Re: [WiX-users] How to get the registration information from COMcomponent

2007-03-02 Thread Wilson, Phil
There's also regcap.exe in the Visual Studio\Common7\Tools\Deployment. It produces a .reg file of the entries. Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fabian Toader Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:23 PM To: Xin Liu (Pe

Re: [WiX-users] File Types support in WiX???

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Mensching
Ahh, Extensions and Verbs. Those are things I understand. "File Type" is a very, very generic term. Anyway, if you can be specific about what is not getting decompiled, please feel free to open a bug against dark. Be sure you're using the latest version of your branch (v2 or v3) of the tools

[WiX-users] Help Understanding the Directory Element

2007-03-02 Thread Christopher Brandt
I'm sorry, but my little brain is just not getting it. How do I map from the file structure on my build server to the file structure on the destination machine? I'm not talking about radical file structure changes, just paths to the source files that go into the msi and where those files get place

[WiX-users] Feature size problem

2007-03-02 Thread Don Tasanasanta
My feature select tree displays the size that each feature requires on the hard drive. One problem I'm having is if the user unselects all the features then all of the sizes change to either 0k, 1k, 512k, or 256k instead of their actual size. Has anyone encountered this problem?

[WiX-users] how to set asp.net version

2007-03-02 Thread cosmo51
I am working on windows 2003. I have created a new website using the element. I need to set the asp.net version for the newly created website. Can anyone help? I am using Wix version 2.0.4415.0. TIA, Shayla- Take Surveys

Re: [WiX-users] merge module that conditionally installs a component

2007-03-02 Thread John Lalande
Setting the Transitive attribute to 'yes' gives me a merge module that does exactly what I need. Nonetheless, you advised me to read the SDK docs for this attribute and I found the following: "If this bit is set, the installer reevaluates the value of the statement in the Condition column upon a

Re: [WiX-users] Windows 98 and ALLUSERS

2007-03-02 Thread Peterson, Joel
> I know... but I still have people out there that haven't for some reason. Do us all a favor and drop support for them so we don't have to support them as well. :) Joel Peterson Quality Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

[WiX-users] Trying to use a system property in a property

2007-03-02 Thread Josh Pepper
Hi all - I am having some trouble using a system property. My current goal is to make a backup copy of some *.cmd files in the System32 directory because on installation I will be overwriting them (and then on uninstall I will be restoring the backups, but I am not there yet). My current problem

Re: [WiX-users] File Types support in WiX???

2007-03-02 Thread Muhammad Ghaznawi
File types are used to register the a file extension against the application along with the Context menu commands. E.g. .txt files are normally associated with notepad. And context menu has a command as 'Edit' for all .txt files. Visual Studio Setup deployment project refers this as File Types a

Re: [WiX-users] WiX3 build fails

2007-03-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Thanks for the response but I don't think this is the problem as the cl command is running but it is failing to build the "dutil" source. Neil From: Matthew Janulewicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2007 18:18 To: Neil Sleightholm; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Wi

Re: [WiX-users] simple question

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Mensching
You need to use Type 51 CustomActions with conditions. MSI is more declarative than procedural so this sort of thing isn't always as trivial as you might expect coming from a procedural language. Fortunately, the only time you do this sort of thing is for UI so the impact of getting it wrong i

[WiX-users] simple question

2007-03-02 Thread Lindsay Harris
Hi. This is probably a really stupid question but I am very new to wix... I was wondering if there is away to do this: If (a == b) C = "some string" Else C = "some other string" Under the element (in other words I am not in a control or dialog). I have been trying stu

Re: [WiX-users] File Types support in WiX???

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Mensching
What is a "File Type"? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muhammad Ghaznawi Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:46 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] File Types support in WiX??? Hi, I am new to WiX and wondering if there is any File Type support i

[WiX-users] File Types support in WiX???

2007-03-02 Thread Muhammad Ghaznawi
Hi, I am new to WiX and wondering if there is any File Type support in WiX or not. I used the 'dark' tool to convert an MSI package (having file types defined in it) into WiX source, but it seems that the tool is ignoring those file types or there is no support for it in WiX at all. I would app

[WiX-users] WiX3 build fails

2007-03-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
When I run the make.bat file I find the build fails with the following error: BUILD FAILED - 2 non-fatal error(s), 3 warning(s) D:\WiX\WiX3\Source\global.include(229,6): External Program Failed: cl (return code was 2) I think I have all the prerequisites install. The full output of the

Re: [WiX-users] Installation parameters on uninstall

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Virgil Balibanu wrote: I need to run some custom actions on uninstall but the custom actions need to know the parameters that I've given the msiexec command when I installed the application. How can I do this with wix? I kept trying msiexec /x ... with the exact same syntax as when installing

Re: [WiX-users] Patch generation resulting in Error

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Mike Poulson wrote: ERROR: The Last Error Received is: 183 183 is ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS. Look for something that might have the Patch directory locked. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional feature properties...

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Carl Quirion wrote: > Ok, i found a simple way to do it, im calling CostFinalize on the > PushButton of my "Next" button, on the serial number form. I'm not sure that's supported -- CostFinalize is supposed to be paired with CostInitialize so I'm not sure you can repeatedly call it. -- sig://b

Re: [WiX-users] merge module that conditionally installs a component

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Arnson
John Lalande wrote: > I would like to further enhance this merge module such that if a user > later installs Act, then they run a Repair, it will install this > component. I suspect that this isn't possible as a Repair is simply > repairing the components that are already installed. > > Or is t

Re: [WiX-users] Properties read in with RegistrySearch, manipulated after that in the UI

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Tobias Bengtsson wrote: > that makes sense.. how do one go about to use explicit AddLocal controls? > can't recall to have seen the use of it in the great tutorial by Gabór. > I don't see any examples in the WiX tree. The basic idea is that you have a control event tied to a button (e.g., Nex

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional feature properties...

2007-03-02 Thread Carl Quirion
Those are already managed in my InstallExecuteSequence. No worries there ;) -- Carl Quirion [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/2/07, Stefan Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi... what about silent (unattended) installation? Or installation with reduced UI? msiexec /i Package.msi /qr regards Stefan

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional feature properties...

2007-03-02 Thread Stefan Pavlik
Hi... what about silent (unattended) installation? Or installation with reduced UI? msiexec /i Package.msi /qr regards Stefan Carl Quirion wrote: > Ok, i found a simple way to do it, im calling CostFinalize on the > PushButton of my "Next" button, on the serial number form. > > Example: > >

Re: [WiX-users] Windows 98 and ALLUSERS

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Robertson
> Well, Microsoft has given up on 9x... I know... but I still have people out there that haven't for some reason. > ALLUSERS behaves very strangely on 9x. From the documentation: If I run the install with logging enabled I see ALLUSERS=1 and Privileged=1 which kind of implies that I should hav

[WiX-users] Installation parameters on uninstall

2007-03-02 Thread Virgil Balibanu
Hi, I need to run some custom actions on uninstall but the custom actions need to know the parameters that I've given the msiexec command when I installed the application. How can I do this with wix? I kept trying msiexec /x ... with the exact same syntax as when installing the application. The

Re: [WiX-users] Windows 98 and ALLUSERS

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Mensching
1. Well, Microsoft has given up on 9x... 2. ALLUSERS behaves very strangely on 9x. From the documentation: "Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me: The installation is per-user or per-machine depending upon the operating system configuration. If Profiles are on and the Start menu is per-us

[WiX-users] Windows 98 and ALLUSERS

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Robertson
I have a registry key that I want to install with different values depending on whether the installation is per machine or per user. This works fine on Windows XP but on Windows 98 the key goes through the per user route even when doing a per machine install. Is there some kind of gotcha for Windo