I'm afraid I have only ever done this as a major upgrade, I don't think
it should matter.
Neil
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Chris,
I'm curious, why do you use this approach instead of the shipping wix.targets
build process that comes with WiX?
Neil
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I have written a tool to upload reports to a SSRS server and then fix up
the data sources. My requirement was to allow development teams to
create the files and then distribute them in a standard and controlled
way, something that SSRS doesn't offer as standard. I chose to do this
as a command line
You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave MSBuild
call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and
light.exe to build an MSI file.
You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my
machine is x64). So as an improvement you co
I tried with -fv but it does not update GAC.
I will paste the code below.
Infrastructure.wxs
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
No (but that's good to know). I'm trying to upgrade version 2.3.1 to version
4.0.0.0 and that is the version that doesn't get removed.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Major upgrades use only the first three fields of a ProductVersion, so
> there's no dis
The Settings class has an Upgrade method that grabs the previous
settings. Make sure you add your own setting SettingsUpdateRequired that
is defaultly set to true, otherwise this will overwrite your settings
each time you start your program.
static class Program
{
///
///
I have a WiX project used to install a .net app. The app makes use of the
Properties of .net to store settings. These settings go in
%APPDATA%\Path\to\dir\version\user.config
After I rev the version (either through a small patch, minor upgrade, major
upgrade), how do I pull in these settings
I'm trying to package a legacy program that registers some third-party
ocx and dlls. I see that the consensus is that I should be handling
this with a registry component. However, this application's
'installer' just copies stuff into a folder off the root of c:\ and
runs a 'register.bat' to regsvr3
The error message when launching the MSI sounds like you might be launching the
64bit MSI package on a 32bit platform. What is the OS version, bitness, and
msi.dll version you are testing on?
Note that it is not possible to create a single MSI package which can install
only 32bit components on
Murray, I was asked about this by customers and MVPs @ TechEd, so it's on the
radar (mine, at least). If you'd like to feed your requirements into my team
and/or SSRS', I'd be happy to hear them offline. Ditto for Integration Services.
If my team builds "it" (whatever it is) for SSRS deployment,
Hi,
I have created a Wix project in Visual Studio 2008. I have few 64bit dlls
and have statement like below:
When I try to build the project- it showing error message like this:"This
package contains 64 bit component 'mycomp' but the Template
Hi,
I have created a Wix project in Visual Studio 2008. I have few 64bit dlls
and have statement like below:
When I try to build the project- it showing error message like this:This
package contains 64 bit component 'mycomp' but the Template S
Correct. The target and source installs used to create the patch were
identical except for about 5 files. No components or features were
added or removed.
I believe I received a warning displaying the files were different but
the version #'s were the same so no action would be take.
Lyle
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Hi,
I developed an installer based on wix v3.0 that opens a custom dialog and
does some license key checking with a custom action.
I'd like to change this into a merge module that I could join with an msi
generated by a visual studio 2008 setup project. I'd just want to link in
the code for the
Are you saying that you built a patch with an updated version of the file and
applying the patch did not update the file on the system? There are reasons
this will happen, mainly removing components, all things being equal.
Phil Wilson
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Major upgrades use only the first three fields of a ProductVersion, so there's
no distinction between 3.0.0.0 and 3.0.0.1. Is that what you're seeing?
Phil Wilson
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All,
I'm using WiX v3.0.3526.0.
Code as follows:
The problem is that the permissions are only applied to the 'Test' key.
How can I set it so the permissions are inherited by subkeys?
Thanks,
Chris
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Check out the ne
In this case I would recommend switching to XmlConfig because you can have
separate records for install (add entries) and uninstall (remove entries).
Use either AppSearch or custom action Type 51 to set some variable to the full
path of the XML file and use this variable as a value of File attrib
Interesting, the docs for Control do say that you can use the element
underneath when CDATA is required.
In your case, since you don't need to wrap your text in CDATA, you can just use
the Text attribute instead:
...
Neil
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I added the following xml to my .wxs file:
[CreateVantageAdminDomainIdentityLabelText]
...and received the following error:
Schema validation failed with the following error: The element 'Control'
in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi' has invalid
child element 'Te
MSI has no built in story and ClickOnce is very limited. Some tools provide
extensions for this type of update but inevitably it turns into just another
annoying trayapp pop-up.Doing your check at application startup is fairly
friendly to your user. Do you do the download in the backgroun
In my opinion that is not suitable for a lot of applications. This is
because it runs per user and cannot install system level components (for
example, drivers etc). I imagine what Chris already has is what ClickOnce
does anyway.
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Microsoft ClickOnce.
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Bardon
Sent: 17 June 2008 13:53
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Auto Update Question
I've built my own auto update mechanism t
Hello, world!
I have Wcf-application, which uses X509 certificates. Certificate must be
installed in "CurrentUser.My" location.
How can I do it with WiX Tool?
Thank you
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Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.
If you find out a better way I'd love to know too. I intended to do it the
way you said.
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users
I've built my own auto update mechanism to recognize when new versions
are available based on a web service, but I'm curious to know what
solutions others have come up with. Basically, my app just phones home
to a predefined location on startup, and if there's a new version,
downloads and runs the
Thanks Bob,
I definitely clicked on the wrong folder when I was browsing haha
Here's what I was looking for:
http://wix.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/wix/wix/src/ext/UtilExtension/wixl
ib/en-us.wxl
Thanks,
Alex G.
On 6/16/08 11:57 PM, "Bob Arnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Goryuk wro
Thanks, that solved my problem!
I have another question related to what I'm trying to do.
The XML-file I want to modify is already installed on the target machine i.e
it is not included in the installation. Where shall I put my XmlFile
statments? The example below installs the xml file settings.
Well, I'll try to help but as I say, I was given these files as part of an
old installer.
Looking at the first line that accesses the Session object I can see;
targetDirPath = "" + Session.Property("CustomActionData")
This is for a deferred custom action, if yours is deferred too then you'll
only
Thank you for the warning.
I understand from your mail that you had already used this session
object in your project.
So maybe you can tell me: is this file created automatically after
compilation?, I mean: is it included in the msi file?
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I don't know why it would do that, but I'll just give you a warning based on
my current experience of VB Script custom actions. Avoid them if you can.
A lot of people have said not to use them (I inherited these ones) as they
get blocked by anti-virus and are difficult to debug. We released yester
hi,
Im trying to write an installer in wix and which executes a vbs file using a
custom action.
But I have a problem: It seems as the installer doesn't construct a Session
object and therefor
I can't write in the vbs file the command Session.Property("INSTALLDIR").
Does somebody know why the inst
Hello,
Using a works, I'm gonna file a bug report for this
"!(wix.id)", I had to rename the Id though so it would not conflict
with the existing default [ProductName] property.
Thanks for the help,
Kind regards,
Wouter
2008/6/17 Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Wouter Demuynck wrote:
>>
Hi,
I have some questions depending on Custom Actions. I have a binary file which
is installed with a component(always installed) this file installs a service
with ExeCommand='-install' if the service is installed proper the installer
returns 0, but if this service has been installed already, t
Are you changing the Product Id GUID? In WiX v3 I use
so it changes every time I build it.
Neil
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Subject: [WiX-users] SPAM-LOW upgrading
> Is your compiler extension adding a reference to the CustomAction/@Id?
Not knowingly... Okay my extension has packaged the wixlib as an embedded
resource (and the wixlib has the custom action binding - not forgetting the -bf
switch to get it included in the build) is there somewhere else in the
By default Windows Installer doesn't check the file version for files in
the GAC (only assembly version). If you use the -fv command line option
with light it will set a flag in the MSI to make it check the file
version.
I hope this helps.
Neil
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Hi,
I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.
I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am writing
Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild project
inside Wix.
I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get th
I have followed the examples given in
http://blogs.msdn.com/pmarcu/archive/2007/06/28/sample-patch.aspx
but I have a few components with assemblies registering to GAC.
when I create a patch with the latest and deployed, it does not
replace in the GAC. I will not be making any assembly version chan
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