Taking the simple ones: ICE33 warns if you're not advertising your COM objects. Generally advertised COM objects are not now recommended because they can cause installer dialogs to apparently appear randomly (as far as the user is concerned). This warning is generally ignored by most people, and light v3 suppresses ICE33 by default.
ICE66 says that MsiFileHash was new in Windows Installer 2.0 (there is actually no version 1.5) but you've declared that your package works from v1.0 upwards. MsiFileHash is automatically generated by light as it can prevent unnecessary cabinet references which might be useful in web download or administrative image scenarios - it's basically used to prevent unnecessarily overwriting an unchanged existing file. You can ignore this warning - it does no harm, Windows Installer before 2.0 simply ignores the table and overwrites the file anyway - but you can prevent it by setting Package/@InstallerVersion to 150 or higher. ICE74 - UpgradeCode is used by the Upgrade feature (for major upgrades) to detect the presence of different versions of the same product, so that the RemoveExistingProducts action can do its job. You should always set an UpgradeCode for any package you intend to later upgrade with a major upgrade, which in effect means you should do it for all packages. Set Product/@UpgradeCode to a GUID, then keep the same upgrade code for all future versions of the product. ICE82 - You've probably specified some action as occurring before ProgressDlg. Consider changing it to occur before ResumeDlg instead. Alternatively, set it to occur after CostFinalize, if it is not itself a dialog. Once the first modal dialog has been shown, dialogs proceed in the order specified by NewDialog events, not in the UI sequence. Only when the last modal dialog has been shown does it proceed to the next action in the UI sequence. Generally you only run one chain of modal dialogs (packages typically have three chains, one for starting an installation, one for resuming a suspended installation, and one for maintenance). The more debatable, and difficult to resolve, ones are ICE57 and ICE90. It's recommended that components only install files to either per-machine areas (e.g. ProgramFilesFolder, HKLM) or to per-user areas. It's important to understand that the key path for a component is the only thing checked to decide whether to install the component. Once the decision has been taken to install the component, all the resources described in the component are installed. The SDK says "Mixing per-user and per-machine data in the same component could result in only partial installation of the component for some users in a multi-user environment." You should place the per-machine resources into a separate component from the per-user resources. ICE90 says that "[a] shortcut specified by a public property may not work if the value of the ALLUSERS property changes." It's recommended that the directory that shortcuts are placed into is not a configurable directory. -- Mike Dimmick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Elmegaard Sent: 19 July 2007 14:40 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Got the msi I wanted working Hi, finally I have been able to take the time and read this list, the tuorial and the help file carefully. I seem to have everything working as intended. I only have a few warnings when running msival2. I am not sure if I should be bothered because of warnings. The warnings I have are as shown below. If anyone would care to comment I would appreciate it: ICE33 WARNING Reg key reg7EF074BB025A80CBFE2087521879C64E is used in an unsupported way. ProgId should be registered via the ProgId table. This entry may overwrite a value created through that table. ICE57 WARNING Component 'component15' has both per-user and per-machine data with an HKCU Registry KeyPath. ICE66 WARNING Complete functionality of the MsiFileHash table is only available with Windows Installer version 1.5. Your schema is 100 ICE74 WARNING The UpgradeCode property is not authored in the Property table. It is strongly recommended that authors of installation packages specify an UpgradeCode for their application. ICE82 WARNING This action ResumeDlg has duplicate sequence number 1298 in the table InstallUISequence ICE90 WARNING The shortcut 'dnamanushortcut' has a directory that is a public property (ALL CAPS) and is under user profile directory. This results in a problem if the value of the ALLUSERS property changes in the UI sequence. tia, -- Brian (remove the sport for mail) http://www.et.web.mek.dtu.dk/Staff/be/be.html http://www.rugbyklubben-speed.dk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. 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