[WiX-users] Creation of Virtual Directory within existing Website

2007-06-04 Thread darrenstone
The scenario is that my target machine has two websites as follows: Default Web Site, IP Address - All Unassigned, Port - 80, Status (STOPPED) My Website, IP Address - All Unassigned, Port - 80, Status (STARTED) Therefore they are identical but the default site is stopped (I know that the def

[WiX-users] External configuration vs CustomActions

2007-06-04 Thread Aaron Feng
I just wrote a post on external configuration vs CustomActions. I would like to get general feedback on this particular topic. If you are interested, the link is here: http://aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/06/04/how-should-your-application-be-configured Thanx in advance. Aaron ---

[WiX-users] Running CustomAction exes with Admin privileges under Vista

2007-06-04 Thread Oz Evren
Is there a way to run *.exe's as CustomActions with full admin privileges during setup in Vista? Impersonate="no" doesn't work, and I am assuming I am not the first person hitting this issue. J - This SF.net email

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional default Folder?

2007-06-04 Thread John Vottero
> > People I work for now want our installer only to install the "best" > version > instead of x64 and x86 on the end user machine. I have my > ProgramFilesFolder as the main directory, however I would like it to be > ProgramFiles64Folder if it is a x64 machine. Is there a conditional > way to >

[WiX-users] Conditional default Folder?

2007-06-04 Thread Magus
People I work for now want our installer only to install the "best" version instead of x64 and x86 on the end user machine. I have my ProgramFilesFolder as the main directory, however I would like it to be ProgramFiles64Folder if it is a x64 machine. Is there a conditional way to do this, or do

Re: [WiX-users] Determine IIS Application Path After Installation?

2007-06-04 Thread Dhaval Patel
I don't think I understand your question, but if you are simply trying to reference the location where the Web app is installed, then how about using properties? You can reference properties (like "INSTALLDIR" or "TARGETDIR" [these are hypothetical names; look at the tramontana tutorial for detail

Re: [WiX-users] Sqlscript problem

2007-06-04 Thread Dhaval Patel
This has been discussed extensively... What is in your .sql script file? Do you have all the batches delimited by "GO" statements? Use SQL Server Management Studio/Enterprise Manage to load and save your scripts. Let us all know if this helps. On 6/2/07, rajiv ramanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

[WiX-users] Custom Action v3 Not Async?

2007-06-04 Thread S C
With the below code, I am trying to launch multiple commands, however I don't want to leave CMD prompts open for the two web browser sessions. Also, the final "success" message does not appear until the final CMD prompt is closed. How can I make this better? Thanks. http://localh

[WiX-users] how to always go to full UI

2007-06-04 Thread Charles Wan-Calo
Hi, WiXers, I want the uninstaller to always go into full UI when the user uninstalls from the ARP applet (Add/Remove Program applet), and never go to the basic UI. Is that possible? The purpose is to add a application specific dialog to give the user an option to delete certain application dat

[WiX-users] Chinese Installer

2007-06-04 Thread Rohit Lodha
Hi The current votive gives me error when I write locale as zh. How can I support chinese UI in wix 3.0? Regards, Rohit - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 expres

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action to run cmd.exe after InstallFinalize

2007-06-04 Thread Dale Quigg
Thanks Erik. I finally figured it out (with your help). Here's my new example. I could have sworn that back in my InstallShield days that I just had type 51 custom actions (without a corresponding type 50) Thanks again. Dale -Original Message- From:

[WiX-users] Problem with IIS and certificates

2007-06-04 Thread Rob Leidle
Hello all, I am creating an installer for a web application. To automate the IIS portion of the installation I am using Wix to setup my components. The following is my wix setup. Obviously anything with a "..." has been filled in with proper values. AppFolder.wxi is a file which contains the di

Re: [WiX-users] How to install files, run an action, then delete the files??

2007-06-04 Thread michaelbartlett
Guys, I have finally got the CA working but when it fails the files (placed down by WiX) do not "roll back" as they are supposed to - i.e. they are still on the drive.  How do I get this to work? -Mike -Original Message- From: Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[WiX-users] Upgrade InstallShield package

2007-06-04 Thread fiordean dacian
Hi, I have a package build with InstallShield deployed out there I'd like to upgrade using an msi authored with WiX. The deployed package has a version like '1.0.1', the one I'm working is "1.0.2". Here is the Upgrade sequence in my wxs file: The Id attribute value of Upgrade tag i

Re: [WiX-users] Looking for advanced UI examples

2007-06-04 Thread John Vottero
I don't think it makes much difference if you use WiX V2 or V3 because they both wind up producing an MSI. However, V3 includes a bootstrapper so that might be a good example. I haven't looked at it so I don't know if it does what you need. When we were doing this, I found lots of bootstrappers

Re: [WiX-users] Are ICE45 warnings expectedwith ElevationShield="yes"?

2007-06-04 Thread Anthony Wieser
I've added a minimal sample to the bug database, as an msi file that installs the files required to build itself. I haven't bundled the various darice.cub's that I tested with originally, but I still get the errors. Could you send me your darice.cub that you use off list please Bob, so that I

[WiX-users] COM+ / RegAsm

2007-06-04 Thread LINFIELD , Andrew, GBM
I've got most of my COM+ applications installed using Wix v3 however I'm having problems with this private .Net assembly: . . The specified COM+ application is created but the component is not added. No error messages o

[WiX-users] Assigning App Pool and Framework Version

2007-06-04 Thread Ryan Parmenter
I am working on an MSI installer for a web application and have two questions. First, I am assigning an existing app pool to my web application using: Then, I have this component listed at the end of my Feature list. The install works just fine. However, how do I prevent the uninstallatio

Re: [WiX-users] Looking for advanced UI examples

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Walch
That sounds reasonable. How do I get started? Are you aware of samples of doing something like this in a bootstrapper? (preferrably with WIX 2.x, but we would consider switching to 3.x if there was a good reason to) Thanks! John Vottero wrote: > > It's much easier to do 1, 2 and 3 in a boo

Re: [WiX-users] Previous Installation Check issue

2007-06-04 Thread Bob Arnson
Vidhya Sagar Bhogavalli (Infosys Technologies Ltd) wrote: I want to write an msi using WIX which would check if there is previous version of the product installed. If yes, then it has to compare the version numbers and prompt the user to either Upgrade, Overwrite or Stop the installation. Tho

Re: [WiX-users] Service start fails

2007-06-04 Thread Bob Arnson
LEMIRE, JOHN wrote: > Just for clarity the service isnt being installed into the GAC, just one > of the dlls it references is. > Same root problem. > I'll have to go back and double check, maybe my vista and W2K3 installs > just worked because the machines weren't clean and already had a versi

Re: [WiX-users] Remove button doesn't work

2007-06-04 Thread Bob Arnson
silvio massari wrote: Hi, I created a Setup using Wix 3.0.2925 using the Wix_UI_Mondo user interface. The installation works fine, but when I try to remove the application clicking the Remove button from Maintenance dialog, it doesn’t work and no error is raised. That's not enough detai

Re: [WiX-users] Looking for advanced UI examples

2007-06-04 Thread John Vottero
It's much easier to do 1, 2 and 3 in a bootstrapper which then executes your WiX created MSI. > > The following sequence of tasks seem like they would be common and I am > hoping that someone has a working example of doing this in WIX: > > 1. Prompt the user for information about which (new or e

[WiX-users] Previous Installation Check issue

2007-06-04 Thread Vidhya Sagar Bhogavalli (Infosys Technologies Ltd)
Hi all, I want to write an msi using WIX which would check if there is previous version of the product installed. If yes, then it has to compare the version numbers and prompt the user to either Upgrade, Overwrite or Stop the installation. Though, I don't want to do a major upgrade which would

[WiX-users] Looking for advanced UI examples

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Walch
The following sequence of tasks seem like they would be common and I am hoping that someone has a working example of doing this in WIX: 1. Prompt the user for information about which (new or existing) service account should be used. 2. Prompt the user for information about the SQL database tha

[WiX-users] Remove button doesn't work

2007-06-04 Thread silvio massari
Hi, I created a Setup using Wix 3.0.2925 using the Wix_UI_Mondo user interface. The installation works fine, but when I try to remove the application clicking the Remove button from Maintenance dialog, it doesn’t work and no error is raised. But, if I right click the msi file, and choose the

[WiX-users] join me on goodreads

2007-06-04 Thread Amol.b.patil
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