I am using a pattern of one component per file and am getting the following
error from Light:
LGHT1076: ICE47: Feature X has 1829 components. This could cause problems
on Win9x systems. You should try to have fewer than 817 components per
feature.
Is there a way to selectively disable ICE47 va
Can you please give me some insight as to why do you use major upgrades for
every release?
Thanks,
Ryan Parlee
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From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 4:21 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
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Ryan Parlee wrote:
> ## Question 1 ###: Why is Wix using a new ProductCode for every build of the
> installer?
>
Because we use major upgrades for every release.
> ### Question 2 ###: Why should WixUI_Advanced be replaced by extension
> authoring? Should I favor extension authoring over some
Arun Perregatturv wrote:
> When I add a new Wix file to the project
>
Heat creates a ComponentGroup; refer to that from your product with
ComponentGroupRef.
> I see can someone explain what this means?
>
Fragments are how you use multiple source files. Search WiX.chm for details.
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Thomas Harning wrote:
> 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.
>
That's already the case for directories under Program Files.
Wayne Roberts wrote:
> What I need to do now is figure out how to run either that program or a
> different one based on a field in an XML file. Getting the data out of
> the XML file shouldn't be a problem, but I can't figure out how to run
> EITHER program A or Program B.
>
Use mutually-exclu
John McLean, Jr. wrote:
> The line that is causing the problem is this.
>
> Key="CLSID\{D5DE8D20-5BB8-11D1-A1E3-00A0C90F2731}\InProcServer32"
> Value="C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVBVM60.DLL" Type="string" Action="write" />
>
You can remove it. The Class element creates that value (and more
correct
Peter Oehlert wrote:
> 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.
Which version of WiX are you using? In v3.0.4827, there's no such rename.
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Jagdish Sakhiya wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what would be state of Feature if it is already
> installed in system and user unselect it in "Change" mode.
>
The install state will be installed (3 or 4), the action state will be
absent (2).
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Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> >From what I have read this should install my application (and so it does) but
> a second attempt to run the same installer should error out with "Newer
> version already installed." message box. And that second part does not work.
>
Check a verbose log to see if the pr
I have been looking through the Wix wxs files of the installer for Wix
itself. I am assuming that this is a good place to look for best practices
type of information and have a few questions about what I see and hope that
someone can provide me with some answers.
In Product.wxs:
1.
## Quest
Rob Mensching wrote:
> 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.
>
This is exactly what we do her
Hi
I am planning to use multiple wix files for the project.
Here's my Wix project structure that I would like to attain
1. WixMainProgram - this file will have all the directory assignment and
Feature settings and custom actions.
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