[WiX-users] heat.exe throws up Runtime Error

I get an error when I try to use heat.exe. Command line: heat dir -out somefile.wxs Error: Runtime Error! Program c:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\heat.exe R6034 An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application's support

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

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, vishnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I am trying to do is I have a custom action (external, in a dll) which > based on the msi name writes data to the registry. A better approach is to set a property and use that to drive your custom action data. Even

[WiX-users] Weekly woes. Wix > 3704 failing in candle from msbuild

Hi, Running into issues with the weekly release > 3704. Using MSBuild, candle.exe is returning error CNDL0144 for WixUtilExtension.dll. I tried 3711 & 3815. 3704 ok works from the same source. Let me know if you need any more info. -- It's a wild world that we live in, you step to the vibe lik

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

Hello: Thank you very much for your response. What I am trying to do is I have a custom action (external, in a dll) which based on the msi name writes data to the registry. I tried using "OriginalDatabase" property for this but it kept returning empty string. It returns the name of the msi only

Re: [WiX-users] C# Managed Custom Actions in WiX 3.0

Hi Paul, > Admittedly, this is a completely different route from your "xml diff" > approach... would be useful though. Indeed it would. However I'm not an XLST expert, and from my limited exposure that seems a more difficult option than using C#. Thinking out aloud... saute* [before] [after]

Re: [WiX-users] C# Managed Custom Actions in WiX 3.0

I think it would be very interesting to have a CA that would execute an XSLT against an XML file. XSLT is a general-purpose language for transforming XML. It would be possible to express a whole slew of changes in a single XSLT script. Although XSLT is verbose, it's not as verbose as a bun

Re: [WiX-users] C# Managed Custom Actions in WiX 3.0

Hello again, > And that's my only point -- nothing you mention requires dropping the > existing WiX CAs, just tweaks to them. XmlConfig, for example, is > definitely a low-level piece of functionality but it's entirely possible > to build higher-level extensions on top of it. After chatting w