Re: [WiX-users] Side-by-side installation question

2007-12-08 Thread David Reed (MCS - HOUSTON)
Bob, thanks for the pointer to transforms; that's definitely simpler than what I was planning to do, but only a little bit. Someday I'll find the time to RTentireFM. In short, I still need to wrap the installer in another app. *pout* Christopher, that's basically what my poorly worded question w

Re: [WiX-users] Side-by-side installation question

2007-12-08 Thread Christopher Painter
But does WiX support this? InstallShield has a table called ISProductConfigurationInstance that looks something like InstanceId, Property Value. By populating this table you tell InstallShield to build and embed into Storage a series of ProductCode changing transforms. At a minimum I typc

Re: [WiX-users] Side-by-side installation question

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Arnson
David Reed (MCS - HOUSTON) wrote: > Can anyone validate/verify that my hard knocks larnin' to be accurate? It > appears that ProductName and ProductID cannot be modified by manipulating > properties within WiX to allow multiple instances of the same product. > MSI supports multiple product in

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-commits] Wix 2 and service

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: 2. Should I expect the uninstaller to gracefully stop my service without this long pause? The service stops very quickly (it takes not more than 1 or 2 seconds to stop), and if I stop it manually there is no pause during uninstallation. The pause isn't coming from MSI

Re: [WiX-users] Disabling the next button in a feature tree dialog when no features are selected

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Arson replies to the first one with: "Summary: I don't think it's possible. You'd certainly have to modify the dialog even if it were." It's Arnson with an 'n', not the fire-starting felony. Attribute="Disabled" /> See src\ext\UIExtensi

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple cab files per media element (disk)

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Craig Miller wrote: > How can I specify that several cab files should be placed on a single media > element? > You can't. The Media element (and the MSI Media table) represents one disk or one cab file. > Right now I'm placing all of my files into a single cab file, but I > appear to be hit

Re: [WiX-users] Possible to install event manifests without using wevtutil?

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Jared Hughes wrote: > Currently my product is running a custom action of "wevtutil.exe im > [manifest_filename]" to install an event manifest and create logging > channels with the Windows event logging system, but I was curious if there > is a native way to install this event manifest using WiX? I