Hi Rob and Rob,
Thanks, that is exactly what i needed. I will leave only 1 database
file. Our customers often uninstall the old version if they update and
forget to backup their databases.
Alex
Rob Mensching schrieb:
> Rob is right. Permanent is better than absent GUID because you can still
What I need done is to have Dsetup.exe to run. But it requires dsetup.dll and
some .cab's. I keep getting an erro saying it doens't know where the
dsetup.dll is. I thought of must making them components and just running a
cleanup and deleting them after I used them but I am required not to do it
Custom actions are extracted to Windows\Installer as they are run. Other
binary entries are treated differently (they may not even be extracted to a
temp location). In general, you cannot use any information about what MSI
does with the binaries in your setup because it may change in the future.
Unknown. Not documented. Maybe nowhere... could be used straight out of
the MSI.
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Subject: [WiX-users] Temporary Directory
when using a entry where does it put those temporary files
when the program is running?
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ScrollableText Control type
Jeremy Farrell wrote:
> I agree totally. As far as I'm concerned this is a useful feature. I
> want to be sure the ProductCode changes every time, to ensure that it is
> impossible to do anything other than major upgrades. This may be an
> unusual requirement, but it's a valid one and I shouldn'
Please keep wix-users on the thread so everyone can participate.
Standa Kunc wrote:
There are no dialogs in my setups so I suppose they
support silent
installation. Or is there anything else needed to create silent
installation? Some checklist for silent installation?
If you use stan
Magus wrote:
OK I've been having a really bad time with this. For some reason it won't
display anything. I want it to display information form a .txt file since
its a lot smaller than a .rtf I have'nt really seen anywhere that says this
won't work and in all the other controls it works ju
Scott Sam wrote:
I want to
use the Minimal wixui because I
want the user to be able to just click next and have the install go,
but I don’t
want eula in it. Is there any way to use the regular welcomeDlg in
place
of the WelcomeEulaDlg. I get an error 2803 when I click the next
Title: RE: [WiX-users] rfc: Package element changes
Thanks for the feedback Jeremy. I think
that’s a valid concern, so the warning idea is definitely out. So it
sounds like the decision is basically between using * or lots of question
marks. If people feel that the star syntax is clearly
Title: RE: [WiX-users] rfc: Package element changes
From: Bob Arnson
Sent: Wed 8/2/2006 8:44 AM
>
> Derek Cicerone wrote:
> > I've done some more thinking about this. I think Rob's main objection with
> > making Product/@Id optional was that someone might accidentally forget to
> > specify i
OK I've been having a really bad time with this. For some reason it won't
display anything. I want it to display information form a .txt file since
its a lot smaller than a .rtf I have'nt really seen anywhere that says this
won't work and in all the other controls it works just fine. Is there
This is for a product we hope to release
in the next month, so we are using wix 2.0 right now. Is there any way to do
this with wix 2.0?
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To: 'Brian Beaudet';
wi
I got it working for the feature_tree
one. You have to remove the dialogref for the licenseagreementdlg. Then
delete these lines:
Then change this line
To
And change this line
to
And make sure you add the dialogref
But the minimal one seems to work
differen
I’m surprised Bob hasn’t
responded to this yet J
I’m not sure how it works in WiX
2.0, but in 3.0, doing something like this should be very easy since we moved
all the dialog flow into one file apiece for each of the dialog packs (mondo, minimal,
etc…). You can just take the single fil
Scott,
I have
the same concern except that I'm referencing the WixUI_FeatureTree. I
should say that I'm still working my way through the tutorial so the answer may
be in there but I'd sure like to hit the "easy" button and find a way to make
the license screen disappear. My installer is
Use MsiBreak environment variable instead.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/debugging_custom_actions.asp
Chesong Lee
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Are there any restriction on API used in MSI Custom Actions. When trying to
use DebugBreak() the program all together stopped running
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Title: Performance issues
What are the install times like if you
disable system restore? Apparently MSI installations take a large
up-front hit while loading on system restore and disabling it (assuming you don’t
use it), can speed things up quite a bit.
Derek
From:
[EMAIL
I want to use the Minimal wixui because I
want the user to be able to just click next and have the install go, but I don’t
want eula in it. Is there any way to use the regular welcomeDlg in place
of the WelcomeEulaDlg. I get an error 2803 when I click the next button
when I tried just cha
You should not be referencing a custom action from a merge
module in a main installation. Who wrote the custom action? If its
yours then you should use wixlib files instead of merge modules. If its
not yours, whoever did write it should have made it a table-driven custom action.
Dere
Title: Performance issues
Preaching to the choir there, we were using an old shonky
none msi version of installshield. It clearly did less work, it's just hard
explaining that to users/support staff, when all they see is the end result.
With the previous version the guy who wrote it put a mil
Title: Performance issues
Now that you have these comparisons, I suggest generating a
verbose log file and seeing where your time is spent in the Windows Installer.
Each action has a start and stop so that should be pretty easy. You may
find something surprising (like a CustomAction takin
Title: Performance issues
When you say you’ve replaced InstallShield with the WiX
toolset, what version of InstallShield did you replace? I ask because the
non-MSI versions of InstallShield used a scripting engine to do the
install. That engine (as I’ve been told) doesn’t do nearly
the sa
Rob is right. Permanent is better than absent GUID because you can still
patch the files. However, be very careful about what you leave behind. It
would be very, very bad to leave behind files that could have security
exploits in them. Nobody would know to patch them.
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Simon Porter wrote:
I'm trying to put together a simple msi that will install a bunch of fonts
that I can then deploy using active directory. The problem I'm getting
though is when I run the setup program it complains that it couldn't
register the fonts and to check I have sufficient permiss
Hello,
What is the correct way of installing files which i don't want to
uninstall later, or only uninstall with a custom action (eg. important
databases). I read that files in a component without GUID will not be
uninstalled. Is this the way to go?
Thanks Alex
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Hi
I
have a merge module that I created including all the files for a product, including
the exe.
I now
want to launch that exe at the end of my main wix project. I have tried using a
custom action which was created in the merge module as below
Re: [WiX-users] group policy
Standa Kunc wrote:
> I would like to create msi package (executable, shortcuts, file
> association) and use it with Group Policy in MS Windows Server 2003.
> Both server and client (MS Windows 2000) are running under Virtual PC
> (this should not be problem). I just can not do it properly.
>
> Coul
Title: Performance issues
InstallShield versions were compressed yes, I ran some
tests and here are the results (as accurate as I can get
them):
Installsheild
Versions:
Product
Size
Install
Time
Floodwork
Title: Message
FWIW I noticed when testing an MSI on our XP Embedded
units that MSIs w/ compression installed noticibly slower than the same
component set w/o compression. We install ~200+ files in various binary
and text formats.
_Bob Rafuse
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Title: Performance issues
Simon Topley wrote:
I'm sure this is a problem others have encounted. I
have now replace our suite of installsheild products with spanky new
WIX versions. I have managed to elimitnate a large amount of redundant
code (previous installers copied large amount
Hello,
I would like to create msi package (executable, shortcuts, file
association) and use it with Group Policy in MS Windows Server 2003.
Both server and client (MS Windows 2000) are running under Virtual PC
(this should not be problem). I just can not do it properly.
Could someone provide me e
I want to set up caspol policy for .net 2.0, if they are installed on
the target machine. I have this to check if it is installed.
Then I use this custom action to execute it.
I'm getting this error in the log file.
Action 9:36:00: CreateCaspol20CA.
MSI (s) (00:50) [09:
That's true, but I prefer to set [EMAIL PROTECTED]"yes". That way you can
still specify a GUID
and track it, patch it, etc.
Rob
Alexander Gnauck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the correct way of installing files which i don't want to
> uninstall later, or only uninstall with a custom action (e
Yes, You are absolutely wright! That is the problem...
Thank You
Best regards,
Peter G. Sakhno
C-MAP RUSSIA Ltd
http://www.c-map.ru/
Chesong Lee wrote:
> You may have to check if your custom action function has a correct function
> prototype:
>
> extern "C"
> __declspec(dllexport)
> UINT __st
Title: Performance issues
Good morning to the Brotherhood/Sisterhood,
I'm sure this is a problem others have encounted. I have now replace our suite of installsheild products with spanky new WIX versions. I have managed to elimitnate a large amount of redundant code (previous installers copi
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