Thanks Rob. I have found the operator >< that I was looking for.
Thanks!
Rob Mensching-2 wrote:
>
> The MSI SDK says there is one.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 17:52
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject:
Hi guys,
I think I got a workaround. It is to remove the files explicitly on
install~!!!
In addition, I specify the wildcard * so that the product will be
removed~!!!
With reference to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371199(VS.85)
Hi Tony,
What is the layout of your transitive components? What your shortcuts point to
- file or folder? Are shortcuts in the same component as files they point to
(providing that they point to files, of course)? Are you sure that old
components are uninstalled?
Alex
-Original Messag
Hi Michael,
Issue: On upgrading product, shortcut name Product 5.1 is installed, but
shortcut name of 5.0 is not removed during major upgrade.
I've followed Alex's guideline in installation forr shortcuts, found here
http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/archive/2008/02/20/from-msi-to-wix-part-10-s
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I am infact doing the per-machine mode for creating the UnInstall
shortcut . But the problem with HKCU key is, it wouldnt let met do
Advertise="Yes". Without advertise, my uninstall shortcut will not be removed
on uninstallation , when there more than one version of
The MSI SDK says there is one.
-Original Message-
From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 17:52
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] "String contains" operator in Wix
Hi all,
Is there any "string contains" operator in Wix? I need to wri
Sorry, MSBuild/VS is not my forte so I'm not much help on the other issues.
-Original Message-
From: Curtis Jewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 17:22
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] 3 problems with "integration
Hi all,
Is there any "string contains" operator in Wix? I need to write a condition
that checks if a certain property contains a particular string or not.
The real situation is I need to find a feature name from AddLocal property.
For instance if AddLocal=A,B,C then I need to know whether B is s
Thank you very much for the detail information.
Thanks,
Hyung
Buddell, James wrote:
>
> MsiZap is sort of a last resort tool. What you should do is uninstall
> for any accounts that you have access to, and then if the machines still
> have product registrations under other inaccessible profile
2008/10/30 Arun Kumar A V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> The First link below, only talks about Uninstall shortcut for per-user mode,
> this is what i followed to get to where iam now.
> The Second link doesnt work. I did do extensive search on the mailing list
> before posting it here again.
>
> An
Hi,
I have managed console application which I am trying to invoke from custom
action within WIX file (CA type 50). It always fails with Error 1721. I can
run the the generated command (with args) from cmd window.
Does Windows Installer even supports calling managed cmd line apps from CA?
What
hopefully this is it:
scheduler
loadbalance
DNE
FW1
Eacfilt
failover
others
But I can't figure out how the Value should be specified.
thanks
Can someone please tell me how to specify the data for a registry
Type="multiString" value?
I've got a reg file entry like this
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MyDev\Parameters]
"IMOrder"=hex(7):73,00,63,00,68,00,65,00,64,00,75,00,6c,00,65,00,72,00,0
0,00,\
6c,00,6f,00,61,
Hi Guys
I have a question about upgrade , please explain me , coz i cant understand
how to organize this :confused:
Ok , what i have.
one product , with different language packs , i mean i have 3 different
msi's , with same GUID , each one support one language , each one could be
installed separ
That was exactly it, thank you!
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Jason Ginchereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> That's a known issue when opening an older .wixproj with a newer build of
> WiX. See my blog for an explanation and steps to resolve the issue:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/jasongin/archive/
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Verbose log file gives you that and with recent Windows Installers
> (v3+?) it' ll even show you when properties change value.
A trick I've employed is to add a "debug" dialog to the UI. Setting a
property from the
Verbose log file gives you that and with recent Windows Installers (v3+?) it'll
even show you when properties change value.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 13:43
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users]
Our kit has a feature that's depending on
VS90_IDE_VC_PROJECTSYSTEM_INSTALLED being defined. I'm installing onto a
VMWare image with VS2008 and (only) Visual C++ installed, and the feature
fails to install. The feature that depends on VS2005 seems to install
properly onto a similarly configured V
Thanks Rob. I will try 2.0.5805 first.
Thanks,
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:36 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error 2769: Custom Action ConfigureSql did not
You need to upgrade to either:
WiX v2.0.5805.0
or
WiX v3.0.4624.0
-Original Message-
From: Jason Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 13:21
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Error 2769: Custom Action ConfigureSql did not close 5
MSIHANDLEs
Hi there,
We are using WIX 2.0.4701.0 to install our SQL database. We noticed an
intermittently installation failure due to the MSIHandle leak as shown below. A
quick search surfaces this threading discussing the similar issue:
http://n2.nabble.com/ConfigureSql---Assertion-Failed-td690074.html.
That's a known issue when opening an older .wixproj with a newer build of WiX.
See my blog for an explanation and steps to resolve the issue:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasongin/archive/2008/07/09/votive-project-platform-configurations.aspx
-Original Message-
From: Colin Bleckner [mailto:[EMA
Hi,
I recently upgraded to the most recently weekly build and my installer no
longer compiles in Visual Studio 2005. If I attempt a build it just says
"== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 1 skipped
=="
I've tried everything under the Build menu to try to force a clean
Yes,Got in wix.chm.
Regards
Sandeep
-Original Message-
From: Chad Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:10 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry Key Access rights to service accont
Did you think to loo
That's right.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Yen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:54
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] INSTALLDIR with another component installed in another
directory
Hi all,
I stumbled into a p
Hi all,
I stumbled into a problem that I'm not exactly sure what the correct way
to fix it.
So my installer installs a few files into INSTALLDIR, and also installs
another component(shared by other programs) into another directory
that's *supposed* to be on the same level as INSTALLDIR
Have you searched through the Wix help file using keywords like registry and
permissions?
-Original Message-
From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:03 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject:
Did you think to look at the wix doc.
There's a &
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am creating one registry key under HKLM trough MSI. Now I want to give
> access permission to one windows service account at the time
Hi,
I am creating one registry key under HKLM trough MSI. Now I want to give access
permission to one windows service account at the time of installation so that
account can read that registry. Please help how can I do this.
Regards
-Sandeep
---
Found the problem, I had put all my properties in a separate fragment wix file
but it wasn't reading them. It wrote into the inner text when I put the
properties inside the main product.wxs.
Thanks Again,
David
-Original Message-
From: David Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thurs
Greetings to all,
I've been looking for an example of how to write into an XML elements inner
text. In this even possible with WiX?
The node I'm trying to modify is of this sort..
MSCrmServices/2007/CrmService.asmx
I am able to arrive at that node but whe
Bob,
You mentioned in your original mail that you were trying a major upgrade. A
major upgrade does not use the REINSTALL and REINSTALLMODE parameters.
The tutorial is actually correct when it says to change the package GUID for
major upgrade. You should assign a package GUID for every new msi
The First link below, only talks about Uninstall shortcut for per-user mode,
this is what i followed to get to where iam now.
The Second link doesnt work. I did do extensive search on the mailing list
before posting it here again.
Any other ideas would help.thanks
Arun
*
Dear all,
Not sure if this is a bug or something specific to my setup. We've been
successfully installing our COM+ application with WiX2 and WiX3. Recently
someone noted that running repair causes a subsequent remove/install to fail
with 'a COM plus application of that name already exists'. Also t
Hi,
If I've got a Property associated with a Edit Control field, and I invoke a
CustomAction DLL function (say, in response to a PushButton) to change the
value of the Property (MsiSetProperty), how do I get the Edit field to reflect
the change? It does not seem to happen automatically.
Many t
I just wrote my own. All you need is a stub exectuable that knows how to
extract and execute resources from its own image, plus a program to
embed the resources into the stub.
Others have mentioned that winrar has the capability to build a simple
bootstrapper exe, custom icon and all. You give
2008/10/30 Jon Seanor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I might be am wrong, but surely any tool that performs cleanup in a
> user's profile needs the user's login credentials in order to load their
> profile.
> How are you going to get those?
>
> msizap only removes the msi database side of the application (
I tried that but for some reason it just allways shows the hard coded
value and not the registry value.
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 30 October 2008 16:28
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Regis
I might be am wrong, but surely any tool that performs cleanup in a
user's profile needs the user's login credentials in order to load their
profile.
How are you going to get those?
msizap only removes the msi database side of the application (i.e.
component and feature registration).
It does n
Don't things work if you just put the defaults in the Property/@Value and nest
the RegistrySearch elements under there?
-Original Message-
From: Adam Nicol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 08:56
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] RegistrySea
Hi, I have several custom dialogs in my installer allowing the user to
enter SQL Server connection details and active directory settings.
I don't want the user to have to re-enter this information each time
they install a new version/reinstall, so I have made it so that during
the install, each
MsiZap is meant as a last ditch support tool. It isn't intended to be shipped
in a product. I wouldn't be surprised if the licensing doesn't allow for the
tool to be redisted.
-Original Message-
From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 23:04
To: wix-users
What are you using for a bootstrapper? I've been looking at the wix
mailing list, and elsewhere, and it appears as though everybody uses
something different.
For example, setupbld, msbuild, 3rd party software, homegrown, etc...
As a C++ app, I don't need any .net runtime libs, and would like the
The bug was reactivated yesterday (or the day before).
-Original Message-
From: Bob Lim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 02:52
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] 3 problems with "integration" of WiX and VS2005 SP1
I have the same first p
2008/10/30 Arun Kumar A V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> After turning on MSI logging, I found that my issue is more complicate.
>
>
> The shortcut is created for a file installed in ALLUSER ( Per Machine) mode,
> so I must set Advertise="yes" on the shortcut as shown below. This turns out
> be the p
2008/10/30 Geert Gerits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> How can I insert a network directory as working directory of a shortcut
> in WIX ? (e.g. \\windows_network\working_directory)
>
> I'm using WiX 3.0.2211.0.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Geert
>
I'm not sure it will wo
After turning on MSI logging, I found that my issue is more complicate.
The shortcut is created for a file installed in ALLUSER ( Per Machine) mode, so
I must set Advertise="yes" on the shortcut as shown below. This turns out be
the problem later.
It is not possible using MSI.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:15 AM, MAKARAND HAZARIKA <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Actually I am new to the world of Wix and Windows Installers. And the
> first task I get is to combine a 32bit and a 64bit installer. Now
> looking at all the gentlem
I had this problem a while ago. From looking at the logs, it turned out
that the underlying file the shortcut referred to could not be
uninstalled because of an issue with the old product uninstall. Because
of that, the old shortcut was not removed. My guess is that something is
breaking on you
Hi all,
How can I insert a network directory as working directory of a shortcut
in WIX ? (e.g. \\windows_network\working_directory)
I'm using WiX 3.0.2211.0.
Thanks in advance,
Best regards,
Geert
-
This SF
Hello guys,
I'm using the SoftwareName and VersionNo to for the shortcut name on desktop
and Program Menu. As you can see, VersionNo is variable,i.e. it changes with
new builds.
For example, Product 5.0. If I upgrade to Product 5.1, the desktop and
Program Menu creates new icons shortcut called
Thanks a lot!
-Christer
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Christer,
>
> a very easy way to accomplish this is to store a value for the selected
> environment in the GUI to a property. (As you already have done)
>
> And then use this property as a condition for the
MsiZap is sort of a last resort tool. What you should do is uninstall
for any accounts that you have access to, and then if the machines still
have product registrations under other inaccessible profiles that are
stopping you from doing your new install, then you use MsiZap to wipe
the machine clea
Try Execute="deferred" and sequence it before InstallFinalize.
Rob
Christer Nordvik wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a webservice setup that has 4 web.config files,
> .Web..config. One for each environment. I have made a GUI that
> lets the user choose which file he wants and have stored the resulting
>
Hi Christer,
a very easy way to accomplish this is to store a value for the selected
environment in the GUI to a property. (As you already have done)
And then use this property as a condition for the component(s) holding the
environment specific file(s) for the selected environment.
SETUP_CONF
Hi!
I have a webservice setup that has 4 web.config files,
.Web..config. One for each environment. I have made a GUI that
lets the user choose which file he wants and have stored the resulting
filename in a variable called SETUP_CONFIGFILE. I tried making a Custom
Action that copies the .Web.Confi
Hi Sébastien,
Thanks for your reply.
I was misled by this tutorial : http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php
which ask me to change the package GUID as well for major upgrade. And the
"REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus" which I used as stated in the tutorial,
should be "REINSTALL=MyFeature
Well the link which you had sent me was talking about using Intel64 in the
TemplateSummary
Now i know that i can use it in the launch condition as a property :)
J. J. Farrell wrote:
>
> Only if a "better" solution is one which doesn't meet your requirements
> ;). Msix64 doesn't tell you anythin
I have the same first problem on debug and release builds with the latest week
release on VS2005 SP1. I really hope if it could get fixed soon as I need to
build a custom action C++ dll soon.
1>dutil.lib(precomp.obj) : fatal error LNK1103: debugging information corrupt;
recompile module
Thank
2008/10/30 Bob Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dear guys,
>
> How to achieve an upgrade MSI which only has one entry in the "Add and remove
> programs"? Right now, when I do a major upgrade, it adds a new program entry
> in the "Add and remove programs". When I do a minor upgrade, I need the old
> MS
Only if a "better" solution is one which doesn't meet your requirements
;). Msix64 doesn't tell you anything about Itanium; if Msix64 is not
defined, you could be on either a 32-bit or an Itanium processor (or
running with a version of Windows Installer earlier than 3.1).
You were asking about a p
Dear guys,
How to achieve an upgrade MSI which only has one entry in the "Add and remove
programs"? Right now, when I do a major upgrade, it adds a new program entry in
the "Add and remove programs". When I do a minor upgrade, I need the old MSI at
the same location of the upgrade MSI to do it.
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