Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
Okay, I'm sure this is going to sound like a dumb question, but... In these old Wix 2.0 projects I'm upgrading, we generate a bunch of msms that get pulled into the several product msis. In the module projects there was something like the following: ... Then the references wou

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
ler XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010 VS2010 includes the same MSBuild concept than building within MSBuild directly. Try to build it within VS2010 and then copy the commands from build output and maybe remove the product.generated.* s

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-20 Thread Tobias S
.wixobj >  Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Linker version 3.5.2519.0 >  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. > > Done Building Project > "C:\svn\trunk\Installation\Wix\PttModule\PttModule.wixproj" (default targets). > > -Original Message- &

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 12:45 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010 On 19-Jul-11 12:25, Mark Modrall wrote: > For #2, we have some installation stuff we only want done once (the stuff > that the c

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 12:25, Mark Modrall wrote: > For #2, we have some installation stuff we only want done once (the stuff > that the custom action does). So the first thing the custom action exe does > is try to check the registry setting to see if it's been done (that's what's > failing now). When

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
:45 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010 On 19-Jul-11 11:10, Mark Modrall wrote: > 1) Looking at the installer log, it's unpacking into a directory other than > the INSTALLDIR; throughout I've

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Christopher Painter
From: Mark Modrall To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010 Thanks Bob, that got the content into the installer package - which got me to the point of

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 11:10, Mark Modrall wrote: > 1) Looking at the installer log, it's unpacking into a directory other than > the INSTALLDIR; throughout I've been a little confused going to 3.5 about the > relation of INSTALLDIR and TARGETDIR; did TARGETDIR supplant/replace > INSTALLDIR? As noted bef

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
to the machine. To run things that need more serious access, I take it I should have an attribute Impersonate="no"? Thanks mark -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:33 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 10:20, Mark Modrall wrote: >Comments="bar" InstallerVersion="300" Platform="$(var.PPlat)"/> Try Compressed="yes". -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Dat

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
Hi... I'm trying to upgrade my Wix 2.0 installer scripts to Wix 3.5, and at the moment I'm stuck on the fact that my product msi's are coming out essentially empty and I don't see why. The individual merge modules look like they're about the right size but none of the content is ending

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Modrall
y 18, 2011 5:15 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010 Thanks for your response, Pally... I've got things converted over for the most part but am still puzzled by a few new warnings.

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Modrall
Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Mark Modrall [mailto:mmodr...@mzinga.com] Sent: 17 July 2011 15:16 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petri

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-18 Thread Pally Sandher
l Message- From: Mark Modrall [mailto:mmodr...@mzinga.com] Sent: 17 July 2011 15:16 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010 I had been running msbuild to product my msis and it wasn't throw

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Modrall
n for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010 The Windows Installer Error Message http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372835(VS.85).aspx says: 2756 The property '[2]' was used as a directory property in one or mo

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Modrall
et. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010 The Windows Installer Error Message http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372835(VS.85).aspx says: 2756 The property '[2]' was used as a directory property in one or more tables, but no value

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-16 Thread Rob Mensching
The Windows Installer Error Message http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372835(VS.85).aspx says: 2756 The property '[2]' was used as a directory property in one or more tables, but no value was ever assigned. That suggest something is wrong in your MSI. A verbose log file will probalby t

[WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-15 Thread Mark Modrall
Hi everybody... I imagine I'll take some flak for this, but we still have installers being cobbled together by Wix 2.0. Recently I was tasked with upgrading our product builds from VS 2005 to VS 2010 (and moving our production environment from Windows Server 2003 to 2008). I j