Re: [WiX-users] Loading Extensions

2008-08-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Neil Sleightholm wrote: > That's odd, I tried it today before posting with v3.0.4401.0 and it > doesn't work. Just to confirm what I did, I put candle in the path and > got this error: > candle.exe : error CNDL0144 : The extension WixUIExtension.dll' > could not be loaded. > Drop the ".dl

Re: [WiX-users] Loading Extensions

2008-08-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
That's odd, I tried it today before posting with v3.0.4401.0 and it doesn't work. Just to confirm what I did, I put candle in the path and got this error: candle.exe : error CNDL0144 : The extension WixUIExtension.dll' could not be loaded. Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [WiX-users] Overriding DefaultConstants or sending variables to candle using TFSBuild

2008-08-02 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
Hi Joe, First of all parameters that you are declare in the TFSBuild.proj not passed to your solution that compiled. Its existing 2 way to pass them to solution and all inner projects, but it depends when Team Build you are using : 2008 or 2005. (*) 2008 its will be easy: http://msdn.microsof

Re: [WiX-users] How not to display "Your system has not been modified" on error

2008-08-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Vesselin Peev wrote: > Why is it that custom action return code ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE always causes > a message containing "Your system has not been modified" to be displayed? Because custom actions that fail should be rolled back, leaving the machine unmodified. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetu

Re: [WiX-users] Loading Extensions

2008-08-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Neil Sleightholm wrote: > To make building from the command line easier would it be possible to > modify the extension loading code to load extensions from the same > folder as the exe (candle, light, lit). > It does that for me, at least as of v3.0.4325.0. Extensions given as just a name are

Re: [WiX-users] Does Pyro (or Torch) ignore 4-th version number?

2008-08-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Tony Juricic wrote: > but reading the install.log I cannot find anything a bit more explicit > about this violation. It is certainly not saying something like "you > changed the name of your root installation folder and you shouldn't" :) > Sorry, it's not that polite. The "Windows Installer Co

Re: [WiX-users] Overriding DefaultConstants or sending variables to candle using TFSBuild

2008-08-02 Thread Neil Enns
Unfortunately I don't have a TFS install handy to look at this directly :( I did some quick searches on-line and it looks like depending on the version of Team Build you're using that you might need to modify some targets files to make this work. I would suggest asking your question over at the

[WiX-users] How not to display "Your system has not been modified" on error

2008-08-02 Thread Vesselin Peev
Dear List, Why is it that custom action return code ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE always causes a message containing "Your system has not been modified" to be displayed? It seems that this is always displayed for this return code, please correct me if you know that this is not so. In certain cases whe

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 Com+ deployment question.

2008-08-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
In addition the WiX tutorial has now been updated to include v3 COM+ information: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson5.php#5.12. Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: 01 August 2008 17:53 To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] Overriding DefaultConstants or sending variables to candle using TFSBuild

2008-08-02 Thread Joe Pub
But my problem is that I need some of the properties that are created in the tfsbuild.proj. I am trying to get the version number that is generated in the tfsbuild.proj into the .wixproj. So there is no way to get them into the .wixproj? Thanks 2008/8/1 Neil Enns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joe, >

[WiX-users] Loading Extensions

2008-08-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
To make building from the command line easier would it be possible to modify the extension loading code to load extensions from the same folder as the exe (candle, light, lit). For example: if you put the WiX binaries folder on the path running "candle -ext WixUIExtension.dll" doesn't work as