Re: [WiX-users] Better XML coding

2007-08-31 Thread Anidil
Okie..And we specify each of these tiny files during compile and link times right? Francis Kam wrote: > > If you have anything beyond a tiny project, I'd say go ahead and use more > than one wxs file. It just helps organization to separate things into > different files. I personally tend to put

Re: [WiX-users] Better XML coding

2007-08-31 Thread Francis Kam
If you have anything beyond a tiny project, I'd say go ahead and use more than one wxs file. It just helps organization to separate things into different files. I personally tend to put each feature in its own wxs for example. -Francis On 8/31/07, Anidil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In what

Re: [WiX-users] Better XML coding

2007-08-31 Thread Anidil
In what circumstance do we go for multiple source file? could you give an instance Schrieken, Rene wrote: > > '...in the wix source file...' would indicate that you now have only > one wxs file? You can have more than one wxs file. > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX

2007-08-31 Thread Oliver Schneider
To create hardlinks on pre-W2K *and* later, use MoveFileEx() with MOVEFILE_CREATE_HARDLINK ... works like a charm since NT 4.0 ;) Alternatively, if it makes you feel bad to use "undocumented" features, use CreateHardLink() on W2K and later. Mark Johnson wrote: > Let me know if you create a custom

Re: [WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX

2007-08-31 Thread Christopher Painter
I am curious what user stories drive this requirement as I've never written an install that needed this. I usually see ( and usually symbolic) links in Unix and very rarely in Windows environments. Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let me know if you create a custom action for creating

Re: [WiX-users] Better XML coding

2007-08-31 Thread Schrieken, Rene
'...in the wix source file...' would indicate that you now have only one wxs file? You can have more than one wxs file. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Pierson Lee (Volt) Sent: Fri 8/31/2007 17:49 To: Anidil; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [

Re: [WiX-users] MSI building problem...

2007-08-31 Thread Schrieken, Rene
The .msm files are merge files. They contain prepackaged components and add stuff needed by your msi. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of V K Gangwar Sent: Fri 8/31/2007 17:02 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] MSI building problem... He

Re: [WiX-users] Decompiling .msi through MS Visual Studio 2005

2007-08-31 Thread Schrieken, Rene
There isn't. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of V K Gangwar Sent: Fri 8/31/2007 16:53 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Decompiling .msi through MS Visual Studio 2005 Hello, Is there any way to decompile .msi file in MS Visual Studio 2

[WiX-users] file costing

2007-08-31 Thread John Lalande
How is files costing calculated? Is there a way to override the values displayed? I have a feature that the UI says will only require 12kb...but in fact the actual disk space consumed by this feature is closer to 12mb. John

[WiX-users] Better XML coding

2007-08-31 Thread Anidil
is it better to include the installer UI XML codes in the wix source file instead of using the wixui.wixlib during the link time? Which is the recommended method? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Better-XML-coding-tf4360942.html#a12429018 Sent from the wix-users mailing lis

Re: [WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX

2007-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
Let me know if you create a custom action for creating hardlinks, I sure could use that too! David Stindl wrote: > > Hallo all, > does anybody know, if it's possible to create "Hardlink" on Win XP > filesystem with WiX installation? Thanks a lot for your help... > David. > >

Re: [WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX

2007-08-31 Thread Christopher Painter
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil_hardlink.mspx?mfr=true MSI doesn't have support so you'd have to ( carefully ) roll your own CA pattern to do this. "Pierson Lee (Volt)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do you mean by hardlink? ---

Re: [WiX-users] Better XML coding

2007-08-31 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Depends if you're using a standard UI or if you customized it. If you're using a standard one, I'd use the wixlib, if you customized it, you are going to have to include it in the wix source. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil Sent: F

Re: [WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX

2007-08-31 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
What do you mean by hardlink? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Stindl Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 6:35 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX Hallo all, does anybody know, if it's possib

Re: [WiX-users] Launch a second installer from MSI

2007-08-31 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Windows Installer will not run two MSIs at the same time. The only way you're going to be able to do this is to use a bootstrapper. I ran into the same problem attempting to deploy a component MSI (.net framework 2.0) within mine and had to find an alternate method. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

[WiX-users] MSI building problem...

2007-08-31 Thread V K Gangwar
Hello All, I have a .msi package which is developed on MS visual studio 2005. When I open that project on MS studio2005, I am seeing two files having extension .msm. These files are not there in project codebase. When I try to build these files are giving errors. When I exclude these files I am

[WiX-users] Decompiling .msi through MS Visual Studio 2005

2007-08-31 Thread V K Gangwar
Hello, Is there any way to decompile .msi file in MS Visual Studio 2005 instead of doing on Command Line (using dark). thanks!! Regards, Veerendra - Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Game

[WiX-users] Launch a second installer from MSI

2007-08-31 Thread Reed Rothchild
Hello, I need to install 2 msi's at the same time but having trouble. I built one MSI using Wix2.0. I bundled another MSI (built by someone else) within mine using the standard 'File' element. This gets installed and copied like any other file. Problem is when I go to execute it at the end. Win

Re: [WiX-users] To goto prod. reg. website at the end of installation

2007-08-31 Thread Calin Iaru
I used a custom action which is triggered when pressing the Finish button. The action is launched if the checkbox is selected. On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:05:19 +0200, Anidil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do i customize my ExitDialog UI dialog (Last UI Dialog) to include a > checkbox which tak

[WiX-users] To goto prod. reg. website at the end of installation

2007-08-31 Thread Anidil
How do i customize my ExitDialog UI dialog (Last UI Dialog) to include a checkbox which takes the user to product registration url when clicked "Finish" -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/To-goto-prod.-reg.-website-at-the-end-of-installation-tf4360326.html#a12427023 Sent from

[WiX-users] Bug? InstallCertificates called when it shouldn't be?

2007-08-31 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
I'm working in Wix v3, and I've got a conditional component that is supposed to install a certificate when the property CERTIFICATEPATH is set, but I'm running into problems because InstallCertificates seems to be called regardless of whether the component with the certificate is installed. Inst

[WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX

2007-08-31 Thread David Stindl
Hallo all, does anybody know, if it's possible to create "Hardlink" on Win XP filesystem with WiX installation? Thanks a lot for your help... David. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log

Re: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types

2007-08-31 Thread John Hall
Can anybody point me to instructions for: (1) Associating an icon to a particular file type (2)Launching the application to which that file type is associated when the icon is double-clicked Dan, Here is some example XML taken from one of my prod

[WiX-users] To register product at the end of installation

2007-08-31 Thread Anidil
What is the best way of doing this? Should i be launching internet explorer from the installer? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/To-register-product-at-the-end-of-installation-tf4359762.html#a12425173 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

Re: [WiX-users] force upgrade

2007-08-31 Thread Frédéric Viollet
I forgot to say : I'm using WixV3 3.0.2420.0 Frédéric Viollet a écrit : Hi everyone, is there a way to force an upgrade even if the version I'm want to install is already installed? I'm using the bootstrapping possibility offered by Wix to generate a executable file (setupbld). The options I

[WiX-users] force upgrade

2007-08-31 Thread Frédéric Viollet
Hi everyone, is there a way to force an upgrade even if the version I'm want to install is already installed? I'm using the bootstrapping possibility offered by Wix to generate a executable file (setupbld). The options I use are "mcpsu". At the moment, if I double click on the setup file and tha

Re: [WiX-users] Password in the msi logs

2007-08-31 Thread Pallavi Patrutkar
Hello, In this case, I am facing a problem. In spite of me putting Hidden="yes" for my password property, password gets printed in the log file if it is passed as a parameter to DLL through a custom action. I have set HideTarget="yes" for this custom action, still it displays the password.

Re: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types

2007-08-31 Thread Thomas Leigh
Just create a few registry entries: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969377.aspx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Beall Sent: 30 August 2007 17:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types Can anybody poi

Re: [WiX-users] Remove section using XMLConfig

2007-08-31 Thread Stefan Pavlik
And again - of course you need to use VerifyPath='subDirectory[\[].="DirTwo"[\]]' The \ is escape character (not /). Stefan Pavlik wrote: > I found the solution: > > XML file: > > > > DirOne > DirTwo > > > > > > To remove the line > DirTwo > you need to write the XML

Re: [WiX-users] Remove section using XMLConfig

2007-08-31 Thread Stefan Pavlik
I found the solution: XML file: DirOne DirTwo To remove the line DirTwo you need to write the XMLConfig in following way: Hope that it will help somebody... Stefan -- Stefan Pavlik | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whitestein Technologies s.r.o. | www.whitestein.com P

Re: [WiX-users] Network install - group policy: problem assigning to user.

2007-08-31 Thread Ujesh
Hi: I think there is some issue with ur Group policy settings. As far as i knw there is no issue with Wix since i have installed my sample MSI (generated from Wix file) using Group policy settings. OneReallyCoolApplication wrote: > > Hi, I am trying to install a WIX-built MSI package to netwo