Re: [WiX-users] Adding external cab file

hi Brian, Ya the cab file will be the source of files for my installer, where in during the installation files in the cab are extracted to the corresponding folders. I tried using the tag on building it says Warning "The cabinet 'test.cab' does not contain any files. If this installation conta

Re: [WiX-users] Apply office look and feel to the wix dialogs

Thanks Brian! On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Brian Rogers wrote: > Hey Sandun, > > No, it is not possible to apply that look and feel to the WIX dialogs. You > would need to write your own dialogs and add your own bit maps. Even at > that > point it is difficult to get the full experience. You

[WiX-users] ICE CUB generation using WiX

I'm working on an example project demonstrating how to use C#/DTF to write ICE's and I was hoping to use WiX/Votive to generate the CUB file. Does WiX support this? I seem to be fighting uphill... the votive project settings only give me .MSI/.MSM/.wixlib as choices. Those require a Produc

[WiX-users] Custom action to detect if installation source is on an encrypted folder.

Hi, our company secures all laptops by running an application that encrypts the "My Documents" and "Desktop" folders using the Windows encryption. When you copy a .msi file to your encrypted desktop folder and attempt to run the installer, it dies with a log that looks like this: MSI (s) (A8:E4)

[WiX-users] Delete/Add Firewall exception

How can I translate these commands into WiX: netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="User Mode Remote Desktop" netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="User Mode Remote Desktop" dir=in protocol=tcp localport=3389 service=termservice action=allow enable=yes ? Thanks, - Harrison ---

Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved reference to symbol'Directory:INSTALLDIR'

Hey James, I wouldn't say there is "no way" to do that (you could hard code the D:\) but it is recommend against. Best to do what you mentioned below, allow the user to chose. In addition, even if you were to hard code the path the user could always change it to something else. Thanks, Brian Ro

Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved reference to symbol'Directory:INSTALLDIR'

Brian, Sorry. :) That is just where I was "told" to have the setup install it. So what you're saying is that there is no way to have the installer default to "D:\" instead of "C:\Program Files\blah\blah\blah\"? If that's the case then they could just change the path in the drive\folder pick lis

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

WPF uses XAML which is a declarative UI and there are automated unit testing frameworks for it. --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Richard wrote: > From: Richard > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development > To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, "General discussion for Windows > Installer XML too

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

A winforms/wpf external ui handler wouldn't require everyone to need .net. Just those people who wanted to use that capability. Also the fact that many people don't currently implement a custom ui doesn't make it such an edge case that the capability shouldn't exist. Personally I'd say most

Re: [WiX-users] Setup logo size

Hey Petr, I saw an email from Eric St. John a while back with this example. Hope it helps. Do a registry search for the current DPI setting: (I know this isn’t a WIX list, this is just easier than trying to show the RegLocator rows and should be intuitive) Condition the i

Re: [WiX-users] Attributes specify existing IIS website?

I guess it is a Description attribute of WebSite element, and Port attribute of WebAddress element. If you put your WebSite element out of the , it will not be modified in any way. You might also want to pay attention to the IP attribute, since it influences the locating algorithm (see WiX help

Re: [WiX-users] Adding external cab file

Hey Leela, What are you looking to do with the CAB? Will this be a source of files for your installer? Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:39 AM, WIXuser wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to add external cab file

Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved reference to symbol'Directory:INSTALLDIR'

Hey James, Now you are asking me to give you information that is not a best practice (hard coding to a drive) . It would be best that you specify, using all CAPITAL LETTERS (this is a public property in Windows Installer) the two different root directories. Then, when executing the MS

Re: [WiX-users] Need help while integrating with MSBuild

Hey Pankaj, Your subject has MSBuild in the title. Am I to assume that the build process is calling candle and light from an MSBuild task? Are you using the WIX MSBuild tasks? Either way, you should be able to pass variables to candle and light using properties set inside of MSBuild. if calling v

Re: [WiX-users] Need help while integrating with MSBuild

The location of the source files to be included in my installer is not hard-coded in my .wxs script, but rather a property is used that must be defined when invoking candle. The .wxs file looks something like this: During testing I just use the command line, and the SourceRoot property

Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved reference to symbol'Directory:INSTALLDIR'

Ok I see where there is a . My install needs to create 2 folder trees in the root of drive D:. Is this possible or do I have to create two installs? I don't need to put anything in the program files folder. Jim -Original Message- From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Apply office look and feel to the wix dialogs

Hey Sandun, No, it is not possible to apply that look and feel to the WIX dialogs. You would need to write your own dialogs and add your own bit maps. Even at that point it is difficult to get the full experience. You would have to go further to handling your own external UI. Thanks, Brian Roger

Re: [WiX-users] Attributes specify existing IIS website?

For clarification, let's say I don't know the SiteId, which is the obvious answer to this. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:07 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Attribu

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

In article <508230.47122...@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Christopher Painter writes: > Personally, I'd rather see a full blown extensible external UI handler > patter n using Winforms and/or WPF.Think about it... if WiX is being > bundled in VS 2010 and you already have a dependency on

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

More reasons: - declarative UIs can be validated and unit tested by ICEs. - custom UIs aren't -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download Legalize Adulthood!

[WiX-users] Attributes specify existing IIS website?

Does anyone know the minimal set of attributes which must be specified on the iis:website/iis:webaddress directory to refer to a pre-existing site? I don't want to create a new site or change the existing site in any way. Thanks, Jeremy ---

Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved reference to symbol'Directory:INSTALLDIR'

Hey James, I have never used that product. I would recommend you "comb" your .wxs files for "INSTALLDIR". It might be a and then it is not being specified later as a or other such scenarios. Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Thu, Feb 12, 20

Re: [WiX-users] Questions about the WIX terchnology.

Hey Henk, 1. A) Yes, the patches can be visible. B) WIX and Windows Installer will not check dependencies by default. You will need to write custom actions to look for components, files, registry keys or directories to check what is installed or not. There are some custom action types supporte

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service

Check that you are deploying all your dependencies. If your service depends on 3 assemblies and one of those depends on 2 other assemblies (for a total of 6 assemblies) and you forget to deploy just one of them, then the service will fail to start because it can't load a dependent assembly. --

Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved reference to symbol'Directory:INSTALLDIR'

Hi Brian, I'm using the WixAware IDE. Is there a section of code you need to see? Thanks, Jim -Original Message- From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:39 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-us

Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved reference to symbol 'Directory:INSTALLDIR'

James, It looks like some where in your wxs files you are referencing 'INSTALLDIR' but you are not setting a value for it. Are you using WixUI or your own? More information will be needed to help address the question. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.s

[WiX-users] FirstFailureActionType gone in WIX3? How to configure this now?

I want to set the service recovery options through wix and am using the latest wix 3 weekly build. On the net I found some information about using the ServiceConfig element and its FirstFailureActionType attribute but after using candle.exe gives me a nice error: CNDL0004: The ServiceConfig eleme

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction following specific CustomAction fails

I have created a small test project with only the parts related to this from my original project. It includes my c++ customaction and I think the smallest manged CustomAction possible: [CustomAction] public static ActionResult TestAction(Session session) { sess

[WiX-users] Unresolved reference to symbol 'Directory:INSTALLDIR'

I'm getting the following error in my install. Unfortunately I am unable to find any reference to it when searching on Google. Any idea what would cause this and how would I go about fixing it? error LGHT0112 : Unresolved reference to symbol 'Directory:INSTALLDIR' in section 'Product:398668D3-B1

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

Not all software installations require .NET Framework and in fact Windows Installer should be independent of .NET Framework as it is now. I want to be able to create an installer something like the Visual Studio Install or SQL Server 2008 Install with lot more UI selection. I know there are sev

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

Sure, there are still people who like to torture themselves with unmanaged code. Ask me if I care. :-) Seriously, .NET 2.0 is only 23 mb and it is ( or a higher version ) already baselined as part of Vista and Server 2008. It's trivial to get it on XP and I wish Microsoft would have just in

Re: [WiX-users] Selecting log settings for IIS ...

So do we; I added several properties to the WebLog element along with changes to the Custom Action to apply them; I just haven't had achance to send in the code, yet. I will do so shortly. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Or

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

I didn't think there was going to be a guaranteed dependency on the framework. Won't VS2010 still be able to build native code applications? Chris On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Christopher Painter < chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > Personally, I'd rather see a full blown extensible

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

Personally, I'd rather see a full blown extensible external UI handler pattern using Winforms and/or WPF.Think about it... if WiX is being bundled in VS2010 and you already have a dependency on the framework, why would you be wanting to poke around in WiX XML to make a 10 year old API try t

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

Hello, There are tools that are build upon Wix. - WixAware - MSI Factory (Indigo Rose) They have a buildin dialog designer (one more mature then the other). They offer the possibility to start very quickly with a base setup. For advance things you can always edit the .wxs files directly. Mo

Re: [WiX-users] Extract Binaries at Install Time

In Visual Studio, using the solution explorer, you can right click your project and tell it to Add | Existing Item Change the file filter to *.* and select your file. You'll see the file get added to your project. Click on it and then make sure the Build Action property is set to Content and

[WiX-users] Disk usage

Howdy all, I'm sure this is old ground but we have many features in our installer that are hidden, so when users are installing they see the disk usage for our one feature that isn't hidden and notice that the size is very small. Is there some sort of hack to trick the installer into sizing up eve

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development

No. If you open an Msi in Orca you have the tables on the left and details on the right. Same way, if you open a Wxs file, list all the Directory, Components, ComponentGroups,on the left. So I click on Components it will list all the components on the right and selecting individual component wil

[WiX-users] Adding external cab file

Hi, I am trying to add external cab file to my wix project. not able to figure out how to do it, please help. thanks leela -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Adding-external-cab-file-tp2314859p2314859.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Extract Binaries at Install Time

@greenaj Yes, My custom action is an immidiate CA. But still don't get the correct stream. @Christopher, How can I do that? sorry i'm a C# newbie. Can you give a link or example on how can I add the files as content. Thanks! regards romeo Christopher Painter wrote: > > Have you considered a

Re: [WiX-users] Wix for IIS 7

Just 1 thing can any1 give a link or email to direct the complain. Frederico Apóstolo -Original Message- From: Arun Perregatturv [mailto:aperregatt...@napcosecurity.com] Sent: segunda-feira, 9 de Fevereiro de 2009 17:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re