Hi all,
Are the custom actions included in WiX v2 able to support installation of
performance counters for code using netfxperf.dll? Following the documentation
for the CA my category appears in the list, but counter instances do not.
Cheers,
Jon
I also agree with Dhaval Patel and with Joe Kaplan's observations. No time
soon do I intend to become a C++ elitist.
This has always been something that puzzled me, over the last 22 months:
that the Windows Installer and .NET are on a slightly different course.
I take the point about .NET versi
FWIW, I'm totally with Dhaval on the idea that managed custom actions would
be a good thing. It just makes a lot of sense. I think it makes a lot more
sense than supporting scripts, which as Rob has pointed out many times, are
just asking for trouble if you try to use them. Having C++ as the
Hi
I have several merge modules which I am placing inside a single MSI. These
modules were originally their own MSI, but have converted them to MSM.
A couple of these WIX scripts has multiple tags. Doing some
reading on the MS website
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367787.aspx)
Muhammad Ghaznawi wrote:
Can anyone please help me out with how to specify an installation
database Summary Title (and other properties there) using WiX source?
This title appears in the property dialog box under the Summary tab as
shown below:
Most of them can be set via attributes on th
Chuck wrote:
> Is it possible to call a third party dll, included in my installer as a
> binary file only, from a custom action that is in a C++ dll?
>
No. MSI extracts one file at a time as needed to execute a CA.
> If that isn't possible is that anyway to access a 3rd party dll from my
> cu
Bob Whiton wrote:
I'm using the WIXUI_INSTALLDIR dialog in order to pick a directory
during installation. However, I want to add a single dialog to the
end of the installation process (something with a checkbox that says
'Start the product now'). Is there a simple way to do this? Does
anybo
Don Tasanasanta wrote:
I can't seem to find this in my version of WiX 2.0.4820.0
The CAs weren't made localizable in v2, only in v3. You'd have to
rebuild sca.wixlib to replace the strings.
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Figure 1 illustrates an example of the exchange of messages in that
configuration. When it does so, the active JRE in the Java control panel
changes to match, and things work fine. ComparisonType type, Date date, int.
Frank Klaus: Is it possible to start Internet Explorer 6 from the command li
Hi,
Can anyone please help me out with how to specify an installation database
Summary Title (and other properties there) using WiX source? This title appears
in the property dialog box under the Summary tab as shown below:
[cid:image001.jpg@01C76A57.FB7C12E0]
Regards,
Muhammad Asim Ghaznawi
<>
Thanks for those words of wisdom :)
On 3/19/07, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I understand, and it wasn't meant as a criticism. It just seems to be a
common story that some developer on the team with some set of skills
will be pressed into service as the setup guy with a different ski
I understand, and it wasn't meant as a criticism. It just seems to be a
common story that some developer on the team with some set of skills
will be pressed into service as the setup guy with a different skill set
requirement. Occasionally people are surprised by that difference. Setup
is just copy
Phil: My PM and all the senior engineers who interviewed me, hired me on the
basis of my C# skills. I was the one who started packaging my company's
deployment packages using WIX - all (and I mean ALL) the folks in my company
still use XCopy and batch files. I raised this issue (calling C# .dlls f
I can't seem to find this in my version of WiX 2.0.4820.0
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 2:57 PM
To: Don Tasanasanta; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: Re: [WiX-users] Intercepting SQL errors and displayin
Is it possible to call a third party dll, included in my installer as a
binary file only, from a custom action that is in a C++ dll?
If that isn't possible is that anyway to access a 3rd party dll from my
custom action prior to the installation of files?
Thanx
Chuck
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On 3/19/07, Danish Waheed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think one of the reasons why Windows Installer does not have lots of
fancy
actions is because they are not generally related to installation and
hence
the support for Custom Actions. You cannot include all the possi
I think one of the reasons why Windows Installer does not have lots of fancy
actions is because they are not generally related to installation and hence
the support for Custom Actions. You cannot include all the possible actions
as there are so many types of software and so many configuration/chan
Yes, you need to specify it on the candle and light command lines:
candle -ext WixIIsExtension .etc.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sawyer, Shane
Sent: 19 March 2007 14:19
To: Bob Arnson
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sub
The VC2005 merge modules will install files to:
- [WindowsFolder]System32 on Windows 9X and 2000;
- The appropriate WinSxS folder on Windows XP, 2003 and Vista.
They are not retargetable.
The vcredist_x86.exe package will do exactly the same since it's basically
just all the merge modu
That pretty much hits it on the head.
Richard, I was having a hard time expressing those words. Thanks.
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:44 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: R
One other concern in making custom actions in C# (or anything else) is
that as Rob regularly observes, custom actions are very difficult to get
right - especially when considering installation failure (rollback) and
appropriate uninstall operation. Speaking for myself, I try to avoid
them whenever
In other words, what's happened (and this is fairly common) is that your
company has grabbed a fairly new developer (you) and asked for a setup.
One of the requirements for the task should have included experience in
C++ if your managers knew anything about MSI setups and custom actions.
My reac
I have 2 merge modules. Dependent of a property I want to include the one or
the other merge module. By the moment I have this solved via separate features
combined with a condition:
NOT Property="Value"
...
In the merge module I have custom actions included. Theses cu
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Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
On 3/19/07, pobox77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here my solution:
...
WIN_AUTH_DB="False"
WIN_AUTH_DB="True"
...
"Folks like me," meaning people who have minuscule experience programming in
VBScript or C++. I pretty much started learning to program in C# back in
2002, graduated last year, and am currently working as a C#/ASP.NET
developer. Of course I could embark on a journey to learn C++, but I think
the r
Rob,
Many Thanks, Dont know how I missed that one
Mark
Rob Mensching wrote:
> It looks like you created an unmanaged Component (no GUID). That means, the
> Windows Installer installs your Component (and the stuff in it) and promptly
> forgets about it. Which means uninstall does nothing.
Is there some reason you can't get the bootstrapper to run the redist,
vcredist_x86.exe?
Phil Wilson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris
Bardon
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:37 AM
To: Rob Mensching; Mike Dimmick; wix-users@list
As I understand it, ConfigureIIS performs its actions on the first website
that matches the IP address, Port Number, & Host Header (if used). If you
imagine it as an array, "Default Website" is almost always in array position
[0] and would receive the action.
We add an additional IP address to
It looks like you created an unmanaged Component (no GUID). That means, the
Windows Installer installs your Component (and the stuff in it) and promptly
forgets about it. Which means uninstall does nothing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
You can't have two web sites running on the same port so the CustomAction
doesn't differentiate today.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tina Basinger
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:43 AM
To: Wix Group
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ConfigureIIs skipping virtual directory
Create a component and only have the shortcut in the component.
Then set the condition on the Component.
Mike Poulson
Network Engineer
Tableau Software
400 North 34th Street, Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98103
206 633 3400 x.556
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Okay, I just figured out that ConfigureIIs is creating the virtual
directories, but on the wrong IIS site. Because I installed WSS 3.0 on this
machine, I have a "Default Web Site" site that is configured for port 80,
but not running, and a "SharePoint - 80" site that is also configure for
port 80
Hi,
I have to create a short cut to an exe file only if a text box is
checked.
I don't see a shortcut can have a condition child tag.
How can I do this?
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Hi,
I am using the following code to create an ODBC DSN, That works fine,
however when I do an uninstall of the msi, it does not remove the DSN.
Wix v2.0.5012.0
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi";>
I'm having issues running tallow when files it is mapping have French
characters in the path name. Several PDF files have accented A's and E's, which
show up file in command line, but are simply gone in the tallow output file.
Here are the file names:
Tallow:
'8 TOUS LES UTI
I have a situation where ConfigureIIs does not seem to be creating a Virtual
Directory that I expect it to. It only happens when I am installing to a
SharePoint web site that has another custom application installed to it as
well. Can anyone offer any debugging tips on how to see what ConfigureI
Hi Bob, sorry for the delayed response to your answer, the spam filter
grabbed your reply and just now let me have it.
I have specified the WixIISExtension like this:
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";
xmlns:iis="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/IIsExtension";>
Actually, it was done u
Fellow WiX users...
I'm using the WIXUI_INSTALLDIR dialog in order to pick a directory during
installation. However, I want to add a single dialog to the end of the
installation process (something with a checkbox that says 'Start the product
now'). Is there a simple way to do this? Does anyb
Well, for the apps I'm building installers for, we've already decided
against static linking, so we need to deploy the DLLs somehow. In the
past, we've just included the merge modules using installshield, which I
believe deploys the DLLs to the system32 directory, but I've also tested
with includi
You could always just use "[!FileId]" to get the short name of a file.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Kopp
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:24 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] 8.3 folder paths
Hi!
Now, tha
Hi!
Now, that WiX 3.0 supports the auto-generation of 8.3-compliant file and
folder names, is there any way to retrieve the short names for further
usage, e.g. in a RegistryValue statement? Or do I still have to insert a
custom action after 'InstallFiles' to get the short path from the file or
fol
I haven't blogged it. This one requires more research that my recent "avoid
COM advertisement" entry because I haven't lived it closely. I got enough
reports of trickiness with managed CustomActions to just stay away.
The root issue comes down to having the "wrong" version of the .NET Framewor
What you mean by "But making this functionality available would open all kinds
of doors for folks like me"?
From: Dhaval Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:15 PM
To: Rob Mensching
Cc: Levi Wilson; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C# .dll
I gue
You'll probably need a CustomAction. MULTI_SZ strings are icky. Personally,
I'd recommend designing them out of your system as possible.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hovhannes
Nurijanyan
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:38 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.ne
Agreed. However, based on early reports I'm not sure that pushing patches into
WinSxS is really working due to the complexity that is the CustomActions to
work around bugs in WinXP. The ideas behind Fusion are interesting but the
complexity of the system has made it difficult to verify and for
Nothing exists today. It's been on the list of things that would be nice to
have someone provide to the WiX toolset but no volunteer has done so yet.
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:55 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge
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Mike Dimmick wrote:
> Well, unless running an elevated advertised installation, of course.
> I’m coming to the conclusion that that’s what per-user installs are for.
Which, by the way, are actually quite horrible thing at least
in managed environments. Uninstalling, updating and patching
have to b
Here my solution:
...
WIN_AUTH_DB="False"
WIN_AUTH_DB="True"
...
...
...
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