Re: [WiX-users] Preventing upgrades for versions older than the previous release

2008-03-06 Thread si
Hey again Blaine, > Si - I wasn't as clear as I meant to be before. > Because our automated packager builds at least 2 MSI's a day per product > and has built up to 6 versions in a day when we are close to deadline I > really don't want to open and update Wix by hand to change the > variables.

[WiX-users] WiXUI Library

2008-03-06 Thread Riyaz Mogharabin
Dear All, I have decided to use the WiXUI.INSTALLDIR to create a file installer. I want to know if I can manage the dialogs that are used in the WiXUI library. Is it possible to use the dialogs in some other sequence, or put custom dialogs between two of them? In fact, I need a dialog to let the

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1303

2008-03-06 Thread Wilson, Phil
Does it look like a UAC issue or something else. There's too much MSI/UAC interaction to describe here, but does your MSI run elevated? You might be an administrator but if your MSI doesn't elevate it will run as non-admin. Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [WiX-users] PatchFiles action in AdminExecuteSequence

2008-03-06 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
When you apply a patch during minor upgrade it will add PatchFiles action to the AdminExecuteSequence table. Heath Stewart mentions that in his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/02/14/532200.aspx Alex From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stas Klyachkov

Re: [WiX-users] Ordering features in the custom setup dialog

2008-03-06 Thread Flavio Stanchina
Rob Hamflett wrote: > They've always appeared for me in the order I've declared the Features in my > .wxs file, but I'm not > using FeatureRefs. Perhaps you could use Features that contain > ComponentGroupRefs? That's what I do. OK, they show up in the order I want if I put the s directly un

[WiX-users] Upgrade (options?)

2008-03-06 Thread Kevin Burton
I asked this before but didn't receive any replies. Given that there seems to be considerable discussion on upgrades lately I thought I would ask it again (maybe in a different form) I have an installation script that installs code, service, everthing just fine. The problem is that I have not f

Re: [WiX-users] Ordering features in the custom setup dialog

2008-03-06 Thread Rob Hamflett
They've always appeared for me in the order I've declared the Features in my .wxs file, but I'm not using FeatureRefs. Perhaps you could use Features that contain ComponentGroupRefs? That's what I do. Rob Flavio Stanchina wrote: > Bob Arnson wrote: >> Flavio Stanchina wrote: >>> [...] so I'm

Re: [WiX-users] Preventing upgrades for versions older than the previous release

2008-03-06 Thread Wheeler, Blaine (DSHS/DCS)
Si - I wasn't as clear as I meant to be before. Because our automated packager builds at least 2 MSI's a day per product and has built up to 6 versions in a day when we are close to deadline I really don't want to open and update Wix by hand to change the variables. Today, I use a VB script to o

Re: [WiX-users] Ordering features in the custom setup dialog

2008-03-06 Thread Flavio Stanchina
Bob Arnson wrote: > Flavio Stanchina wrote: >> [...] so I'm asking: is there a way to set the order of features in >> the custom setup dialog? > MSI doesn't have a way of specifying the order of features, so there's > no guarantee they'll show up in a particular order. InstallShield allows you t

[WiX-users] PatchFiles action in AdminExecuteSequence

2008-03-06 Thread Stas Klyachkovsky
Hi there, I've noticed that AdminExecuteSequence Element does not supported PatchFiles standard action. Is it a bug? Is there any reason for this? Workaround? Thanks, Stas - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy a

[WiX-users] Shared assemblies in GAC and reference counts

2008-03-06 Thread ns12
When installing applications that use shared assemblies that they add to the GAC, does WIX implicitly handle the reference counts to ensure one application can't pull the assemblies out during uninstall if another app is still using them? Or does something like the SharedDllRefCount attribute have

[WiX-users] Property Change Events

2008-03-06 Thread Dustin Johnson
I apologize if this is old hat, but I am looking to validate a serial number.  There are two buttons "Next" and "Check Serial", along with a maskededit box linked to the "Serial_Number" property. When I click the "Check Serial" button it runs the validation DLL which then reads the "Serial_Numb

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to force upgrade

2008-03-06 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Ryan I thought this might help you, it is my bare minimum template install. Neil http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi";>

Re: [WiX-users] Localizing the Name of the file that contains License Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Sneha Gharpure
Ok, thanks :) I think that would help -Sneha Rob Hamflett wrote: > > Yeah. I just use a response file because I have a fair few preprocessor > defines. You can certainly > just list them individually on the command line. > > Rob > > Sneha Gharpure wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for the reply

Re: [WiX-users] Localizing the Name of the file that contains License Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Rob Hamflett
Yeah. I just use a response file because I have a fair few preprocessor defines. You can certainly just list them individually on the command line. Rob Sneha Gharpure wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. > > What I understood from your reply is that say English.txt will have list of > all

Re: [WiX-users] Localizing the Name of the file that contains License Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Sneha Gharpure
Hi, Thanks for the reply. What I understood from your reply is that say English.txt will have list of all the preprocessor variables say $(var.LicenseFile). And these variables are given at the time of compilation to candle. So rather than using a text file, can it be done by supplying is as a

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service not removed on Uninstall

2008-03-06 Thread faheemitian
faheemitian wrote: > > Anybody for help! > > I have even reversed the setup to wix 2.0 stable version but all in vain! > > - Dev > I think I have figured it out. Problem was not with Registry or Service Install tags but with a feature condition. If you look at http://www.nabble.com/file/p

Re: [WiX-users] Localizing the Name of the file that contains License Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Rob Hamflett
For the parts that can't be localised, I use preprocessor variables. All the English specific stuff is defined in English.txt and the Japanese stuff is defined in Japanese.txt. In my Makefile I have separate command lines for the English and Japanese builds, which take parameters of @English

Re: [WiX-users] Vista registry virtualization

2008-03-06 Thread Simon Topley
Thanks again Bob, using the right WiX elements seems to have done the trick. All this registry hardcoded lark was added while I was on holiday, I take no responsibility! Simon -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2008 05:12 To: Simon Topley Cc: wi

[WiX-users] Localizing the Name of the file that contains License Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Sneha Gharpure
Hi, The scenario is that the name of the license agreement file is to be localized. The source file for the license agreement is specified as follows. This gives an error error LGHT0100 : File of type 'File' with name '$(loc.LicenseFile)' could not be found. Is there any way to localiz

Re: [WiX-users] Preventing upgrades for versions older than the previous release

2008-03-06 Thread si
Hi Blaine, cc'd to list. > I really like your code sample, particularly the use of the variables. > Which raises a question about managing sequential-multiple builds. May > I ask how you get the $(var.ProductVersion) and > $(var.PreviousProductVersion) to pass into Wix? They're just WiX varia