[WiX-users] WixUI Banner image sizes

2008-09-03 Thread Troy Howard
First, thanks all for helping put me on the right track with merge modules in my last message. I figured that out and it's exactly what I needed. My current question revolves around the stock ui in WixUIExtensions.dll and the image sizes. Our company currently has a number of installers that were

[WiX-users] FW: How to Install Password protected certificate(PFX file)

2008-09-03 Thread Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd)
Hi, I want to install password projected certificate(pfx file) But not able to do the same. If I am manually importing this pfx file, it is generating 4 files(1 pfx and 3 certificate). But through Wix, it is generating only one certificate. Please find the code snippet. Please help me out in t

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling related products

2008-09-03 Thread Jeff Yates
So the best way is to have my additional installers write to the registry and then have a custom action to do a runonce key registry entry written during the uninstallation of the main product? That runonce would be my own tool that reads the other installer registry keys and uninstalls them? SOmet

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling related products

2008-09-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Jeff Yates wrote: > I then uninstall A. > > Can I also uninstall B, C, D and E as part of A? > That requires a chainer .exe. It can't be done from within the .msi. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.Net emai

Re: [WiX-users] Start Service conditionaly

2008-09-03 Thread Bob Arnson
postingbox wrote: > When should I execute the CA or is there another way to handle this > Per the MSI SDK doc: Any standard or custom actions that affect costing should be sequenced before the CostInitialize action. Check out a verbose install log to see the actions MSI is planning to take

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_InstallDir issue

2008-09-03 Thread Bob Arnson
David Aragon wrote: > I have changed the UIRef appropriately, added a property > WIXUI_INSTALLDIR with a value = [INSTALLDIR] The WixUI_InstallDir property should contain the Id of the directory, not its value. Just drop the brackets. See "Using WixUI Dialog Sets" in WiX.chm for details. --

Re: [WiX-users] when a msi is run in upgrade mode how do you determine/control what customActions do not run during upgrade processing?

2008-09-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Robert O'Brien wrote: > When a msi is run in upgrade mode how do you determine/control what > customActions do not run during upgrade processing?I have a v1.0 msi that > I'm now creating a v1.0 sp1 version of and associated patch msi. If I run > the v1.0 sp1 msi in upgrade mode on an existi

Re: [WiX-users] Hide the ExitDialog

2008-09-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Casey Young wrote: > Is it possible to not show the ExitDialog on install? I can't seem to find > any information on this. > You have to either show a dialog or run an action at the end of the install. You could use the new WixExitEarlyWithSuccess custom action to do nothing. See Custom/@OnE

Re: [WiX-users] WIX built MSI uninstall compatibility problem (2nd try)

2008-09-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Jeff Yates wrote: > Only issue I have with that approach is that it doesn't document intent > whereas explicitly stating an auto-generated guid using ?s does. > The package code should almost never be specified; it's easier to think of it as an implementation detail. -- sig://boB http://joyo

Re: [WiX-users] Removing User Generated Files

2008-09-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Daniel Newmarch wrote: > I have a working WiX installer, which is pretty plain, just > installs/uninstalls files. However, the application that it installs > creates data in the users My Documents and Local Settings\Application Data > when it is run, and I have been asked to remove this data on un

Re: [WiX-users] WIX built MSI uninstall compatibility problem (2nd try)

2008-09-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Jay H. Cho wrote: > I have question on maintaining uninstall version compatibility. > In order to make new msi build able to uninstall the previous version I > assigned fixed guid to > Id attribute in my package tag; looks like below: > If you're talking about using a major upgrade, you cannot

Re: [WiX-users] WIX built MSI uninstall compatibility problem (2nd try)

2008-09-03 Thread Jeff Yates
Only issue I have with that approach is that it doesn't document intent whereas explicitly stating an auto-generated guid using ?s does. On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 20:24, Alexander Shevchuk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warning message is saying what need to be done: > > "... Please remove the Id att

Re: [WiX-users] WIX built MSI uninstall compatibility problem (2nd try)

2008-09-03 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
Warning message is saying what need to be done: "... Please remove the Id attribute in order to automatically generate a new package code for each new .msi file." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay H. Cho Sent: Wednesday, September 03

[WiX-users] How to Install Password protected certificate(PFX file)

2008-09-03 Thread Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd)
Hi, I want to install password projected certificate(pfx file) But not able to do the same. If I am manually importing this pfx file, it is generating 4 files(1 pfx and 3 certificate). But through Wix, it is generating only one certificate. Please find the code snippet. Please help me out in t

[WiX-users] Removing User Generated Files

2008-09-03 Thread Daniel Newmarch
Hi, I have a working WiX installer, which is pretty plain, just installs/uninstalls files. However, the application that it installs creates data in the users My Documents and Local Settings\Application Data when it is run, and I have been asked to remove this data on uninstall. I was wondering i

Re: [WiX-users] WIX built MSI uninstall compatibility problem (2nd try)

2008-09-03 Thread Jeff Yates
We remove this in two ways... Use the question mark GUID for the Id to generate a new Product Id each build, or use a define to define the code. The compiler doesn't know if this changes or not and so doesn't care (we then change the define in the wxi file whenever we do a brand new release). I

[WiX-users] WIX built MSI uninstall compatibility problem (2nd try)

2008-09-03 Thread Jay H. Cho
Hi, everyone ** including more information ** I have question on maintaining uninstall version compatibility. In order to make new msi build able to uninstall the previous version I assigned fixed guid to Id attribute in my package tag; looks like below: The proble

Re: [WiX-users] WIX uninstall compatibility

2008-09-03 Thread Alexander Shevchuk
Knowing what this warning message is saying would help tremendously in identifying the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay H. Cho Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 12:18 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with conditional install

2008-09-03 Thread scott b harris
To wrap this up...it was pointed out to me that my problem was that I had the condition and the test in separate fragments and either needed to combine them or use a PropertyRef to pull it in. I just combined them as it seemed less likely for me to mess up. Thank you Chad and Pally for your

Re: [WiX-users] WIX uninstall compatibility

2008-09-03 Thread Jay H. Cho
Oh, nevermind the malformed GUID, I know it is wrong I do have proper GUID on the actual code and it works. I just want to know how to eliminate the warning messages or do this properly. Anyone? Thank you. -

[WiX-users] WixUI_InstallDir issue

2008-09-03 Thread David Aragon
I am trying to change the UI from the Mondo (which works correctly, but offers too many choices to user) to the InstallDir. I have changed the UIRef appropriately, added a property WIXUI_INSTALLDIR with a value = [INSTALLDIR], which is set to the installation directory via a CA set to run af

[WiX-users] Hide the ExitDialog

2008-09-03 Thread Casey Young
Is it possible to not show the ExitDialog on install? I can't seem to find any information on this. Thanks, Casey - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based ap

Re: [WiX-users] when a msi is run in upgrade mode how do you determine/control what customActions do not run during upgrade processing?

2008-09-03 Thread Buddell, James
Can you populate your Upgrade Table and check the property value specified there and populated by FindRelatedProducts? i.e. UPGRADEFOUND from "Preventing an Old Package from Installing Over a Newer Version" in MSI.CHM. Cheers, James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

[WiX-users] when a msi is run in upgrade mode how do you determine/control what customActions do not run during upgrade processing?

2008-09-03 Thread Robert O'Brien
When a msi is run in upgrade mode how do you determine/control what customActions do not run during upgrade processing?I have a v1.0 msi that I'm now creating a v1.0 sp1 version of and associated patch msi. If I run the v1.0 sp1 msi in upgrade mode on an existing v1.0 install I have a bunch

Re: [WiX-users] WIX uninstall compatibility

2008-09-03 Thread Jeff Yates
That's an illegal GUID. GUIDs are in hex and so only contain the digits 0-9 and letters A-F. Use GuidGen to generate one for you - don't make one up yourself. On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:20, Jay H. Cho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I have question on maintaining uninstall version c

[WiX-users] WIX uninstall compatibility

2008-09-03 Thread Jay H. Cho
Hi, everyone I have question on maintaining uninstall version compatibility. In order to make new msi build able to uninstall the previous version I assigned fixed guid to Id attribute in my package tag; looks like below: The problem is above generates warning during compilation, is there anywa

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling related products

2008-09-03 Thread Buddell, James
During an installation the RemoveExistingProducts action would handle these uninstalls for you, but (from the RemoveExistingProducts documentation)... "The installer only runs the RemoveExistingProducts action the first time it installs a product. It does not run the action during a maintenance in

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling related products

2008-09-03 Thread Eitan Behar
you can use a custom action to launch the uninstall of these products, but, don't think that these are best practices. On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jeff Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > If you have a moment, I was wondering if there was a way to uninstall > additional prod

[WiX-users] Uninstalling related products

2008-09-03 Thread Jeff Yates
Hi everyone, If you have a moment, I was wondering if there was a way to uninstall additional products when uninstalling another product. For example... I install product A. I then install B, C, D, E (these are add-ons for A that I install via their own MSI and upgrade codes etc - so basically,

Re: [WiX-users] Start Service conditionaly

2008-09-03 Thread Bernd Adler
Does it work without the condition? If not try to use the same Name entries (Name="ARCSERV" instead of Name="Arcserv.exe" in ) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von postingbox Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. September 2008 15:01 An: wix-users@li

[WiX-users] Start Service conditionaly

2008-09-03 Thread postingbox
Hello, I have following situation - I want to install an .exe and start it as a service The default value of the Property HASARCNET is 0. With the help of a Custom Action I set it to 1 if the arcnet driver is installed. The Property is set to 1 as I see it

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-09-03 Thread Evans, Jim
Richard wrote: > RegMon will reveal all. You can get it from the sysinternals portion > of Microsoft's web site. Not always. As I said from my original post, I monitored the installation using ProcMon (the successor to RegMon), and it looked like everything was okay. The problem turned out to be

[WiX-users] Dialog layout and merge modules

2008-09-03 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi: I am trying to layout dialogues in wxs files, are the units for height etc pixels or some other unit? Whjere can I obtain merge modules for atl/vb from?Cher S Sean. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3409 (20080902) __ The message

[WiX-users] MSI doesn't remove the install folder when uninstalling

2008-09-03 Thread Wong Shao Voon
Hi guys, The folder is empty. It happens only after I add a step to remove registry values when installing. If I remove this step, when I uninstall, the folder is deleted. Is it because I added this remove registry step during installation? Any comments? PS, I know we are not supposed to remov