Re: [WiX-users] XML files and large chunks of XML

[John Ludlow]

Ah, ok

 

I do use the IIS functionality though - do you know if there's a version of 2.0 which has the XML fix but not the IIS bug? It probably wouldn't be massively hard to take out the references to Tallow.

 

Thanks

 

John
 

On 6/8/06, Derek Cicerone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

You should just stick with 2.0 (but update to the latest release).  As mentioned below, 3.0 has no advantages for what you need (and several disadvantages if you use tallow in an unsupported way to generate your build authoring automatically).  Heat does not yet cover all the scenarios which tallow supported.

 

Derek

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Ok,

 

I'll take a look at 3.0.  However, some of our stuff (including the project I'm working on) relies heavily on Tallow, so I don't want to break it by dropping in 3.0.  In theory, I could just drop in Heat and it'd all work, but I don't see it being that simple - we have scripts that fiddle the .wxs files to give us fragments that we can just include.  I'll have to look at stripping all that stuff out of the build scripts.
 

Thanks

 

John
 

On 6/8/06, Derek Cicerone <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

That build is a few months stale and likely has the issue.  You should just try swapping in the latest 2.0 build since it should have the fix (beware of IIS though - there is currently a nasty bug in there if you use it).  Even if you tweak the length of the column in Orca, I don't think the custom action itself was setup to handle arbitrarily long values so you'd still hit problems there.  I believe that issue should be fixed now though.

 

I wouldn't suggest switching to 3.0 for any functionality in extensions since both major versions should have the exact same code for all the custom actions right now.  As mentioned recently we still haven't really locked down the custom action functionality in WiX 2.0, so its identical to what's available in 3.0.

 

Derek

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From: John Ludlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XML files and large chunks of XML

 

I'm using v2.0.3719.0.  If this is fixed in 3.0, then I may trial it now rather than waiting for release.  This would save me a whole bunch of trouble if I can get it to work.  What were the field lengths adjusted to?  In the version I have, it seems to be set to 255 (which I get by opening the .MSI in Orca and going  to Tables>Adjust Schema and selecting  the Value column).

 

I wasn't expecting the column width to make much difference since this is all referenced through a property, which I figured would be dragged out then parsed, and then the CA would use the parsed value.  What seems to be happening (which I guess makes a kind of sense) is that it's trying to set the expanded value of the property is being stuffed back into the field, and it's complaining because that happens to be quite long.

 

On 6/8/06, Derek Cicerone <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

If the limitation is the length of the string in the column, we should fix that.  However, I think these limits were adjusted upwards a while ago.  What version of wix are you using (as reported by candle /?)?

 

Thanks,

Derek

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Ludlow
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Subject: [WiX-users] XML files and large chunks of XML

 

Hi all,

 

I have a requirement to take an old XML file and copy all the settings from /configuration/appsettings (which could be 20 or 30 settings) to the new xml file.  I've managed to get this ito a property, but when I try to reference it in the XmlFile element it dies horribly.  Now, I'm also setting another value in the same file, and that works fine.  This is the first time that I've tried writing a big chunk of XML at once, and I think that's what's cauing it to fail.

 

The column in the table has a maximum length of 255 characters - does this mean that the XML handler can only shift 255 characters at a time?  If so, then the amount of data I want to write is more than that.  What's the best way of writing a lot of data at once?

 

Thanks

 

John

 

 

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