Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

Hi, Heat doest not generate componentGroups as part. instead all the Componentref included in a Feature. I have one more question 1) Is there any option to exclude specified directories or files when we use Heat ? 2) I have Main .wxs file for my product which have other components to Create Dat

Re: [WiX-users] How to check Whether the Feature is selected or not at unnistallation time.

Hi Bob, Can you give any help url or any sample on this. Thanks & Regards, Chandrashekar vuppala From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Thu 8/01/2009 9:34 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to

[WiX-users] Deleting per user data on a per machine install

Hi My application does a per-machine install. It basically writes a bunch of data to HKLM. The application itself stores some user preferences in HKCU. When it is uninstalled, the data from HKCU does not get deleted automatically. How do I setup wix to do this as well? I'm sure this has come up b

Re: [WiX-users] Permissions setting - Deny Create/Write/Delete for all but installer

Thomas Harning wrote: > However I do not want administrators to do anything either... with > default permissions I can easily 'mkdir x' or through the right-click > shortcut... > And if you're an administrator, you can take ownership and do it anyway. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally executing console program at end of upgrade

Wayne Roberts wrote: > Value="LaunchProgram">UPGRADEFOUND OR ANOTHERCONDITION OR > Installed > > > > The way I am understanding this is when I click the finish button the > custom action with id LaunchProgram is executed. My confusion is how to > have this work with two custom actions. > C

Re: [WiX-users] How to check Whether the Feature is selected or not at unistallation time.

Chandra Vuppala wrote: > I have problem in checking the feature whether installed or not at > uninstallation time. The MSI SDK topic "Examples of Conditional Statement Syntax" describes this. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall fails due to CRT

Jeremy Lew wrote: > Another question: > I assume that if I were to deploy the CRT locally instead of in WinSxS, > that would also solve the problem? > I don't think so -- MSI hands off assemblies (native and managed) to Fusion, which does a funky two-phase commit. I think that still applies e

Re: [WiX-users] How to correct my "Browse Dialog"?

loudking wrote: > I made a few modifications myself and my goal is to ask the user to change > the "Destination Directory" by using a "Browse Dialog". My small software > has only one feature thus there is no feature selection panal. > WiX includes pre-built dialogs for functionality like that.

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Show warning and log information from a CA that is invoked by a DoAction ControlEvent

Steffen Enni wrote: > I also want to log information, but as Session.Log() doesn't work in this > case I'm left with no idea on how to do this. My goal is to get log > information into the log file that is generated by msiexec, just like > Session.Log() does. > > Question: Is this possible? >

Re: [WiX-users] Privileged custom actions

Jeremy Lew wrote: > I hear you, but it doesn't look like I have much choice. If the service > fails to start, I need to either instruct the user to start it from the > control panel, or force a reboot. Both of those options are pretty icky > as well. > First, I doubt it'll work: MSI runs as a

Re: [WiX-users] Building signed WiX Source

Rob Mensching wrote: > I don't know. Works on the build machine today. > I ran into this about a year ago. Take a look at the votive2008.csproj HintPath metadata for all the VSSDK assemblies. If you create the same directory structure, I believe everything will work. -- sig://boB http://

Re: [WiX-users] Registry Table Error

John McLean, Jr. wrote: > I am getting an ICE91 warning for ALLUSER to per user install. > The MSI SDK doc for ICE91 says: ICE91 posts a warning if a file, .ini file, or shortcut file is installed into a per-user only directory. These warnings are harmless if the package is only used for pe

Re: [WiX-users] Building signed WiX Source

I don't know. Works on the build machine today. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 15:00 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building signed WiX Source I have both "Visua

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

I'd say that differently. The Windows Installer has a way of implementing this (list your files and package them in cabinets) that you'd rather do another way (just shove a .zip file on the machine). The former is far more straight forward to do a transaction on. The latter has a lot of issue

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

Sounded to me like he was trying to get around the limitations of MSI, not CAB. He wants to be able to include a full directory in the MSI without putting the files in components. This is not possible with MSI and doesn't even make sense given the way MSI is designed. Also, the scenario he d

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

Actually, no - I was trying just to figure out how to package up a directory full of stuff as a single entry int he WiX file. I'm unaware of any limitations of CAB files that would get in my way. My understanding of my problem is that WiX doesn't support this kind of operation. Regards, cf O

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

Even if that was the issue, an MSI can have more than one cabinet so any size limitations with cabs can be worked around. Unless you have a single 4+ GB file, but then I wouldn't recommend compressing that anyway. Just install the file standalone. -Original Message- From: John Cooper

Re: [WiX-users] Building signed WiX Source

I have both "Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0" and "Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4.0" installed. (This details the full config: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-create-wix-build-mach ine.html) Should I raise a bug for this? Neil -Original Message- From: Rob Menschin

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

SourceForge archives everything. http://wix.sf.net has links to everything. -Original Message- From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 14:58 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page a

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Rob Mensching wrote: > 2. There's been a lot of discussion about why the system does not work out > exactly as you hope below. I understand where you're coming from but that > isn't the way that the Windows Installer is designed to operate. I > encourage you to g

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

I know, but what the original thread author is probably really trying to get at is how to get around the limitations of CAB files. -- John M. Cooper Volt at Microsoft -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:52 PM

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

But the Windows Installer only supports CAB files. -Original Message- From: John Cooper (Volt) [mailto:a-jc...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 14:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folde

Re: [WiX-users] Building signed WiX Source

2005 and 2008 both. I think that's a 2008 thing but I'm not sure if that fixes the 2005 official build. Votive is mainly handled by Justin. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 14:32 To: General discussion for Windows In

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

No problem. It's just a comparison with CAB files. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. -- John M. Cooper Volt at Microsoft -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:17 PM To: General discussion for Windo

Re: [WiX-users] Registry Table Error

Bob, Thanks for the information. Based on the blog this is what I created. +++ in Product.wxs in CustomSpellingFil

Re: [WiX-users] Building signed WiX Source

If I build without setting OFFICIAL_WIX_BUILD everything is ok, it is only a problem when I try to sign it. Is "VSIP SDK" == "Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4." Neil -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: 07 January 2009 22:18 To: General disc

Re: [WiX-users] Building signed WiX Source

Do you have the VSIP SDK? I *think* that's what is required. There is a fair bit of software that has to be installed when doing an official build. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 13:44 To: General discussion for W

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

I don't understand what this is intended to demonstrate. -Original Message- From: John Cooper (Volt) [mailto:a-jc...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 13:27 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

2. There's been a lot of discussion about why the system does not work out exactly as you hope below. I understand where you're coming from but that isn't the way that the Windows Installer is designed to operate. I encourage you to go back through the archives looking at the topics around co

[WiX-users] Building signed WiX Source

I want to be able to build the WiX source to run on machines other than the build machine. By default the build processes delay signs the code with the public WiX key and so it won't run unless you trust the public key. Looking at the build code it seems the answer to this is to create my own publi

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

Well, taken from the Info Zip website at http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html#limits : Number of files: 65,546 Uncompressed Size of a single file: 4GB Compressed Size of a single file:4GB Total Size of Archive: 256TB Maximum Path/Filename Length:64KB -

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] DTF DoAction throw exception

Sorry I haven't looked into that any further. Can you create a bug on sourceforge to track this issue? From: Matt Ziegler [mailto:idaho...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:35 AM To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list; General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Rob Mensching wrote: > 1. Dialogs are completely yours to author. If you don't like the > built-ins, don't use them or take them apart to use only the parts you need. > Ok - I realized that I could grab the files and modify them, I was just hoping for a cheap

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

1. Take a look here: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/08/customised-uis-for-wix.html this outlines how to do it. Neil -Original Message- From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 January 2009 19:43 To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping

Re: [WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

1. Dialogs are completely yours to author. If you don't like the built-ins, don't use them or take them apart to use only the parts you need. 2. .zip files don't provide the transaction semantics the Windows Installer provides. That's why it is not recommended to do what you are suggesting

[WiX-users] Skipping License Page and Zipping a Folder

Hey everyone - I have two quick questions. First - is there a simple way to get the installer to NOT show a license page? I kind of hacked a solution by programming the Next button to go to the directory chooser, but this feels hacky. Can I just say "I don't want to show a clickwrap license"? Sec

Re: [WiX-users] Installing different files with same name

Sorry, there was a copy/paste failure in my posting: The directories must be and In this case there shouldn't be any error. However, without the merge module everything works fine and it shouldn't make a difference whether there is any merge module or not. I've some more information: MSDN say

[WiX-users] DTF DoAction throw exception

I'm having the same issue as this thread (data size limitation for customactiondata in DTF) http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20675.html Has there been any progress on determining the actual root cause of this or is using a temp file about the only method at this point

Re: [WiX-users] Games Explorer Integration

http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/04/22/new-wix-feature-gaming-extension/ On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:36 PM, John Cooper wrote: > > I was wondering whether anyone using WiX has managed to get their games > listed in Games Explorer which is available for Windows Vista. There is also > a logo scheme av

[WiX-users] Games Explorer Integration

I was wondering whether anyone using WiX has managed to get their games listed in Games Explorer which is available for Windows Vista. There is also a logo scheme available from Microsoft which is called "Games For Windows" attached to this scheme is a list of requirements (http://msdn2.micros

Re: [WiX-users] Privileged custom actions

I hear you, but it doesn't look like I have much choice. If the service fails to start, I need to either instruct the user to start it from the control panel, or force a reboot. Both of those options are pretty icky as well. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@mi

Re: [WiX-users] Admin Install, deploying CustomizeDlg, 'Location' ambiguity

I believe that the directory shown in CustomizeDlg for a feature is tied to the ConfigurableDirectory attribute of the feature. I'm guessing that it defaults to TARGETDIR if nothing is specified. If you set the ConfigurableDirectory to some directory/property other than TARGETDIR it should solve

Re: [WiX-users] Privileged custom actions

Maybe but if it works the user experience is kinda' icky. You'll get another elevation prompt at the end of your install. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:04 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Issue Regarding Install on mapped/shared drives.

Innosetup does not use Windows Installer. The bottom line is that Windows Installer does not support mapped drive setups and Wix only produces Windows Installer setups. If you're restricted to use MSI-type setups then other authoring tools will not help because of the inherent limitation of MSI

Re: [WiX-users] Letters in ProductVersion

At a certain level, you might consider using a standard versioning scheme. Then problems go away. Being different usually creates pain. -Original Message- From: lesterbangs [mailto:datapa...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 17:26 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

Exactly. Additionally, you can reorganize the contents of your ComponentGroups pretty much at will. Reorganizing the contents of a Component has serious repercussions (because it's an MSI concept). -Original Message- From: Kelly Leahy [mailto:kelly.le...@milliman.com] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [WiX-users] Issue Regarding Install on mapped/shared drives.

1. The Windows Installer (built into Windows) does not allow installing to network drive. If you'd like that restriction removed, then you need to follow up with them. There isn't anything that the WiX toolset can do to help you here. 2. There are editors available for the WiX toolset: htt

Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

ComponentGroup is a wix concept, not an MSI one. It's just for the organization of your wix files. You may have as many components per component group as you like, as far as I can tell, we've got many hundreds (I think, never really counted) in one of ours. Kelly Arun Perregatturv 01/0

Re: [WiX-users] Privileged custom actions

Sorry, that was not entirely coherent. What I meant was, is it possible for me to specify a manifest for the DTF process to force elevated priveleges? -Original Message- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:56 PM To: General discussion fo

[WiX-users] DTF Show warning and log information from a CA that is invoked by a DoAction ControlEvent

Hi, I'm authoring a CA in DTF and understand that Session.Message() and Session.Log() doesn't work for a CA that is invoked by a DoAction ControlEvent (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368322(VS.85).aspx). My CA is checking prerequsites when the user invokes the Next button on my dialog.

[WiX-users] Privileged custom actions

In the thread titled "ServiceInstall Fails due to CRT", Bob mentions that custom actions running after InstallFinalize will run in an non-elevated context. I ran across this article on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304353/mark-msi-so-it-has-to-be-run-a s-elevated-administrator

Re: [WiX-users] Issue Regarding Install on mapped/shared drives.

I have used both InstallSheild for Windows Installer and Installshield Projects(which uses its own Installer). Installing on a Mapped Drive Windows Installer version did not work but the other one worked. I was able to install once on a Mapped drive using Windows Installer version but had probl

Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

How about ComponentGroup? How many components can I have per ComponentGroup? Because I have 4 componentgroups with each having atleast 40-50 components and each component have just 1 file. Arun Perregattur -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Installing different files with same name

Based on the authoring below, the error message seems completely correct. What does a Merge Module have to do with this? -Original Message- From: Olaf (SourceForge) [mailto:sf.o...@e-ypsilon.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 02:53 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-use

Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

Have you read this: http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2003/10/18/56497.aspx ? That explains why one file per component is recommended. -Original Message- From: Maheswaran Selvaraj [mailto:maheswaran.selva...@proteans.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 07:07 To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Issue Regarding Install on mapped/shared drives.

Were you using "InstallShield for Windows Installer" or just InstallShield standalone installation technology? Those are very different things. -Original Message- From: gaurav.du...@wipro.com [mailto:gaurav.du...@wipro.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 05:57 To: wix-users@lists.sou

Re: [WiX-users] creating a merge module which outputs files to a directory passed from the setup project.

The TARGETDIR of the Merge Module can be redirected during Merge time to accomplish exactly what you want. This is documented in the MSI SDK. That's why the Merge element is nested under a Directory. -Original Message- From: Adam Langley [mailto:alang...@winscribe.com] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [WiX-users] Letters in ProductVersion

I would agree with Michael on this one. Try to put less meaning into the MSI version number. Or use that version number as the marketing number for the product. This would mean that you would have major.minor.build (1.0.0) but that would more reflect major.minor (1.0) on the MSI side of things. S

[WiX-users] How to correct my "Browse Dialog"?

Hi all, I am a newbie to Wix and I am learning the User Interface Part. I made a few modifications myself and my goal is to ask the user to change the "Destination Directory" by using a "Browse Dialog". My small software has only one feature thus there is no feature selection panal. However, an

Re: [WiX-users] Multi-project development

If it's simple pre-requisite then maybe I agree. But when the Pre-requisite itself has several rules and requirements then slowly that itself will be a major project than a simple bootstrapper. In my case, pre-requisite has more things to check and install than the software. Let me give few of

Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

Hi Neil, I have read in Wix tutorial that "Installing a component should never influence other components, removing one should never damage another component or leave any orphaned resource on the target machine." Link: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.2 So as I have mentioned earl

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall fails due to CRT

Another question: I assume that if I were to deploy the CRT locally instead of in WinSxS, that would also solve the problem? -Original Message- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:42 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML tool

Re: [WiX-users] Condition elements to run only on 64 bit machine

He may want to keep the 32-bit (if he has one) from running on x64, though -- in which case: Neil Sleightholm wrote: > Why not just make your msi 64 bit, that will only allow installation on 64 > bit platforms. > > Neil > > Neil Sleightholm > X2 Systems Limited > n

Re: [WiX-users] Condition elements to run only on 64 bit machine

Why not just make your msi 64 bit, that will only allow installation on 64 bit platforms. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Andy2k8 [mailto:appr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wed 07/01/2009 13:03 To: wix-us

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall fails due to CRT

Thanks Bob. Is this a Windows Installer restriction, or a Wix thing? My plan is to make the service enter a "boot" mode in which it will start run but not load the assembly with the CRT dependency until it has been signaled (by a CA config file change) that it is safe to start for real. -Ori

Re: [WiX-users] Multi-project development

I don't know that I'd really agree with that priority. A bootstrapper is really not that hard to write to start with. Arun Perregatturv wrote: > Brian, > > I would vote for Burn to kick start sooner than other things. The most > important thing for any or all installer is the BootStrapper witho

Re: [WiX-users] Multi-project development

Brian, I would vote for Burn to kick start sooner than other things. The most important thing for any or all installer is the BootStrapper without that installing will be very difficult. As I said before, the Setup.exe I have to write in Win32 since .NET Framework won't installed to begin with,

Re: [WiX-users] Issue Regarding Install on mapped/shared drives.

From: Gaurav Dutta (WT01 - PES-HPIPG Technology) Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:17 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Issue Regarding Install on mapped/shared drives. The third party software Installshield allows installati

[WiX-users] Condition elements to run only on 64 bit machine

How do I add condition al checks that run only on a 64bit machine? - Andy MSI Developer Schneider Electric:working: -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Condition-elements-to-run-only-on-64-bit-machine-tp2122253p2122253.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at

[WiX-users] Admin Install, deploying CustomizeDlg, 'Location' ambiguity

Hi, I want to make use of the Administrative Install feature (/a switch) of the Windows Installer, and allow Administrators to determine install options for users, for which I am developing a set of dialogs for the Admin, including the CustomizeDlg dialog. The Admin will invoke an Administrati

[WiX-users] Installing different files with same name

Hello, I'm trying to install two files with the same name ("Null.cfg") with different source and target directory. I can build the MSI and the application can be installed and works fine. However after adding a merge module I get the folling error: "error LGHT0204: ICE30: The target file 'Null

Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

In general the advice is one file per component. I think Rob Mensching has some information on this on his blog. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Maheswaran Selvaraj [mailto:maheswaran.selva...@p

[WiX-users] Vista Compatibility

Hi, where can I find information on how to create Vista compatible installer (in order to get Vista Compatibility certificate)? -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell service