Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-16 Thread Bob Arnson
On 7/15/2010 8:02 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote: If you have WinZip and you open that exe with it, you may see the embedded files. Or the internals might be proprietary. Otherwise as I said. If you run the exe the MSI file will be extracted somewhere, just hunt for it and copy/save it. Or

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Painter
: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX On 7/15/2010 8:02 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote: If you have WinZip and you open that exe with it, you may see the embedded files. Or the internals might be proprietary. Otherwise as I said. If you run the exe the MSI file will be extracted somewhere, just hunt

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-16 Thread Thode, Katelyn
: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:20 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX They won't be able to say where it extracted because while different versions have had

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Painter
] Porting installer to WiX Thanks - I do have it all ported over without looking at the previous source code.  I am just interested in getting the upgrade GUID and the previous product GUIDs. I was able to locate the extracted .msi files on my hard drive.  Thank you all for your help

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-16 Thread Wheeler, Blaine (DSHS/DCS)
for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX If you have WinZip and you open that exe with it, you may see the embedded files. Or the internals might be proprietary. Otherwise as I said. If you run the exe the MSI file will be extracted somewhere, just hunt

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Urman
While extracting it from the temp folder, or the cached location mentioned in a log file will work, why not just perform an administrative install? This way you can drop the .msi file wherever you'd like.

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-16 Thread Thode, Katelyn
Thanks - that worked perfectly! -Original Message- From: Michael Urman [mailto:mur...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:05 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX While extracting it from the temp folder

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Painter
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 10:05:15 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX While extracting it from the temp folder, or the cached location mentioned in a log file will work, why not just perform

[WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-15 Thread Thode, Katelyn
I am working on porting an InstallShield installer over to wix. I don't have the source code for the installer and the installer itself is an executable file. Is there a way to get the GUIDs for the product Id and upgrade code from the executable file? Thanks, Katelyn Note: The information

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-15 Thread Alec Taylor
Yes, a million info programs around Try SuperORCA On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Thode, Katelyn katelyn.th...@guidancesoftware.com wrote: I am working on porting an InstallShield installer over to wix.  I don't have the source code for the installer and the installer itself is an executable

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-15 Thread Wilson, Phil
, July 15, 2010 9:40 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX I am working on porting an InstallShield installer over to wix. I don't have the source code for the installer and the installer itself is an executable file. Is there a way to get the GUIDs

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-15 Thread Thode, Katelyn
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX Yes, a million info programs around Try SuperORCA On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Thode, Katelyn katelyn.th...@guidancesoftware.com wrote: I am working on porting an InstallShield installer over to wix.  I don't have the source

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-15 Thread Thode, Katelyn
: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX It can't be MSI-based with guids everywhere *and* be simply an executable, so I'd verify that it's not an older non-MSI setup of the type that InstallShield used to do. If it is MSI-based and an exe, then maybe the MSI file is embedded in the resources

Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX

2010-07-15 Thread Wilson, Phil
, Katelyn [mailto:katelyn.th...@guidancesoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 4:06 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX The executable wraps an msi that was created with InstallShield 12. Is there a way for me