You should be able to build on Vista using WiX. As luck would have it, I
just completed MSI 4.0 support in WiX on Tuesday. However, you may have
noticed that the latest weekly release did not actually contain updated
bits. Once we update the bits (hopefully next week), WiX will support all
of MS
Does current WiX 3.0 support building MSIs on Vista beta 2?
Does current WiX 3.0 support building MSIs using MSI 4.0 features
(available on Vista beta 2)?
Thanks.
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Hello,
I'm writing an installer for an application I'm working on. The
application interacts with IE and another application that I provide.
Is there an easy way to get a WiX installer to force the user to close
all the open instances of these applications before it will continue?
Or do I have to
That is weird because if nothing else, the property should be
resolved to the empty string if it doesn’t exist. You should look for
instances of WindowsFolder.guid in a verbose installation log to get a better
idea of what’s going on.
Derek
From: Neil Sleightholm
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I'm not sure I am making sense, the problem is that the
Value part of the registry is set to [WindowsFolder.moduleguid] which
doesn't resolve to a valid standard folder so it gets written to the registry as
[WindowsFolder.moduleguid].
Neil
From: Derek Cicerone
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Sorry, I missed that part. It sounds like everything is working
from your description. What leads you to believe the modularization is causing
your setup to fail (and how is your setup failing)?
From: Neil Sleightholm
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Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:
Derek
I'm not sure I fully understand the question beyond what I
wrote "In this example [WindowsFolder] ended up as
[WindowsFolder.moduleguid]." Is that what you where
asking?
Neil
From: Derek Cicerone
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20:48To: Neil Sleightholm
The modulararization is correct. Please see http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms700896.aspx
In your final msm file, does the [WindowsFolder] value in the
Registry entry also get modularized? If not, that could be a bug.
Derek
From:
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Makes sense. My thoughts were more down the lines of using 3rd party files and
needing to make sure those dependencies are
installed ... things like mscomm32.ocx being installed in the windows\system32
directory ... up to now I never knew that reference
counting wasn't at a higher level than eac
I think we
have found a bug in WiX (both 2 and 3) concerning the "modularization" of
various field values when making a merge module. As we understand it "modularization" means appending the module GUID to things like
component names to make them unique when actually merged into an MSI. The W
That is why we encourage everyone to be very careful with component guids
and when possible install to private locations.
If you have several products which share some common files, you don't need
merge modules to achieve that. Just ensure that you author those common
components once and share th
I just setup a test scenario proving to myself what Rob was saying and now my
mind is completely blown. A file will be deleted from
disk and registration information orphaned when that file is installed by 2
different installers (in the same directory) using 2
different component GUIDs.
I'll be
I've never used SQL before and I am having a hard time trying to understand
what each field is doing do you know of a good place to look up an example?
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Thank goodness there is no way to do that right now! I would hate an
installation that messed with my monitor resolution.
Derek
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Hi,
Is it possible to create a ListView that is like the ‘details’
view in Explorer? E.g.:
Thanks,
Stephen
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Ok. I read the blog(s).
If 2 unrelated installs install the same shared file (say comctl32.ocx) both
the installs need to use the same GUID for the
component that contains the comctl32.ocx file so that reference counting isn't
thrown askew?
And if that is the case then the comctl32.ocx author'
Title: Message
Brian Simoneau wrote:
Do you mean that the system menu font is not
overridable using Windows Installer or that there are no Windows APIs
for changing it directly?
If MSI is using a context menu for the selection tree drop-down (I
think it is) then MSI would have to d
Title: Message
Do you
mean that the system menu font is not overridable using Windows
Installer or that there are no Windows APIs for changing it
directly?
-Brian
Simoneau
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Ah. You know, I skimmed that when I first started working on this, and it went
in one ear and out the other... Argh.
Well, in a sense this answer helps me anyway. I'm trying to use the
tag, but the service I'm trying to work with is in one of the
"throwaway" .wxs files. This gives me a good en
PS: It is for all these reasons that tallow does not generate GUIDs for you
today. It is very, very difficult to do correctly in all cases. You may be
able to create specialized solutions targeted for your needs... but a
solution that works for everyone every time is a lot more involved (and, I
b
It can be worse than that. If any of those Files are shared across
different Products that can be installed on the user's machine, you can get
into scenarios where the Files are incorrectly reference counted. I tried
to capture much of the trickiness here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/200
If you change the GUID for the components then they are totally different
components regardless of their contents ... so yes
upgrading in the future would be limited to a major upgrade only i believe.
Dave Williamson
Clear Sky Software
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704.554.6300 support
704.943.0585 fax
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Hello all:
I'm wondering if there are reasons why I should not be setting up and
organizing
my WiX projects the way I currently am. I have an nmake file that runs tallow
across the files that I want to install. The .xml file that is produced then
gets processed by two perl scripts. The first (
I think that as long as you use a new product code and the
same upgrade code, you should be fine. The major upgrade will force and
uninstall of the previous version before the new one is installed.
You can use 'dark' to create the initial WiX code from the
already deployed installer and
roxana wrote:
> I'd like my MSI package to check the screen resolution for the logged-in
>
The ScreenX and ScreenY properties are set by MSI.
> and to change it to 1280/1024.
There's no built-in way to change the resolution.
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Brian Simoneau wrote:
Large font in a SelectionTree
I am creating a user interface using
large fonts. I set the DefaultUIFont property to a TextStyle with a
large font size. This correctly uses the large font size for text
controls, buttons, and other controls. The problem is tha
Bahar Shah wrote:
> After I finish my installation I get the "unexpected error occured
> installing this package. The error code is 2762"
> Any idea why I might be getting this error ? I suspect this is due to
> a deferred custom action. Any idea on how to get rid of this ?
Deferred CAs must be
Dave:
We accomplished this by an uninstall of the previous version (non-WiX-based
MSI) and full feature install of the current version (WiX-based MSI).
Instead of using merge modules, we created WiX fragment files for each of
the "merge" packages that are linked for the final MSI output.
It ma
Hi list,
I'd like my MSI package to check the screen resolution for the logged-in
user account (or for the local machine instead, if it's not possible)
and to change it to 1280/1024. I hopped that a search in the registry
for the key which is in charge with the default screen resolution will
h
I thought I would
find this answer in the archives but did not.
What is the best way
to move an existing application that is deployed in the field via VS.NET 2003
installer project to a WiX based deployment?
Major upgrade is a
given but what has to be authored on the Wix side to get it t
Title: Large font in a SelectionTree
I am creating a user interface using large fonts. I set the DefaultUIFont property to a TextStyle with a large font size. This correctly uses the large font size for text controls, buttons, and other controls. The problem is that in the SelectionTree co
Rob Hamflett schrieb:
> Really? I'm not correcting you, I just find it strange. As a work around
> you could have a custom
> action that sets the QtExecCmdLine property from another property you use for
> the reg search.
This gives me a compiler Error. It sais all characters of
According to MSDN that means "Cannot write script record. Transaction not
started." Hmm, not sure
what to do with that, sorry.
Rob
Bahar Shah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After I finish my installation I get the "unexpected error occured
> installing this package. The error code is 2762"
> Any idea why
Alexander Gnauck wrote:
> The problem here is that Properties set from RegistrySearch must be all
> capital characetrs
Really? I'm not correcting you, I just find it strange. As a work around you
could have a custom
action that sets the QtExecCmdLine property from another property you use for
Hi,After I finish my installation I get the "unexpected error occured installing this package. The error code is 2762"Any idea why I might be getting this error ? I suspect this is due to a deferred custom action. Any idea on how to get rid of this ?
RegardsBahar
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Hello.
I am trying to create shortcuts in MSI for files listed in MSM.
I wrote following code:
Shortcut is not created and.
In log file I found error 2715 for that shortcut, which means "The
specified File key not found in the File table." while the file with
such File key IS presented in File
Hello,
i have to uninstall the previous version of the program which i install
with MSI now. The old version is not an MSI installer (Inno Setup). It
will be uninstalled with a uninstaller exe. I grab the Path to the
uninstall program from the registry using and write it
to a public property.
Starting with the latest release, we have now exposed all strings which
appear during installation in the extensions to localization. This means
that you now need to specify the language of strings you would like to use
when you run light. This can be done by providing -cultures:en-us on the
ligh
Having updated to 3.0.2002 I get some strange errors during linking. Can you
tell me what to do?
Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Linker version 3.0.2002.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2003. All rights reserved.
E:\delivery\Dev\wix_public\src\ext\utilextension\wixlib\UtilExtension.wxs
Self reg is strongly discouraged and ordering the components is not
supported. WiX will create the rows in random order, MSI can execute them
in whatever order it wants. The best way to handle your scenario is to pull
all the registration from the dll files upfront using either tallow or heat.
Ot
My product setup includes MSM with specific runtime environment.
I want be sure that components from that MSM are installed first.
More over, this MSM have self-registered COM components and they must be
registered in predefined order. (I know that self-registration is very
not recommended)
I al
My product setup includes MSM with specific runtime environment.
I want be sure that components from that MSM are installed first.
More over, this MSM have self-registered COM components and they must be
registered in predefined order. (I know that self-registration is very
not recommended)
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