Re: [WiX-users] WixNetFxExtension.dll

Sigh. Of course, where it isn't is on http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=NetFxExtension, which is where we were looking when we needed it. Neil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Display custom dialog to accept user input after featuretree

ShaileshP wrote: > But my requirement is that the dialog should be displayed after FeatureTree > dialog. > The right approach depends on which version of WixUI you're using. For v2, see http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson2.php#2.5. For v3, see http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=WixUI_C

Re: [WiX-users] WixNetFxExtension.dll

Neil Enns wrote: > I keep meaning to send this to Rob or someone in Wix to add this to > WixNetFxExtension. Oh wait, I guess I sortof just did... hint hint :) > Not really -- that's what the trackers on SF are for. In this case, however, it's not necessary. WixNetfxExtension has supported NE

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

Weinstein, Scott wrote: > Here's what the log has: > > MSI (c) (D0:84) [09:55:37:131]: Doing action: FindRelatedProducts > MSI (c) (D0:84) [09:55:37:131]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText > Action 9:55:37: FindRelatedProducts. Searching for related applications > Action start 9:55:37: FindRelatedPr

[WiX-users] Display custom dialog to accept user input after featuretree

I have created a custom dialog to accept user input with to 2 buttons Next (to proceed) and Cancel(to exit) and every thing works fine. But my requirement is that the dialog should be displayed after FeatureTree dialog. I tried code (snippet) like or .

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

Hello WiX Users, While on this subject, I wanted to let this community know about a Linkedin WiX Users group that I created for professional networking purposes. The group is also linked to a fresh phpbb3 forum for WiX Users. If you have a Linkedin profile, you can join this professional networki

[WiX-users] Unresolved Reference to binary

Hi All, I am totally new to WIX. I am trying to create virtual directory using WiX. First I started with creating a sample virtual directory (I could do it successfully) Now I want to implement the same in our product. So I started modifying existing wxs file. The nodes I have added are: in

Re: [WiX-users] WixNetFxExtension.dll

Not using WixNetFxExtension, but it's trivial to create the check on your own. Here's what we do: I keep meaning to send this to Rob or someone in Wix to add this to WixNetFxExtension. Oh wait, I guess I sortof just did... hint hint :) Neil -Original Message--

[WiX-users] Heat, Tallow and vb6 dlls

I'm trying to convert a VB6 msi build from Wise to Wix and ran afoul of Heat and Tallow and trying to tell which of the Reg entries it extracts matter to the wxs fragment. Research led me to the June 07 thread in the Wix forum between Richard.Foster, Neil Sleightholm, Mark Cheyne and others

[WiX-users] WixNetFxExtension.dll

Is there a way to identify whether netfx 3.0 SP1 is installed using WixNetFxExtension, or only whether the RTM is installed? Our application requires 3.0 SP1 or higher, but it doesn't require 3.5. Thanks, Kelly ***

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with CreateDatabase

Nevermind Rob, it was my kooky test machine. There have been no changes to the machine that I am aware of, but now my SQL installs don't work. They work on my other machines and VMs though. One day it was fine, next it wasn't :-( It just sucks because I have to move my BVTs to another machine.

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

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

I find the wix-users mailing list to be sufficient. I had terrible experiences with InstallShield and InstallShield's forums over the years. I've used InstallShield 7, 10/X/10.5 and now 2008. I avoid the forums as much as possible. WiX has actually helped me become a better InstallShield packager

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

WiX isn't hard. Keeping to MSI's rules is. Creating visual designers to abstract people away from the complexities can be a bad thing. For example, try to get your software certified for Vista without a good understanding of MSI and ICE. InstallShield Developer/7 was terrible, 10/X/10.5 wasn't mu

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

Here's what the log has: MSI (c) (D0:84) [09:55:37:131]: Doing action: FindRelatedProducts MSI (c) (D0:84) [09:55:37:131]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action 9:55:37: FindRelatedProducts. Searching for related applications Action start 9:55:37: FindRelatedProducts. Action ended 9:55:37: FindR

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

I'm not talking about that bug. I'm talking about the bug where WiX makes you uninstall and reinstall because it's not smart enough to reinstall the component durign a Major Upgrade because of MSI's pedantic assumption that you wouldn't possibly need to downgrade a component. I've dealt w

Re: [WiX-users] Adding condition to WIXUI_INSTALLDIR library

Riyaz Mogharabin wrote: > Now, Do I need to modify the "InstallDirDlg" and create a "MyInstallDirDlg" > No but you do need to replace the existing dialog set (e.g., WixUI_InstallDir) with a custom set so you can replace all the Publish elements with your own. > Second, it seems that the con

Re: [WiX-users] Installer options

McLoughlin, John wrote: > 1. How do I make a feature mandatory? > Use Feature attribute Absent="disallow". > 2. How can I have a default of don't install? > Set Feature/@Level greater than 3. The Typical/Custom/Complete dialog uses that value to determine what's "typical." -- sig://boB

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

Christopher Painter wrote: > Take the recent MergeMod.dll problem in WiX.That was a pain point as a > result of OMUS and MSI's narrow view of what you should and should not do. That was a bug in mergemod.dll, verified with the Windows Installer team. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Installer options

> 1. How do I make a feature mandatory? > 2. How can I have a default of don't install? Check out the Feature element, specifically the Absent and Level attributes. http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=Feature_Element /Mathias ---

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > See > http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/05/16/make-sure-features-are-always-enabled-so-they-can-be-removed/. > > Aha, that makes complete sense, and once I added "OR REMOVE" to the feature condition, it's working beautifully now. Thanks Bob and chrpai for your help...

Re: [WiX-users] install .net framework 2.0 sp1 using bootstrapper

http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2005/06/29/MSBuilding-a-Bootstrapper-via-the-command-line.aspx Refer to this link -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/install-.net-framework-2.0-sp1-using-bootstrapper-tp17602359p17603534.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive

[WiX-users] Installer options

Hi, I'm new to WiX and have a couple of questions on how to controls features during installation. I'm using the Mondo installer so people can choose which features to install. The questions are: 1. How do I make a feature mandatory? 2. How can I have a default of don't install? Many Thanks, J

Re: [WiX-users] install .net framework 2.0 sp1 using bootstrapper

As an aside, I would be interested in more info on the particular bootstrapper you are using as I'm due to do one next week. Thanks in advance Ryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ywchen Sent: 02 June 2008 15:39 To: wix-users@lists.source

Re: [WiX-users] VC9 runtime MSMs

I've got the following in my WiX source because of this with VC8. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Leahy Sent: 02 June 2008 15:48 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] VC9 runtime MSMs Has an

[WiX-users] VC9 runtime MSMs

Has anyone successfully merged the VC9 msm's with their installer without getting a ton of warnings from WiX? I'm just curious as I'm getting a ton of warnings, most of which don't worry me too much (issues with the length of IDs), and some that do a bit (sequence clashes - duplicate sequence n

[WiX-users] Applying a condition to a Custom Action

Hello, I have a situation where I need to run a Custom Action only when a certain condition is false. I've attacked the first part of this by setting a public property if a certain file exists... The custom action in question runs an external executa

[WiX-users] install .net framework 2.0 sp1 using bootstrapper

Hi, I have a bootstrapper which installs .net framework 2.0 if it's not present. I'm wondering if it's possible to install .net framework 2.0 sp1 instead. If so, what is its product code that I need to specify in my bootstrapper? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.co

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

Up until just 2 weeks ago the Managed Code debate was certainly applicable. Also I believe that your desire to be 100% perfect on authoring content ( a good goal ) is conflicting with users goals to decrease the learning curve and accelerate authoring with visual designers.But you usuall

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

First a flippant answer, us a VM to test installs then you can simply rollback to a know good state. Having said that, I have screwed up IIS several times! There are 2 options if you are lucky the IIS metabase has been backed up and you can restore it in the IIS manager. Second, I have uninstall

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

A forum instead of a mailing list would go a long way to solve the problem. While vBulletin is standard out of the box, I actually like the feature over at the Microsoft forums where topics can be attributed as a Question and as Answered. This allows a group of volunteers to see who has bee

Re: [WiX-users] Create EXE wrapper around my MSI?

"Holmgren Mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2926168&SiteID=1 >> the SDK people surely are not the dumbest programmers around but what >> does it help. You can be smart as no-one else, you' get outperformed >> by the resourcefullness MSI D

Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and permissions to uninstall

Have you checked for open file handles and registry access via the msiexec logging? Probably not that but I'd check there first myself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Daintree Sent: 02 June 2008 11:15 To: General discussion for Window

[WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and permissions to uninstall

Hello all, I've installed a package (as a regular user) on Vista. The install sets the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property and has its permissions elevated at install time (via a manifest in separate UI, setup.exe, and the stanard UAC dialog). The separate UI also installs two other packages that do NO

[WiX-users] Problem to uninstall database with wix 3.0

I have a problem to uninstall the database. Here is the code I tried: I also tried: In both cases result is the same: database is succesfully created but it cannot be uninstalled. Please, give me some hints. Thanks in advance! Milos ---

Re: [WiX-users] Create EXE wrapper around my MSI?

> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2926168&SiteID=1 > the SDK people surely are not the dumbest programmers around but what > does it help. You can be smart as no-one else, you' get outperformed > by the resourcefullness MSI Developers. They are that smart that they > even can

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

hello Rob, Thanks you very much for your feedback. Now that the IIS metadata are "messed up", any idea how can I clean the metada so I can install / uninstall again ? Thanks in advance for your help Best regards, Christophe Rob Mensching wrote: > This sounds like the Properties for your ip:po

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

I know this sounds corny, but if we could interest a sponsor then perhaps chuck in a prize every other month for the most helpful people. On second thoughts, it needs too much of someone's time to organise. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R

Re: [WiX-users] WIX and Web Applications

No Problem, sorry I was in a little bit of a rush last week. I am using WIX 3 and VS 2008 I am developing for MS CRM 4 and am deploying some files to wwwroot\ISV\Agresso Ltd\Agresso CRM Suite (e.g. \Agresso Ltd\Agresso CRM Suite\Base, Agresso Ltd\Framework etc). Now, I have been able to create

Re: [WiX-users] Create EXE wrapper around my MSI?

Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. I used to be one of those Office developers (long while back) > and know a few of them that are still there. They have a pretty > solid grasp of the Windows Installer and how to use it and, > personally, I think they've done pretty well by it. Of

Re: [WiX-users] Auto Update Question

Currently, "auto-update" mechanism is something you'd build on top of what is provided in the WiX toolset. First, get your installation package installing and uninstalling well. Then get it upgrading well. After that, you'd need to build a system to recognize when a new package is available t

[WiX-users] Adding condition to WIXUI_INSTALLDIR library

Dear All, I hope you are fine and doing well. I have sent this problem to the mailing list some times before and haven't Received any acceptable answers yet. I have a software which needs to be installed in a path which does not Contain any space in it. (I.e. "C:\Program Files\" is not ac

Re: [WiX-users] Create EXE wrapper around my MSI?

Note, you can start by simplifying your application as much as possible. I'm not being flippant and I know that there are a great many platform technologies (many produced by Microsoft) that require special registration. However, if you factor out all of that registration, how complicated is y

Re: [WiX-users] Create EXE wrapper around my MSI?

1. Sorry, I missed the subtly of your point. I'm basically on board with you in this case. I don't know why the IIS team had to go off and create a custom data store. I understand what COM was trying to accomplish but their registration is pretty brutal. I don't understand why the Event/Per

Re: [WiX-users] WIX and Web Applications

I'm not exactly clear what you are trying to accomplish. Can you share out an example of what you have now? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Adams Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 03:26 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] WIX and Web Applicatio

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with CreateDatabase

Ug. Can you try the SQL Profiler and see if more information about the error is available via that thing? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Shurts Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 06:48 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with CreateDatab