You're talking about using the WiX Preprocessor. The WiX Preprocessor behaves
pretty much the same was as a preprocessor in all the other languages does (in
fact the command line is modeled after the cl.exe command line). The WiX.chm
has a fair bit to say about how to use the WiX Preprocessor.
sorry, forgot to mention it is C#, in case it helps also I'm using Wix
3.0.4827 with VS08/Votive. Currently what happens is that the compiler
writes out the "output" for the main app and all the plugins (that are set
to build at that time) into a single output directory.
On your statement:
>>
There is no file searching during the build process. Does the C++ or C# or VB
compiler search for things during compile? I think you need some
makefile/nant/msbuild logic that passes defines to the compiler to get what you
want.
-Original Message-
From: Wayne [mailto:wjgui...@att.net]
Eww.
-Original Message-
From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 14:52
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Log on as service
Hey Peter,
I know this isn't an answer, but it might be a place to start fo
WiX v3 CHM file has this documentation for the User element:
LogonAsService YesNoType Indicates whether or not the user can logon as a
serivce. User creation can be skipped if all that is desired is to set this
access right on the user.
-Original Message-
From: Peter Oehlert [mailto:poe
Our application installs a main executable with multiple plugins. Not all
customers get all plugins so only plugins we compile into our project output
folder we want to include into our installer package. So basically I want to
search for whatever plugins exists inside our application output fol
Sorry I can't help much more than the error messages that are already there.
There was some problem extracting the embedded UI payload files to that temp
directory. That could be a permissions issue or more likely because of a
duplicate filename. Please double-check the issue pointed to by the e
The formatting process is intentionally not that automatic, because often you
want to know what is the unformatted raw string. To get the
formatting/substitution to happen you need to to pass the string through
Session.Format().
-Original Message-
From: Ajay Bhandari [mailto:aja...@micr
Hey Wayne,
What you are looking to do is not possible (). I ran into an issue similar
to this while looking to conditionally launch a URL according to properties
set during installation.
The issue is with the execution sequences of Windows Installer. In a UI
installation it goes from the UI seque
Rob,
Same problem but a new year. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I did as you suggested.
The line that is causing the problem is this.
When it is commented out the error goes away. Then the following error
appear.
ICE38: Component en_US.aff installs to user profile. It must use a
registry key under HKC
Hey Peter,
I know this isn't an answer, but it might be a place to start for you. I
think you could use the custom action that executes without showing a
console window and then put this exe in your installation. I noticed the
article said this was for W2K so I don't know if Ntrights.exe will work
A common task which I need to perform which I'm certain has been done before
is creating new user and granting that user the permission to log on as a
service. Specifically I'm installing a new IIS app pool and I'd like to
create a specific user for this app so I can lock down my database to allow
It seems that when creating the wix project a file called product.wxs is
included in the package and then the name is changed to the name of the
project. So calling the project database ultimately has a database.wxs file
that is added to source control.
Well, for whatever reason I'm seeing that th
I'm creating a couple of service accounts with my install to be used as the
identity of an IIS App Pool. I'd like to simply create very long securely
random passwords (cryptgenrandom or system.security.RandomNumberGenerator).
I'm still fairly new to this but I think I need a custom action to set th
I'm new to WiX and have to modify our current WiX installer, but I'm not
sure how to go about it. Here's the problem I have:
When the user clicks the finish button at the end of an upgrade, we have
a custom action set up to launch a program (to do some db cleanup).
What I need to do now is fi
I am trying to understand why some things are not behaving the way I expect.
I have the following packages:
MNP2000.msi (v.1.40)
MNP2000-QFE1.mcp (targeted on v1.40, patch sequence = 1.40.1,
supersedence = no)
MNP2000-QFE2.mcp (targeted on v1.40, patch sequence = 1.40.2,
supersedence
I'm using the latest build and I have simple Wix project through Votive. I'm
using the sample DTF embedded UI project. I've had this working before, but
now the MSI fails to load anything. The msiexec log starts with this:
SFXCA: Extracting embedded UI to temporary directory:
C:\Users\myusernam
I have custom table defined which has a column of type "Formatted". As I
understand, this column type will allow me to define value consisting of
property names etc that will be resolved automatically.
...
[MYPROPERTY]
...
/// code in CA
View myview = session.Database.OpenView("Select * fr
I'd like to set permissions on one of my installed directories to deny
creating files within it, deleting files (for other than installer...
though this isn't as needed), and altering files within it.
I'm struggling to get Permission/PermissionEx to work, particularly
because it either preve
I think the MSI SDK says you can't install to mapped or substituted drives.
-Original Message-
From: gaurav.du...@wipro.com [mailto:gaurav.du...@wipro.com]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 04:22
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] FW: Issue Regarding Install on mapped/sh
The MSI SDK says the Product version's minor version must be less than 256. 999
is greater than 255.
-Original Message-
From: gaurav.du...@wipro.com [mailto:gaurav.du...@wipro.com]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 03:35
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] error LGHT0103
Hello Everyone !!
I have a WIX .msi setup which i have build from a .wxs file.By default
it installs to C:\ProgramFiles\...But if i try to change the
installation target directory to a mapped/network drive its giving an
error stating that "Installation directory must be on a local hard
drive".
Hello Everyone !!
I have a wix .msi setup which i have build customizing the
pre_generated .wxs file.I want to set the product version to
Version="1.999.999" its showing the follwing error.
error CNDL0242 : Invalid product version '1.999.999'. Product version
must have a major
version less th
Thank you this pointed me in the right direction and I saw that in Vista/Server
2008 I was insering a string where I should be inserting an integer
-Original Message-
From: Jason Ginchereau [mailto:jason...@microsoft.com]
Sent: 31. desember 2008 19:26
To: General discussion for Windows
I have such a code in my wix script:
(...)
(...)
NEWAPPFOUND
NEWAPPFOUND
(...)
>From what I have read this should install my application (and so it does) but
a second attempt to run
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