Re: [WiX-users] User changes to public properties lost during repair

Hi Thomas, > I have an install file that presents a configuration dialog where users > can enter database connection string information, which is used to > update a connection string in a .config file. > > > > It works quite well during the initial install. But during a repair > install the dat

[WiX-users] User changes to public properties lost during repair

Hello, I'm new to WiX (and Windows Installer in general). I've hit an issue that I cannot seem to solve with Google or help documents... I have an install file that presents a configuration dialog where users can enter database connection string information, which is used to update a connec

[WiX-users] [OT] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

Since this conversation is going nowhere (perhaps because WiX is dependent on MSI, and MSI seems to predicate most of the limitations) I would like to introduce a tangent: whether other install / deployment / packaging technologies have made an impact. How about Altiris Software Delivery Solution

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions

Administrative Installation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa367541.aspx) is not directly related to custom actions running with administrative privileges (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa368069.aspx). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harini Gurusamy Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Installshield decompiling

The blog mentions bug 1581071: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1581071&group_id=10 5970&atid=642714 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 1:16 PM To: Jody Belka (WCS); wix-users@li

Re: [WiX-users] Services depending on VC++ merge modules don't start on Vista

2) If this is a known problem, I tried to skip starting services if the OS is vista using VersionNT = 600 but it do not respect the condition and it don't let start the services on any OS. Is there something wrong with this configuration? Suppress="yes" will cause it to remove

[WiX-users] request to reboot doesn't reboot

During uninstallation of our product, the FilesInUse dialog appears (as expected), the user clicks Ignore and at the end is prompted for a reboot. However, if the user selects 'yes', the reboot does not occur. Looking in the log there are many entries regarding files that need a reboot to complete

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

The long lines in VS 2005 has been around for a while. This is due to a bug in Visual Studio 2005 that was fixed in Visual Studio 2008. There are some ways around this bug, but none of them are pretty. We'll have to take another look at it and see what we can come up with. Justin From: [

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

I hate the locking as well. Unfortunately, this is a bug in the MPF (the Visual Studio SDK) that they have not fixed yet. We will have to just fix it on our own instead of waiting for a fix from them. Note that it's not a trivial fix either because it requires a separate thread to do the build.

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1937

The "HRESULT: " should provide a error code that details why it failed. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Tasanasanta (Volt) Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 14:18 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error 1937 This is not WiX specific but thi

Re: [WiX-users] FragmentRef - Converting from WiX 2 to WiX 3

The WiX toolset creates references for you. Likely you don't need the FragmentRefs at all. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Petersen Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 14:12 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] FragmentRef - Converting from WiX 2 t

[WiX-users] CLICK (RSVP to this invitation)TO READ YOUR MESSAGE INSIDE

You are invited to "CLICK (RSVP to this invitation)TO READ YOUR MESSAGE INSIDE". By your host Phillipe Ouattara: Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008 Time: 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm (GMT +00:00) Will you attend? RSVP to this invitation at: http://calendar.yahoo.com/p

[WiX-users] Error 1937

This is not WiX specific but this does happen to installs authored in WiX as well If you search the web for "error 1937" you will see that there are many people out there encountering this error on many different products; including VS 2008, MS Office, and .Net Framework. It happens at the

[WiX-users] FragmentRef - Converting from WiX 2 to WiX 3

Looking at converting to WiX 3 from WiX 2. FragmentRef seems to be gone. I used these fairly extensively in V2. Most everything is in a Fragment and I pull everything together with the FragmentRefs. Any suggestions for the best way to proceed? I'm not sure what to substitute for those elements.

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

Yeah, unfortunately “1200” == “one year”. Okay, I’m going to kick Justin to go back and look at VS2005. I’m more and more certain that behavior is regressing badly on that codebase and not being tested except by people picking up new drops. I appreciate any bug fixes you can open and please d

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

Yes, I am using VS2005. The 2925 build on SourceForge works properly with the line endings. That narrows it down to only around 1200 builds :-) Regards, Scott On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The line endings is a different bug that has been open fo

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

The line endings is a different bug that has been open for a long while. Again, I don’t understand Visual Studio integration well enough to know what is causing this. Are you by chance running on VS2005? I’m beginning to think that because pretty much everyone working on WiX has moved to VS20

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

I know what you are saying here. I don’t know enough about the Visual Studio architecture to understand why this happens but I’ll ask the guys working on Votive again. PS: I know what is taking forever in light.exe, two things. 1. Cabinet creation is I/O intensive and can take a while. 2.

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

Scott, I actually agree with you. Deployment SHOULD be trivial. It's usually risky and non-trivial because people tend to write programs that require special steps during deployment. By understanding the desired deployment model up-front you reduce the tendency to write software that operate

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Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

I take it back 4102 crashes visual studio... The huge lock ups I could tolerate... barely. Why doesn't someone address the issue where running Light.exe locks up the entire dev environment (let alone bring the entire machine to a crawl) for several minutes? I always laugh at the little pop-up t

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

4102 works better.. though it still has problems with Light output. The text description of errors is missing - you just get a code, and it's all on one line in visual studio. Scott On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Scott Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool thanks. > > Another thing... I

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Josh Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The moral of the story is that deployment procedures really are part of > the source code for an application. They are also risky, so implement them > first to minimize risk. > This is the problem. Deployment SHOULD b

[WiX-users] references of WIX 3

Is there any manual or referece about WIX3? I'm using version 2 now because there's tutorial and manual of it but I couldn't find any for WIX3. If anyone knows, please tip me off - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsof

[WiX-users] Which version should I use.

Hello. I am trying move out of InstallShield to Wix. I used Wix 2 about a year ago however now I like to know which build should I use going forward. I don't like to start using version 2 and in less than a year, upgrade it to version 3. Cheers Reza Farzin Computer System Analyst

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

Agreed. Software Engineering is many times about risk management. Many projects leave understanding the deployment model of an application until just before it ships, and then because MSI often isn't well understood and the product wasn't written to work well with MSI people run into problems

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

As this was my comment I thought I should respond. >"I believe you should write the install then the code - if you can't install >it, don't code it." >>That's simply not the way it works, and that isn't going to change. I get >>where you are coming from though... the general installation la

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

Cool thanks. Another thing... I dropped in an older wix.targets file so I could do a build and noticed that output from Light didn't have the right line-endings.. everything showed up on one line in the dev studio output window.. The build was done and I didn't even know it because the message wa

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

I just saw a bug get opened about the build targets having issues. Try 4102 and if that fixes the problem then you probably are seeing the same bug. I’ll make sure the bug gets fixed by the next build. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: Tuesday, M

Re: [WiX-users] installing services with wix

Checkout the and elements. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Willie Burton Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:29 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] installing services with wix Is there a way besides using a custom action to do this?

[WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

I just updated WiX from the 2925 build (still the last "beta" posted to SF) to the May 9 weekly build 4109. Now all of my WiX project don't build. They don't even get started. I instantly get this error when trying to build: 3>-- Build started: Project: Stream, Configuration: Release Any CP

Re: [WiX-users] To Prevent Install on Windows 2008

How about "MsiNTProductType" or some of the other MsiNTXXX properites? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 00:31 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] To Prevent Install on Windows 2008 I

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

Well I dropped by to ask for help (I wonder if I will get it now :-)) but first I have to chime in and agree with Chris and Mark. I dislike that what I am about to post is basically a rant, but I think there are a lot more people on their side than others seem to think, so I want to show my suppor

[WiX-users] installing services with wix

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Re: [WiX-users] To Prevent Install on Windows 2008

Anidil wrote: > I have tried that but still it's not preventing install on Windows 2008.. > Windows 2008 is the identical kernel to Vista SP1 (in fact Win2008 makes a great client OS for development - Vista without the cruft.. several people here have switched to it already). There should be no

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Re: [WiX-users] To Prevent Install on Windows 2008

I have tried that but still it's not preventing install on Windows 2008.. Holmgren Mathias wrote: > > Example: > > VersionNT = 600 AND > ServicePackLevel >= 1 > > For more, see this link: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370556(VS.85).aspx > > > > > > -Original Me

Re: [WiX-users] To Prevent Install on Windows 2008

Example: VersionNT = 600 AND ServicePackLevel >= 1 For more, see this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370556(VS.85).aspx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil Sent: den 13 maj 2008 09:31 To: wix-users@lists.s

[WiX-users] Installing IIS via windows installer

Hello all, Is it possible to install IIS (ie one of the "standard" Windows Components) via WIX/Windows installer? Thanks, John. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Stu

[WiX-users] To Prevent Install on Windows 2008

I have an MSI that is intended for Only Vista and Vista SP1.Can anybody give me some hints to prevent install on Windows 2008? I have tried the following condition but it doesn't work WindowsBuild = 6000 OR WindowsBuild = 6001 AND ServicePackLevel = 1 NB: For Windows 2008 and Vista SP1,VersionNT