Re: [WiX-users] UI plans for burn

2009-04-29 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Guys, Although I cannot commit to a time line right now, I do have the following plans if all continues as schedule. 1. We are working on hosting the CLR for our team's consumption. If we get something usable in place that the WiX team will accept then we will hand it over. 2. Not sure how,

Re: [WiX-users] Change default error messages

2009-04-29 Thread Sascha Beaumont
See http://wix.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wix/wix/src/ext/UIExtension/wixlib/WixUI_en-us.wxl?view=markup for the en-US source that might help get you started. Error messages start about 2/3rds the way down. On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Brian Rogers wrote: > Hey Sudripta, > > You should be a

Re: [WiX-users] Change default error messages

2009-04-29 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Sudripta, You should be able to override those messages with your own localization file. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Sudripta Nandy (Sarangsoft Corporation) < v-su...@microsoft.com> wrote: > I

Re: [WiX-users] On Team Build and WiX, and why it hates me.

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Karper
Very good, I will do. Thank you for your help. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > Christopher Karper wrote: > > I believe I am using version 3.0.4917.0... I know it's a little old > now, > > but I have trouble getting new software on the build server, so it's more > > expedi

Re: [WiX-users] Patching web deploy DLLs

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Sean Gainsford wrote: > If there have been minor changes to the code behind such that the size of > the compiled DLL does not change between builds the DLL will not be marked > as modified in the diff file, and as such does not get patched. I presume > this it due to neither the file size nor versi

Re: [WiX-users] How to disable/bypass FilesInUse dialog

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Jan Bilek wrote: >... > The problem is that WixUIExtension already has an MsiRMFilesInUse dialog, so you can't add another. MSI uses indirection for most dialogs like that (e.g., ErrorDialog property points to the error dialog). But they don't do that for MsiRMFilesInUse, so your

Re: [WiX-users] Source files with special characters are unusable?

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Charles Cruden wrote: > When I attempt to compile this project, light.exe gives an error: > > The system cannot find the file > '..\Matrikon.Suite.Intuition.SchematicDesigner\bin\Debug\SchematicDesign > er\AppData\Resources\IndustrialClipart\ Tanks\Underground storage tank, > or butterfly larva.xam

Re: [WiX-users] Retriving msiexec command-line options

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
slmnow wrote: > Maybe I didn't explain this well. Anyway I found a solution. > > After searching my install log I found a very handy property: > CLIENTPROCESSID. > Your approach relies on functionality that: * Is undocumented. * Is unsupported. * Doesn't support programmatic i

Re: [WiX-users] IIS Extension - Short File Name?

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Jason Birch wrote: > Am I expecting too much to think that it will automatically determine the > short file name of a given file for me at install time? If it doesn't > determine the short name for me, how do I generate this property; is there a > utility CA for this? > Use [!fileId] to get

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module Problem

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Prabhakaran Paulraj wrote: > < > < > < > < > < > However you're posting is munging the code too much to see the structure. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performan

Re: [WiX-users] On Team Build and WiX, and why it hates me.

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Christopher Karper wrote: > I believe I am using version 3.0.4917.0... I know it's a little old now, > but I have trouble getting new software on the build server, so it's more > expedient to keep the older edition. *Please* upgrade if only locally (since you can repro the problem without up

Re: [WiX-users] WiX compiler extension and WiX Lib...

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
John Nannenga wrote: > Stupid user error...(I'm almost too embarrassed to say! :) ) > It helps others, at least. > "TableDefinitions" contains only my custom table definitions, the > TableDefinitionCollection passed into "GetLibrary" contains many, many other > tables. Yep, that'll have a

Re: [WiX-users] UI plans for burn

2009-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
jhennessey wrote: > 1. I remember reading that burn will allow you to provide a custom UI .dll. > If this is still the case, can this be a .Net assembly? Not unless somebody does the work to host the CLR. Burn has to be native code so we can support installing .NET. > 2. Assuming that the answe

[WiX-users] IIS Extension - Short File Name?

2009-04-29 Thread Jason Birch
Hi, The WebApplicationExtension element says for the Executable attribute "usually a Property that resolves to short file name path". http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/iis_xsd_webapplicationextension.htm Am I expecting too much to think that it will automatically determine the short file

[WiX-users] Change default error messages

2009-04-29 Thread Sudripta Nandy (Sarangsoft Corporation)
Is there a way by which I can change the default error messages which are shown by the MSI? Thanks. Sudripta. -- Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocit

Re: [WiX-users] The product language for Indonesia doesn't work

2009-04-29 Thread Wilson, Phil
The question is more about whether the version of Windows you're using has the appropriate language pack you can install, and you'd get a more accurate answer by looking at Windows MUI. As far as I can tell from a quick search, Vista is the first that supports a language pack for Indonesia. ht

[WiX-users] Source files with special characters are unusable?

2009-04-29 Thread Charles Cruden
Among the many lines that got added recently to one of our WiX projects is the following: When I attempt to compile this project, light.exe gives an error: The system cannot find the file '..\Matrikon.Suite.Intuition.SchematicDesigner\bin\Debug\SchematicDesign er\AppData\Reso

[WiX-users] The product language for Indonesia doesn't work

2009-04-29 Thread Sudripta Nandy (Sarangsoft Corporation)
I have a setup program which as no UI. I am using 1057 (Indonesia) as the product language of the setup. But, still the dialogs shown by msiexec during installation and un-installation are in plain English. The texts on the dialogs like 'Preparing to remove...', 'Please wait while Windows config

Re: [WiX-users] Showing text within ScrollableText from binary table data

2009-04-29 Thread greenaj
The EULA should go into the Text column of the Control table for a MEMO control. RTF as actually plain text marked up. Regards, agreen "Sudripta Nandy (Sarangsoft Corporation)" wrote: > The EULA of my setup program is in binary table. I have a EULA.rtf which I am > adding to the binary

[WiX-users] Showing text within ScrollableText from binary table data

2009-04-29 Thread Sudripta Nandy (Sarangsoft Corporation)
The EULA of my setup program is in binary table. I have a EULA.rtf which I am adding to the binary table. In one of my dialogs, I have a 'ScrollableText' control and I want to show the EULA from the binary table within it. I have to have the EULA come from the binary table. Is there a way I can

Re: [WiX-users] Installation directory more than 200 characters long generates an Installation error

2009-04-29 Thread Karl Denning
Funny you say that, I almost wrote "I bet it's your QA department discovering edge cases". I would personally just copy and paste my link to the bug and mark it "not fixable"/"not a bug" I know :( But, the system testers have logged a bug for that and it is one of the test cases. Thank you for

Re: [WiX-users] Installation directory more than 200 characters long generates an Installation error

2009-04-29 Thread Vuchuru, Surekha (SBT US EXT)
I know :( But, the system testers have logged a bug for that and it is one of the test cases. Thank you for the link... -Original Message- From: Karl Denning [mailto:karldenn...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:26 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-u

Re: [WiX-users] Installation directory more than 200 characters long generates an Installation error

2009-04-29 Thread Karl Denning
A dir 200 characters deep!! That's pretty unusual. Look up MAX_PATH in msdn. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx Surekha Vuchuru wrote: > > Hello EveryOne, > > I am trying to install our product in an installation directory that is > around 200 characters long. This gener

[WiX-users] Installation directory more than 200 characters long generates an Installation error

2009-04-29 Thread Vuchuru, Surekha (SBT US EXT)
Hello EveryOne, I am trying to install our product in an installation directory that is around 200 characters long. This generates an error during installation process. Error: The cabinet file 'XXX.cab' requires for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. Can someone tell me if ther

Re: [WiX-users] feature component state source /local

2009-04-29 Thread John Nannenga
Features and components both have "state" information which indicate the current state [status] and requested action of the feature / component. Refer to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012(VS.85).aspx and perhaps this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa3678

Re: [WiX-users] Installing multiple MSI

2009-04-29 Thread Raja, Moiz (Moiz)
Thanks for all your responses. I have decided not to proceed with installing an MSI from within an MSI. We can make the 3rdparty MSI as pre-req. -Original Message- From: Markus Ewald [mailto:cy...@nuclex.org] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:33 PM To: General discussion for Windows Instal

Re: [WiX-users] Retriving msiexec command-line options

2009-04-29 Thread slmnow
Maybe I didn't explain this well. Anyway I found a solution. After searching my install log I found a very handy property: CLIENTPROCESSID. CLIENTPROCESSID is the process ID of the msiexec.exe that is working with the loaded msi database. I added this property to the wix project: Added

[WiX-users] UI plans for burn

2009-04-29 Thread jhennessey
Hi, I have a couple questions regarding the current plans for burn that I was hoping could be answered (don't worry I won't hold you to your response :) 1. I remember reading that burn will allow you to provide a custom UI .dll. If this is still the case, can this be a .Net assembly? (Of course

Re: [WiX-users] feature and component installation

2009-04-29 Thread John Nannenga
I'm not familiar with "mailto:shrinuen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:20 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] feature and component installation Hi, we have different dotnet custom actions which we give under the component tag. like following\ we hav

Re: [WiX-users] How to disable/bypass FilesInUse dialog

2009-04-29 Thread Jan Bilek
OK - im gonna be more specific. Steps i had followed: 1. copied content of WixUI_InstallDir.wxs ( element) and pasted it into my wxs installer source. 2. removed references to FilesInUse and MsiRMFilesInUse dialogs. 3. copied and pasted content of FilesInUse.wxs and MsiRMFilesInUse.wxs ( definit

Re: [WiX-users] WiX compiler extension and WiX Lib...

2009-04-29 Thread John Nannenga
Stupid user error...(I'm almost too embarrassed to say! :) ) A WixExtension has an overridable property "TableDefinitions" and an overridable method, "GetLibrary". To make a long story short, within GetLibrary's invocation of "LoadLibraryHelper" [which takes a parameter of type TableDefinition

[WiX-users] Patching v1.0 with v1.n

2009-04-29 Thread troy hostetter
I am having a hard time determining the best way to handle patching v1.0 with v1.n. I have all my wxs files built for v1.0, and would like to move forward with v1.n. I have read the WiX doco, which explains the process of building a patch "Using Purely WiX". This process seems to assume v1.n wil

[WiX-users] feature and component installation

2009-04-29 Thread MYFLEX
Hi, we have different dotnet custom actions which we give under the component tag. like following\ we have different features which will have the individual componentref. But the problem is even though i don't select a perticular feature for installation, the custom actions are executed. wh

[WiX-users] Patching web deploy DLLs

2009-04-29 Thread Sean Gainsford
Hi, I have a problem with patching a web deploy MSI I have created with WiX, where each page has its own DLL. If there have been minor changes to the code behind such that the size of the compiled DLL does not change between builds the DLL will not be marked as modified in the diff file, and as s

[WiX-users] Merge Module Problem

2009-04-29 Thread Prabhakaran Paulraj
Hi Everyone, I am using Wix 2.0 and i need to incorporate a module called QBPOSFC2_0.msm,QBPOSSDKRuntime.msm. I have included it and the MSI package is been also created but i dont see any files in the folder path and also the exe which needs this MSM errors. The code is as follows < <  < < <

[WiX-users] warning LGHT1055: The InstallExecuteSequence table contains an action 'SchedXmlFile' which cannot be merged

2009-04-29 Thread John Stevenson-Hoare
Does anyone know why I get this warning and the following warnings when I include two merge modules in my installation package that each contains a reference to WixUtilExtension? warning LGHT1056: The CustomAction table contains a row with primary key(s) 'SchedXmlFile' which cannot be merged fr