Re: [WiX-users] Problem with XMLConfig Element (empty xmlns attribute)

2008-04-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Namespaces in MSXML are hideous things to deal with. I think you need to use the same namespace as the root namespace or MSXML thinks that you're trying to add yourself to a new namespace. I don't know a great way around these sorts of problems without lots of experimentation with XSL in MSXML

Re: [WiX-users] unexpected error while merging (3.0.4014)

2008-04-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Bob, wasn't there a new mergemod.dll dropped in recently? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Kwak Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 07:49 To: Bob Arnson Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] unexpected error while merg

[WiX-users] (no subject)

2008-04-17 Thread 钟文辉
各位老总:您们好! 诚祝:您们在2008年里;有鼠不尽的快乐!鼠不尽的收获!鼠不尽的钞票!   鼠不尽的幸福!鼠不尽的美满生活!愿:您们阖家欢乐!幸福安康! 我是(深圳市珊湖岛进出口有限公司)的负责人;可以提供:出口报关单,   核销单等等一系列手续;代理:出口报关,商检,境内外运输..等等;还可 以代办

Re: [WiX-users] is there a way of creating url based shortcut w/o having to refer to iexplore.exe as target and url as arguments?

2008-04-17 Thread Neil Enns
I came across a method for doing this a while back, and found it again by searching for "url shortcut wix" at live.com. Try: http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/03/18/new-wix-feature-internet-shortcuts/. It looks like you roll to a recent build of WiX it should have the support built in. Neil From

[WiX-users] is there a way of creating url based shortcut w/o having to refer to iexplore.exe as target and url as arguments?

2008-04-17 Thread Robert O'Brien
Is there a way of creating url based shortcut w/o having to refer to iexplore.exe as target and url as arguments? In the excerpt below I'm creating a web site vdir and I'd like to include a shortcut that allows users after setup of the service completes to launch and test one of the urls expos

[WiX-users] msi chain tool

2008-04-17 Thread Arthur Curvello
I got 2 msi files... one made with wix.. and one that I want to embed in a 'bootstrapper' What tool should I use to chain this 2 msi files. thanks, Arthur. - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference

[WiX-users] Multiple environment / multiple instance / certificate install issues

2008-04-17 Thread Lee Greco
We're in the process of migrating an xcopy type deployment to a Wix generated msi and I'm very frustrated with the lack of good templates for what I would think is a very common deployment scenario. Any help here would be appreciated. We deploy our service to several controlled environments (

[WiX-users] URGENT RESPONS (click RSVP to read my message)

2008-04-17 Thread Aziz Kone
You are invited to "URGENT RESPONS (click RSVP to read my message)". By your host Aziz Kone: Date: Thursday April 17, 2008 Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (GMT +02:00 Egypt) Will you attend? RSVP to this invitation at: http://calendar.yahoo.com/aziz_kone103?

Re: [WiX-users] Project references to unmanaged DLLs

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan O'Neill
Thanks, I kind of expected that. Seeing as it has taken me a day to write a non working function in C++ J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Rockwood Sent: 17 April 2008 18:08 To: 'Ryan O'Neill'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Project

Re: [WiX-users] Project references to unmanaged DLLs

2008-04-17 Thread Justin Rockwood
Unfortunately, this is expected behavior. Votive does not support non-MSBuild project references, of which VC++ is one. We considered adding this support, but it's a big work item and haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Justin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

Re: [WiX-users] Project references to unmanaged DLLs

2008-04-17 Thread Justin Rockwood
Unfortunately, this is expected behavior. Votive does not support non-MSBuild project references, of which VC++ is one. We considered adding this support, but it's a big work item and haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Justin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ry

[WiX-users] Nigel Rochford is out of the office.

2008-04-17 Thread Nigel . Rochford
I will be out of the office starting 17/04/2008 and will not return until 21/04/2008. I will respond to your message when I return.. If you have any urgent queries relating to PowerChute Server, please contact Jacqueline Hayes. -

[WiX-users] Project references to unmanaged DLLs

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan O'Neill
Just tried adding a project reference to a non .Net .dll file (my C++ custom action) and Votive does not append the pre-processor definitions for it to the Candle command line. Is this expected behaviour? Makes it awkward to included non .Net dlls, the .Net references work fine. Regards

Re: [WiX-users] Decompiling Visual Studio MSI

2008-04-17 Thread Mike Murray
It appears this bug is fixed in version 3.0.4014.0 (http://wix.sf.net/releases/). I did have to remove the WixDirectXExtension from Dark.exe.config, though, as Bob Arnson suggested. Thanks. Mike From: Rob Mensching Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:55 PM To: Mike Murray ; wix-users@lists.s

Re: [WiX-users] Recursive folder deletion

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan O'Neill
I've got a Custom Action working as a DLL from my console app and it deletes file on disk. I now want to push the file deletion into the RemoveFiles table. Given that I have a handle to the MSI file instance, how would I access/call the RemoveFile function based on the below? Should I use the WcaIn

Re: [WiX-users]

2008-04-17 Thread Robert O'Brien
I have the following preprocessor variable settings being configured which I then use to set all my component win64 values using the Win64="$(var.Win64)" approach shown below. I've tested this previously in the cases where I use $(var.ProgramFilesFolder) which was resulting in my service succe

Re: [WiX-users] unexpected error while merging (3.0.4014)

2008-04-17 Thread Andy Kwak
I have several instances of the following errors: >> Error: Failed to merge Row: MsiFileHash into Table: _Validation >> Error: Failed to merge Row: Shortcut into Table: _Validation >> Error: Failed to merge Row: CustomAction into Table: _Validation >> Error: Failed to merge Row: File into Table: _

Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Painter
Unfortunatly many people will just turn the validation off because they don't know how to solve the problem and it seems to `work good enough`. Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brent Rockwood" writes: > Last night I fixed a bug in my installer where I had ac

Re: [WiX-users] Recursive folder deletion

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Arnson
Ryan O'Neill wrote: OK, so I'm going to give it a shot, may take a while though. Any pointers / requirements from people such as Bobs usage of RemoveFile (being naive I would have just deleted the files / dirs)? Notes; 1) It won't be 64 bit tested. 2) It will be based on the

Re: [WiX-users] wierd upgrade/update problem

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Arnson
Koloszar Jozsef wrote: > i've since been able to resolve most of the issues (i had some guid > missmatches, and i different names for the .msi-s. fixed that all seems to > work, except detecting if newer versions are already installed. if i install > a lower version using the standrd mino-upgrad

Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Painter
Validation ICE08 catches duplicate guids within a single database. It's also a good idea to have a tool that inventories all of your packages and does a more holistic check similar to InstallShields Conflict Solver tool. I think the reason this is a fairly common problem because 1)

Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Arnson
Brent Rockwood wrote: > Last night I fixed a bug in my installer where I had accidentally > duplicated GUIDs on two different components. Luckily I caught this > before we ship, but if I had missed it, it would obviously have been a > big problem. Is there any good reason that the compiler/linker

Re: [WiX-users] unexpected error while merging (3.0.4014)

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Arnson
Andy Kwak wrote: > Encountered an unexpected error while merging . > More information about the merge and failure can be found in the merge > log : > What does the log say? There isn't a generic problem with merge modules in that release. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brent Rockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Last night I fixed a bug in my installer where I had accidentally > duplicated GUIDs on two different components. Luckily I caught this > before we ship, but if I had missed it, it would obviously have been a > b

[WiX-users] Problem with XMLConfig Element (empty xmlns attribute)

2008-04-17 Thread Stefan Gauter
Hi, When adding a new element to my web.config with XmlConfig I'll get an empty xmlns attribute. How can I suppress this xmlns attribute? My Wix Code (using v3.0.3815): Resulting in: Possibly the standard xmlns attribute (http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/

[WiX-users] Duplicate component GUIDs

2008-04-17 Thread Brent Rockwood
Last night I fixed a bug in my installer where I had accidentally duplicated GUIDs on two different components. Luckily I caught this before we ship, but if I had missed it, it would obviously have been a big problem. Is there any good reason that the compiler/linker should not warn about this?

Re: [WiX-users] Build behavior for WiX projects

2008-04-17 Thread Phil Sayers
At the moment in visual studio a "Setup Project" only builds in "Release" configuration by default. (at least thats how it works on my system here) I can see having wix projects match this beahavior to keep consistency with the "installer building project types", but that is only one scenario for

[WiX-users] unexpected error while merging (3.0.4014)

2008-04-17 Thread Andy Kwak
Hi, I am getting the following error when trying to compile my project in build 3.0.4014. Encountered an unexpected error while merging . More information about the merge and failure can be found in the merge log : Is there a workaround so I can compile with the new build? Thanks, Andy ---

Re: [WiX-users] Recursive folder deletion

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan O'Neill
OK, so I'm going to give it a shot, may take a while though. Any pointers / requirements from people such as Bobs usage of RemoveFile (being naive I would have just deleted the files / dirs)? Notes; 1) It won't be 64 bit tested. 2) It will be based on the sample @ http://www.wixwiki

Re: [WiX-users] Build behavior for WiX projects

2008-04-17 Thread Roger Lipscombe
Agreed. This is precisely why the "Configuration Manager" dialog box has those little check boxes labelled "Build" :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dB. Sent: Thu 17 April 2008 06:01 To: Candy Chiang; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build b

Re: [WiX-users] Build behavior for WiX projects

2008-04-17 Thread Holmgren Mathias
I might be the only one, but I was not surprised by the WiX project not building since it is consistent with the behaviour of Visual Studio Setup Projects. Confusing? Yes, but OTOH I had already "paid" for that confusion before so it was not confusing any more. What is best? Not sure, but I am

Re: [WiX-users] Recursive folder deletion

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan O'Neill
I'd love to, but my C++ and WiX skills are not quite there yet. Or perhaps you have something that would get me started Bob? I might be able to finish something if pointed in the right direction. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: 17 April 2008 00

Re: [WiX-users] wierd upgrade/update problem

2008-04-17 Thread Koloszar Jozsef
i've since been able to resolve most of the issues (i had some guid missmatches, and i different names for the .msi-s. fixed that all seems to work, except detecting if newer versions are already installed. if i install a lower version using the standrd mino-upgrade command line (reinstall=all

[WiX-users] Работа Руководителя: Технологи и эффективного управления людьми

2008-04-17 Thread karim chilton
В любой успешной компании рано или поздно возникает ситуация, - когда один из продавцов становится начальником отдела. - когда директор фирмы набирает штат, который уже не помещается за обеденным столом. - когда руководитель (ну или менеджер, если так привычнее) уже физически не може

[WiX-users] Билеты на любые спектакли и ко нцерты в Москве по самым выгодным ценам

2008-04-17 Thread clemens sorel
"Театральное Товарищество Олега Меньшикова" представляет премьеру спектакля по пьесеАлекссандро Баррико "1900". Центральной фигурой спектакля является Олег Меньшиков. В течение 2-х часов он проживаетудивительную историю музыканта, который всю свою жизнь провел на корабле, так ни разу и не