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2007-01-05 Thread Alessandra Nguyen
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Re: [WiX-users] Iterating over Registry entries

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Charlie Poole wrote: > Hmmm... Sounds like a bit of trouble for a solution that can > never be quite right - since new versions of the CLR can be > added after NUnit is installed. > Yep and you can uninstall a CLR after installing a managed app. Setup != configuration. -- sig://boB http://b

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action DLL

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Lionel Pinkhard wrote: I just don't understand why nobody's done it already, am I the only one who needs ShellExec? Huh? I did do it already. It's shipping. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influenc

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action DLL

2007-01-05 Thread Lionel Pinkhard
I just don't understand why nobody's done it already, am I the only one who needs ShellExec? - Original Message - From: Bob Arnson To: Rob Mensching Cc: Wilson, Phil ; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:06 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom A

Re: [WiX-users] Iterating over Registry entries

2007-01-05 Thread Charlie Poole
Hmmm... Sounds like a bit of trouble for a solution that can never be quite right - since new versions of the CLR can be added after NUnit is installed. I think I'll simply check for a few known versions and put my effort into a post-install soution that discovers what runtimes are available - ma

Re: [WiX-users] Iterating over Registry entries

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Charlie Poole wrote: > Actually, multiple Mono installs can be present and it would be nice to > create entries for all of them. That would creaing a shortcut for each > subkey under a particular key. Any suggestions as to how to do this? > There's nothing like that in MSI. I'm assuming there ar

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AddLocal and Remove work pretty good, except that after my CD Key dialog > "Remove"s a component, the user can still change its status back to "Install > Locally" inside the SelectionTree. Is there any way to prevent this? > Just verifying: When you say "component" a

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action DLL

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Rob Mensching wrote: Why don't you guys just look at the authoring and CustomAction code for this in WiX v3? It should be trivial to port that to WiX v2 syntax and build it yourself... Bob's already done the testing and would probably save you a lot of trouble. And there's even a sample

Re: [WiX-users] More on GenerateBootstrapper task

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Feng
I think I just figured out the answer to my 2nd question which is set ComponentsLocation="Relative". Aaron On 1/5/07, Aaron Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone might have already asked this question, but I don't think anyone really answered it. For the BootstrapperFile element, where do I

[WiX-users] More on GenerateBootstrapper task

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Feng
Someone might have already asked this question, but I don't think anyone really answered it. For the BootstrapperFile element, where do I find all prerequisites values I can use inside of the Include attribute? I'm really interested in follow prerequisites: .NET 3.0, ReportViewer, and ADAM. I w

Re: [WiX-users] help with Tallow.exe error on Vista

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Dimmick
Debug your self-reg code and work out where it's returning E_FAIL. Yes, I know this is nasty. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Hoeger Sent: 04 January 2007 14:06 To: Peterson, Joel; Mike Dimmick; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with nested install of SQL Express 2005 in my installer

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Dimmick
SQL Server Express uses an MSI installer internally. You cannot run multiple Windows Installer install sessions concurrently, nor nest them. You need to create a bootstrapper EXE that will run the SQL Server Express installer, then your installer. See MSDN for bootstrapper samples. -- Mike Dimmic

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch Type=Registry

2007-01-05 Thread Brian Patton
If you ever intend to re-write a registry value looked up with RegistrySearch, it looks like writing it as a "string" (even if it's really a DWORD) will work, because the property is stored in a string-writeable format (i.e. DWORDs are written by RegistrySearch as #value, and Registry nodes will w

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread wix
Two MSI's was my next best choice...but seriously, 99.9% of my users think Orca is a type of whale, will not be convinced otherwise, and expect the correct Installer to pop up on the screen after they pop in the CD. If somebody wants it bad enough, well, they even had a large chunk of Windows

[WiX-users] Iterating over Registry entries

2007-01-05 Thread Charlie Poole
Hi All, My current install for NUnit looks for a particular registry entry and, if it is present, creates a shortcut for running NUnit under Mono. Actually, multiple Mono installs can be present and it would be nice to create entries for all of them. That would creaing a shortcut for each subkey

Re: [WiX-users] Is system folder property-ProgemMenuFolder compatible with Vista?

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
What version of the WiX toolset are you using? That'd be a bug in the compiler From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bei Liu (Volt) Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:40 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Is system folder property-ProgemMenuFolder com

[WiX-users] Is system folder property-ProgemMenuFolder compatible with Vista?

2007-01-05 Thread Bei Liu (Volt)
I'm trying to run the sample in the http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwingen/html/wixsetup.asp on a Vista machine. I have admin rights on this local machine. When use the "ProgramMenuFolder" in the wxs file as following: ... I got the following err

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action DLL

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Why don't you guys just look at the authoring and CustomAction code for this in WiX v3? It should be trivial to port that to WiX v2 syntax and build it yourself... Bob's already done the testing and would probably save you a lot of trouble. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] webdirproperties

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
WebDir's just aren't well supported in the WiX toolset. However, you might (I haven't tried) be able to specify the whole "web path" you want in the WebDir/@Path attribute. In your case, you could use Path="VirtualDir/Dir". It might work... it might not. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

Re: [WiX-users] Better handling of invalid mergeLanguage

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, can you open a bug with just that.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Appelgrenhttp://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEVhttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-usershttp://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify different INSTALLDIR than default"Program Files"

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
There are a sever things you need to do to get 64-bit installs to work correctly. I highly suggest reading all the related 64-bit topics in the MSI SDK. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anil Prasad Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 03:10 To: Peterson, Joel; wix-users@

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action DLL

2007-01-05 Thread Wilson, Phil
That code doesn't check the value returned by ShellExecute - for all you know it's returning ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND. I'd also put a diagnostic messagebox call to show szFullPath, just to make sure it's what its supposed to be. Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread Tony Hoyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AddLocal and Remove work pretty good, except that after my CD Key dialog > "Remove"s a component, the user can still change its status back to "Install > Locally" inside the SelectionTree. Is there any way to prevent this? > > Or maybe I'm being too ambitious trying to

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread wix
AddLocal and Remove work pretty good, except that after my CD Key dialog "Remove"s a component, the user can still change its status back to "Install Locally" inside the SelectionTree. Is there any way to prevent this? Or maybe I'm being too ambitious trying to provide a fully featured installer

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action DLL

2007-01-05 Thread Levi Wilson
Can I see how you have your .wxs file setup to call this? On 1/5/07, Lionel Pinkhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #include "Install.h" TCHAR *GetPath(MSIHANDLE hInstall, TCHAR *szFolder) { TCHAR* szPath = NULL; DWORD cchPath = 0; UINT uiStat = MsiGetProperty(hInstall, szFolder, TEXT("

Re: [WiX-users] Running an exe with a working directory

2007-01-05 Thread Patrick Steele
You are completely right Scott, thank you! :D Answer: NOT Installed Original Message Follows From: "Scott Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Patrick Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running an exe with a working directory Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:11:24 -0500 I th

Re: [WiX-users] How to Regasm a dll in WIX

2007-01-05 Thread Douglas Watts
NOTE: I'm using Wix 2.0.4415 I use Tallow to generate the Wix fragment. Here's an example of a command file I use to create a Wix file. Each component gets written to its own fragment so I edit the resulting WiX file to place all components into a single fragment (there may be an easier way).

Re: [WiX-users] How to Regasm a dll in WIX

2007-01-05 Thread Levi Wilson
Haven't done this myself yet, but you might want to take a look at a couple of the WiX tutorial articles about registering COM DLLs, and there's also one about .NET. http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson5.php http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php Levi On 1/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] webdirproperties

2007-01-05 Thread Simon.Burgess
I need to have the following in IIS Website VirtualDir Dir and set SSL permissions just on the Dir As you say WebDir (and WebDirProperties) seems to be the thing, but WebDir cannot be a child of WebVirtualDir, only Website. Is there another way? Fro

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify different INSTALLDIR than default"Program Files"

2007-01-05 Thread Anil Prasad
Thanks Joel, I used ProgramFiles64Folder but still my files are getting dumped to when installations finishes. C:\Program Files (x86) I have to manually select installation folder to install at different location. Is ProgramFiles64Folder property supported on win2k3? How to do I see msi version

Re: [WiX-users] Running an exe with a working directory

2007-01-05 Thread Patrick Steele
Thanks for that K-ballo. Ok, so here's my new version: Return='asyncNoWait' /> NOT Installed But this doesn't seem to do anything at all! It compiles but doesn't even appear to try to run the exe upon installation. Maybe the syntax is a bit different for Wix v3 which I am using? Thanks, P

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Not Updated

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Nick wrote: > How do I get the Selection tree not to display "Input" in situations where > "Input" may not be installed? > Feature conditions are evaluated before the UI is shown, during the CostFinalize action. Conditions using properties that change in the UI won't change the feature levels

Re: [WiX-users] "First-time" and "Maintenance" Install Sequences

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Levi Wilson wrote: > Where is the sequence of the install types defined? For instance, I > know that by copying WixUI_Mondo.wxs --> LWWixUI_Mondo.wxs I can add > dialogs, and control the sequence there. However, at the top it says > "First-time install dialog sequence" and "Maintenance dialog

Re: [WiX-users] Spanning Cab files over disks

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Donnici, Teresa wrote: Here is the code as I have it... And each component had a corresponding DiskId (either 1 or zero) but when I build it - I still only get 2 cab files not the

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Dialog Selection

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Levi Wilson wrote: > Here's my theory...I *think* that the reason that this works when I do > not specify the "Order" attributes are because they get a value of > "1", and the installer probably grabs it out of the ControlEvent table > the order that I specified in my WiX source file. So, I thi

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with nested install of SQL Express 2005 in my installer

2007-01-05 Thread RuneC
Thanks for your reply. However, it works now (from InstallUISequence). I have: 1. Unpacked SQLEXPR.exe locally, and added resulting files to my setup image 2. In my InstallUISequence custom action I execute the unpacked install.exe Still don't know why it didn't work with executing the pack