[WiX-users] Wix Licensing revisited

2012-02-27 Thread Tobi Ha
Hello every one and WiX Team, my boss want's to know the following regarding the CPL WiX is lecensed under: Are outputs of WiX tools, e.g. msi files, under CPL or another OSS license? I for myself believe not, but my boss likes to get a statement from the WiX team, so please answer my question.

[WiX-users] Understanding the PatchBaseline Element

2011-08-04 Thread Tobi Ha
Hello Everyone, I am using the Purely Wix method for patches. Below the Media Element in the Patch.wxs file, there is a PatchBaseLine element with an ID attribute. I wonder what the ID attribute is used for except to reuse it on the -t command line parameter for Pyro? I have the issue that if I

[WiX-users] what Patch Creation Process is correct?

2010-10-18 Thread Tobi Ha
Hello everyone, I tried to create a patch for one of our products and stumbled across the issue that the components key paths was changed accidentally. It was changed because the key path is a registry key that is going to be removed during the update. The result is that when using wix/pyro for

[WiX-users] Comparison of PatchWiz and WiX v3 Patch Build

2010-08-31 Thread Tobi Ha
Hello WiX users, Since I have just read this article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2010/08/24/comparison-of-patchwiz-and-wix-v3-patch-build.aspx and I need to create patches I have the question if they is any disadvantage of using the WiX patching System (with Pyro) in comparison to

[WiX-users] Embedded Chainer as Bootstrapper?

2010-07-16 Thread Tobi Ha
Hello, because I did not find information on this while searching I thought may be someone from the list has experience on this: For a product we need to ship e.g. the VC2008 redistributables as prerequisite and install it before our own product. This can be done with a Bootstrapper (setup.exe)

[WiX-users] How to detect running installation and does burn handle this?

2010-02-18 Thread Tobi Ha
Hello WiX users, this not really just a WiX question but a general for MSI based installations. Is there a good and secure way to detect if another MSI installation is allready running before starting another one which would fail with Error Code 1618? I have found two possible ways: 1) There

[WiX-users] Automatic MSI rename???

2010-01-12 Thread Tobi Ha
Hi, I have a question concerning the following topic: In our company we create a msi file for a component/product ,e.g. xyz.msi. The product may only exist in one, the newest version, on the customers machine, therfore we use Major upgrades to replace any older version during installation. For

Re: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI

2009-12-16 Thread Tobi Ha
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[WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI UI

2009-12-15 Thread Tobi Ha
Hello, I have a WiX installation that shows within a custom action a dialog from a dll that is installed during this installation. It all works fine, except that the dialogs appears behind the normal MSI UI. Here a short example how my custom action looks like (instead of message box, a real

[WiX-users] Installing a Program for All users without admin rights

2009-10-21 Thread Tobi Ha
I ahve a question regarding Installation Privileges and the setting of the ALLUSERS property: Is it possible to install an MSI in the allusers context without having admin or any special rights (so be a normal user)? cheers, Tobias -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a Program for All users without

2009-10-21 Thread Tobi Ha
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2009-10-21 Thread Tobi Ha
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[WiX-users] Let's talk about Burn- Curent state?

2009-10-14 Thread Tobi Ha
Hi WiX Developers, a recent entry on Robs Blog started exactly with the same Subject. (http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/7/14/Lets-talk-about-Burn) So what is the state of this new WiX Tool? I closely follow development but it seems there was no progress during the last weeks. Is there an