Re: [WiX-users] Issue with Visual Studio 2015 RC after installing 3.10.0.1519

Hello, Thanks for getting back to me! I tried both the safe mode option and a repair, but neither thing seems to work. However, I was able to find a solution, although I am a bit confused?!? If I use "Run As Adminstrator..." on the Visual Studio shortcut, it works perfectly, but otherwise it fa

[WiX-users] Issue with Visual Studio 2015 RC after installing 3.10.0.1519

Hello, As per a Twitter discussion here: https://twitter.com/wixtoolset/status/595619461580881920 I recently installed 3.10.0.1519 in order to get Wix functionality within Visual Studio 2015 RC. After installing it though, I am now in a situation where Visual Studio no longer opens. I can see

Re: [WiX-users] Installing wix without user interaction

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for following up, I will be able to incorporate the uninstall into a couple of scripts that I use :-) Gary -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Installing-wix-without-user-interaction-tp7585341p7585347.html

Re: [WiX-users] Change content of Config file after installation

Hello, This is something that I am interested in as well. Has there been any work in using the XDT transform library which was recently released and made available? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/01/10/xdt-web-config-transform-engine-released-on-nuget.aspx

Re: [WiX-users] Using Product Id="*"

Hello, >From what I have seen, no, typically the download url's remain the same across different versions of the application. I personally maintain the chocolatey package for an application called calibre (and have done for almost the last year) and the download url has never changed, and there

Re: [WiX-users] Using Product Id="*"

Perfect! I think I can work with this then. Our build script already handles the creation of the version number, so I should be able to generate a new GUID for the ProductCode, and then use this same GUID in the uninstall script. Let me try this out, and see how I get on. Thanks! Gary -- Vi

Re: [WiX-users] Using Product Id="*"

Hello Nick, Thanks for all the info!! Yes, normally chocolatey goes off and downloads the msi/exe from the internet, and then installs it (with whatever flags are required to "silence" the install). A typical install PowerShell script looks like this: https://github