Hi Eitan,
I also would be interested in knowing what people are doing here.
We do something akin to yours, but have put the logic in the database
itself. We build an "update package" which is a set of database
changes. Each update package is given a GUID and as we apply the change
package we w
Hi,
I have a big fat setup with several baseline SQL scripts, and after it's
released, I get delta SQL scripts that fix the released database.
The scenario is as follows:
When doing a first installation, I do the baseline (v0), plus all the deltas
(i.e. v1, v2, v3)
If doing an upgrade, I do che
During Build..
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From: Christopher Karper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:29 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue
When is this error occurring, during build? link? when
I'm curious, is there really a two hour difference between these two queries?
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From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:03
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users
Did you clear out all the .wixobj, .wixlibs, .wixpdbs, .msm, .msi files that
were built with a previous version of the toolset? If so, and your still
seeing a problem can you please share the snippet of the log file that has all
of the error messages + 10 lines on either side (just in case)?
-
When is this error occurring, during build? link? when you run the MSI?
Do you have any output or log files?
Chris
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I am creating 64 bit installer. For this, I have added Platfr
Sergey Abakumoff wrote:
> Notice that the cancel button is 'themed', however the edit boxes are not
> themed.
> How can I achieve theme support in edit boxes? The sample of code I use for
> them:
>Height="18" Property="USEREMAIL" Text="{80}" />
>
Drop the {80} -- that makes it a masked
Robert O'Brien wrote:
> In my v1.0 release I had shortcut settings in multiple components using start
> | programs | "My Service Deliverable" menu folder.In my v1.1 release I
> changed the wix sources to use "start | programs | "My Service Deliverable
> v1.1".
You're changing the name of
Neil Sleightholm wrote:
> Following some earlier posts on this topic I believed that
> "-cultures:nl-nl;en-us" meant "use the Dutch localization but if a
> string is missing use English". This seems to be true for my own
> localization strings but not for the WiX UI Extension (or any other
> extens
Michael Owings wrote:
> This is probably a stupid question, but I have a wix-based install that
> executes a flash installer if the current flash version is below a
> required version. Everything works fine, but I'd like to remove the
> installer after execution. Is this possible? I looked at Re
Sergey Abakumoff wrote:
> However, this doesn't work - the button state is changed, but only if I
> leave the SerialEdit field.
>
MSI UI doesn't update control conditions at every character update.
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Andy Kwak wrote:
> However, when I merge the changes into my MSI, instead of
> {----}, the value written to the
> registry is the name of the feature where I have placed my merge
> module ("Console").
>
> Is this a bug or do I need to escape the braces? I tried \{ b
Tina Basinger wrote:
> Maybe this is not supported any more. Should I be able to have the main
> installation code schedule a custom action that is defined within a merge
> module? Any thoughts?
>
Merge modules are designed to be self-contained, which is why they have
the modularization GUID
Jonathan Kruljac wrote:
> I have a toolkit that we want to distribute, it is a MSI. That toolkit has a
> dependency on another .exe setup package. I want to include the setup package
> in the toolkit wix. Any ideas how to do this? I have searched the net to no
> avail..
>
You can use a custo
Dean Ward wrote:
> Is this possible? I suspect not because once a dialog is referenced it is
> effectively a singleton. Is there any way of doing this in a different
> fashion? I've done a fair bit of searching around this, but have come up
> with no results so far. Any help will be greatly appreci
Kamal Sharma wrote:
> I am one of the newcomers to Wix.
> I have a basic question. I have put Installed in Condition in the Wxs file.
> However, during setup it doesn't take the condition at all. I even tried
> setting it to NOT Installed and it doesnt work.
>
You need to provide more details.
Thomas Jeyaseelan wrote:
> In this scenario, can we safely set the GUID element's value to the empty
> string?
>
Without GUIDs, the components can't be uninstalled.
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Victor V. Sergeev wrote:
> I'm trying to create a patch using Pyro (Version 3.0.4513.0). In that
> patch i need to execute addition sql on a SqlServer database
> When i'm using sqlstring element all OK. But, when I'll try to use
> sqlscript element my patch fail whith error in log:
>
> Action sta
Norman Tiedemann wrote:
> When I open an existing WiX project, it does not display in Visual Studio
> 2005. I have tried this on 2 different machines and have the same result from
> each of them.
>
See if
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasongin/archive/2008/07/09/votive-project-platform-configuration
In this particular case, no. I created a WXL to isolate the strings from the
code so that if we need to translate it in the future, that work is at least
taken care of.
Coming up though (in another product's installation) I will have the case you
mention (I'm starting with the simple then movi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dean Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm currently creating some custom actions using DTF that also have some
> custom UI stored in a .wixlib. Right now these have some well-known
> properties that are used. However, I have a situation where I have the same
The documentation states the following for the Wix Guid attribute for the
Component element:
Guid
ComponentGuid
This value should be a guid that uniquely identifies this component's
contents, language, platform, and version. It's also possible to set the value
to an empty string to spe
Hi,
I am creating 64 bit installer. For this, I have added Platform attribute as
x64 and in Component , added one attribute Win64='yes'. But it is giving error
as mentioned below.
An unexpected Win32 exception with error code 0x654 occurred:
Please help.
Regards
Sandeep
-
Hi,
What is the correct set of statements to insert a new row into the
Property Table. Although the DTF docs are great the number of example
are limited.
Regards
Simon Powell
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I have a toolkit that we want to distribute, it is a MSI. That toolkit has a
dependency on another .exe setup package. I want to include the setup package
in the toolkit wix. Any ideas how to do this? I have searched the net to no
avail..
Thanks
Jonathan
Hello All,
I am experiencing the same issue, same symptoms. I manually deleted the
bin and obj folders and did a rebuild, but the result was the same.
Rob, when you say "an old table definition that is getting in and being
confused" what does that mean? How does one test for that? I opened
the
Hi Chris,
I am creating 64 bit installer. For this, I have added Platfrom attribte as
x64 and in Component , added one attribute Win64='yes'. But it is giving error
as mentioned below.
An unexpected Win32 exception with error code 0x654 occurred:
Please help.
Regards
Sandeep
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Hi Jacek,
Sorry it's not documented yet, but I did design in a way define additional
arbitrary files to be added to the CA package. You just need to put the file
list in a property called CustomActionContents, by adding lines like this to
your project file:
dependency3.dll;path\to\resource
I have a WiX MSI setup that installs a service process using ServiceInstall
and ServiceControl thusly:
This configuration works great, and I even have upgrades working seamlessly,
with one exception. Some of my customers choose to run the service under a
different user than LocalSystem (this c
John,
Do you have multiple localized versions of your merge module, and you're trying
to reference the matching merge module for the culture of the main MSI that's
being built?
Neil
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From: John Nannenga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:
Hi,
I'm creating a merge module in WiX (latest build), and I have a
registry value which writes the string
"{----}" to a value called "About".
When I compile the merge module, I can open Orca and see that the
registry value has the correct value.
However, when I m
Yep, that's the idea.
Chris
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Chris, If I will create explicitly 64 bit installer then would I
> able to write out side of wow6432node in registry.
>
> Regards
> Sandeep
>
> -Original Me
Done...
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2127057&group_id=105970&atid=642714
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From: Neil Enns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:02 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX
Thanks Chris, If I will create explicitly 64 bit installer then would I able to
write out side of wow6432node in registry.
Regards
Sandeep
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From: Christopher Karper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:20 PM
To: General discussion for Windows
If you create a 32 bit installer, it will run in the 32 bit space, which can
not access outside the Wow6432Node...
If you need to write outside of that area, you'll need to create a seperate
installer for a 64-bit version, and mark the component that contains your
registry edits as a 64-bit compon
Resending My Query.. Please help me out.
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From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:36 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue
Hi ,
I am creat
Yes, that looks like it won't work. Can you log a bug on this in SourceForge?
Neil
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From: John Nannenga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:54 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] what sett
Is this change not compatible with the "List of Supported Project References"?
Before this change, I had a reference in my MSI WiX project to a merge module
WiX project. I then referred to the built merge module via
$(var..TargetPath). This worked just peachy, until this change
was introduc
Hi ,
I am creating one installer on 32 bit machine. In my Installer, There is one
utility always which is looking at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\XXX. On 32 Bit
machine it is working fine because Below mentioned code is crating the required
key at same location(HKLM\Software\Microsoft\XXX)
Bu
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From: sree [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 00:07
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] MSI writing my password values to log file
hi,
in one of my dilaog we are taking the password as input to a property from
the user.
Hi,
I am one of the newcomers to Wix.
I have a basic question. I have put Installed in Condition in the Wxs file.
However, during setup it doesn't take the condition at all. I even tried
setting it to NOT Installed and it doesnt work.
Could anyone help me with this?
Regards,
Kamal
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To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset
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Thx for explaining
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Rob Hamflett wrote:
>
> Only properties in uppercase get passed over to the server-side of the
> installation.
>
> Rob
>
> polan wrote:
>> Hi
>> I've got a property that acts differently depending on the Id spelling!
>>
>> It looks like this:
Only properties in uppercase get passed over to the server-side of the
installation.
Rob
polan wrote:
> Hi
> I've got a property that acts differently depending on the Id spelling!
>
> It looks like this:
>
>
>
> The property gets set in Custom action before showing my custom dialog. And
>
Hi
I've got a property that acts differently depending on the Id spelling!
It looks like this:
The property gets set in Custom action before showing my custom dialog. And
is bound to Edit field in UI
The user can change the value of the field.
Then I use my property to set some node value
I believe the default behavior of the and maintenance mode UI experience is that it provides
users the option of only selecting specific features currently installed that
they would like removed.
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From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
S
Hi ,
I want to do partial uninstallation. There would be one some check boxes for
selection to which I want to uninstall on Remove screen but I don't know is
this possible?
Regards
-Sandeep
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This is probably a stupid question, but I have a wix-based install that
executes a flash installer if the current flash version is below a
required version. Everything works fine, but I'd like to remove the
installer after execution. Is this possible? I looked at RemoveFiles,
but this doesn't l
Ok,
I guess the way to do it is to have the directories with components
that do nothing but create the folder, and then use those components
in the features that I am installing.
Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:21 AM, bryan rasmussen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Message: 1
>>
Bryan,
I achieve this by using a separate fragment for each of my features, and
use the DirectoryRef element to reference the main installation directory,
which in this case I believe would be the "RenditionServerQ" directory.
Kind regards,
Hans
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:12
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:12 +0200
> From: "bryan rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [WiX-users] misunderstanding of the CreateFolder directory
>attribute?
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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Let me rephrase the question: is there a way to force MakeSfxCA to include
some of the libraries that are in GAC? For example B.dll and C.dll are added
to the CA project as references to their own projects vs references to .Net
assemblies sitting in GAC. Could that force MakeSfxCA to include the
Switched to util:XmlConfig and inserted a document fragment which did the
trick. I included an xml comment, as shown in excerpt below, in document
fragment xml but util:XmlConfig stripped the xml comment. Is there a way to
keep util:XmlConfig from stripping xml code comment sout of the docum
Hi,
try to define your property with a default value in your wxs file and make
sure the Hidden attribute is set to "yes", and then use your custom action
to overwrite the default value for the property.
Kind regards,
Hans
>
> hi,
>
> in one of my dilaog we are taking the password as input to a
Specify [EMAIL PROTECTED]"yes" should leave the property out of the log
entirely. I'm not sure if
there's a way to not log the value but still log the fact that it changed.
Rob
sree wrote:
> hi,
>
> in one of my dilaog we are taking the password as input to a property from
> the user.
> we ar
hi,
in one of my dilaog we are taking the password as input to a property from
the user.
we are assingnig some properties in vbscript custom action as follows
Session.Property( OrganizationName & ".ADAdministratorPassword" ) =
Session.Property( "CRMAdministratorPassword" )
in the log file it
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