Thanks for everyone's help. I still haven't resolved why this is not working for me after trying numerous suggestions, but the more I work with Wix the more I learn.
Thanks again everyone. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:28 AM, CoolBreeze <coolbreeze...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion Rob. The only problem is that this is a older > version of CSLA we use 3.6.2 and on Rockford's website he no longer provides > an installer. This should not be much of a road block, because you can get > the source and within the Setup Project find the GUID. I've done this and > for some reason it still will not work. Below is that I have. > > <Property Id="CSLA"> > <ComponentSearch Id="cslaPath" > Guid="B71EFC75-5891-437F-96F9-E2347C9F4FB4" /> > > </Property> > <Condition Message="CSLA 3.6.2 must be installed before you can continue > with the installation.">Installed OR CSLA</Condition> > > Am I doing this check incorrectly? > > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com>wrote: > >> How about a ComponentSearch instead of a FileSearch? >> >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, CoolBreeze <coolbreeze...@googlemail.com >> >wrote: >> >> > Thanks for the reply Chad. I've tried increasing the Depth to say 4 as >> well >> > as providing and absolute path to the assembly and when I compile, I get >> > the >> > following error: >> > >> > Error 1 When the parent DirectorySearch/@Depth attribute is >> greater >> > than 1 for the DirectorySearch 'GACPath', the FileSearch/@Id attribute >> must >> > be absent for FileSearch 'CslaFileSearch' unless the parent >> > DirectorySearch/@AssignToProperty attribute value is 'yes'. Remove the >> > FileSearch/@Id attribute for 'CslaFileSearch' to resolve this issue. >> > >> > >> C:\Source\MS-Intelliscript\ProjectDeployments\ProjectDeployments\eCoPayWebSite.Setup\ConditionChecks.wxi >> > 18 1 eCoPayWebSite.Setup >> > >> > Now I've also tried removing the ID for my FileSearch as the error >> > suggests, >> > but each time I run the installer it stops with my Condition message not >> > matter what I try. >> > >> > I'm trying to essentially provide a base path of %systemroot%\assembly\ >> and >> > have the installer do a recursive search for the assembly I specify >> within >> > my FileSearch as the assembly could reside in a number of sub-folders >> like >> > you specified. I must be missing something simple, because it doesn't >> seem >> > that it should be so difficult to get this to work. >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Chad Petersen >> > <chad.peter...@harlandfs.com>wrote: >> > >> > > If you run a CMD prompt and change to c:\windows\assembly folder and >> > > then do a DIR you will likely see GAC, GAC_32 and GAC_MSIL as >> > > subfolders. Yours is apparently in GAC_MSIL. From there it has folders >> > > following a name similar to your DLL name. Then a <version> specific >> > > folder in which your DLL will likely reside. You might try including >> the >> > > additional folders in your search or possibly increasing the Depth= to >> > > something more like 3. >> > > >> > > Path="%systemroot%\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Csla\<version>" >> > > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > From: CoolBreeze [mailto:coolbreeze...@googlemail.com] >> > > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 1:15 PM >> > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> > > Subject: [WiX-users] Problem searching GAC for installed assembly >> > > >> > > I'm having some problems with getting a condition I've defined to work >> > > properly. I have the following condition defined and I'm trying to >> have >> > > the >> > > installer search the GAC for the existence of the assembly. If the >> > > assembly >> > > isn't present I don't want to proceed with the installation, because >> > > it's a >> > > pre-requisite that it must already exist. >> > > >> > > <Property Id="CSLA"> >> > > <DirectorySearch Id="GACPath" Path="%systemroot%\assembly\" >> > > Depth="0" >> > > AssignToProperty="no"> >> > > <FileSearch Id="CslaFileSearch" Name="Csla.dll" /> >> > > </DirectorySearch> >> > > </Property> >> > > <Condition Message="CSLA 3.6.2 must be installed before you can >> continue >> > > with the installation.">Installed OR CSLA</Condition> >> > > >> > > Can anyone see what the problem might be? Each time I start the >> > > installer, >> > > it comes up saying that CSLA must be installed, even on a machine that >> > > does >> > > have it installed under C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Csla\... >> > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > ------ >> > > Create and publish websites with WebMatrix >> > > Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; >> > > WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish >> > > your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > WiX-users mailing list >> > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > Create and publish websites with WebMatrix >> > > Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; >> > > WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish >> > > your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > WiX-users mailing list >> > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > Create and publish websites with WebMatrix >> > Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; >> > WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish >> > your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf >> > _______________________________________________ >> > WiX-users mailing list >> > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. 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