[WiX-users] Installing files from other MSI packages

2008-01-09 Thread Jack Nichols
Hello all, I've got an interesting situation that I'm hoping some folks on this list might be able to help with. As part of a setup package I'm working on, I need to install some files from another installation package that I cannot modify. What I'd like to have happen is the user runs m

Re: [WiX-users] IIS 7.0 Custom Actions

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Dimmick
IIS 7.0 seems to have been designed for every scenario except installing from a Windows Installer package. The new scheme is based on modifying XML configuration files. Most of the properties have moved out of the central metabase (which was an XML file in IIS 6.0) into web.config files in the

Re: [WiX-users] WiX, IIS AppPool and Users

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Dimmick
As always, please state which version of WiX you're using, and check whether the problem reproduces on the latest weekly release from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/. (I think there's a different source for Microsoft employees.) If the problem still reproduces let us know. (I apologise

Re: [WiX-users] problems giving user permissions to a folder.

2008-01-09 Thread Scott Sam
Thanks that worked. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hamflett Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:51 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] problems giving user permissions to a folder. I think you want to chang

Re: [WiX-users] How to tell what Windows installer version will be needed?

2008-01-09 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Reggie Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an installer that used to work ok on windows 98 but is now > causing a problem. It's probably due to me moving from wix v2 to wix > v3. How can I tell what features of MSI I am using that is causing a > p

[WiX-users] How to tell what Windows installer version will be needed?

2008-01-09 Thread Reggie Burnett
I have an installer that used to work ok on windows 98 but is now causing a problem. It's probably due to me moving from wix v2 to wix v3. How can I tell what features of MSI I am using that is causing a problem on Windows 98? Thanks Reggie --

[WiX-users] IIS 7.0 Custom Actions

2008-01-09 Thread Dana Gutride
Has anybody attempted any custom actions or have any info for installing a site on IIS 7.0 w/out legacy support? I realize that WiX doesn't natively support it yet, but it's very hard finding anything beyond the api documentation on the web for info on how to do this within an MSI. Thanks, Dana -

Re: [WiX-users] Help with installing Visual Studio Help Extensions.

2008-01-09 Thread John Gilbert
Thanks for your help on this!! As you suggested, I used the stuff to create the entries. As a suggestion to others.. I started with the MSI that the Visual Studio Package deployment process created, then used dark.exe to reverse engineer the WIX code. :-) John Gilbert From: Si

Re: [WiX-users] Two questions on SelectionTree and Features.

2008-01-09 Thread Michal Peled
Brad, You could also try: Of course, that requires you to set the modified feature as a "leaf" (child) of the feature you want its state to follow. MP. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Shurts Sent: Wednesday, Ja

[WiX-users] How to tell what Windows installer version will be needed?

2008-01-09 Thread Reggie Burnett
I have an installer that used to work ok on windows 98 but is now causing a problem. It's probably due to me moving from wix v2 to wix v3. How can I tell what features of MSI I am using that is causing a problem on Windows 98? Thanks!

Re: [WiX-users] problems giving user permissions to a folder.

2008-01-09 Thread Rob Hamflett
I think you want to change Write to WriteAttributes. As a good catch all I use this: Rob Scott Sam wrote: > I’m using WiX v3 with VS2008. When I try to build the msi the following > code gives me the error: > > The Permission element contains an unexpected attribute 'Write'. Any > ideas

[WiX-users] problems giving user permissions to a folder.

2008-01-09 Thread Scott Sam
I'm using WiX v3 with VS2008. When I try to build the msi the following code gives me the error: The Permission element contains an unexpected attribute 'Write'. Any ideas on how to fix this? I need to give a user read and write permissions.

Re: [WiX-users] How to use Windows-Authentication for SQL-Server with WiX?

2008-01-09 Thread Daniel Janz
Finally I found a way to give the user a choice and don't want to withhold it: I use two components, one for SQL-Auth and one for Win-Auth:

[WiX-users] WiX, IIS AppPool and Users

2008-01-09 Thread Dror Cohen
Hi, I'm trying to create an MSI using WiX that will create an application pool in the IIS and assign a user to it. I'm using the following code: The problem is that for some reason the password in the AppPool isn't set correctly and when trying to access one of the applications, the

[WiX-users] Multi-language support

2008-01-09 Thread Peter Jaworski
1) I am using WiX version 3. I would like to create multi-language setup. The user on the first dialog choose the language from down-drop list and in next step I would like the setup to be localised. In version 3 of WiX the multi-language support has to be done the same way as described at: http://