Re: [WiX-users] ICE03: String overflow warning

2008-01-03 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chesong Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My question is: Can I safely ignore this warning? > > It would be wise to avoid the warning. While I agree with this, I would add that in practice I've never seen a problem arising from overflowing the field. Stil

[WiX-users] 32 & 64 bit

2008-01-03 Thread SaiTeja
Hi, 1) Is it possible to create one MSI for both 32bit and 64 bit OS 2) If yes my queries are 1) In my case, except 2 binaries, remaining all binaries are same. The binaries which are different are service32.exe for 32bit and service64.exe for 64 bit So I added win64="yes" for service64.exe.

Re: [WiX-users] ICE03: String overflow warning

2008-01-03 Thread Chesong Lee
> My question is: Can I safely ignore this warning? It would be wise to avoid the warning. Schema of the CustomAction table shows that Action field is S255 which is up to 255 characters. CustomAction.idt Action TypeSource Target s72 i2 S72 S255 CustomActionAction Property

Re: [WiX-users] Crystal Reports Merge Module Installation Woes

2008-01-03 Thread Szentpali Janos
Bob Arnson írta: > Szentpali Janos wrote: >> Does that mean that the same file, installed by two unrelated setup >> packages into the same path, with two distinct component and file ids >> (guids) will still be correctly uninstalled/managed? > > No, that's what component rules are about. The compo

[WiX-users] Localization of Product ID and other GUIDs -- Is bug 1075824 fixed?

2008-01-03 Thread Jared Hughes
I'm trying to prepare my product for localization and I ran into a problem localizing the GUIDs for the Product ID and Upgrade Code. I noticed a couple messages about this and I also saw that a bug about this was closed several months ago, and I'm curious if this has been fixed in a more-recent bu

[WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?

2008-01-03 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:57:04 -0800, Chris Weiss wrote: Chris, > the problem of creating a help icon for my .CHM shortcut. Should I > be creating a single DLL that only contains the help icon (and if I > copy the one from WinHlp32.exe, am I violating some sort of > Microsoft copyright)? Yes, creat

[WiX-users] Disable autoplay on multidisk installs?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Miller
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to disable autoplay after the first disk in a multi-disk install? Right now I have the following: - Insert Disk 1: Autoplay runs and executes my setup.msi via a setup.exe program. Disk 1 files are installed. - Installer prompts for Disk 2, but at the same ti

Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Weiss
On Jan 2, 2008 4:22 PM, Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you specify in the Icon elements gets incorporated in your .msi as a > binary at build time, so it should be something you have control over, not > attempting to use a system executable. > > The warning message is described in t

Re: [WiX-users] SQL Elements are not recognized in Visual Studio?

2008-01-03 Thread Alex Steen
Nope, I wasn't. That fixed it. Thanks all! -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:31 AM To: Alex Steen Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SQL Elements are not recognized in Visual Studio? JCWrs wrote:

Re: [WiX-users] SQL Elements are not recognized in Visual Studio?

2008-01-03 Thread Bob Arnson
JCWrs wrote: > I still get an error that says the Product element contains an unexpected > child element 'User'. > I get another one that says the Component element contains an unexpected > child element 'SqlDatabase'. > Are you supplying the namespace in the element name (i.e., and )? -- s

Re: [WiX-users] Crystal Reports Merge Module Installation Woes

2008-01-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Szentpali Janos wrote: > Does that mean that the same file, installed by two unrelated setup > packages into the same path, with two distinct component and file ids > (guids) will still be correctly uninstalled/managed? No, that's what component rules are about. The component GUID and resource I

Re: [WiX-users] Shared Files

2008-01-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Henning Eiben wrote: > Yeah, I've found this article before ... but how would I do this within > my app? Do I have to create multiple (identical) -elements like this: > Yes. You can use CopyFile to install one and copy it elsewhere but it's about the same amount of work and CopyFile isn't nece

Re: [WiX-users] tallow and empty directories

2008-01-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Joa wrote: > But what about installing empty directories? They do not contain files, > therefore no components are created and thus they are not installed. > How can I use tallow to collect all files and create a component for the > empty directories, too? > Tallow doesn't support that. You can

Re: [WiX-users] SQL Elements are not recognized in Visual Studio?

2008-01-03 Thread JCWrs
I did not have those so I added them, the top of my file now looks like this: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"; xmlns:sql=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/SqlExtension"; xmlns:ui="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UIExtension";> I added a reference to WixSqlExte

Re: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

2008-01-03 Thread Graham Vickrage
In the end it was the the exe.config file not being included with the serice.exe file. I added the following in the service component and it works. Thanks for all your help identifying this. Wilson, Phil wrote: > If it can be started ok after the install then the issue could b

[WiX-users] tallow and empty directories

2008-01-03 Thread Joa
I am new to WIX and am using "tallow -d" to generate a FileSet for a specific directory and all the directories and files below. The output is a FileSet that contains several components, each one for the files of a certain directory. These components get collected in the FeatureSet for later insta

Re: [WiX-users] Crystal Reports Merge Module Installation Woes

2008-01-03 Thread Szentpali Janos
Bob Arnson írta: > Szentpali Janos wrote: >> "Merge modules are generally now considered bad practice..." If this >> is true than what is the point of the whole MSI system? I mean if I >> have a 3rd party component (x.dll) that 4th party and 5th party are >> using too, how does the system decide th

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0.3621.0

2008-01-03 Thread Philip Lippard
I did find the new WIX project types.. I guess I expected to find a WIX Add-In.. which must not apply in this case. I will move forward and work with the WIX project types. Thanks for your assistance. Philip From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: [WiX-users] FileShare - Question

2008-01-03 Thread Chris
Could you also give an example please? I tried following but it also didn't work - it says "Failed to create network share. ( -2147 Root)": And additionally I have another question: How can I

Re: [WiX-users] FileShare - Question

2008-01-03 Thread Chris
Could you also give an example please? I tried following but it also didn't work - it says "Failed to create network share. ( -2147 Root)": And additionally I have another question: How can I

Re: [WiX-users] Shared Files

2008-01-03 Thread Henning Eiben
Bob Arnson wrote: >> I didn't find an obvious way to include a file only once in the MSI and >> install it to serveral locations ... >> > > Generally you don't. Instead, you can use WiX's support for "smart > cabbing" so that only a single copy of the file is included in your MSI > package reg