[WiX-users] WiX and MSI architecture question

2007-09-04 Thread Dix, John
Hello all, Being new to MSI and WiX I have several architecture questions however I will restrict it to one for now. My company pushes webchanges to our website which customer's see however we would like to speed the testing process up by implementing MSI packages for deployment. Due to our sys

[WiX-users] Merge Module and Upgrade element?

2007-09-04 Thread Robert.Priest
Hello all, So it appears that you cannot have an Upgrade element under a Module element. You can only have it under a Fragment or a Product. So , in a merge module, what is the proper way to do a dependent install? Meaning: - My merge module installs certain dlls and regi

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

2007-09-04 Thread Dan Beall
Thanks for all the help... much appreciated. From: James Finnigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 5:17 PM To: James Finnigan [MSFT]; Rob Mensching; Dan Beall; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Associating Icons to File Types Follow the directions at h

Re: [WiX-users] launch on exit

2007-09-04 Thread Anidil
How do we make this application to launch only if the check box is checked? Guess in this case it wont validate and execute based on the check box status..correct me if i'm wrong Andrew T Hopper wrote: > > You can launch an application at the end of a setup in a couple of ways, > but here are t

Re: [WiX-users] Getting file version from a component in the database

2007-09-04 Thread Rob Hamflett
In your WiX file specify [EMAIL PROTECTED]"$(var.ProductVersion)", and then you would need a build script to get the version out of your DLL and call e.g. "candle file.wxs -dProductVersion=1.2.3" In Make you could put it into a VERSION variable and call "candle file.wxs -dProductVersion=$(VERSION

[WiX-users] Getting file version from a component in the database

2007-09-04 Thread ChrisChambers
Hi, We would like to assign the version of a DLL in one of the components to the product version. This would mean we didn't have to change the Installer each time we rebuilt the product. We thought we might be able to get the version out of the file and assign it to a property but we're struggl

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

2007-09-04 Thread David Stindl
You can e.g. specify, the module has to be installed: can't control how they're installed. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files t