Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component

I have tried this option also. On repair/repair, with this option it is deleting the data base . But On remove/repair, I don 't want to do any with this component on repair/DB(component which is creating DB at the time of installation). Please help me out. Regards Sandeep -Original Messag

Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component

Not Installed On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I did not use this attribute.Shall I mark this attribute as No ? > > > > -Original Message- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 03,

Re: [WiX-users] Do not want to execute component on repair and Remove

Hi, If you want to execute a component ONLY during a certain first install and not repair/remove (very useful with SQL scripts), do the following: Not Installed The condition will ensure to install the component only on first install, and the Transitive="yes" will ensure that the condition is r

[WiX-users] Shortcut : enable QuickEdit mode

I am trying to create a shortcut to PowerShell.exe like below: http://n2.nabble.com/Shortcut-%3A-enable-QuickEdit-mode-tp1248007p1248007.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - This SF.Net email i

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Troy Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This application is a beast, and the installer has to tame it. What a > project At least I have a nice view of downtown Portland at night from > the 11th floor of this building. When I removed self-reg component

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Troy Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I just do a regasm /reg and then convert that to WiX code? That's what I've done in the past and it worked just fine. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download

Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component

No, I did not use this attribute.Shall I mark this attribute as No ? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:33 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component Is the

Re: [WiX-users] use of Condition to detect Property

bryan rasmussen wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to do something like the following: > > > > in other words read a value from the registry and then use a condition > to determine if the product should be installed. > > All you need to do is test for the existence of a property because a

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate error

If you're on XP, it's probably this bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1930640&group_id=105970&atid=642714 Build 4513 has this issue in it. On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does your Certificate element look like? > > What OS ar

Re: [WiX-users] failed certificate install

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1930640&group_id=105970&atid=642714 Should be in the next binary release. 4513 exhibits this issue. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally convinced my team to upgrade to Wix 3

Re: [WiX-users] failed certificate install

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1930640&group_id=105970&atid=642714 On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Karthik Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian, > For us, certificate installs worked with 3.0.4429.0, but uninstalls failed. > There was a reply from Rob saying that the unin

Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component

Is the Component marked Transitive? -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 19:28 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Condition for Component Hi , I have one componen

Re: [WiX-users] How to include 3rd party dll in MSI?

Why does the 3rd party DLL need to run at install time? What does it do? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download Legalize Adulthood! --

Re: [WiX-users] Delete temp files during uninstall

These are cached files from IIS and believe IIS creates them if its not there when started. Rob Mensching-2 wrote: > > What happens when the user clicks cancel and rolls your uninstall back? > Do you need those files. > > -Original Message- > From: vivek.anandan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

[WiX-users] Can WiX create stub installer?

Hi I'm new to WiX and I just a have a few questions before I decide to use it. I need to create an installation project for work that be like a stub installer. Basically there will be several installation files and .exe stub. The stub is ran and checks if Windows Installer is installed, if i

[WiX-users] Weird dialog behaviour

I use the following dialog in my installer: 1 1 1 The problem is if I click on X(close window) button, then BrowseDlg is opened instead of

[WiX-users] What is the Use WixFailWhenDeferred

Hi, I am looking for roll back mechanism after installfinalize (when any custom action gets fail). In this regard please let me now the roll of "WixFailWhenDeferred" CA. Please help me out if any there practice is there. Regards -Sandeep -

Re: [WiX-users] use of Condition to detect Property

Hi Bryan, Two problems here. First, if you want a launch condition based on successful search, use just RENDERINGINSTALL. Drop != "" stuff. Second, by saying Type="directory" you are indicating that search is not done yet and you want to continue with the search and use the data in the registr

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

"First, you should not be packaging someone else's resources in your MSI. You should be getting a Merge Module that has all of the COM and DLL and most importantly the *correct* Component GUIDs. That's what Merge Modules were designed for." You might want to tell Microsoft that and get a merge m

Re: [WiX-users] Setting value of a property via Checkbox

Additional details:- I am using Wix version 3.0.4513.0 to do this. From: Vidya Kukke Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:04 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Setting value of a property via Checkbox Hi, I want the ability to set a property from the state of the checkbox. I am

[WiX-users] use of Condition to detect Property

Hi, I am trying to do something like the following: in other words read a value from the registry and then use a condition to determine if the product should be installed. I am using Mondo_UI. The product installs no matter what. Can someone give me an example of how to make this work

[WiX-users] Setting value of a property via Checkbox

Hi, I want the ability to set a property from the state of the checkbox. I am unable to make it work with the following piece of code. Snippet of my wix code:- The value of MYPUBLICPROP is always '0' when I check the checkbox. What am I missing? Thanks in advance for any help. Regards,

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neil Sleightholm wrote: > > My untested theory is that when you call DllRegisterServer on a VB6 DLL > > it either calls DllRegisterServer on MSVBVM60.dll or the code from it is > > embedded into the VB6 dll. > > In my

Re: [WiX-users] Will XmlConfig do this?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chad Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > That is identical to this: > > There is nothing wrong with that. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download

Re: [WiX-users] Will XmlConfig do this?

What's the problem? -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 13:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Will XmlConfig do this? My config file is simple. Just a configuration section.

Re: [WiX-users] Will XmlConfig do this?

is the same thing as - they are both empty elements. In XML you can indicate an empty element either way ( is the preferred way to indicate an empty element). If you give the connectionStrings element a value, you will get some-value. Or you can add children to the connectionStrings element as w

Re: [WiX-users] Re 3: Patching and sqlscript element (to Bob Arnson)

Victor V. Sergeev wrote: > I don't know how. I think that "pyro.exe" added new actions to ".MSP" > file, but didn't include new binary data. > What does your patch look like? Are you able to install the upgrade package successfully (i.e., using the new .msi, not the .msp)? -- sig://boB http

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MSXML3 [I think] used to have SelfReg and it a ccounted for a percentage > point or two of installation failures for Office... that was lot of > money wasted on SelfReg. Wow. That is an awesome data point! -- "The

Re: [WiX-users] Moving from InstallShield 12 to wix

OK -- thanx. I thought for a second I had totally misunderstood how Windows Installer works. I've dug out the MSI created by the original IS installer (it was actually an exe installer, but IS12 seems to be MSI-based anyway, with exe installers just being boostrap wrappers around an underlying

[WiX-users] Conditionally Removing Files on Uninstall

Hi, I am new to Wix trying to create an installer where certain files are removed by the uninstaller depending on a checkbox in the user interface. I have seen some similar questions on the Wix mailing lists, but no definitive answers on how to get it to work. Some of the comments I have seen

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

0. Are you sure you needed to add all those actions? They should have been added for you automatically if you are using the advertised tables. Also, you don't need to add Sequence numbers to have a standard action added at the standard location. Just the name should be sufficient... however,

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor and environment variables?

Okay, yeah, that may just be a "behavior" in WiX v2. We readdressed this in WiX v3 but I think there is a breaking change somewhere in there and since WiX v2 is marked "stable" we aren't working on it. So, take solace in knowing the following: 1. The behavior in WiX v2 won't change. 2. The

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor and environment variables?

Sorry, I should have included that in the first place... V2.0.5325.0... Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:13 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor a

[WiX-users] Votive Installation for VS2008

Hi, I'm trying to install Votive 2.0.5805 on XP (32bit) with Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition installed. The Votive installer complains, that the Express Edition of VS is not supported and terminates. Does anybody know what's going on there? I used the X64-Version of Votive on another b

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

It's both. The application is written in VB6. It uses COM DLLs written in various languages, including C++, VB6, and .NET. The installer needs to be able to register all of these things. The non-.Net COM DLLs seem to be doing alright with the SelfRegCost attribute applied, but now the .Net DLLs a

Re: [WiX-users] Do not want to execute component on repair and Remove

Resending my query. -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:17 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Do not want to execute component on repair and Remove Hi,

Re: [WiX-users] Anyone have XSL for fixing up nested registry values?

What are you trying to do? That WiX snippet you describe below tells Windows Installer to write two separate strings to the same registry value. Do you mean to write a REG_MULTI_SZ? Or append "Bar" to ""? Or are you just confusing the Value attribute and the Name attribute? For HKCR Foo

Re: [WiX-users] failed certificate install

Ian, For us, certificate installs worked with 3.0.4429.0, but uninstalls failed. There was a reply from Rob saying that the uninstall bug was fixed with 3.0.4513.0, but we're seeing the same install errors as you are with the latest build. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Ian Elliott (Excell Data

[WiX-users] testing for environment variable definition in Wix

Hi... I recently ran into a number of problems trying to change wix project behavior based on environment variable settings. A number of the things that sounded intuitive to me didn't work. For example didn't work because ifdef returns false for all environment variables always w

Re: [WiX-users] My Dialog with WixUi

Hi, i have done this before, let me know which UI you want to use and where do u want your dialog to be inserted. ill try to write a code for you and send you. or i could send you code i have. I have customized WixUI_FeatureTree and added Backup Dialog to perform backup operations. Let me know

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3

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[WiX-users] Single installer instance

Hi All, I am newbie to Wix. I wanted to know if there is any option by which I can allow only a single instance of MSI to run. Right now, if I execute one instance of MSI and start the other one, then it allows seamlessly. Any pointers would help. Regards, Kamal

Re: [WiX-users] Add Remove Programs: Need to suppress fatal error message

Nimisha Saboo wrote: > But is there no way, we can suppress this? Using some ARP property inside > wix may be? > I'm not aware of one. WiX and MSI don't control ARP. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.Net em

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

I appreciate the feedback. In the short term, I've added the SelfRegCost attribute to the file tags for the non-.Net COM DLLs, and that seems to work fine. As for the DLLs themselves, I have no idea what langauge they were written in. We're using them within a legacy VB6 app, and wiring in new fun

Re: [WiX-users] Close/restart running application on install

divo wrote: > Is there a similar mechanism available to close applications during > installation, which automatically shows the same dialog to the user? > No but in WiX v3, you can use the CloseApplication element to send close messages to given processes' windows. -- sig://boB http://joyof

Re: [WiX-users] Weird behaviour when patching

Eitan Behar wrote: > The issue is that I expect in both scenarios to behave the same, /qr does > the right thing, REINSTALL=ALL is not the behavior I need. /qb (or /qn) are > doing something which I don't want (reinstalling the whole feature). Assuming that you're using MSI 3.0 or later, it will

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3

Sean Farrow wrote: > Wherecan I get the required version of nant? I carn't find it on the > nant sourceforge page. > http://nant.sourceforge.net/nightly/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.Net email is spons

Re: [WiX-users] old installer running?!

You should have a look at the msi help on the types of upgrades at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370579(VS.85).aspx. What you are experiencing is normal behavior unless you specifically author for upgrading. There is also good information on one of the upgrade types (major upgrade) h

[WiX-users] failed certificate install

I finally convinced my team to upgrade to Wix 3 and now our certificate installer is failing: MSI (s) (C4:08) [15:50:50:560]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINNT\Installer\MSI13A.tmp, Entrypoint: InstallCertificates InstallCertificates: Error 0x80070057: Failed to open PFX file. Instal

Re: [WiX-users] running .reg file

You can use tallow from v2, I don't think the format changed from v2 to v3 but if it did you can use wixcop to update it. I guess this functionality should be in heat but it seems to have gone. Neil -Original Message- From: Yu, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2008 16:1

Re: [WiX-users] running .reg file

[adding wix-users back] If you go back into the archive, you'll see lots of discussions about why automatically generating Resources and Components isn't something that we do in the WiX toolset. There are lots of repercussions with the organization of your Resource, Components and Features. Y

[WiX-users] wix loading from .reg

Hi there Is there a way to get WIX to load registry values from a .reg file? If I have to write registry entries for each line it'll take a long time I also tried using the heat, but as I passed in the file it just treats it as normal file. Brian -

[WiX-users] choice of features using mondo ui leads to license for each feature?

Hi, I would like to use Mondo UI with all features optional, I would like that every optional feature has its own license agreement, so that if someone installs feature1, feature2, and feature4 it leads to a sequence where they have to accept the license on feature1, feature2, and feature4 before

Re: [WiX-users] Light cultures option

Neil Sleightholm wrote: > May be it could provide a warning message for missing strings that would > make it obvious what was happening. I have worked around the Dutch > problem for now by including "-loc WixUI_en-us.wxl" on the light command > line, but as you have observed, I now don't know what

Re: [WiX-users] how to use WIX write registry values to both 32 bit and 64 bit registries in one MSI?

Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) wrote: > So in this case what I need to do. > It depends on how you're building the packages. You can use the -arch switch to set the default package architecture. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Warning CNDL 1026 - can ignore ?

Hi, I opened the msi with Orca, and the Component field is complete (more than the 72 chars limit). Maybe WIX is just changing the table definition? According to MS: "The installer does not internally limit the length of columns to the value specified by the column definition format. If the data

Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Component

Resending My Query.. Please help me out. -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:28 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Condition for Component Hi , I have one c

Re: [WiX-users] Insert error

Error 2259 is "2259 Database: [2] Table(s) Update failed. Queries must adhere to the restricted Windows Installer SQL syntax." Try using wirunsql.vbs to validate that your query is using the correct syntax. I don't see anything obviously wrong with your query, but if you can't get it work in wi

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action requiring properties

Thanks greenaj the public properties fixed the issue! === I might be wrong, check up on this, but make the properties you want to modify in your UI sequence public, i.e. their names all in capital letters. Your immediate CA, which I believe is running in the InstallExecuteSequence

Re: [WiX-users] Insert error

I'm not using it in a custom action. I was testing the ability to INSERT a row. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 September 2008 23:53 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Insert error > I'm using DTF to in

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action requiring properties

I might be wrong, check up on this, but make the properties you want to modify in your UI sequence public, i.e. their names all in capital letters. Your immediate CA, which I believe is running in the InstallExecuteSequence, should be able to see the changed values modified during the UI seque

[WiX-users] Custom Action requiring properties

Hi, I am writing a custom action with DTF in C#. My custom action performs token replacement of database name, servername etc for SQL scripts. My understanding is that this should be done as an immediate CA, and then schedule the built in SQL CA as deferred to use the files that I have performe

[WiX-users] embedding cab files in .msi

Hello, I think I am missing something obvious I am using Wix 3.0.4429. In my .wxs file, I have the following elements: When I link with Ligh

Re: [WiX-users] Using single Dialog to change various paths.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey Abakumoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Try this instead: _BrowseProperty contains the name of the property that is to be set with the path; you are setting _BrowseProperty to the contents of INSTALLDIR and SAMPL

Re: [WiX-users] An issue with Perf Counters in wixV2

There should be a more detailed set of error message in log file. Can you share those? -Original Message- From: Mukesh Agrawal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 06:50 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] An issue with Per

Re: [WiX-users] How to Skip Licence Aggrement Dialog from FreatureTree UI

When I did this I removed the license stuff completely, take a look at the blog reference I posted I think that explains everything. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: BOB1981 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [WiX-users] How to Skip Licence Aggrement Dialog from FreatureTree UI

Thanks Neil, It Worked. this Blog link was amazing, i know wht i was doig wrong. I finally think i am having a good grip on wix Thank to everybody like you..:D I just started using it 2 months...ago Thanks Alot.. Neil Sleightholm wrote: > > You might also find this blog useful: > http://neil

Re: [WiX-users] Questions about using MFC Merge Module

As described in this blog (thanks to Tom Tan for directing me to it) http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/05/15/vc-runtime-binding.aspx, Microsoft has changed the default binding of an app to the VS version. Now the default binding is to the RTM version, and it is possible to bind to the lat

Re: [WiX-users] how to use WIX write registry values to both 32 bit and 64 bit registries in one MSI?

Yes, that's it. Chris On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Ravit Shapira < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chirs, > > Regarding Is64Bit="No" - which tag in WIX this attribute belongs to? Are > you referring to the attribute "win64" of the component element? > > Thanks, > Ravit > -Original Messag

Re: [WiX-users] Indirect and RadioButtonGroup

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dean Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > I'm attempting to use the Indirect property and a RadioButtonGroup, but am > running into difficulties. My fragment looks like this: > > Width="330" Height="40" Property="SQL_USE_INTEGRATED" Indirect="y

[WiX-users] Indirect and RadioButtonGroup

Hi all, I'm attempting to use the Indirect property and a RadioButtonGroup, but am running into difficulties. My fragment looks like this: and then in another fragment I have: When I run light I get the following error: error LGHT0204: ICE34: 1 is not a valid defaul

[WiX-users] Register COM Component

hi, i have to register a COM component in my installer. So far I have: Then I created code with heat for this file: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>

Re: [WiX-users] how to use WIX write registry values to both 32 bit and 64 bit registries in one MSI?

Hi Chirs, Regarding Is64Bit="No" - which tag in WIX this attribute belongs to? Are you referring to the attribute "win64" of the component element? Thanks, Ravit -Original Message- From: Christopher Karper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:25 AM To: General

[WiX-users] newbie question about removing files created by application

I have some birt functionality that creates a number of files and directories under web inf that remain after uninstall. I understand that i need to explicitly remove the files. I understand that the removefiles node requires a component parent and since these files arent installed there is no co

Re: [WiX-users] How to Skip Licence Aggrement Dialog from FreeTree UI

Hi All, I do got this done But, i dont know something is wrong in the sequence, i added the following in my Product.wxs 1 NOT Installed above code does compiles and the MSi package when installing does not show a license aggrement, as i have change the Value attributes of the D

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate error

What does your Certificate element look like? What OS are you testing this on? -Original Message- From: Tanikella, Rajanikanth (SCR US) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C

[WiX-users] How to Skip Licence Aggrement Dialog from FreatureTree UI

Hi All, I am using Wix3 in my build and using which provides a UI for my Msi Pakcage. I dont want to have License Aggrement Dialog in my MSi , How can i skip the dialog from it. I know there are other UI interfaces which i could use, but I need the Featree Options in my UI, but only wanna skip

[WiX-users] Installed Condition question

Hi All, I am basically reposting this question with an example. The following code executes even when you put Installed or NOT Installed. The windows installer proceeds without an error. Why is it so? The following is my sample code from one of the files in the sample.zip : http://schemas.mi

[WiX-users] Indirect and RadioButtonGroup

Hi all, I'm attempting to use the Indirect property and a RadioButtonGroup, but am running into difficulties. My fragment looks like this: and then in another fragment I have: When I run light I get the following error: error LGHT0204: ICE34: 1 is not a valid defaul

[WiX-users] Conditionalising custom actions

Hi: I have a property custom action. The property is a string. I only want to run the custom action if the string is not empty. how can I do this. or do i have to create a dll custom action? Cheers Sean. - This SF.Net email is