Re: [WiX-users] WebSite is getting deleted when msi uninstalled.

2008-12-17 Thread Kalvagadda, SivaKrishna (MLX Technology)
Hi, I am facing a problem with creating virtual directories under IIS. When I install the package Website is been created by MSI like charm. But when I uninstall the same MSI it is deleting the website also along with virtual directories. But my requirement is not to delete website but only virtu

Re: [WiX-users] Other back end installers

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Yeah, that lines up with what I understood and doesn't address any of the issues. -Original Message- From: John Cooper (Volt) [mailto:a-jc...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 13:56 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Other

[WiX-users] WIX 3.0 SQLScript with Custom logging.

2008-12-17 Thread Nagaraju Manduri (Sogeti)
Is there any anyway that the output of execution of a SQL file using WIX/SQL/SQLScript shall be logged to a file? Any information towards the above is appreciated. Thanks & Regards Raj. -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by

[WiX-users] Install/Uninstall Condition

2008-12-17 Thread siaj
Hello, I have 2 feaatures in my install (F_1, F_2) . F_1 has component C_1 and F_2 has component C_2 I want to fire a custom action CAInstall1 every time F_1 is Installed. and CAUninstall1 every time F_1 is uninstaled. I am using a condition $C_1>2 for the firing the CA during Install and $C_1=2

[WiX-users] Unistall script getting executed only on the

2008-12-17 Thread siaj
Thanks Amy and Bob for response, I was able to get it working by setting the values from registery . Though the suggestion from BOB(In one of the reply to this post) Reading and writing to Registry should be done without CA looks to be better. I have not tried this yet though. Jai Jai, I think

Re: [WiX-users] Other back end installers

2008-12-17 Thread John Cooper (Volt)
More in line with procedural scripts, although the install will execute the post- script on an install failure. The packages are also registered with a database store in /var/db/pkg. Stored in the database is a list all files installed, a copy of the pre-/post- scripts, versioning info, etc.

Re: [WiX-users] Other back end installers

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Are those procedural scripts or declarative statements that an engine can apply a transaction to and appropriately rollback should anything go wrong or the user cancels the process? My cursory investigation of all the installation technologies on Linux flavors has been that they just let you ru

Re: [WiX-users] Wix#

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Mensching
It's kinda' neat to see other languages built on top of the WiX language (if WiX is a 4GL, does that make them 5GL)? ClickThrough is one example of a higher language in the WiX toolset but it still uses XML... which seems to be a negative for some people. I don't care for the syntax presented

Re: [WiX-users] Small and Minor updates, again!

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Mensching
And with Burn (the bootstrapper) we will provide support for doing minor upgrades since it has full control of the command-line passed to each chained MSI. -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 17:37 To: General discuss

Re: [WiX-users] Other back end installers

2008-12-17 Thread John Cooper (Volt)
Although it lacks a sexy UI, the FreeBSD system for packaging up binary builds has the advantage that it's tarballs can run pre- and/or post- install/uninstall scripts to either prepare for the install or return the system back to the state it had before the install. -- John M. Cooper -O

Re: [WiX-users] Other back end installers

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Have a few experiments but nothing for Linux. I'm (not surprisingly) mostly focused on Windows technologies. -Original Message- From: John Daintree [mailto:jo...@dyalog.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 08:29 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Other back end

Re: [WiX-users] Possible bug in Pyro

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Sam
Ok thanks. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:06 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Heath Stewart Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Possible bug in Pyro Heath needs to join the mailing list

Re: [WiX-users] Possible bug in Pyro

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Heath needs to join the mailing list to be able to send to it. When I talked to him he thought it was good odds this is the same bug opened against pyro referring to the BinaryRef. -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 13:25 T

[WiX-users] updating setup.exe with VC++ 2008 runtime libraries as prerequisite

2008-12-17 Thread Vuchuru, Surekha (SBT US EXT)
Hello everyone, I am trying to update our product's bootstrapper project, by adding VC++ 2008 runtime libraries as one of its prerequisites...I have made the necessary changes to product.xml... I am able to see VC++ 2008 runtime libraries as one of the prerequisites available(Properties->Prerequ

[WiX-users] test (please do not reply)

2008-12-17 Thread Alexey Khrulev
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[WiX-users] Other back end installers

2008-12-17 Thread John Daintree
Has anyone experimented with or encountered anything to create other types of install images from WIX sources? I'm thinking RPMs or DEBs for linuxes mainly. Thanks. -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009

[WiX-users] Wix#

2008-12-17 Thread Jody Belka
Haven't played about with it myself at all, but was wondering if anyone else had seen this recent project? Looks intriguing. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/WixSharpArticle.aspx http://www.csscript.net/WixSharp.html J -- Jody Belka knew (at) pimb (dot) org -

Re: [WiX-users] Adding new feature in patch generates error "GenerateTransform, ReferenceDatabase, TransformFile"

2008-12-17 Thread Chad Miles
There's not much more information than that when compiling. I did narrow it down to something specific within the feature, not adding the feature itself... b/c I tried a different feature I had on-hand and it worked. I passed it on to the individual owner of the feature to debug it. Thanks for t

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2721: Custom action not found in Binary tablestream

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Sam
Upon a second look at things the binary was not in the original. I currently don't have any patch families because I don't know what's changed so I want the patch to include everything. When I added the BinaryRef, I had to add a patch family. I stopped getting the error, but now my patch doesn't

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2721: Custom action not found in Binary table stream

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Sam
It's a dtf custom action. The dll was already included in the previous version. I have one dll that holds all of my dtf custom actions. The custom action itself was not in the previous version. Will using the CustomActionRef cause it to run? Because I don't want it too. -Original Message-

[WiX-users] Error while installing the MSP

2008-12-17 Thread Pradeep_Kuppam
Hi I am using wix2.0. I created MSP (patch.msp) from two MSI's but when I tried to install it I am seeing an error DEBUG: Error 2727: The directory entry 'WindowsFolder' does not exist in the Directory table The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indi