Re: [WiX-users] special characters in Wix Product Name

Hey Adam, First, I am sorry to say I don't have a direct answer for you. But I did find this one small bit of information that might point you in the right direction. I haven't had the need to what you are doing just yet but I feel the wind coming ;) I would be interested in hearing about your sol

[WiX-users] special characters in Wix Product Name

Hi guys, I am building a Wix package, and my product name has a special character in it (Latin U with diaeresis – Ü) I have tried both the actual character, and its entity equivalent (Ü), but Windows Installer is always unable to render the character when the package starts up... Untitled

[WiX-users] Services + Vista + GAC

Hi, I have a service I want to install and automatically start with an installer. Now, the runtime for the service is not available until after installer completed because the runtime goes into the GAC (it is just the VS2005 SP1 C runtime). One solution is to deploy the files locally (as in a per

Re: [WiX-users] capturing errors from deployment using octopusCLI

Does anyone know how to fail an MSI install with an error code if the website fails to be installed/configured? I was think of Windows Service and thought there was a way to do the also but there doesn't seem to be. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Pierson From: Michael Thurlkill Sent: Tuesd

[WiX-users] wixca.wixlib and sca.wixlib not in WIX 3.0?

What happened to the two WIX libs wixca.wixlib and sca.wixlib in WIX version 3.0? I couldn't find them in the latest build of the toolset at www.sourceforge.net/releases Thanks, --Leo - This SF.net email is sponsored

[WiX-users] Custom Action to call EXE during Uninstall

Hello, I'm trying to get an EXE to fire off after un-installation occurs. Following several forum posts regarding similar attempts, I have come up with this: REMOVE="ALL" This appears to be corre

Re: [WiX-users] Inconsistently uninstalling windows service

What does the log show for the ActionState of the component to which the service is associated? Ben Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I solved the problem, an earlier version of the application had been installed using the msi packages, and then manually deleted without actually uninstal

Re: [WiX-users] Inconsistently uninstalling windows service

I solved the problem, an earlier version of the application had been installed using the msi packages, and then manually deleted without actually uninstalling it. Uninstalling these older msi's fixed my windows service issues. Thanks for your help Bob On Nov 13, 2007 12:43 PM, Ben Reichelt <[EMA

Re: [WiX-users] Cannot install VC80 Runtime from VS2005 SP1 on Vista and Vista only

Wilson, Phil wrote: > If you were in fact installing the base VS 2005 merge modules on Vista > instead of the SP1 versions, this might be the Orca issue with dates - > if you open a merge module with Orca it will unconditionally change the > modify date. If you did that to the original VS 2005 merg

Re: [WiX-users] Inconsistently uninstalling windows service

I ran the verbose log. The only difference that I noticed between the working and nonworking machines was that on the working machine, the files to be removed had an "Action: Absent" whereas on the nonworking machine, the files to be removed had an "Action: HKCRFileAbsent" Here is the output near

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

Hello Bob. I removed VS05 + WIX again, and after installing and using the workaround I'm back to business. What a weird problem. Thanks for the help! Alan From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:23 AM To: Lan

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

Yes, that does address the issue. _ From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:25 AM To: David Canning Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI David Canning wrote: Usin

[WiX-users] Nigel Rochford is out of the office.

I will be out of the office starting 13/11/2007 and will not return until 15/11/2007. I will respond to your message when I return - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find p

Re: [WiX-users] Inconsistently uninstalling windows service

Ben Reichelt wrote: > The msi package installs and uninstalls correctly on my dev machine > (WinXP) and another dev server (Win2k3). There are two servers that > the msi fails to uninstall correctly. The files are all deleted, but > the windows service is not removed. Start with a verbose unin

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

David Canning wrote: Using vsts 2005 sp1 with dbpro and couple other addins (codesmart and wholetomato) on xp sp2 32bit. Tried running as admin and nonadmin acct. Are there any logging options to get more details? I'm not aware of any logging available once the package is loaded. Does th

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

Lanteigne, Alan wrote: I found a bug listed on souceforge for my problem: *1613071 -- Unable to save VS project * Does the workaround in that bug work for you? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.co

Re: [WiX-users] enabling a control with a radiobutton in the same dialog

Richard wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rob Hamflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > Do you really need this business? CDATA sections is not needed in XML. It is only used if you don't want to escape special characters like > and/or want to preserve whitespace. Regula

Re: [WiX-users] enabling a control with a radiobutton in the same dialog

Probably not, but that's how dark decompiled it. Rob Richard wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rob Hamflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > Do you really need this business? - This SF.net email i

Re: [WiX-users] Validation of an msi-file to prevent modification?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to validate an msi-package with a checksum for example, > so that it's not possible to start an installation after a modification? > Or should I just avoid writing scripts and use dll's instead? If the MSI is

Re: [WiX-users] enabling a control with a radiobutton in the same dialog

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Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

I found a bug listed on souceforge for my problem: 1613071 - Unable to save VS project Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's ever been any activity on it. I tried your suggestion of addi

[WiX-users] Bug in Wix preprocessor?

I'm getting a compile error in a Wix project in the following scenario where a .wxi include file included in another .wxi include file isn't read from a location relative to the outside include but instead relative to the file that included the outer include file. In other words, I've got files

[WiX-users] How to store binary data in CustomTable

Hi! I'm trying to store binary data pulled in from a file into a wix . Therefore, I've set up a custom table like this: file1.dat ? ? ? The only way I see this could be achieved is by putting binary data directly into my WiX XML file in a C

[WiX-users] Validation of an msi-file to prevent modification?

Hi there, most probably this has been already discussed or maybe I just don't understand the concept. However, I have a CustomAction written in JScript. With Orca I "export" the script out of the msi-package, then modify it and then again "import" it into the msi-package with Orca. Is it possible

Re: [WiX-users] Monitoring progress of chained installs

Good point, John, about doing UI in C#. We do, in fact, have a dependency on the .NET Framework, and that's one of the prerequisites we need our installer to install. To my knowledge, though, the MSBuild-generated bootstrapper does not support silent install of prerequisites, which is a requirement

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

Hi. Have same problem with visibility of features components in SelectionTree. All fine at the first time of msi running. But SelectionTree is empty after a product installed and I run installation again for modify some compomets. Any have idea about possible reasons of it? Maintenance Welcome

Re: [WiX-users] enabling a control with a radiobutton in the same dialog

Here's a couple of snippets from a license agreement dialog, where the 'Next' button is enabled/disabled depending on a radio button selection showing you agree/disagree with the license agreement. Hopefully you can get something from this. Rob ...

[WiX-users] How to copy whole directory

hi, in case of installation i need to copy my whole directory and its subdirectories to the installation location, I know how to copy a single file but i got confuse in case of copying directory, please help me out -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-copy-whole-dir