Re: [WiX-users] Patch installing component with Not Installed condition

2012-09-28 Thread Tom Crozier
mponent is marked Transitive='yes' On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Tom Crozier wrote: > I have an installer that contains the following component. > >Guid="{226F7E2A-2FBD-2ed4-B355-52C80E95A212}" KeyPath="yes"> > >

[WiX-users] Patch installing component with Not Installed condition

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Crozier
I have an installer that contains the following component. This runs fine during the initial install. Now I have created a patch and have not modified this component but it is trying to run the code again even though the condition states NOT Installed.

Re: [WiX-users] Patch install/uninstall timing in regards to access of installed files

2011-03-11 Thread Tom Crozier
Sorry the table I added @ the bottom did not get sent correctly. I reformatted it below. Hi - I would greatly appreciate any help in understanding the timing of when I have access to the original or updated version of files installed during a patch install, uninstall and rollback sequences of b

[WiX-users] Patch install/uninstall timing in regards to access of installed files

2011-03-11 Thread Tom Crozier
Hi - I would greatly appreciate any help in understanding the timing of when I have access to the original or updated version of files installed during a patch install, uninstall and rollback sequences of both. The Install process seem fairly straight forward. I have availability of the old fil

[WiX-users] Prevent running ExecXmlFileRollback: during a patch install

2011-03-02 Thread Tom Crozier
Hi all - I am creating a patch for an existing installer that uses Util:XmlFile elements to modify a web.config file. There was no condition element on the component they are contained in so in the patch version I added a NOT Installed condition. The problem is that the web.confi

[WiX-users] Run UI sequence during patch removal?

2011-02-25 Thread Tom Crozier
Hi - Is it possible to run a UI sequence during the removal of a patch? I've tried the following but it does not display. MSIPATCHREMOVE (From the log file UILEVEL =5 CLIENTUILEVEL = 0) If not, is it possible to run an immediate CA before the files have been

Re: [WiX-users] Disallowing uninstallation of patch

2011-02-23 Thread Tom Crozier
er in patch2 higher than any file table sequence number in the RTM and patch1). Check if any component guids change between any of the 3 MSIs - they shouldnt. Im not certain if your patch should be set to supercede the previous one. I hope that gives you a few things to try. -Original Messa

Re: [WiX-users] Disallowing uninstallation of patch

2011-02-22 Thread Tom Crozier
small update and does not allow removal since it adds a new directory and files) http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> -Original Message- From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Disallowing uninstallation of patch

2011-02-22 Thread Tom Crozier
ll need the new createfolder table entries in case the first patch is never applied. You need to base the second patch on the patched MSI (RTM + patch 1). -Original Message- From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] Sent: 22 February 2011 16:44 To: General discussion for Window

Re: [WiX-users] Disallowing uninstallation of patch

2011-02-22 Thread Tom Crozier
. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Disallowing uninstallation of patch If you base the second patch on the RTM, itll need the new createfolder table entries in case the first patch is never applied. You need to base the second patch on the patched MSI (RTM + patch 1). -Original Message- From: Tom

[WiX-users] Disallowing uninstallation of patch

2011-02-22 Thread Tom Crozier
Hi, What I am trying to accomplish is to first install an unremovable Small Update patch that adds new files into a new directory. (This works) Next is to install a removable Minor Update patch that delivers new versions of the files that were added in the first patch as well as modifications of

[WiX-users] Patching multiple major upgrade releases with different product codes

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Crozier
All - I have multiple versions of a product released in the field that I need to upgrade with a patch. The installer that all the versions are all based on can perform a major upgrade from a previous version. I believe they should have used the same product id but they don't beca

Re: [WiX-users] Need help with minor update patch

2011-02-01 Thread Tom Crozier
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[WiX-users] Need help with minor update patch

2011-02-01 Thread Tom Crozier
I have followed the tutorial on creating a patch http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/patch_building.htm and can create multiple small updates and apply them. (I have a base version and 2 patches which are created by using MsiMsp between the base and new version). However, when I try changing

[WiX-users] Creating a service pack patch that removes the previous service pack

2011-01-27 Thread Tom Crozier
I am trying to create a minor upgrade for an existing product that will be delivered as a patch. However, I want any previous service packs to be removed before the new one is applied. I have also read that running CA's during the uninstall don't work is there a work around for this since my uni

[WiX-users] How to add billboards

2010-10-29 Thread Tom Crozier
I have searched the web and have tried playing around with adding billboards to my installer but have not been successful. Does anyone have a tutorial or example on how to accomplish this? Thanks- Tom -- Nokia and AT&T p

[WiX-users] Passing data to uninstaller or detecting how it was invoked

2010-03-09 Thread Tom Crozier
I have 2 applications (App1 and App2). When I do a major upgrade of App1 I need to uninstall App2 (which I can accomplish by adding an upgrade element for App2). But I need to do something different in the uninstall sequence of App2 if it was invoked by the major upgrade of App1 as opposed to be

Re: [WiX-users] Signing problems

2010-03-02 Thread Tom Crozier
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[WiX-users] Signing problems

2010-03-02 Thread Tom Crozier
All - I have had problems trying to sign one of my installers. Smaller msi's sign without any problem but I have an 800Mb msi file that will not sign. I have tried signing it on 2 different machines One of them gives me the error SignTool Error: ISignedCode::Sign returned error: 0x800920

[WiX-users] Un-define a property

2010-02-19 Thread Tom Crozier
All - Is there a way to un-define a property once it is defined? I want to be able to un-define a property that is used for a checkbox since it seems to use logic of defined (any value) it is checked, un=defined not checked. Thanks TC

[WiX-users] Best practices Upgrade Strategy

2010-02-18 Thread Tom Crozier
All - I could use some help in deciding the best approach for creating an upgrade strategy before the current product is RTM. Just in case I need to make any changes to the existing installer before releasing it. If there are any good articles on this please refer them to me. Background : The e

[WiX-users] Prevent Maintenance mode (at beginning of UI seq.)

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Crozier
All - I want to prevent the installer from entering into maintenance mode. I have set ARPNOMODIFY to 1 which prevents doing it through ARP. But I don't want the user to be able to run the installer a second time, so I tried creating a custom action to display an error message in the case that it

Re: [WiX-users] Refresh dialog upon checking checkbox

2009-11-24 Thread Tom Crozier
wrong? -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:26 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Refresh dialog upon checking checkbox In article , Tom Crozier writes: > All - > Is there a way to r

[WiX-users] Refresh dialog upon checking checkbox

2009-11-23 Thread Tom Crozier
All - Is there a way to refresh a dialog when checking a checkbox? I have a dialog with a checkbox control on it to give the user the ability to use the default options. When selected I have tried adding Publish Property to reset the other control values back to defaults as well as calling a cus

Re: [WiX-users] How to debug upgrade problem

2009-11-19 Thread Tom Crozier
- From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:14 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to debug upgrade problem I didn't see it before but FindRelatedProducts: current install is per-user. Related in

Re: [WiX-users] How to debug upgrade problem

2009-11-18 Thread Tom Crozier
consultant E-Mail: sebast...@instyler.com Instyler Setup - Creating WiX-based MSI installations, elegantly. http://www.instyler.com On 17.11.2009, at 22:55, Tom Crozier wrote: > I created an installer that contains 2 Upgrade sections for 2 different > products that are installed however when I ru

[WiX-users] How to debug upgrade problem

2009-11-17 Thread Tom Crozier
I created an installer that contains 2 Upgrade sections for 2 different products that are installed however when I run the installer it only locates one of them. How do I go about debugging this to find out why the 2nd is not detected by FindRelatedProducts? I did a small test app and this seeme

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling a second application during the major upgrade of the first application.

2009-11-16 Thread Tom Crozier
Never mind - I just added the other product's upgrade code into Application1 and it was removed during the upgrade. -Original Message- From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 11:02 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML to

[WiX-users] Uninstalling a second application during the major upgrade of the first application.

2009-11-16 Thread Tom Crozier
I need to uninstall an application (that was installed via its own installer package) if it is detected during the major upgrade of another application. E.g. Application1 Ver 1.1 is installed on a machine and is about to have a major upgrade performed on it to bring it to Ver 2.0. Application 2

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Crozier
s] UI Display question In article , Tom Crozier writes: > The lengthy CA validates the users credentials [...] Why does your application need a user's credentials? If your application needs to do something that requires a specific privelege, create an account that has inter

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Crozier
Display question Tom Crozier wrote: > When I try using 'asyncNoWait' I get: > error CNDL0038 : The CustomAction/@Return attribute's value, 'asyncNoWait', > cannot be specified without attribute ExeCommand present. > Right, sorry; it's valid only for .exe

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-11-01 Thread Tom Crozier
allow DoAction to be called after it. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:21 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question In article , Tom Crozier writes: > As far as the as

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-11-01 Thread Tom Crozier
M To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question In article , Tom Crozier writes: > Is there some simpler method to allow me to put up a Please wait > dialog while a long CA is running and then have it taken down. Let me take a step back from the det

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-10-31 Thread Tom Crozier
31, 2009 8:04 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question In article , Tom Crozier writes: > Richard - Sorry I didn't see your post until now. The order they > are declared in is the order they are assigned as can be seen in the > Cont

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-10-31 Thread Tom Crozier
PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question In article , Tom Crozier writes: > > > > 1 > 1 > You are not specifying the order in which to publish these events. I don't kno

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-10-31 Thread Tom Crozier
set. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question Tom Crozier wrote: > But from what I read in MSDN about the SpawnWaitDialog ControlEvent > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371864(VS.85).aspx it is for what I > am trying to do. Just display a Please wait message while the CA is runn

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-10-31 Thread Tom Crozier
[mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:49 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question Tom Crozier wrote: > but does not beep until 10 seconds after I cancel the dialog. (For some > reason the SpawnWaitDia

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-10-31 Thread Tom Crozier
the section of interest is where he mentions the "workaround". -Original Message- From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 4:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question Anyone have any

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-10-30 Thread Tom Crozier
age- From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 9:36 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question Thanks for the reply Bob, but I have tried using the SpawnWaitDialog control without success. What a

Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-10-30 Thread Tom Crozier
Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Display question Tom Crozier wrote: > In my installer I validate data on a dialog by performing a > DoAction event (calling a custom action) on a next button press. It can take > a minute or more to validate so

[WiX-users] UI Display question

2009-10-29 Thread Tom Crozier
All - In my installer I validate data on a dialog by performing a DoAction event (calling a custom action) on a next button press. It can take a minute or more to validate so I need to either display a popup dialog saying "Validating - Please wait..." or display the text on top o

Re: [WiX-users] How do I order DoActrion events on a Publish for a button

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Crozier
oesn't the Publish element have an @Order attribute? -Original Message- From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:31 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How do I order DoActrion events on a Publish for a button I need t

[WiX-users] How do I order DoActrion events on a Publish for a button

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Crozier
I need to call a Custom Action when the user presses a button on the dialog. But before the CA is called I need to set a property that is made up of data from fields on the dialog. The problem is I created a DoAction event to set the property and one to call the CA but the CA is being called bef

Re: [WiX-users] How to display the existing IIS websites?

2009-08-14 Thread Tom Crozier
Jirong - Have you gotten a solution for this problem yet? I have a similar need. - TopCat -Original Message- From: Jirong Hu [mailto:jirong...@gov.ab.ca] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:09 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-users] How to displ

[WiX-users] Which elements of version number can be used to detect an upgrade?

2009-08-03 Thread Tom Crozier
All - When specifying the Minimum and Maximum values in an UpgradeVersion element, can you specify all four values ... or will it only use the first 3? Thanks - TopCat -- Let Crystal Reports handle the repor

[WiX-users] Determine if DTF CA called immediate or deferred

2009-07-31 Thread Tom Crozier
Is there a way to determine whether a DTF custom action was called via an immediate or deferred action other than a try catch around accessing the inappropriate session data and handling the "Cannot access session details from a non-immediate custom action" exception? The following will throw a

[WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

2009-06-24 Thread Tom Crozier
All - I need to know the best way to handle installing a large number of files. As part of the project I have 2 different directories with approximately 24,000 files (including subfolders) in each. I could use heat to generate the initial list but then I am assuming I have to maintain the list f

[WiX-users] Accessing Binary stream data

2009-06-19 Thread Tom Crozier
Hi all - How can I access the data stored in a binary stream inside a custom action? For example if I wanted to have notepad display the contents of a ReadMe.txt file that was added to the installer as a binary. Not Installed Thanks - TopCat

[WiX-users] Newbie question on using content not installed on target machine

2009-06-18 Thread Tom Crozier
I have several large (100 MB) sql scripts that I need to run after installing our product. I would like to create a separate Media cabinet to include them in (which would NOT get installed onto the user's system) and run the scripts from there, since I don't want to waste the time and bandwidth