it?
FilesInUse and custom action, I still don't understand why these irrelevant
things could conflict each other and cause error 2753.
Thanks.
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wix-users
be installed on the system until after a reboot.
Phil Wilson
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add FilesInUse support
We use Wix 3.0.
We have this code to show support url in ARP:
Property Id=ARPHELPLINK![CDATA[$(var.COMPANY_URL)]]/Property
In XP and Windows 7, it works - we can see the url when checking ARP. But in
Vista, the support info url field is empty. In the log of the Vista
installation, the
in that window and no other events seem to
be triggered looking at the source code..
I need to push this back to the WiX team to see who knows how WiXUI is put
together and how maintenance-mode UI is supposed to work.
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double-click the MSI again? You
should get the Change experience, which is your starting point to show a
modal dialog during your uninstall experience.
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, but nothing technical prevents
you from creating it.
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall
? Does the
MaintenanceWelcomeDlg text show up at all?
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to uninstall from the UI.
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Thanks Blair!
Here
the condition on the Remove
button. That is the button you want to click to uninstall from the UI.
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Subject: Re: [WiX
.
http://www.instyler.com
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Hi,
We're using WiX 3.0. How to add a dialog
.)
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Hi Aris,
Thanks! I added
saw the basic uninstallation progress bar.
Thanks.
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add
use different UpgradeCodes.
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade: How to do major upgrade for the
currect product
Thanks Bob.
I tried WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOXTEXT AND NOT Installed, but it still
doesn't work. I mean, I install it, then run msi again and choose 'Remove', in
the final page of the uninstallation, the Launch Application option is still
showing up.
Here is the code:
Dialog
Hi all,
Sometimes, I'm just wondering where do you get the WiX knowledge?
For me, I use these resources:
1. WiX tutorial: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/
2. Online help: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/main.htm
3. Alex Shevchuk Wix series:
Hi,
We're using WiX 3.0. How to add a dialog box when uninstall?
We'd like to ask the end user if they want to delete their settings files in
AppData\Company\Product folder. If the answer is Yes, then we'll need to delete
that folder. And we only want this dialog box showing up when manually
it was skipped is
because REMOVE is a maintenance operation (3.1 is not removing any other
versions, since it isn't being installed).
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a dialog, then
schedule that during uninstall.
Best regards,
Sebastian Brand
Instyler Setup - Creating WiX-based MSI installations, elegantly.
http://www.instyler.com
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To: wix-users
.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade: How to do major upgrade for the currect
. Anthing is appreciated.
I'm looking for your help.
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in the Upgrade table as you need. You can
also take a gun and shoot yourself in the foot.
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=FindRelatedProductsNEWAPPFOUND/Custom
/InstallUISequence
Thanks.
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info is in the email below.
Thanks in advance.
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install log say? Was the OLDPRODUCTFOUND
property ever set?
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Subject: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade: How to do major upgrade for the currect
product
is not unins000.exe. It might be unins001 or unins002. I
mean they are all in the registry. Why I need to explicitly specify the file
name?
Many thanks.
I'm looking forward your responses.
I appreicate it.
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Hi,
We're using WiX version 3. We do Major Upgrade. It works fine. I mean, when
installing a new version, the old version of the software is uninstalled first,
then the new software is installed. 0F8634B0-560B-4473-BBC3-46D885AC8E04 is
the upgrade code. Our new software version is 3.x.y
Hi all,
I'm having a problem with Custom Action Type 50 in WiX 3.0. We're using the
version 3.0.4805.0.
Background:
===
We'd like to uninstall the old version of our software when installing the new
version. The old version software's installer was made by using Inno Setup.
What we
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to run a program
little.forest wrote:
1. If I try to use asyncNoWait as the Return type, I'm getting this error:
The CustomAction/@Return attribute's value
We use WiX 3.0.4805.0.
I needed to implement this requirement:
Check the registry HKCR\foo\bar, if it exists then do nothing; if it doesn't
exist, then write the registry.
So I have these pieces of code:
Property Id='CHECK_FOOBAR_REGISTRY'
RegistrySearch
the installation
but before the main application getting launched.
Thank you!
/Brian
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Execute=Immediate is before any files are installed. It needs to be deferred.
Phil Wilson
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Hi,
I re-read the wix.chm and found Quiet Execution Custom Action.
I tried to use the example in wix.chm. But when I run it, I got these errors:
MSI (s) (68!58) [13:58:06:803]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Deleting QtExecCmdLine
property. Its current value is '[INSTALLLOCATION]abc.exe'.
CAQuietExec: Error
Hi Rob,
Thank you very much for your response.
Actually, I did read the Wix.chm and found a topic How To: Run the Installed
Application After Setup. Do you mean this topic? If it's not, then could you
please tell me a few key words that I can use to search the topic?
For the topic How To: Run
Hi,
We're using WiX 3.0.4805.0.
Question: how to run a program? We'd like to run it after all files installed
but before the main application running.
Here is the code which doesn't work - the test.exe program never run during
installation:
Component Id=ComponentTestExe Guid=...
File
Thank you very much, Rob and Sascha.
It's great to know the File/@Assembly attribute. I'm using it and it works.
Here is the code:
Component Id=Component_DotNet_CLR Guid=...
File Source=CLR.dll Assembly=.net KeyPath=yes Checksum=yes/
/Component
Thanks again.
/Brian
Hi Bob, Christopher,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I got your points, Bob. That makes sense. I'll talked to the developers in
our dev team about it.
Thanks again,
/Brian
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Hi,
I'd like to ask this question for a while. It's not that urgent(so I make
it as P2 question - Priority 2) but I still would like to know:
1.. How to debug in WiX? I mean, is there a way to do code debugging in WiX
by setting break points
Hi,
I'd like to second this question. Here I'd just make it short:
Is it possible to change an existing registry entry's value?
Thanks,
/Brian
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).
However, last I heard, changing the registry settings for services
directly is not recommended and you should go through the SCM APIs
instead. Of course, that means a CustomAction, unfortunately. If you
write it, remember rollback.
little.forest wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to second this question. Here I'd
: How to run another program before launching
the main application
Check out the documentation, specifically ShellExecute CustomAction
and How To: Run the Installed Application After Setup in WiX.chm
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:13 AM, little.forest little.for...@ymail.com wrote:
We are using WiX
Hi,
I'd like to ask this question for a while. It's not that urgent(so I make it as
P2 question - Priority 2) but I still would like to know:
1.. How to debug in WiX? I mean, is there a way to do code debugging in WiX by
setting break points or step into the code etc. - just like what we do
We're using WiX version 3.0.4805.0.
During installation, we need to change an existing Windows service's startup
type to be Automatic. How to do that?
I know there is a way to start the service. But I've no idea how to change its
startup type. In ServiceInstall element, there is a Start
Okay, I found a way to change the startup type by going to registry and change
the service 'Start' value, e.g.
HKLM\Software\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WhateverService
But when I try to do it in WiX, it doesn't work. Here is my code:
Component Id=Component_StartTheService Guid=...
We are using WiX version 3.0.4805.0.
How to run another program before launching the main application?
We have a program called preutil.exe. We need to run it with some arguments
like this preutil.exe /i /t /s. How to do it?
Thanks a lot,
/Brian
We're using WiX version 3.0.4805.0.
We have a question:
Which property can we use to identify the Install, Repair or Remove operations?
I tried Installed and NOT Installed. I thought NOT Installed means fresh
installation operation; Installed means either Repair or Remove
operation, am I
this? -
Show it if it's a fresh install or Repair; Do not show it if it's a Remove.
Thanks in advance.
/Brian
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Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 1:24:36 PM
Subject: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: Install/Repair
Hi Phil,
Thank you for your reply.
I did try RemoveExistingProducts after InstallInitialize. It didn't work. I
mean, old product was removed, but some files were not installed - because of
version things.
What we need is really simple - we just need the down-grade working. We
surely would
Thanks Jeff.
Actually, I did that in VMWare. But the result was the same - major upgrade was
broken.
I then narrowed it down: it seems it only happens to 3 files. So I thought why
these 3 files? I then remove them from the package and rebuilt them. This time
it seems working. By saying seems,
I'd like to post my code in the Upgrade part. This is our Major Upgrade code:
Upgrade Id='$(var.UpgradeCode)'
UpgradeVersion Property=OLDAPPFOUND
OnlyDetect='no'
Minimum=0.0.0
IncludeMinimum=yes
Hi All,
I run into a stange problem. Forgive me if this question is a bit of long. I
try to make it shorter.
I need your hlep.
We're using WiX version 3.0.4805.0.
The problem is:
---
I have 3 builds. They have exactly the same feature set. They are just built at
different time.
Sorry, I forgot to attach the screen shot of the testing matrix.
Here it is in the attachment. Hopefully you can see it.
Thanks you all.
/Brian
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