Hi,
Do you using Wix V3 and Votive?
If yes you have 2 options:
I) just install WiX on Team Build Server and you can compile solution that
have .wixproj project and it will be work.
II) If you don't want/can not install Wix on Team Build server write me
private email I will explain how you ca
Blair, you're right, it isn't "analysis paralysis" but the Component Rules are
*fundamentally* broken. The fact that it is possible to mathematically
demonstrate how simple developer behavior can create a paradox in the system
(http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2003/10/18/56497.aspx) is just
Bug. Would you mind filing it?
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Karper
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To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Binder variables from Votive
It's in
I have a list of wxs files that packages files from a share folder where Team
build stages its build result. Currently I am having batch file containing
candle and light commands with sharefolder path as a parameter.
I want to integrate it with TFS so that each time I schedule a build it
creates
Thanks Alex..
Regards,
Sajid
Alexander Shevchuk wrote:
>
> Custom Action Type 51 is your friend:
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> A=1
> A<>1 OR NOT A
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> Obviously, XXXSequence - whatever sequence table you need to schedule
> these actions in, for example, InstallExecuteSequence.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
That really helps!
Many thanks!
Bob Arnson-6 wrote:
>
> yixie wrote:
>> I found my installer don't require elevation if "change" or "repair".
>> Although tt'll require elevation and UAC dialog popup if "install from
>> not
>> installed state", or "remove".
>>
>
> That's by design. It's "sti
Hey Michael,
I'm going to step out on a limb with this one and say that this is a Vista
bug, not an MSI issue if it is a bug at all. It almost sounds like something
is holding a handle to that directory. If a process has a hold of it then it
will not be removed until the handle is let go. In the c
AFAIK, the only option is to run on Vista or Server 2008.
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Subject: [WiX-users] Run ICE validation without admin permi
Only with custom code. The APIs used by Windows Installer to retrieve the
window titles of the processes holding files don't work across session
boundaries.
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To
I just had to respond to this. Sorry for picking it back up.
XCOPY simplicity in an MSI package is very easy to do. You use empty component
guids and change your ProductCode on every single build. You don't ever patch,
and removal doesn't do anything (files are left behind). For a complete
solu
Hi,
Can anyone send me sample to use Wix lib in project, I have made one it is
working fine if i dont add any directory in the project file.
code of project file and wix lib given below.
WIX LIB :
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
Wix Prje
It's in the merge module itself. I would have expected it to get
modularized like all of my other file/component references, but alas,
alack... it was not to be.
Chris
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christopher Karper wrote:
> > It's a merge module, and
Is it a known MSI issue that Vista doesn't refresh the start menu
completely after uninstalling a product?
The problem I see is that the product folder for my start menu icons do
not appear to be removed after uninstalling my product. When I check
the actual folder mapped for the start menu, t
I've tried this and it appears to work.
You mention there is no guarantees with this process. Does this mean there
would be a more robust mechanism of achieving the same outcome? Would
bootstrapping and then manifesting the bootstrapper in a manner that
elevated permissions resolve this issue more
Mo Benmouffok wrote:
> *Candle Main.wxs -ext
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.ComPlusCompiler,
> WixComPlusExtension.dll *
>
In WiX v3, you reference an extension just by specifying its assembly;
Candle et al will load the extension based on the types it contains.
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Christopher Karper wrote:
> It's a merge module, and the file id needs the GUID put in to work. I
> wouldn't think that was how it's *supposed* to work, but adding the package
> guid to the file id in the binder variable makes it work...
>
Is the !(bind...) in the merge module itself or are y
Tony Juricic wrote:
> If Pyro is not ignoring 4th version number then it must be that I am breaking
> some component rules?!
> I haven't added or removed or renamed any component file or guid but I have
> changed the target install directory name from MyProduct to MyProductV1 (to
> be created un
dB. wrote:
> My product has a configuration file. We want it to stay on the machine
> when the product is uninstalled since the user might have changed it. We
> copy configuration files at installation time in a very nicely
> implemented custom action that copies files outside of component
> rules.
Daniel Rieck wrote:
> 1) I'm getting error 1923.
>
1923 almost always indicates a problem with the attributes on the
ServiceInstall element, such as a bad user/password combination. Can you
show what yours looks like?
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If Pyro is not ignoring 4th version number then it must be that I am breaking
some component rules?!
I haven't added or removed or renamed any component file or guid but I have
changed the target install directory name from MyProduct to MyProductV1 (to be
created under Program Files folder).
Co
Hi,
My product has a configuration file. We want it to stay on the machine
when the product is uninstalled since the user might have changed it. We
copy configuration files at installation time in a very nicely
implemented custom action that copies files outside of component
rules... I've just
I don't recall seeing your Wix source - might be useful to post it. The
service isn't marked interactive is it?
Phil Wilson
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No, it's just my service exe and the four framework assemblies I mentioned
earlier (mscorlib, System, System.Drawing, System.ServiceProcess).
I previously used a deployment project from Visual Studio to install the same
service, which worked fine. When it worked, that is, because the custom ac
Breakthrough!!!
It's a merge module, and the file id needs the GUID put in to work. I
wouldn't think that was how it's *supposed* to work, but adding the package
guid to the file id in the binder variable makes it work...
Chris
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Rob Mensching
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Well, there goes that theory. Here is what I have and it is working:
Can you verify whether that works for you?
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Rob Mensching
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> What version of the WiX toolset?
>
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What version of the WiX toolset?
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Binder variables from Votive
Neithe
I see, validation is used during patch application.
Regarding the patch family I have defined only one family, following the
example from Peter's blog and changing a few attributes like Manifacturer,
DisplayName and similar.
In my case that should be sufficient because the product has only on
Neither of these worked. I don't understand why *none* of the binder
variables are working. I tried this for my x86 and x64 configs to make sure
it wasn't a platform issue. I get the same issue either way though.
Thanks for the ideas.
Chris
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL
I'm not sure if you can do this in vbscript, you can definitely do what you
are asking in c++.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Zane Zeeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, so by custom action do you mean one that would call a vb script to
> retrieve these values and set the properties or is the
A word of warning, on Windows 2003 the default site might not be at ID 1 and
"IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1" would fail. It is when you initially install but if
you where to delete the default and recreate it it would have an ID that is a
hash of the name.
Neil
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Hi,
I've been using Wix 2.0 and trying to upgrade to Wix 3.0.4311. One of my
setup uses COM+. I can see that there is now a new extension called
"WixComPlusExtension.dll", but could not find anywhere how to use it. My
question is the following. How to I use this extension to compile my setup
i
The -val switch is actually to set transform validation flags and has
nothing to do with validation during generation. See
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/09/13/transform-validation-in-wix-patch-build.aspx
for
more information about that feature.
Have you defined patch families in your p
Are you saying that there is some way to get better error diagnostics
from Torch?
I added -v option for verbosity but it has no effect.
In fact, I can't even figure out how do validation flags validate?!
For example, once I run Torch with -val y, next time with -val v,
keeping the same wixout inp
Ok, so by custom action do you mean one that would call a vb script to retrieve
these values and set the properties or is there some other sort of CA that I
can use?
Thank you for responding
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S
Christopher Karper wrote:
> I still can't get any of these binder variables to work. Does anyone have
> some time to take a look at it? Thanks in advance. :-D
>
Two random things to try:
1. Rename the File/@Id so it doesn't have a dot in it. (The RegEx looks
right, but...)
2. Try putting th
yixie wrote:
> I found my installer don't require elevation if "change" or "repair".
> Although tt'll require elevation and UAC dialog popup if "install from not
> installed state", or "remove".
>
That's by design. It's "sticky elevation" that doesn't require admin
approval for something an ad
Buddell, James wrote:
> I'm using DTF but cannot find an implementation of the
> Installer.FeatureParent property.
If the MSI API doesn't expose the information, DTF doesn't either. I
doubt the feature parent/child information is persisted outside the .msi
package; in the end, MSI installs a li
John-Daniel Trask wrote:
> I explored the WIX output that Visual Studio automatically generates for
> Visual Studio packages it has the comment that devenv /setup needs to be
> called after finalize as if anything is getting GAC'd it won't be available
> until that point.
>
You can try a commit
Vidya Kukke wrote:
> My installer requires the ability to install and uninstall single/multiple
> features.
> I was able to create the node to achieve the installation on a per
> feature basis. However the uninstall always removes the entire product. What
> am I missing? I am doing the uninstal
There are Date (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368261(VS.85).aspx)
and Time (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372079(VS.85).aspx)
properties, but they return data in the format which is incompatible with file
names. You have to use custom action here.
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Looks like retrieving a reg_multi_sz using the RegLocator table during
AppSearch is not a great way of doing this. Plenty of places on the web
document this oddity. I think you might just want to use a custom action
instead of a registry search to retrieve this value and write it to a
property.
I have a problem w/ my patch not being uninstallable.
The only changes I made to my code were in the Directory table, RemoveFile
table, Component table, and CA table. Basically at first I was making a
copy of my msi to a shared dir on a server, but it was decided to move it to
a subdir under whe
If you need to change the name at "install time" then you'll need a
CustomAction.
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Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 04:15
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] adding current date time to folder name
The WiX3.msi registers with VS. I'm not an expert in that stuff but how is
yours different than what the WiX toolset does?
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To: wix-users@lists.sourcefo
No. Exe's are not provided any information to communicate with the Windows
Installer. One of many reasons DLL CustomActions are recommended when a
CustomAction is absolutely necessary.
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Is the service dependent on any assemblies that you install to the GAC?
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To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Serv
You can use this page for searching:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.windows.devel.wix.user
Rob
Christopher Karper wrote:
> I just subscribe and use gmail to sort mine. :-)
>
> I think a lot of people here use Nabble, maybe you'd have better luck with
> that?
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 20
I just subscribe and use gmail to sort mine. :-)
I think a lot of people here use Nabble, maybe you'd have better luck with
that?
Chris
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Zane Zeeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there some secret to searching through the wix-users mail archive? I get
> no resu
Is there some secret to searching through the wix-users mail archive? I get no
results returned no matter what I enter into the Mailing Lists search. I've
tried the advance search and that returns no results either.
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This SF
There is a share proderrors or something
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I'm trying to get the default SQL Server Instance using the following:
This SHOULD return one or more values in the format
~InstanceName1~InstanceName2~InstanceName3. Mine however returns nothing, even
though there is a value there. If I use this same Property against a string
registry value it
I have 120 MB large Wixmst created by Torch and when I pass it to Pyro
it comes back with the message PYRO1079 saying that patch cabinet
contains no files.
My DLLs in RTM and Update respectively differ in the last, 4-th version
number, plus the binaries themselves are different. Using SDK tool
I use the following condition to check for empty path edit box and disable
"Next" button if empty.But it doesn't disable "Next" button..
NOT INSTALLDIR <> ""
Is this not i should be checking for empty pathEdit textbox?
thanks
Anidil
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How can we change the error reference that MSI chooses to show the error if
the installer returns a non 0 value?
Appreciate if anyone can give me an insight on this
thanks
Anidil
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Hi all,
I'm using DTF but cannot find an implementation of the
Installer.FeatureParent property. I can work around this by opening a
session on the product and querying the Feature table, but would rather
not as starting the session is very slow and I am enumerating a number
of apps.
I can see th
Ok, so renaming my wixpdb files, produced as described above, to wixout
extension solved the problem for torch input and it produced wixmst
output file. Thus, apparently, wixpdb can exist only in XML format,
while wixout is binary.
Based on Peter Marcu's blog I understood that wixpdb substitutes
Anybody?
I can also afford to call a cpp function here if needed. Any example of
that?
..ab
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Abubakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I write the following tags for my folder:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Now in the name "[EMAIL PROTEC
Hi,
I solved my problem as follows, maybe it is of use to someone else, too:
As described in the WiX wiki, I check for the availability of the scripting
host (see http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=VBScript_Tutorial). A custom
action then takes care of setting the port number property:
1) I'm getting error 1923.
2) The installation rolls back.
3) It's C# 2.0.
4) I'm not showing any UI. The service acts as a small web server. It's
listening for HTTP requests and sends back images created on the fly. I
considered IIS as a host, but I can't be sure my customers will have that
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