Re: [WiX-users] Improve the WiX mailing list

2008-06-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Answering questions takes time. Depending on the complexity of the question and the amount of time available some questions may go unanswered for a very long time. The only thing I know to do is to keep doing research and follow up with your own question with whatever extra research you may ha

[WiX-users] (was: RE: WIX 3.0 release date)

2008-06-01 Thread Rob Mensching
That article focuses on the case where the leaders of the project become detached from the users of the project. It really doesn't matter if the project is open source or commercial, the results are the same. Users quit using the project. For commercial entities that usually ends up affecting

[WiX-users] Improve the WiX mailing list

2008-06-01 Thread Riyaz Mogharabin
Dear All, I hope you are fine and doing well. I have a question from you experts about the mailing lists. How can we manage the WiX mailing list to ensure most of the emails are answered? I personally have sent some emails to the group that I'm sure they have answers, but nobody has answered th

Re: [WiX-users] IIS extension failed on Vista SP1.

2008-06-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Okay, thank you. That information makes more sense to me. Sounds like I need to find an SP1 box and see if the IMSAdminBase interface only works from elevated contexts now. Hidemoto, would you kindly open a bug with all of this information to ensure it doesn't get lost. -Original Message-

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to read IIsWebSite table

2008-06-01 Thread Rob Mensching
This sounds like the Properties for your ip:port:header is not found during uninstall. There are lots of discussions on the mailing list about how the Windows Installer does not persist Property values so you can use something like a registry key and a RegistrySearch to read it during uninstall

Re: [WiX-users] Deployment of Custom Actions

2008-06-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Are you including a binary .wixlib that contains the custom action dll in it in your extension? If not, take a look at how the WiX Extensions are built. That's how you can avoid having to ship anything other than the extension assembly itself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] Deployment of Custom Actions

2008-06-01 Thread Bob Arnson
Markus Wagner wrote: > I have written my own CompilerExtension which calls a custom action also > written by me. > > Now I have written a setup project to deploy my extension. It installs my > extension dll and my custom action dll in a given directory and my xsd in > the Visual Studio schema ca

[WiX-users] Deployment of Custom Actions

2008-06-01 Thread Markus Wagner
I have written my own CompilerExtension which calls a custom action also written by me. Now I have written a setup project to deploy my extension. It installs my extension dll and my custom action dll in a given directory and my xsd in the Visual Studio schema cache. If I try to use my just in

[WiX-users] Failed to read IIsWebSite table

2008-06-01 Thread Christophe Laumond
Hello, I'm a newbie in Wix. I have an existing web application for which I try to create an msi file using Wix. the first msi I have produced was based on the sample found at : http://davesquared.blogspot.com/2007/08/example-of-deploying-web-apps-using-wix.html and it worked like a charm ! The m