[WiX-users] Patching Problem

2006-06-16 Thread Brower, Jason
All,   I am running into problems when deploying the msp patch files.  Everything compiles properly and the msp is successfully created.  However, dlls that have changed are not installed when the msp patch is applied.  Below is the output generated by MsiMsp and it looks to be including

Re: [WiX-users] What makes ClickThrough per-user?

2006-06-16 Thread Don Tasanasanta
ClickThrough generated a wix file with several errors. i was able to repair the errors and run the resulting MSI but i didn't install under the User context. all the test installs i have created have all worked under Admin (as expected).   i have tested with DisableUserInstalls = 0 and also d

Re: [WiX-users] What makes ClickThrough per-user?

2006-06-16 Thread Bob Arnson
Don Tasanasanta wrote: this is the install log that i'm getting from  your example code. Does ClickThrough generate an MSI that installs for you? What's the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\DisableUserInstalls? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall a system tray program --a strange probl em

2006-06-16 Thread Rob Mensching
FYI, WiX v3 has an called CloseApplications that does just that.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Watkins, Jon Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:42 AM To: '???'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall a system tray program --

Re: [WiX-users] Product clashes

2006-06-16 Thread Francis Kam
Oh man, that's hilarious.  Unfortunately, it was long enough ago that I can't remember the product that it tried to uninstall.-FrancisOn 6/16/06, Rob Hamflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:After a lot of testing and talking to ATI, it seems the problem is that the ATI uninstaller is indiscriminately r

Re: [WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_VERSION

2006-06-16 Thread Rob Mensching
Package/@InstallerVersion -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:53 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_VERSION I'm not seeing this in any of the X

Re: [WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_VERSION

2006-06-16 Thread Rob Mensching
100. By default the WiX toolset assumes you want to have the farthest reach possible... all the way back to the very first version of the Windows Installer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Foster, Richard - PAL Sent: Friday, June 16, 200

Re: [WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_VERSION

2006-06-16 Thread Foster, Richard - PAL
Just out of curiosity... What is the default for this. I assume at least 200, but has it now been updated to 300? Regards, Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Simoneau Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 14:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix

Re: [WiX-users] What makes ClickThrough per-user?

2006-06-16 Thread Don Tasanasanta
this is the install log that i'm getting from  your example code.   the actual popup window i get says:   "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation."     __   Don Tasanasanta VIACK Corporation 425-605-7423     From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_VERSION

2006-06-16 Thread Brian Simoneau
The InstallerVersion attribute of the Package element. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE

Re: [WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_VERSION

2006-06-16 Thread wix
I'm not seeing this in any of the XML files I created...which attribute/node am I looking for? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Wilson Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:32 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ER

Re: [WiX-users] Registering help files and deploying them to thehelp collection

2006-06-16 Thread Francis Kam
We use the Help Integration Wizard that's part of VS 2005 SDK.  Might be worth a look.-FrancisOn 6/13/06, Kalappa Pattar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,     Yes, I was talking about Help 2.0 Hxs files. I implemented the functionality by modifying MSHelp2_RegTables__RT

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Derek Cicerone
You need to modify the sources file for the ConfigureSql custom action.  It’s in sca.wxs – sorry, you’re modifying sca.wixlib.   Derek   From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Scott Sam
I didn’t see it anywhere in the wixca.wxs file.  What sources files do I need to edit?   From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:38 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue   That’

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Derek Cicerone
That’s way too soon to take a dependency upon WiX 3.0.  You’ll have to manually modify the sources of wixca.wixlib to move ConfigureSql to a later sequence number so you can fit your custom action in-between.   Derek   From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, Jun

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Scott Sam
Next early next month.   From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:38 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue   In 2.0 you’ll need to manually change the wixlibs to change the sequ

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Derek Cicerone
In 2.0 you’ll need to manually change the wixlibs to change the sequencing.  It’s very inconvenient and a little risky.  This was one of the first issues (if not the first) tackled when I worked on 3.0.  In 3.0 the sequencer is much more intelligent about squeezing actions between others an

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Scott Sam
2.0   From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:49 AM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue   Are you using WiX 2.0 or 3.0?  I’m pretty sure this should work in 3.0 but probably not

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Derek Cicerone
Are you using WiX 2.0 or 3.0?  I’m pretty sure this should work in 3.0 but probably not 2.0.   Derek   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 8:41 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Another Se

[WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Scott Sam
I have a custom action that runs and executable, called dbinstallation.exe, which is installed in the installation.  The executable updates/creates the databases our software uses.  Dbinstallation reads an xml file the is created with the SchedXmlFile action.  In the installation we also in

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Consultant Available?

2006-06-16 Thread Christopher Painter
We do product line development also ( but not localized due to the industry that I'm in )  and while considerations do feed into how we componentize, arrange and build the projects do result of this, I think of that as product line, build automation and source control issues more then I do windows

Re: [WiX-users] DiFx problem with recent WiX

2006-06-16 Thread Derek Cicerone
DifxApp functionality was removed from the native wix schema and put into an extension - WixDifxAppExtension. To fix your authoring, you can do the following: 1. Run "wixcop -f *.wxs" to fix your sources files for the new schema (this will also modify whitespace so be sure to backup your sources b

Re: [WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_VERSION

2006-06-16 Thread Phil Wilson
This typically means that schema of the MSI file (such as 200 for MSI 2.0) is higher than the current version of MSI on the system. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 7:45 AM To: wix-users@

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Consultant Available?

2006-06-16 Thread Derek Cicerone
There’s actually quite a bit that can be done in designing how a wix setup is organized and integrated with a build process.  It becomes particularly interesting for groups which ship 40 languages times a hundred or so SKUs (you can guess who these groups might be) because the amount of aut

[WiX-users] DiFx problem with recent WiX

2006-06-16 Thread Chris Skepper
Hi All, I can't seem to use DiFx to install device drivers with WiX 3.0.1703.0 in the same way that I could with WiX 3.0.1319.0. I realise the syntax has changed so that there is supposed to be a separate "Driver" element rather just attributes of the "Component" element. I get the error "CND

[WiX-users] ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_VERSION

2006-06-16 Thread wix
Hello,   I tried to re-create my install set for an app I haven’t touched in a few months.  However, I get this error when I start my MSI:   Windows Installer Error 1613 This installation package cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service. You must install a Windows service p

Re: [WiX-users] Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Bob Arnson
Ed Russell wrote: They are just normal files... The CA is linking to a database that has been copied during install and performing some updates; I've tried putting it after InstallFiles but it seems to be doing it in some patch phase rather than after the files have actually been copied whic

Re: [WiX-users] Determine if in rollback mode fromnon-deferred customaction.

2006-06-16 Thread Bob Arnson
dangle123 ... wrote: > > The reason I wanted to create and execute an immediate custom action > is because on uninstall I want to remove all files not created by the > installer package in a folder created by the installer package. This > way the standard action "RemoveFolders" can remove the f

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall a system tray program --a strange probl em

2006-06-16 Thread Watkins, Jon
It sounds like our application is complaining because it's removed with out shutting down. You might try creating a custom action DLL to shut down / exit the systems tray application from a custom action during the uninstall before the files are removed.  -Jon From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Consultant Available?

2006-06-16 Thread Christopher Painter
I thought of that myself  but since Joseph said he wants the `design` reviewed before it went to a remote team for implementation I'm not sure there would be an MSI output to inspect.   `Design` for installers is interesting eitherway.  WindowsInstaller has so many patterns built into it that I'

Re: [WiX-users] RFC: Moving Wix 3.0 to use the .NET Framework 2.0

2006-06-16 Thread Albert van Peppen
I don't see any problems with this; most of our environments are running VS 2005 or is a Windows 2003 Server as compileserver, on which .NET 2.0 is installed for various uses. And i suppose you should think about future development possibilities in new environments such as .NET 2.0 whenever

Re: [WiX-users] Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Ed Russell
Hi there, They are just normal files... The CA is linking to a database that has been copied during install and performing some updates; I've tried putting it after InstallFiles but it seems to be doing it in some patch phase rather than after the files have actually been copied which confused me

Re: [WiX-users] Product clashes

2006-06-16 Thread Rob Hamflett
I've been told they're implementing a fix, so future versions should be better behaved. Rob Dave Williamson wrote: > Wow! What in the world kind of logic is that! > > Very good to know. > > Dave > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Consultant Available?

2006-06-16 Thread Frederik Carlier
You may try looking for a MSI consultant, in general. They should, at least, be able to inspect the output MSI.   Frederik.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Barkley Sent: woensdag 14 juni 2006 23:39 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Su

[WiX-users] Uninstall a system tray program --a strange problem

2006-06-16 Thread 周和文
I have an app stay in the system tray when it is minimized.But when it is minimized it can be uninstall by the windows installer without any warning message. And the app.exe is deleted while the app is still running.However,when the app exit,it encounter an memory error! Has u guys encounte

Re: [WiX-users] Product clashes

2006-06-16 Thread Dave Williamson
Wow! What in the world kind of logic is that! Very good to know. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hamflett Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:10 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Product clashes After

Re: [WiX-users] Product clashes

2006-06-16 Thread Rob Hamflett
After a lot of testing and talking to ATI, it seems the problem is that the ATI uninstaller is indiscriminately removing any product with the uppercase letters 'ATI' in it's name. Does this sound like the cause of your past problem? Rob Francis Kam wrote: > I don't have the answer, but I can

[WiX-users] Determine if in rollback mode fromnon-deferred customaction.

2006-06-16 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:21:13 -0700, dangle123 ... wrote: Leo, > custom action. If the "RemoveFolders" action sees that there are > files in a folder that was not created by the installer package it > will not remove the folder... You also have RemoveFile at your disposal... Bye, Gábor ---

Re: [WiX-users] Determine if in rollback mode fromnon-deferred customaction.

2006-06-16 Thread dangle123 ...
The reason I wanted to create and execute an immediate custom action is because on uninstall I want to remove all files not created by the installer package in a folder created by the installer package.  This way the standard action "RemoveFolders" can remove the folder that the installer created