Re: [WiX-users] pausing wix setup

2008-04-08 Thread Sebastian Brand
Can you tell us how? Via a Custom Action? Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com On Apr 9, 2008, at 1:08 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nvm. I figured it out. Thanks, R How can I pause a Wix setup for around 40 seconds during install execute sequence? I nee

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut removal and ICE38 silliness

2008-04-08 Thread SteveLoof
Thanks for the response but re-reading this I did leave out a crucial bit of info. I am aware of using the condition to create (or not) the shortcut depending on the state of the condition on the checkbox but this only aplies to the first install of the product. It is on Upgrade that I have the pr

Re: [WiX-users] Help required!

2008-04-08 Thread Kiran Subhedar (Sogeti)
Hi, I am receving an error in the log file as below when trying to install the MSI on Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) at location: C:\Documents and Settings\v-kisubh\My Documents\<>. We are using [PersonalFolder] location as the default install location for the MSI. "Error 1335. The cabinet file 'R

Re: [WiX-users] pausing wix setup

2008-04-08 Thread teknolog
Nvm. I figured it out. Thanks, R > How can I pause a Wix setup for around 40 seconds during install execute > sequence? I need to pause by a specific amount of seconds. > > Thanks, > R > > > - > This SF.net email is sponsored

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Re: [WiX-users] Reverse engineered VS2003 MSI

2008-04-08 Thread Jim Williams
It looks like it is failing because it is trying to query from two tables, _AppMappings and Error, that don't exist in your MSI file. The 2205 error means the table does not exist, as does 2228 when querying it. You may have to define these tables to get it to work properly. Jim Williams __

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Re: [WiX-users] Reverse engineered VS2003 MSI

2008-04-08 Thread Christopher Butcher
Hi Jordan, The MSI builds ok. So you run it, go through the UI, the progress bar runs through as it installs, then it fails saying "The installer was interrupted before *** could be installed. You need to restart the installer to try again." Running the MSI generating a verbose logfile

[WiX-users] pausing wix setup

2008-04-08 Thread teknolog
How can I pause a Wix setup for around 40 seconds during install execute sequence? I need to pause by a specific amount of seconds. Thanks, R - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now

[WiX-users] Duplicate Symbol in InstallUISequence

2008-04-08 Thread Laurent.Goderre
Hi, I'm trying to create my own set of dialog in wix. I have been looking at several examples which all pretty much do the same thing. However using that same code does not work. I always get duplicate symbol errors on the default dialogs. http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi";>

Re: [WiX-users] Reverse engineered VS2003 MSI

2008-04-08 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
What errors did you get when you tried to build your MSI *with* the 3 CAs listed below? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Butcher Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:13 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Reverse engineered VS2003 MSI

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade Problem with WIX installer

2008-04-08 Thread Jeremy Farrell
You were asked if you had changed the "product code" and you replied that you had changed the "product upgrade code". What do you mean by that term? The message you are seeing implies that you have not changed the product code. You need to give precise accurate information for people to be able

Re: [WiX-users] Update Problems with versioned files (oxc)

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Musenbrock
I saw it on another page [1], I was complaining about it a little bit to early. [1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367835(VS.85).aspx Wilson, Phil schrieb: > MSI doesn't care about the timestamps of versioned files. The file version is > what decides if it is replaced or not. > > Phi

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Re: [WiX-users] Update Problems with versioned files (oxc)

2008-04-08 Thread Wilson, Phil
MSI doesn't care about the timestamps of versioned files. The file version is what decides if it is replaced or not. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Musenbrock Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:01 AM To: Bob Arnson Cc:

Re: [WiX-users] Update Problems with versioned files (oxc)

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Musenbrock
Bob Arnson schrieb: > Michael Musenbrock wrote: >> Even if the file has changed in the update, but the internal >> version number of this file hasn't been updated, it is ignored, > That's by design. If a file has versioninfo, MSI trusts it. See > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368599(VS

Re: [WiX-users] Update Problems with versioned files (oxc)

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Musenbrock
Of course, here it is: .. It is an update from installer version x.y.1 to x.y.2, ocx file has same internal file version, but has internally minimal changed (uuid), and is not updated. 'File'-Entry is the same for both

Re: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: Command failed to execute.

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Robert O'Brien wrote: Tried this again using xcopy instead of robocopy for the second test and still failing in both CAQuietExec cases even though running them on the target system after install completes works just fine. I've also noted that if I just issue the commands w/o any parameters

Re: [WiX-users] two different applications using shared folders

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Michal Peled wrote: Do fragments still exist in Wix 3.0? Yes, absolutely. FragmentRef, the element to pull in a fragment by its ID, is gone, but plenty of other *Ref elements exist (and more have been added). -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] two different applications using shared folders

2008-04-08 Thread Michal Peled
Do fragments still exist in Wix 3.0? I'm actually in the process of defining the shared components in one application, planning to copy-paste them (with the same GUID) to the other application later on. Is there a better way to do that that'll save me the double work?

Re: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: Command failed to execute.

2008-04-08 Thread Robert O'Brien
Tried this again using xcopy instead of robocopy for the second test and still failing in both CAQuietExec cases even though running them on the target system after install completes works just fine. I've also noted that if I just issue the commands w/o any parameters then the CAQuietExec acti

Re: [WiX-users] The Visual Studio 2005 BootStrapper - almost there?

2008-04-08 Thread RAYMENT Tim
We use CruiseControl.Net as our CI Server and author the build script in MSBuild using the build tasks that ship with WiX to invoke candle and light to create our msi and mst files. We then copy these files and the Installshield bootstrapper files to a common location. We're building a disk image

[WiX-users] Reverse engineered VS2003 MSI

2008-04-08 Thread Christopher Butcher
Hi guys I've run DARK on a VS2003 MSI for a Web Service. Using the WXS generated I've built a new MSI using CANDLE and LIGHT. On first attempt it didn't work. I discovered that it would work when I removed the following three lines and then massaged the InstallExecutionSequence to

Re: [WiX-users] The Visual Studio 2005 BootStrapper - almost there?

2008-04-08 Thread dB.
Good. This is enough for me, thank you. It's saying that I shouldn't invest into bootstrapper technology too heavily myself and take acceptable vs. perfect solutions. From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:26 AM To: dB. Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net S

Re: [WiX-users] The Visual Studio 2005 BootStrapper - almost there?

2008-04-08 Thread fgc
Due to the lack of a better solution we currently use the VS2005 bootstrapper together with our WiX projects. Basically we have one solution for every installer. That solution has two projects: 1. A VS2005 deployment project that creates the bootstrapper. 2. A wixproj project that builds our WiX

[WiX-users] CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: Command failed to execute.

2008-04-08 Thread Robert O'Brien
Any insights as to what I'm doing wrong in declaring my QtExecCmdLine used by my two CAQuietExec in the source excerpts below?When I review the log file for the property values where I store a copy of the runtime generated QtExecCmdLine values I see what I was expecting and I can execute the

Re: [WiX-users] two different applications using shared folders

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Michal Peled wrote: I want to create a situation where one application removal doesn't remove the common folders/files the other application is using. I would be happy to do it as clean and simple as possible (no CA and no getting smart). Is there such a way of doing that? If I give the sh

Re: [WiX-users] How do I preserve a configuration file on a major upgrade?

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
dB. wrote: That doesn't work. A component's condition applies to installation. So once a component is installed, you can't conditionally uninstall it when you remove the entire application, which happens during the major upgrade. Yeah, sorry, I wasn't keeping that in mind. That said, the

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade Problem with WIX installer

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
amitchopra wrote: > But if we are installing it from msi , it is saying that "Product is already > Installed" > That means you haven't changed the product code. See http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] The Visual Studio 2005 BootStrapper - almost there?

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
dB. wrote: I know there has been discussions on the wix lists about bootstrappers. I couldn't find anything conclusive on that... In the works, no estimates. The goal is to provide extensibility points for just about everything, including UI, so you can easily swap out with whatever look

Re: [WiX-users] Update Problems with versioned files (oxc)

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Michael Musenbrock wrote: > Even if the file has changed in the update, but the internal > version number of this file hasn't been updated, it is ignored, > That's by design. If a file has versioninfo, MSI trusts it. See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368599(VS.85).aspx. -- sig:/

Re: [WiX-users] Getting a version number on the MSI file

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Richard Amos wrote: > What does the Version attribute in the Product tag do? I have a ,NET > (3.5) app that I'm creating an installer for. When the app is > installed, it has the version number (obtained by right clicking on > the file in Explorer) I set using VS2008 (which is fine - that's what

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut removal and ICE38 silliness

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
SteveLoof wrote: > I am relatively new to the world of WIX and am coming from using WISE for > Windows. In our Wise install we have a number of shortcuts for various bits > of our product and in varying locations (DesktopFolder, Quicklaunch (which I > haven't started wrestling with yet) and Program

Re: [WiX-users] Is there a way to invoke the wix preprocessor alone?

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Arnson
dB. wrote: What I want is given a .wixproj, produce a single XML that has all the things that can be resolved, such as properties and includes, ... resolved to their values, fragments merged, etc. That requires running through the preprocessor, compiler, linker, and most of the binder. No

[WiX-users] Getting a version number on the MSI file

2008-04-08 Thread Richard Amos
What does the Version attribute in the Product tag do? I have a ,NET (3.5) app that I'm creating an installer for. When the app is installed, it has the version number (obtained by right clicking on the file in Explorer) I set using VS2008 (which is fine - that's what I want). However, there is

Re: [WiX-users] The Visual Studio 2005 BootStrapper - almost there?

2008-04-08 Thread RAYMENT Tim
Our solution is a hybrid between Installshield and WiX. We create a basic project in Installshield and specify all the prerequisites + supported languages. This gives us the bootstrapper plus an Installshield msi & localized transform files (mst). We replace these msi and mst files with the ones

Re: [WiX-users] Update Problems with versioned files (oxc)

2008-04-08 Thread Sebastian Brand
Can you post the relevant code from your .wxs file please? Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com On Apr 8, 2008, at 10:27 , Michael Musenbrock wrote: Hi there! Msi do not update my binaries from Visual Studio. (Especially one ocx and one exe file) Even if

[WiX-users] Update Problems with versioned files (oxc)

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Musenbrock
Hi there! Msi do not update my binaries from Visual Studio. (Especially one ocx and one exe file) Even if the file has changed in the update, but the internal version number of this file hasn't been updated, it is ignored, is there a way to preserve this and get msi to updated my files? If the int

Re: [WiX-users] How do I preserve a configuration file on a majorupgrade?

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Terhaar
I was struggling with the same issue and because I'm fairly new to WIX and MSI in general I was not able to find a 'clean' Solution. What I have so far is the following, I consider this a 'Workaround' :

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade Problem with WIX installer

2008-04-08 Thread amitchopra
But if we are installing it from msi , it is saying that "Product is already Installed" Amit Wilson, Phil wrote: > > If you're doing an upgrade you don't use that command line. Just run the > MSI as if it is a clean install (which it is, the upgrade makes it remove > older versions as well).