in his backup ;) Do

[WiX-users] Current approach for installing a .NET windows service?

2008-02-28 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
to get the services installed? InstallUtil is still on the "don't use" list? Any good code samples? I remember hefty discussions about this a long time ago (6-12 months) - now we have .NET 3.5, so, has something changed? Thanks in

[WiX-users] Checking for Widnows 2008 server components?

2008-02-26 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
manually. I assume this IS the recommended way then? Thomas Tomiczek - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01

[WiX-users] Two installers for the same component - how?

2008-02-26 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
I have the following problems. I need to install two different components: * ONE is basically a server control application, with a website, possibly a database and definitely a windows service that does all the logic. * TWO is a server control agent that works together with the