Re: [WiX-users] dot Net Custom actions

2007-04-05 Thread Nitin Chaudhari
You can run dot net code during installation, although there are some reason why you should not. I have been executing .net code in my installation for quite a while now Anyways here how to do it : Include the following In a class library project, add a installer class. Check out http://g

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2007-04-05 Thread 美樹
はじめまして美樹です。 掲示板で見て趣味合うかなって思ってメールしちゃいました。 イキナリでゴメンなさいm(__)m こういう感じで知り合えるのに憧れてて初挑戦しちゃいました。 お返事もらえたら簡単な自己紹介しますネ(^_-)-☆ もしそんな気なかったらそう言ってもらえれば諦めますので。 もちろん仲良くなれた方が嬉しいけど。 お返事気長に待ってま〜す(^_^)/~ http://www.star-lightz.com/m-box - Tak

[WiX-users] dot Net Custom actions

2007-04-05 Thread Igor Lemsky
I need to launch some .net code during installation. Which possibilities do I have? As I hear there are problems with .net custom actions in Windows Installer. So I cant add my .net assembly exe into the product as file or binary stream and use one of the custom actions types to launch it? Only wa

[WiX-users] Error in German?

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Burton
I have a Wix generated .msi file and it has been working fine for sometime now (in English). Recently when I tried to deply on a machine that was low on disk space I received an error dialog indicating that the machine had insufficient space to proceed but this error message was in German. The butt

Re: [WiX-users] Per-Machine Installs that work on XP and Vista

2007-04-05 Thread Wilson, Phil
I don't believe there's been a change in ALLUSERS=2 behavior, only in the documentation that Scott pointed at. MSADN from August 2006 doesn't single out XP, for example. I've never been a fan of ALLUSERS=2 because of its unpredictability. Sometimes you'll get per-user, sometimes per-machine. How

Re: [WiX-users] WiX create a MSMQ

2007-04-05 Thread DEVAL SHAH
Hello Fredrik, Thanks for the help. I was able to create a queue using pca:MessageQueue element. There is one weird thing: If I already have a queue created and i try to run the install it says failed prematurely because queue exist so it rolls back and deletes the queue. Now I run the install a

[WiX-users] wixlib and extensions and msm's

2007-04-05 Thread koawmfot
In a previous message this was posted: Re: [WiX-users] Question about upgrading to Wix3 (beta) Bob Arnson Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:57:39 -0800 James Hill wrote: So, my question is why are there no .wixlib and .wxl files in the Wix 3.0 beta distribution. They're included in the WiX extensions. So

Re: [WiX-users] Per-Machine Installs that work on XP and Vista

2007-04-05 Thread Ricardo Lopes
Hi, I sucessfully did a per-machine installer that works on XP and on Vista (at least on the tests in the virtual machines worked fine). I use the ALLUSERS=2 option to make vista put the shortcuts on all the users desktop and start menu, but the secret is to include a bootstrapper. I use the Gen

Re: [WiX-users] Installing .NET Services

2007-04-05 Thread John Vottero
Correct. Neither WiX's nor SC CREATE need or use the Installer class. But, they can both install .NET based services whether the service has an Installer based class or not. From: Kevin Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:54 PM To: John Vottero; 'Don Tasanasan

Re: [WiX-users] Installing .NET Services

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Burton
The problem is that none if the "Installer" methods or events are getting called. With InstallUtil the methods and events associated with the Installer base class are call. With they are not. I would assume that SC_CREATE would also not call the Installer base class methods. From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [WiX-users] Installing .NET Services

2007-04-05 Thread John Vottero
I don't think there's a difference between installing a .NET service vs . a "regular" service so, ServiceInstall doesn't need to detect anything. Can you install your service with SC CREATE? The InstallUtil.exe doesn't know a service from a hole in the ground. All it does is look for classes t

Re: [WiX-users] Localizing WixUI in 3.0 - error LGHT0100 :The localization identifier xxx has been duplicated in

2007-04-05 Thread Julie Campbell
My apologies if this has already been answered, but I did skim all the digests since the one this was in looking for an answer. With the caveat that I setup the localization to the default (en-us), this works for me (simplified here): light -cultures:en-us -loc "lang\en-us\prod_en-us.wxl" -ext

Re: [WiX-users] Installing .NET Services

2007-04-05 Thread Don Tasanasanta
How does ServiceInstall detect that you're installing a .net service as opposed to a "regular" service? I'm experiencing difficulties installing a .net service using ServiceInstall. The service is there but doesn't seem to be registering properly. How does ServiceInstall work compared to th

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3 and the wixui

2007-04-05 Thread learnerplates
Are there Wix 3 versions of the UI libs? If so how can I integrate them into Visual Studio? Justin Rockwood wrote: > > Using Votive you cannot target the Wix 2 stuff. You have to use Votive 2 > (supported on VS 2003) in order to target Wix 2. > > > > Justin > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver

2007-04-05 Thread fiordean dacian
Isn't that your custom action is not scheduled correctly? I mean you should instruct the system to create a port monitor once your 'monitor file' was extracted from msi, right? Dacian - Original Message From: Friedrich Dominicus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] .NET Install causes Windows Error when running program.

2007-04-05 Thread Hallquist Jr, Robert
Thanks for the response, Actually I found out that the problem is due to one of my files that is installed is not the correct size. The file is listed in ORCA as 204K but when it is installed, the size is 36K. I am using a Merge Module and the file that has problems is the first component in

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3 and the wixui

2007-04-05 Thread learnerplates
Oh right, It's Visual Studio 2005 i'm using. Is there an editor for the WiX 2 stuff? intellisense etc, I'll probably have to remove the Wix3 in order to get it to work with WiX 2 again! Justin Rockwood wrote: > > Using Votive you cannot target the Wix 2 stuff. You have to use Votive 2 > (sup

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3 and the wixui

2007-04-05 Thread Justin Rockwood
Using Votive you cannot target the Wix 2 stuff. You have to use Votive 2 (supported on VS 2003) in order to target Wix 2. Justin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of learnerplates Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 7:54 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [

Re: [WiX-users] Why is it skipping my UI?

2007-04-05 Thread JCWrs
Bob Arnson-3 wrote: > > > > Why are you specifying ExecuteAction? By placing it at sequence number > 1, no other UI will run before it. > > -- > sig://boB > http://bobs.org > > > Ok, I took that out, but I get the same result...no UI. I've been trying different things (including not h

Re: [WiX-users] Why is it skipping my UI?

2007-04-05 Thread Alex Steen
Ok, I took that out, but I get the same result...no UI. I've been trying different things (including not having an InstallUISequence at all) the past couple of days, but nothing seems to work. -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:

Re: [WiX-users] .NET Install causes Windows Error when running program.

2007-04-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Hallquist Jr, Robert wrote: I have created a WiX install of a .NET program and when it is run I get a Microsoft Windows Error (the one that wants to send information to Microsoft). It's impossible to say without more details. What error do you get? If you run the .exe from the command lin

Re: [WiX-users] CNDL0011

2007-04-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Lars Lars wrote: > Any reason why I receive these problems? The source files and configuration > is unchanged, only trying to build on another computer than the one normally > used. > A likely cause is different versions of WiX. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org --

Re: [WiX-users] Per-Machine Installs that work on XP and Vista

2007-04-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Palmer wrote: > That article indicates that Windows Installer is broken for > per-machine installs as there is no way to specify that you must have > a per-machine install that works on both XP and Vista. ALLUSERS=1 does that. Pretend ALLUSERS=2 doesn't exist. > My ultimate goal is to ins

Re: [WiX-users] Why is it skipping my UI?

2007-04-05 Thread Bob Arnson
JCWrs wrote: > > >After="LaunchConditions"/> > >After="InstallLoc" /> > > Why are you specifying ExecuteAction? By placing

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall only works in the default path

2007-04-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Jason Van Eaton wrote: > I have a weird bug. When installing to the default path, uninstall works > correctly. When installing to any other path, uninstall succeeds (that is to > say there are no errors) but it forgets to remove the files. Even if I have > a bug in my xml, it seems there must

Re: [WiX-users] Single WIX to install multiple versions

2007-04-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Davut Karabay wrote: > I was thinking creating two sets of s one for down level and one > for Vista. Then adding s to each for detecting OS > version, and install/not-install accordingly. > That'll work fine. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org -

[WiX-users] WiX 3 and the wixui

2007-04-05 Thread learnerplates
I've installed WiX 3 in order to get the Visual Studio integrated version. It works fine, and I can use sourcesafe through Visual Studio. Now I've just started to use the UI part of WiX, it's failing, I think the installed WiXUI library in Visual Studio is from Version 2 and may have come with th

[WiX-users] Installing packages with MSMQ queues which already exist

2007-04-05 Thread thombrown
Hi, I'm currently having a problem with my installation package. I've got it successfully creating a MSMQ queue, but the problem is that the queue may already exist on the destination machine, and in such circumstances the installation ends prematurely. I would want it to skip the creation of t

Re: [WiX-users] dependency walker shows error after a successful MSI installation

2007-04-05 Thread Constantin Bryzgalin
Hello, > the dependency walker (depends.exe) shows an error saying that, "The > side-by-side configuration information in the DLL contains errors". It > fails to find the assembly DLLs (MFC80.dll, MSVCR80.dll, MSVCP80.dll) > that *are* there in the WinSxS directory. If they are installed, maybe