Re: [WiX-users] Database is trying to be dropped when it was not created during current install

Hi, I am creating a database using the following wix code. On the first installation it creates the db successfully. During reinstall, if one the db scripts fails to run (any script running on this db using sqlstring), then during rollback setup tries to delete the database.

Re: [WiX-users] Parent Directory (2 levels up)

Levon Levonian wrote: > My installer needs to read a value from the registry and set the install > path based on that value. However, the installer should install 2 levels > up the value that was read from the registry. For example, I read the > registry and get the following: > > C:\Temp\First\Sec

Re: [WiX-users] advertising extensions

koawmfot wrote: > i need to advertise a ffew file extensions so that self repair can > kick off for some specific HKCU registry keys. the problem i have is > that i am only adding an extension element and a MIME element, but no > verb element, and that leaves the verb table out of the final MSI

Re: [WiX-users] Administrative install and File/Folder Sharing

Pierson Lee (Volt) wrote: From my understand of reading MSIExec's help file (and I might be totally wrong) the /a flag (for admin install) is for a network install. Admin installs create a source image that you can run a local install from. It's usually placed on a network share so users c

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox drawn with different coloured background

John Hall wrote: Thanks Bob. I think I was being a little bit thick - I had forgotten that the bitmap extends across the whole of the dialog. It seems to be that if the standard dialog sets are going to offer the option to display that checkbox they shouldn't by default use a bitmap that exten

Re: [WiX-users] how to deliver additional assembly (GAC'd) files(notinthe RTM product) via an MSP

Gaurav Tiwari, HCL-Industry Solutions wrote: We tried updating an existing MSI using WIX 2.0 but I wasn't able to find out the way to do it. Please suggest how we can update the existing MSI. Is any such functionality is there in WIX 2.0. Patches are based on the differences between two MS

Re: [WiX-users] Reorganising features and major upgrades

John Hall wrote: Thanks for your reply. RemoveExistingProducts is scheduled after InstallInitialize and so has not been run when we get to the customize screen. It isn't actually migrating any feature states from the old version either: It wasn't clear you were talking about UI. Are you sayin

[WiX-users] Building a setup.exe

Hi Jim, it would seem that you are talking about a CD-browser-like functionality. In the past we have used DemoShield (no longer available) from Installshield to do this. There are a couple of freeware/shareware ones available, a good list is shown on installsite.com [http://installsite.org/p