Hi,
Being new to WIX, I'm stuck with the following dillemma: I have four XML files
that make up the default configuration of my application. These are to be
copied ONLY if there are no existing copies in C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Rogan\View Pro-X, so may not repla
Jim Williams wrote:
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WiX automatically schedules AppSearch if you have any *Search elements.
Colin, are you using any Fragments in your setup authoring? Open your
.msi with Orca and verify that there's an AppSearch table and a
RegLocator table matching your authori
prasoon gupta wrote:
> No the fields are empty for Author, Subject and Comments ... in that screen
>
Are they visible in the PCP file? Unless you're using the Torch and Pyro
tools, it's up to PatchWiz/MsiMsp to set the summary information stream
properties.
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Colin Fox wrote:
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> Root='HKLM' Key='SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\'
> Name='SharePoint' />
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Using the same IDs works because WiX schedules the AppSearch action
(which processes RegistrySearch) after it cr
Fixing the formatting:
Jim Williams
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-Original Message-
From: Jim Williams [mailto:jimwilliam...@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:35 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install location based
Hi All,
I am a new Wix user. I have a wix xml file containg many nodes. I have to store
the values from the nodes(values of each attribute inside the node) to
different variables in an aspx.cs page.
How do i go about it. I need to use the deserialization and then create objects
to store the val
The only way I have found to set a directory to a fixed folder is to use
a custom action:
(You can ignore the condition 'INSTALLDIR=""' if you want but it allows
you to specify the value of INSTALLDIR on the command line if you need
to.)
In WiX v3 you can
To make it a little clearer, you can sequence it before LaunchConditions so
it will be done near the beginning of the installation process:
Now, about that million billion dollars... :-)
Jim Williams
-Original Message-
From: Jim Williams [mailto:jimwilliam...@comcast.net]
Does it work if you build the solution with msbuild? I think this is all
tfs does.
Neil
-Original Message-
From: Sachin Dubey (Tata Consultancy Services)
[mailto:v-sad...@microsoft.com]
Sent: 22 December 2008 23:28
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [W
No the fields are empty for Author, Subject and Comments ... in that screen
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Bob Arnson wrote:
> prasoon gupta wrote:
> > In ORCA under MSIPatchMetadata table I am able to see ManufacturerName
> name
> > as ABC company. but they are not visible While checking prop
AppSearch is the action that performs the registry search that you defined.
You need to add the tag to the and
tags. See the Wix.chm file. Then you should see the
registry search in the log file.
Jim Williams
-Original Message-
From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com]
Sent: Mo
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Jim Williams wrote:
> Do you have Appsearch in the InstallExecute sequence? Also, you could
> check
> the log file and see what is happening.
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> Jim Williams
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I've checked the log file (using msiexec /L*v) but there really isn't
anything in there to help. All
Do you have Appsearch in the InstallExecute sequence? Also, you could check
the log file and see what is happening.
Jim Williams
-Original Message-
From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:46 PM
To: wix-users
Subject: [WiX-users] Install location
I wonder if setupbld can help us in the following scenario. We have our
own prereq installer that takes care of all application prerequisites
(.NET Framework, C++ runtime, MSXML, etc.). After prereq is done main
application installer executes. We need to be able to pass parameters to
both prereq in
I really hate to be a broken record, but there is only one issue stopping me
from getting my installer working.
I just need to be able to read a location out of a registry key and then
store 3 files there.
None of the examples really fit the bill, and the one example linked to in
the big tutorial
Hello,
I want to execute a ConsoleApp file to do some of the validation of the
input values in the Install Screen. My validation code is for a sharepoint
app and is written within this ConsoleApp. I want to execute this console
application before starting the Install. The issue I am getting is that
Not if you add the code to heat to do it for you.
-Original Message-
From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 17:36
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heat and out-of-proc COM
It did some: TypeLi
Yes. Conditions on Feature, Components and CustomAcitons are possible. Read
the MSI SDK topic about Conditions and the syntax for all the things you can do
there.
-Original Message-
From: Kusuma Sudheer Kumar (Tata Consultancy Services)
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 19:41
To: General
Thanks for Info Rob.
Ignoring about the dependencies, Can we Map Features/Components with Specific
Custom action.
Any work around.
Thanks
Sudheer
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:44 AM
To: General discussion f
No. The Windows Installer is declarative install engine that process actions
in bulk not in a specified order. Also, GAC installation doesn't happen until
the very end of the install so you can't take dependencies on code you're going
to add there.
-Original Message-
From: Kusuma Sudh
Use smaller Fragments. You can nest ComponentGroupRefs under ComponentGroups.
So split your Fragments into their smallest parts (optional stuff in an
"Optional Fragment" and required stuff in "Required Fragment"). Then you can
have Optional "nest a reference to Required" Component Group. It'
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Colin Fox wrote:
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> There is an example referenced in the tutorial that does just about the
> same thing, though he's going based on the location of the .ini file. But he
> sets the INSTALLDIR property the same way (just before the 3 nested
> directories), and
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Bob Arnson wrote:
> Colin Fox wrote:
> > I can grab the SharePoint location out of the registry, but for the life
> of
> > me I just can't seem to get that set as the TARGETDIR. TARGETDIR always
> just
> > gets reset to D:\.
> >
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> MSI sets TARGETDIR so I'd sugge
Chris Lord wrote:
> I tried adding advertise="yes" but to the Heat output but when I build
> it, Candle then complains something about class/@server cannot be
> specified at the same time as advertise=yes. This confused me no end as
> a couldnt see any reference to the server property.
>
It
Colin Fox wrote:
> I can grab the SharePoint location out of the registry, but for the life of
> me I just can't seem to get that set as the TARGETDIR. TARGETDIR always just
> gets reset to D:\.
>
MSI sets TARGETDIR so I'd suggest using a Directory element underneath
the one for TARGETDIR. Jus
Drew Turner wrote:
> This approach works great for the scenario when we want to include the
> entire set of binaries. Although it seems to fall down when we only
> want to include certain components. For example say I only wanted to
> include the RequiredBinary for a certain project. I was wonde
Alexander Stock wrote:
> So this weird issue is only happening because we're breaking component
> rules?
>
I can't know for sure without more details, but it's certainly possible.
Successful patching relies on strictly following the component rules,
because patching itself relies on proper
Thanks for reply Neil.
It's actually not relative path. Its fixed and I know where the source file
would go when the c# Solution is build.
However at the beginning of the build process this path doesn't exist and
created only after completion of first solution build.
If I build both the solutio
> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:15:28 -0800
> From: Bob Arnson
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] A Couple of fundamental questions
> To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset."
>
> Message-ID: <49500370.1080...@joyofsetup.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=f
Are you using relative paths to your source files? IIRC TFS builds
output to a different location than a simple msbuild would and that
might be causing the problem.
Neil
-Original Message-
From: Sachin Dubey (Tata Consultancy Services)
[mailto:v-sad...@microsoft.com]
Sent: 22 December 20
I tried adding advertise="yes" but to the Heat output but when I build
it, Candle then complains something about class/@server cannot be
specified at the same time as advertise=yes. This confused me no end as
a couldnt see any reference to the server property.
I know Heat is problematic from a
Thanks Scott, It was worked with asyncwait option.
Thanks & Regards
Nagaraju
-Original Message-
From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 2:51 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CA Control
I think tha
Thanks Alex, It was worked with "asyncWait" option.
Thanks & Regards
Nagaraju
-Original Message-
From: Alexander Shevchuk [mailto:alexander.shevc...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 2:53 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CA
> That violates component rules; you need to add new resources (e.g.,
> files) to new components.
So this weird issue is only happening because we're breaking component
rules?
Whats the best (and easiest) way to manage patch-/setup creation of a
product that changes it (data-)file subset from
Hello,
We have recently updated our solution from using a Merge Module to
utilize a WiX library. Right now the library is used to include a set
of binaries in other projects. Basically there is a DirectoryRef that
contains a of the component consisting of the (dll, pdb and xml files).
Then th
Hi Nagaraju,
Set CustomAction/@Return to either "asyncWait" or "check" (if you want to check
for error condition in your cmd file).
Alex
-Original Message-
From: Nagaraju Manduri (Sogeti) [mailto:v-na...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 1:35 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourcef
I think that you need to change the return value to asyncWait or check
if you want the installer to wait for it.
-Original Message-
From: Nagaraju Manduri (Sogeti) [mailto:v-na...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:35 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-user
Well, I have a problem in my WIX file.
I have a custom action like this but, the MSI install completes before the
Custom Action gets over. Please suggest me how to handle this situation.
NOT
Installed
The above CA works as expected, but MSI installati
Alexander Stock wrote:
> Version 8.0.1200 (and therefore the first update) adds some new files to an
> existing component.
>
That violates component rules; you need to add new resources (e.g.,
files) to new components.
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Colin Fox wrote:
> But TARGETDIR and SourceDir are not explained. There is no explanation as to
> where they are initially set, or why the ID of the directory is "TARGETDIR"
>
Because that's what MSI needs, for better or for worse. In general, WiX
is not an abstraction on top of MSI, so its ru
Chris Lord wrote:
> One thing I did do was to compare the MSI files of a working
> installation created by Installshield for a previous version and the Wix
> generated one using Orca. Straight away, I noticed the working install
> has a class table and relatively few registry entries but the Wix h
prasoon gupta wrote:
> In ORCA under MSIPatchMetadata table I am able to see ManufacturerName name
> as ABC company. but they are not visible While checking property using right
> click and property + Summary tab.
>
Look in Orca View|Summary Information.
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Kusuma Sudheer Kumar (Tata Consultancy Services) wrote:
> How do I map my feature with that Custom action.
> I am able to map my custom actions in UI Sequence and during
> my UI Next and Back Button Navigations.
>
Use the same conditions; see "Examples of Conditional Statement
I have application that requires the installation of some 3rd party COM
objects. I have used Heat to harvest the details from all the necessary
files and after a lot of fiddling, I have managed to get the files to
install and I have verified they are copied onto the HD of the target
machine in the
Hi everyone. I've been going over the docs and examples for about a week
now, and I have some fundamental questions that I really need some direction
on.
First off – the tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix is great, but
he glosses over a lot of stuff without explaining details, and the sc
Hi Amit,
No of errors are as many as the files are in .wxs file.
Error message is:
error LGHT0083: The file with id ' and name '' could not be found with source path: ''.
Thanks
Sachin
-Original Message-
From: amit srivastava [mailto:sri_amit_2...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 21,
Thanks! I'll share back with the list if I find anything useful.
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> -Original Message-
> From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:11 PM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 Support
I need to generate a GUID as a part of installation process, not for a
component. Custom action I guess...
-Original Message-
From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:39
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [W
I fix the problem :). There was a action missing in the InstallUISequence
tables, adding the correct steps made all working fine..
Thanks
Sachin
-Original Message-
From: Sachin Dubey (Tata Consultancy Services)
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 4:21 PM
To: Sachin Dubey (Tata Consultancy S
Hey Alex,
There isn't a way to generate a GUID AT install time. However, placing a '*'
in the Component/@GUID attribute should give you what you want.
Hope that helps,
Brian
-Original Message-
From: Alex Ivanoff
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 09:24
To: General discussion for Windows
Is there a WIX extension to generate a GUID?
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you could use the subversion "export" command to create a copy of just
y"your" files, and none of the "hidden" files that svn uses for
housekeeping.
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:35 PM
To: General discussion f
Hi,
This is specific Requirement for my installation package.
I am creating a installer msi for installing the My WebBits and
GAC'ing the dlls and some other activities.
Including this, I want to call some specific Custom actions. I have C# code for
it.
Ex:
Hello,
we've three minor updates (all are changing the ProductVersion property).
1.) Update from RTM (8.0.1000) to 8.0.1200
2.) Update from 8.0.1200 to 8.0.1210
3.) Update from 8.0.1210 to 8.0.2000
Version 8.0.1200 (and therefore the first update) adds some new files to an
existing component.
-
In ORCA under MSIPatchMetadata table I am able to see ManufacturerName name
as ABC company. but they are not visible While checking property using right
click and property + Summary tab.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:14 PM, prasoon81 wrote:
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> No they are not visible in Orca.
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 20
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