Re: [WiX-users] Installing cert using WiX 3.0

2006-12-04 Thread Rennie Sawade (Volt)
All I want to do is install the cert. I don't want to do anything with configuring IIS. Does that mean that I should do it in a custom action instead of using the IIS extension? Rennie From: Joe Kaplan on behalf of Joe Kaplan Sent: Mon 12/4/2006 9:03 PM To

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Error text - with new line

2006-12-04 Thread Rob Mensching
Can't you just author Properties with newlines in them? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Pavlik Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 01:20 To: Rob Hamflett Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Error text - wi

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2006-12-04 Thread Supported
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Re: [WiX-users] Installing cert using WiX 3.0

2006-12-04 Thread Joe Kaplan
It looks like you are missing the culture switch. Does your command line look something like this: light -ext wixiisextension.dll -cultures:en-US -out xxx.msi xxx.wixobj Note that the current IIS CA does not install certificates unless you have other IIS stuff defined as the CA that schedules

Re: [WiX-users] Installing cert using WiX 3.0

2006-12-04 Thread Cullen Waters
You have to include cultures:en-us (or whatever culture your installer is for) on the light command line, in wix v3. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rennie Sawade (Volt) Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 5:19 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Optional Service Start - Help Needed

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Osmond
Hello Emma, You can't set the value of a property using another property in that manner. You actually need to use another CustomAction. You will also need to schedule this Custom Action. Michael _ From: Emma Hanna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 5 December 2006

Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist

2006-12-04 Thread David Thielen
Hi; This looks great. Two questions. First the easy one - which version of the WIndows installer do I need to require so I can then run my wix install. Second, how do I tie this in to my installer? Is there a way in it to include it with my MSI and/or have it start downloading & running my ms

Re: [WiX-users] Optional Service Start - Help Needed

2006-12-04 Thread Emma Hanna
Hi Michael This worked - thank you. However, in order to get it to work properly I had to set the value of the command line directly to the net.exe - i.e. I need to use the system folder property like so: But this fails, as it does not evaluate the property. Could someo

Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist

2006-12-04 Thread Rob MacFadyen
David, The most recent version does: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2A5E4EBC-651C-40AA- 9525-1810AF47C317 &displaylang=en Regards, Rob _ From: [

Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist

2006-12-04 Thread David Thielen
Hi; That looks great except... It does not include the two we need - .NET 2.0 and J# 2.0. thanks - dave From: Michael Osmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 12/4/2006 7:33 PM To: David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Ne

Re: [WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Osmond
Dave, You could have a look at the "Microsoft Component Installer" (PSetup). It provides a bootstrap that will install your redistributables and then your app. The redistributables can be got from local source or the web. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994369.aspx Michael _

[WiX-users] Need recomendation - including .NET redist

2006-12-04 Thread David Thielen
Hi; We have had feedback from 4 potential customers that having .NET 2.0 as a prerequisite with the message taking them to the download made our installer "too difficult and too complicated" (and note - these are programmers!) So we need to have installing the .NET framework (and J# redist) a

[WiX-users] Installing cert using WiX 3.0

2006-12-04 Thread Rennie Sawade (Volt)
I tried to install a CA certificate using: I then get quite a few LGHT0102 errors from the linker for different "localization variables". Such as "The localization variable !(loc.ConfigureIIs) is unkown. Please ensure the variable is defined. The error repeats for other variables such

Re: [WiX-users] Need help with a CustomTable

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Dimmick
At least in version 3.0.2015.0, that shouldn't happen, because the call to String.Split asks it to return a maximum of two substrings. This will cause problems if you use a colon in the column name, but should be OK if you use it in the data. I'm not really sure why this uses delimiters in the

Re: [WiX-users] Detect Windows installer version...

2006-12-04 Thread Rod
This is exactly what I needed. Thanks ! Best regards, Rod Mike Dimmick wrote: > This error is code 1723. It indicates that there was a problem running a > custom action implemented in a DLL. > > In your case we're assuming that since it runs on one service pack but not > another, that there's s

Re: [WiX-users] Optional Service Start - Help Needed

2006-12-04 Thread Wilson, Phil
A guess: most likely the UI is setting a property that's used as a condition on the component, let's assume it's the component that installs the service and starts it. If the value of the property is not preserved but is used again as a condition on uninstall the service won't uninstall because the

Re: [WiX-users] Sharing a network folder

2006-12-04 Thread gboreki
Thank you for the help, it worked indeed. De:"Rob Mensching" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para:"gboreki" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cópia:"wix-users" wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Data:Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:41:39 -0800 Assunto:RE: [WiX-users] Sharing a network folder Well, if you use the same Directory/@Id as th

Re: [WiX-users] Sharing a network folder

2006-12-04 Thread Rob Mensching
Well, if you use the same Directory/@Id as the Id in the Property/RegistrySearch then I think you'll get what you want. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gboreki Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 03:29 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Sharing a n

[WiX-users] Windows Installer Patch question

2006-12-04 Thread Ronald A. Buckton
I'm using WiX to generate my installers as well as to generate a pcp file for MsiMsp. I noticed something odd and I can't find any documentation to back up what's going on when I install my patch. Here's the situation: I generate an msi to serve as a small update (QFE) and from that and the or

Re: [WiX-users] WiX website is confusing

2006-12-04 Thread Scott Palmer
Done. Request ID 1608479 On 12/1/06, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Great point. Can you open a bug so we don't lose this? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay

Re: [WiX-users] Sharing a network folder

2006-12-04 Thread gboreki
De:"Rob Mensching" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para:"gboreki" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cópia:"wix-users" wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Data:Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:06:14 -0800 Assunto:RE: [WiX-users] Sharing a network folder Adding wix-users back on. I would use AppSearch to read the registry value and use that

Re: [WiX-users] Sharing a network folder

2006-12-04 Thread gboreki
How can i set the "directory value" to the value of a property? De:"Rob Mensching" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para:"gboreki" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cópia:"wix-users" wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Data:Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:06:14 -0800 Assunto:RE: [WiX-users] Sharing a network folder Adding wix-users back o

Re: [WiX-users] WiX website is confusing

2006-12-04 Thread Rob Hamflett
One other thing, I'm fairly sure that there is still no mention of the newsgroup which mirrors the wix-users mailing list. Rob Rob Mensching wrote: > Great point. Can you open a bug so we don’t lose this? > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Scott P

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveFile and RemoveFolder confusion

2006-12-04 Thread Rob Hamflett
According to the docs, the path given when using a Property element needs to resolve to the full path. Rob Magus wrote: > I get an error when trying to run the application if I have those liines of > code in. "Could not access network Location Saves". Note that this is > while trying to instal

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Error text - with new line

2006-12-04 Thread Stefan Pavlik
It is possible to use new line character sequence in MSI!!! My solution: Use Immediate CA (C++ Dll) to fill the public property (e.g. CRLF) with "\r\n" and then use the [CRLF] in the Error table. It works perfect. Hope that it will help somebody. Stefan Rob Hamflett wrote: > You can't force ne