Re: [WiX-users] MSI returns 1606 Could not access location

2007-11-01 Thread Davut Karabay
Are you saying that TARGETDIR should not be set to \\wmiscratch\scratch\davut\DaRT? But that's where software was installed right?. Installer should be setting it internally. My problem is; if the share become unavailable then there seems to be no way out. Can't uninstall or repair, or install

Re: [WiX-users] Font definition and WXL

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Baudouin
Not a bad suggestion:) Paul would you mind to have a look at this, in case the linker is case sensitive. Thank you. E. From: Kelly Leahy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:59 PM To: Eric Baudouin Cc: Paul Houldridge; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] Font definition and WXL

2007-11-01 Thread Kelly Leahy
Ok... It also appears that your error message says 'Facename' (lowercase 'N'), but your declaration shows an uppercase. Not sure if it matters, just thought I'd mention it since I noticed it. Kelly Eric Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/01/2007 04:44 PM To Kelly L

Re: [WiX-users] Font definition and WXL

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Baudouin
Here is the answer from Paul, so it look like syntaxically speaking we were doing the right thing. So I think we need to focus more on the methodology. Thank you anyway for your reply. No luck. Using the ! instead of the $ is right. $ is deprecated. .\SetupUI.wix(26) : warning LGHT1073 : The

Re: [WiX-users] start and stop services

2007-11-01 Thread shapla
Thanks a lot. You are right. I was using the display name and so it was not working. It is now working with the correct service name. Again thanks! Richard-45 wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > shapla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I checked it in Orca. I see that it has t

Re: [WiX-users] Font definition and WXL

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Baudouin
Let me check with Paul, this might simply explains why the variables were not replaced. Thank you. E. From: Kelly Leahy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:31 PM To: Eric Baudouin Cc: Paul Houldridge; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Font definition and WXL

2007-11-01 Thread Kelly Leahy
Don't you want $(loc.BannerTextStyle_Size) not !(loc.BannerTextStyle_Size)? Kelly Eric Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/01/2007 04:17 PM To "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" cc Paul Houldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject [WiX-users] Font definition and WXL

Re: [WiX-users] Common virtual directory for multiple products

2007-11-01 Thread Kelly Leahy
It doesn't look to me like there's a way to do this, but I don't know anything about WiX's support for IIS. Hopefully somebody else will recommend. Kelly Rolando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/01/2007 04:00 PM To Kelly Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], wix-

[WiX-users] Font definition and WXL

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Baudouin
Hello, We have moved our resource to a wxl file to facilitate the localization of our component. In the localization world it is a good practice to make sure that the font size and the font facename can be localized. I was hoping that I could move the font style attribute in the WXL as well so

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Davut Karabay
Rob, Peter, Blair and Chad - Thank you guys all for the help. Turns out I haven't changed Package/@Id. Now it is working as charm! Thanks a lot.Davut > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:49:24 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> CC: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-u

Re: [WiX-users] Common virtual directory for multiple products

2007-11-01 Thread Rolando
Thank you for your reply, I've tried this before but it doesn't work, because is not possible to add a reference from the children web directories to the common web directory. Is there any way to add a reference to an existing web directory? Kelly Leahy wrote: I don't know anything about us

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Can you share the before and after values for: Product/@Id Product/@UpgradeCode Package/@Id What version of the WiX toolset are you using? Davut Karabay wrote: > Hi, > > When I run the new version of installer, it invokes the installed old > version. I don't want that happen. I want the new v

Re: [WiX-users] Finding existing IIS websites and virtual directories

2007-11-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Sadly, not supported yet. It's one of those features I wish was implemented. Marc Scheuner wrote: > Is there a way in WiX / Windows Installer to get a dialog that will show the > currently available IIS web sites, and the currently defined virtual > directories inside each web site, so that I

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Peter Marcu
Note that Package ID and ProductCode are different. One is on the Package element and should always change, one is on the Product element and should change with each release. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davut Karabay Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:54 PM To

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Davut Karabay
That was the first thing I did, changing both product id and upgrade code. But still invokes the cached msi. I think I will give another try because everyone suggests it will work. By the way please bare with me on installers :). It is one of the things that I inherited recently. Subject: RE

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not askingmsiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Blair Murri
Is your new package id different than the old one? Almost no one should ever explicitly set the package id. They should always have it autogenerated instead. (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/aa370568.aspx) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davut Karabay Sent: Thur

Re: [WiX-users] MSI returns 1606 Could not access location

2007-11-01 Thread Blair Murri
MSI (c) (4C:38) [13:48:25:762]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying TARGETDIR property. Its current value is 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset'. Its new value: '\\wmiscratch\scratch\davut\DaRT'. This line seems to me to be the primary reason. TARGETDIR is the location where th

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Chad Petersen
Peter is suggesting you change your Product Id="GUID". I think you might want to also consider changing the UpgradeCode="GUID" also for future ease of upgrading one product versus the other, but it really depends on what your ultimate goal is. From: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [WiX-users] Changing the default installation directory

2007-11-01 Thread Luis Mejia
On 11/1/07, 0x001A4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would I go about changing the default installation directory from Program > Files to the C:\ or whatever drive the user has windows installed on? Your Directory structure probably looks something like this: .

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Peter Marcu
>From the msi documentation: "The ProductCode property is a unique identifier >for the particular product release" It sounded to me like you have a completely separate release so you should change the ProductCode property of the MSI. This is set by the Product/@Id attribute in WiX. From: Davut

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not askingmsiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Davut Karabay
I generated a real GUID (package id) :). But that didn't work. It still invokes the cache. Do you think it shouldn't? Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not askingmsiexec /fv)From: Hugues Valois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2007-11-01 21:03Attachments: Message as HTML

Re: [WiX-users] MSI returns 1606 Could not access location

2007-11-01 Thread Davut Karabay
Hi Rob - Thank you for your reply. Do you mean I require network share to exist during uninstall (in the WIX code)? Isn't that a requirement by MSI which I don't have control over? Here is the log. I couldn't understand anything useful other than error code. ...Id start 13:48:25: CostFinalize.

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not askingmsiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Hugues Valois
Did you forget to change the package id? Or use ---- to have a package id generated automatically by Wix. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davut Karabay Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:41 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Peter Marcu
Change the product code. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davut Karabay Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:40 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv) Re: [WiX-users] How to pr

[WiX-users] Finding existing IIS websites and virtual directories

2007-11-01 Thread Marc Scheuner
Is there a way in WiX / Windows Installer to get a dialog that will show the currently available IIS web sites, and the currently defined virtual directories inside each web site, so that I can pick a web site / virtual directory as my installation target directory?? Also, I'd like to be able

[WiX-users] Disk Usage dialog values

2007-11-01 Thread Brian Simoneau
Where does the disk usage dialog get the values to put into the table? The selection tree in the custom setup dialog indicates that the install requires 68 MB, but in the disk usage dialog it says that 159 MB are required on the drive. I would expect these values to be the same. Brian Simoneau So

Re: [WiX-users] Crystal Reports modules not registering files

2007-11-01 Thread Pedro Ferreira
Hello Richard, thank you for your help. I will try to include the SelfRegModules action and test it on a virtual machine, and see if that solves the problem. Do you know where can I get the Crystal Reports runtime MSI packages? We are using version XI, and in the crystal page, I can only find MS

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Davut Karabay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I run the new version of installer, it invokes the installed old versi= > on. I don't want that happen. I want the new version installed anyway. Why? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft avai

Re: [WiX-users] Common virtual directory for multiple products

2007-11-01 Thread Kelly Leahy
I don't know anything about using MSI to install virtual directories, but I think the solution is to put your 'shared' parent directory in a component that is used by all of your applications, using the same ComponentGuid. Then, only the 'first' application installed will add the directory, an

[WiX-users] How to prevent cached msi being invoked (not asking msiexec /fv)

2007-11-01 Thread Davut Karabay
Hi, When I run the new version of installer, it invokes the installed old version. I don't want that happen. I want the new version installed anyway. How can I break the link between the new and the old? I changed Product ID GUID but it didn't help. Using Launch Conditions do not help because

[WiX-users] Common virtual directory for multiple products

2007-11-01 Thread Rolando
Hi, I have five products, each one of them creates one or more virtual directories. I need to put all this virtual directories inside a common virtual directory. ie. Default Web Site |-[My product line] |-ProductOne |-ProductTwo ... |-Prod

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing edited files

2007-11-01 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Huh? Hacky is allowing files to be modified in install locations. Agreed, but you can't "fix" everything. Attempting to modify files in the installed program location is likely to break on a highly locked down Windows

[WiX-users] WixVsExtension and help registration bug

2007-11-01 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
Hi, I'm still trying to register my help2 files, and if I use the WixVSExtension I end up with the same problem as described in bug 1588180 If I follow do it the manual way according to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb164959(VS.80).aspx it works, if I decompile this msi then I once aga

Re: [WiX-users] Crystal Reports modules not registering files

2007-11-01 Thread Richard.Foster
Pedro, My first recommendation would be to use a bootstrapper and the Crystal reports runtime MSI file instead of the merge modules. The merge modules are IMHO almost useless, not to mention the fact that if you use WiX 3 you'll have to turn off verification because the CR merge modules have so ma

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing edited files

2007-11-01 Thread Adam Majer
Richard wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Craig0ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Basically my installer installs certain standard letters for use with the >> software, if i change the standard letter to incorperate client specific >> details and then uninstall the product the modi

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing edited files

2007-11-01 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig0ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically my installer installs certain standard letters for use with the > software, if i change the standard letter to incorperate client specific > details and then uninstall the product the modified file is removed, i

[WiX-users] CAQuietExec custom action - launching 64-bit exe

2007-11-01 Thread David Ward
I'm learning WiX and have been experimenting with a 64-bit install package for Vista64 During the install, I would like to run a 64-bit configuration tool. I can successfully launch the tool with a normal MSI custom action. However, when I try to launch the 64-bit exe silently using the Wix

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree not showing the features to be installed!

2007-11-01 Thread Sebastian Brand
Also make sure the 's Level attribute is not set to "0". Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com On Oct 30, 2007, at 2:29 , Richard wrote: > > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >"Sajo Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have defined all my featur

[WiX-users] Changing strings in dialog boxes

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen Tunney
Hello, I have what might probably be an easy problem to solve, but I can not find a way :( I currently have an installer that shows ".will install PRODUCT". I wish it to say ". will install the PRODUCT". Is there a way to override the resource strings? I need to change this in a few place

[WiX-users] Changing the default installation directory

2007-11-01 Thread 0x001A4
How would I go about changing the default installation directory from Program Files to the C:\ or whatever drive the user has windows installed on? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Changing-the-default-installation-directory-tf4731406.html#a13528883 Sent from the wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Integer Variables

2007-11-01 Thread Cryptonomicon
A so you were thinking along the lines of the preprocessor would just produce a file with the correct values in the right place - so why wouldn't the compiler eat it. I was just delving into perl to get perl to read a file of file names and produce the correctly formatted components. Am glad

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Integer Variables

2007-11-01 Thread Karim MacDonald
Cryptonomicon wrote: > > I am guessing that > > > and > > Guid="C4AB05E7-BE8D-40F2-891F-583750779D05" DiskId="1" Win64=$(var.Is64)> > > will cause pain grief and misery? > Not for me it didn't :) I tried this (actually: Win64="$(var.Win64)"), got the squiggly blue lines and gave up for ot

[WiX-users] Uninstall removing edited files

2007-11-01 Thread Craig0ss
Hey Basically my installer installs certain standard letters for use with the software, if i change the standard letter to incorperate client specific details and then uninstall the product the modified file is removed, is there a way to check if the file has been modified and do not delete it on

Re: [WiX-users] Heat with self-registration dlls!

2007-11-01 Thread Karim MacDonald
Sajo Jacob wrote: > > Thanks! that explains the exe's but how about the dlls with this issue? > 64-bit DLLs? I don't know how heat.exe even manages to load and call DllRegisterServer on 64-bit DLLs (it's a 32-bit .exe in the WiX download), but it definitely doesn't produce what you'd expect. Ho

[WiX-users] Wix Integer Variables

2007-11-01 Thread Cryptonomicon
I am guessing that and will cause pain grief and misery? or is there a variation on I have missed? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wix-Integer-Variables-tf4730515.html#a13526479 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabb

[WiX-users] Several Installed Versions at once - Production - Pre release etc

2007-11-01 Thread Cryptonomicon
I am putting together a package of number crunching code that will be opened sourced and I need to run parallel versions. I envision that users will be running the validated release version and may also be playing with a non validated version (by validation i mean the number crunching routines pr

[WiX-users] Silent Installation

2007-11-01 Thread gunass
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