Re: [WiX-users] Reading the registry entries - Facing an interesting problem

Thanks Rob for your reply. I did it using custom actions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:47 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reading the

[WiX-users] MsiGetProperty failed on new CA

Hi, I successfully converted an InstallShield project to WIX 3. when i tried to add a new custom action - it failed on MsiGetProperty(hInstall, szName, TEXT(""), &nSizeCount); (gets nSizeCount == 0 & return ERROR_MORE_DATA), while i was trying to get the CustomActionData property from the msi packa

Re: [WiX-users] what setting causes current wix build output to land in bin\$(Configuration)\en-us versus bin\$(Configuration) where it always used to land

In my setup.wixproj I added the proposed Message command to the following Target setting and it did successfully dump the list of full culture specific TargetPath build output list as the last output in the build output window. So the trick I guess to processing the list of culture specific ou

[WiX-users] scoping wix3 way patch msp generation and relevance of public property settings during msp or msi minor upgrade processing

q1 - In the new wix3 way patch msp generation xml is there a way to specify the element to cover get the msp patch generated to cover changes to all components from v1.0 to v1.1 versus having what appears to be the need to specify every component explicitly as the patch help document sample syn

Re: [WiX-users] is there a way to get current wix vs08 project extensions to output a patch msp?

Thanks. I'm now using the following Patch.wixproj postbuild events to automate the generation of msp output using either new wix3 way or old msimsp way. Patch.wixproj | postBuild event move /y "$(Ta

Re: [WiX-users] using torch.exe -ax to enable use of admin install msi target and update input parameter values

Thanks that appears to be exactly what my issue was with my adminInstall output. I used orca to reconfigure the feature level settings in my v1.0 msi so I could generate a useable adminInstall of it and configured my in progress v1.1 sources to instead use the following feature install conditio

Re: [WiX-users] MSIEXEC installlevel feature

Hi, I have a similar problem but with slight change. What i am trying to achieve is: I have one .cmd file which i want to run (using custom action) only if user pass some flag from command line. Just like you did in the example below,but i want to control my custom action from this flag. e.

Re: [WiX-users] getting working v1.0 -> v1.0 minor update using msp & msi solutions pulled together

Robert O'Brien wrote: > it possible to include the ServiceControl statement in my "Service1" > component and condition it to do an stop prior to files being processed > during (UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE Or PATCH) activities and then started after the > (UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE Or PATCH) activities compl

Re: [WiX-users] what setting causes current wix build output to land in bin\$(Configuration)\en-us versus bin\$(Configuration) where it always used to land

Robert O'Brien wrote: > The syntax of the command is incorrect. > That message is coming from cmd.exe; you need to put it in a target instead. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.Net email is

[WiX-users] Missing DTF Sample Applications

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:41:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greenaj, > get these? I am just about ready to create my own proof of concept > package for calling DTF managed CA. If you create one that you're ready to share, I'd be very much willing to put it into the tutorial. I don't have much

Re: [WiX-users] Updating app.config

It's working as I wanted it. Thx You both guys! Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > polan wrote: >> Just one last question to make it clear : To make it work I need to move >> the >> creation of All the xml config nodes to WIX (.wxl) file, and simply >> forget >> about copying the app.config file from the

[WiX-users] WiX-expert - preferrable a German/Austrian near Munich/Salzburg searched

Since the last release of our (Java-based) software we are using WiX 3 to build the Windows-installer, but the installer is far from being perfect. We don't have the time to do it ourself and hence need one who can do that for us (of course paid). Here are details which need some (re)work: - Ea