Re: [WiX-users] Feature element - Condition nightmare

No , it still does not work as I intend. Is it possible to use FileSearch to set a property used in a Condition for a Feature or I started on the wrong road ? - Original Message From: Alexei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:44:59

[WiX-users] Cannot reinstall after a user Restarts their computer during uninstall

I am getting a bug reported to me and I am really unsure how this is happening, and what I can do about it. Anyone else come across this error. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cannot-reinstall-after-a-user-Restarts-their-computer-during-uninstall-tf4283287.html#a12192844 S

[WiX-users] Running exe from custom action + actions sequence

Hello, I have a setup project that must run an .exe command-line custom action before an installed service is started. The problem is, the custom action will throw an error when placed in install actions sequence before "Start Services" or "Install Services." The custom action runs fine if place

Re: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec Error

Found the reason and here is modified code snipet: And last of them remains same. jmin70 wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am having a hard time with getting the Quiet Execute custom action to > work correctly. I am trying to run comman

Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/'key, retrying 0 time(s)...

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Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)...

Can you point me to latest build? From: Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:46 PM To: Surendra Katari; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Marc McClure Subject: RE: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)... There were bugs that

Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)...

There were bugs that were fixed in the last couple months around this sort of thing. I highly recommend you get the latest stable build. From: Surendra Katari Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:44 PM To: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Marc McClure Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wri

Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)...

2.0.5210.0 From: Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:44 PM To: Surendra Katari; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Marc McClure Subject: RE: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)... What version of the WiX toolset are you usin

Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)...

What version of the WiX toolset are you using? From: Surendra Katari Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:38 AM To: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Marc McClure Subject: RE: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)... When every we s

[WiX-users] Setting a YesNoType based on a checkbox control

Is there a way to set a YesNoType value based on the checked status of a checkbox control? For example, I'd like to be able to set a WebAddress's Secure property (which is a YesNoType) based on a checkbox that writes to a property 'WEBSECURE'. The following doesn't work because a YesNoType can

[WiX-users] Creating sub directory

Hi everyone, Below is my fragment wxs file and I want to create bin folder there, but it's not working, instead files are being installed in parent directory. What am I missing there or what is the proper way to do this? http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi";>

Re: [WiX-users] Performing both New Installs and Upgrades with aCommon MSI

I don't like ALLUSERS=2 because it's indeterminate depending on the user privileges. A major upgrade won't upgrade unless the incoming product matches the installed product's ALLUSERS value. If an administrator installs the original version it will be per-machine; if a non-administrator does the up

Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)...

When every we see these messages, most of the times, the web sites are not created. But install completes successfully. When we try to uninstall of the product it fail because the sites are not present. Any work around to avoid this situation? Thanks, Surendra From: Rob Mensching Sent

[WiX-users] CAQuietExec Error

Hi all, I am having a hard time with getting the Quiet Execute custom action to work correctly. I am trying to run command line of 'aspnet_regiis.exe -ga RackwiseService' at the end of installation as: ===

Re: [WiX-users] Dynamically grab directory value

Rob's suggestion is if you want to get info about the system so you can change properties in your installation at runtime. It sounds though, like you want to get the information about the current state of the installer. Directory IDs can be treated the same as properties, so you can get the

Re: [WiX-users] SQL-Error

What versoin of the WiX toolset are you using? There was a bug like this in a build a while ago. Recent builds should be working fine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:29 AM To: wix-user

Re: [WiX-users] Dynamically grab directory value

RegistrySearch, DirectorySearch or ComponentSearch seems like it'll do what you want. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Greenberg Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:48 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Dynamicall

[WiX-users] Detecting windows versions while installing

I wanna check for the windows version and give a warning message if the OS is non vista.. I tried using the "VersionNT=600" property inside the condition.but it terminates the installation upon run on non vista OS.How best can i code the installer to just display a warning message in this case? T

Re: [WiX-users] Performing both New Installs and Upgrades with a Common MSI

Thank you for the reply. I have removed the OnlyDetect attribute from the UpgradeVersion element. When moving from one version to the next, I perform the following changes: * Product Version number * Product GUID * Package GUID All other GUID's remain unchanged. Based o

[WiX-users] Dynamically grab directory value

Hello, I need to store the path of a particular file in the registry. I'd like to be able to use a variable or property of some kind of to populate the registry value. Is there a way I can get the path of a WiX element, or the path of a particular component, so that it is generated a runtime

[WiX-users] SQL-Error

(sorry, forgot the subject before) Hi all, I tried to 'candlelight' the sql-example which is on the wix-wiki-page: http://www.wixwiki.com/images/c/c1/WixSqlDatabaseSample.zip and after executing 'light' I get following error: C:\delivery\Dev\wix\src\ext\sqlextension\wixlib\SqlExtension.wxs(27,0):

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with ConfigureIIs

That means the custom action crashed. First thing is to do is try the latest WiX build. There have been tiny surgical fixes to take care of a couple crashes in the last few months. Your issue may be fixed. If not, then I would encourage you to build a debug version of the custom actions, dro

[WiX-users] (no subject)

Hi all, I tried to 'candlelight' the sql-example which is on the wix-wiki-page: http://www.wixwiki.com/images/c/c1/WixSqlDatabaseSample.zip and after executing 'light' I get following error: C:\delivery\Dev\wix\src\ext\sqlextension\wixlib\SqlExtension.wxs(27,0): Error LGHT0094: Unresolved referenc

Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)...

IIS has this strange locking behavior on Metabase keys that would often mess with deployment (since we often touch so many different keys). What you're seeing is an informational message that a retry was necessary and if things proceeded without failure then that last retry was successful. Fro

[WiX-users] Kill process

Hello all, I can't find anything in the help about process control. There is an simple exe file that users are frequently running during uninstall, while the file is eventually removed it means that programfiles folder is left behind and the icon is still in the system troy. Is there a simple way

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Re: [WiX-users] Hello and a few question about some of the tools (tallow, heat and clickthru)

Matt, Heat is the tool for WiX V3, and will probably continue to be developed. Tallow is the V2 equivalent, and should be supported for some time to come but will probably not be enhanced further. Be very careful of using Heat (or Tallow) to automatically generate your installation files. In fact

Re: [WiX-users] Feature element - Condition nightmare

Adrian, I haven't tried this but what I would do is when you declare your Property - omit the Value attribute. This way the property will be undefined. Then when you are checking use something like: <[FOUNDTABCTL32]> This way when the FileSearch finds som

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[WiX-users] Feature element - Condition nightmare

Hi all, I'm having a problem with correctly specifying the Feature's Condition. My goal - make a search of an ocx file, and if the ocx file does not exist on the target computer, keep a feature selected for installation. If the ocx exists, the feature should be automatically deselected. I'm curre

Re: [WiX-users] Training Courses?

Well the one that many people recommend is http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ The WiX Tutorial you'll need some patience to sit through it all and not skip anything. Tanikella, Rajanikanth (SCR US) wrote: > > Hello All, > > Can anyone recommend a course (classroom or online) or a good book to

Re: [WiX-users] Hello and a few question about some of the tools (tallow, heat and clickthru)

Sounds like you could use tallow with the -d switch. eg: tallow -d C:\WiX > wix.wxs Note that without the reditection (">") it will simply spit the document out into the command prompt. By including that wxs file within another wxs file you will be able to reference all of the components in there

Re: [WiX-users] Creating WixUI_is-is.wxl

Bob, > I'd suggest copying WixUI_en-us.wxl from the source distribution. It has > all the strings. thanks for the reply, will do. To whom would submit the final version? Cheers, -- Oliver Schneider Researcher / Developer FRISK Software International Thverholti 18 IS-105 Reykjavik Iceland +3

[WiX-users] Hello and a few question about some of the tools (tallow, heat and clickthru)

Hello to all in the group, I'm looking at using WiX to create MSIs for deploying binaries, web content and anything else we need to. There's nothing complex, just take the files created by the build and package them so they can be easily deployed to servers. The install is a glorified xcopy reall

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[WiX-users] how to create language transform in wix? Is it possible to do this in wix?

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Re: [WiX-users] Training Courses?

Hello, As a beginner in the world of WIX and Windows Installer Technology I found the book 'The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer' by Phil Wilson, ISBN:1590592972, Apress © 2004 (302 pages). Haven't read it yet but I suppose it gives an introduction to Windows Installers. Harm-Jan Tanike