Re: [WiX-users] Failing gracefully from ServiceControl?

2008-02-22 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
It should be pretty easy to accomplish with custom action type 34 scheduled after InstallFinalize and with ExeCommand set to: net start Alex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Finger Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:42 PM To: wix-

Re: [WiX-users] Failing gracefully from ServiceControl?

2008-02-22 Thread Geoff Finger
That worked! When the service install fails the error box now has an "Ignore" option. When I saw that option in the docs it never occurred to me that it might also control the criticality of the item, I figured turning it off would just make the installation continue on a little further before it d

Re: [WiX-users] Setting Estimated Size and Version

2008-02-22 Thread Ahn Ahn Liu
Thanks for the reply. 1. Too bad about not being able to control it. Since our chainer just calls a bunch of other packages and doesn't actually install anything itself the size shown is only 7.6MB when in reality, it's over 3GB! Maybe I'll check with the Shell team to see if there's any hack

Re: [WiX-users] Name of the msi with in the install file

2008-02-22 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wilson, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe this is always available, which is why it works better than > SourceDir (which needs ResolveSource). I suppose that depends on what you want to use SourceDir for; the database isn't always in the location

[WiX-users] Enabling disabling WebGarden (MaxWorkerProcesses, 1 or 2) via public property

2008-02-22 Thread andresj_wix
Hi there. We have been trying to build a MSI that we can pass a property to set MaxWorkerProcesses when installing the MSI, and thus, choose between having WebGarden ON or OOF. I cannot set the attribute to a public property that I pass from the command line, like this: Because I get the fol

Re: [WiX-users] Failing gracefully from ServiceControl?

2008-02-22 Thread Wilson, Phil
It's possible that setting the ServiceControl Wait value to 0 might make a difference. Generally speaking, this is the way you say you don't care if the service starts properly or not. However the documentation says that the SCM needs to get the service into pending state, and I don't know off

Re: [WiX-users] Name of the msi with in the install file

2008-02-22 Thread Wilson, Phil
I believe this is always available, which is why it works better than SourceDir (which needs ResolveSource). Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vishnum Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:59 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.ne

[WiX-users] Display feature as Unavailable.

2008-02-22 Thread Robert.Priest
Hello, How do I display a feature in the Selection Tree, but the display it as Unavailable only? What I am trying to do is to show the user that there is this other feature available, but because some other app or component is missing (say IIS), they don't have the option of installing it. I kn

[WiX-users] gac'ing assemblies

2008-02-22 Thread zhisheng huang
Hi, Our product installs multiple web services on the same server box. Those web services share some common product assemblies. The current setup has those assemblies installed to the local bin directory of each application. During the build process, the common dlls are binplaced into multiple

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action sequencing problem

2008-02-22 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
"Files In Use" dialog is shown by InstallValidate action. Schedule your custom action before InstallValidate. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:16 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [W

[WiX-users] Feature tree components installed to incorrect location during Installer Maintenace

2008-02-22 Thread David Ruddock
Hi wix-users, I noticed a bug/issue when using the WixUI containing a feature customization dialog and when not installing to the default location. The "INSTALLDIR" is not initialized to the previous location used when performing a "Change" installation, when additional features are installed the

[WiX-users] Forums...

2008-02-22 Thread Aurélien DEROUINEAU
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[WiX-users] Forums...

2008-02-22 Thread Aurélien DEROUINEAU
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[WiX-users] Custom action sequencing problem

2008-02-22 Thread Anidil
I use the following custom action to kill systray process befre the uninstall. Installed This works fine but i get the Files in Use dialog before the CA actually runs.How do i be sequencing the CA to run at the start of uninstall? Or is there any way to sequence 'Files in Use' dialog?