Dear all,
Do you have any clue what elements are involved in the process of creating
the MSI file by light?
The process of creating the MSI file for my company product takes about 90
minutes to complete. How can I speed this up?
Any suggestion would be appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
-
What I am trying to accomplish:
In one of the dialogs of my installer, I call the custom action of type
6(VBScript file stored in a Binary table stream) when user clicks on the
button:
Here is the custom action definition:
In VBScript function I set th
Definitely possible, I've just finished migrating to a system where
our developers can build installers themselves. I found Nant really
easy to get my head around, first got the MSI package itself being
built by a single command and then just expanded from there.
A simplified version of my install
Hmm, things are a too little vague to provide exact suggestions. "Chains
of .wixlibs" (where one .wixlib needs another one and so on) are a
weakness even in the C/C++ world. Documentation is what helps there.
Are you using ComponentGroups/ComponentGroupRefs? You can also nest
ComponentGroups if
It means your changes to the MSI database won't be persisted unless you
call ::MsiDatabaseCommit().
DONG LEE wrote:
> While I was going through an MSI database manipulation example at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367523(VS.85).aspx,
> I realized that they had something like
> MsiO
David,
To automate the deployment you need the every build to be able to update the
last. I am guessing that because of your versioning of the MSI with the sprint
number being the third number, you can't process the install as an upgrade. I
am assuming you have authored upgrades into the MSI
While I was going through an MSI database manipulation example at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367523(VS.85).aspx,
I realized that they had something like
MsiOpenDatabase(_T("c:\\temp\\testdb.msi"), MSIDBOPEN_TRANSACT, &hDatabase).
I tried to look for what MSIDBOPEN_TRANSACT flag mean
I've been using WiX v3 with CruiseControl.NET for some time now to build MSI
packages for deployment, without any real problem. We're working in an agile
environment, so fresh MSIs are being created every night, with the version
number being incremented at the beginning of each sprint (for instance
I'm using Visual Studio for these, which has proven to be a big help for
organizing everything. And I guess that's kinda the mentality I'm coming at
this with. Create a project for a major component, and then include
references to everything that is needed to run that. I sepecifically
_don't_ wa
Hmm, I don't think that's right. A CustomAction can usually show UI.
However, CustomActions based off of a button click are very restricted.
I think maybe those are the ones that can't show UI (probably something
to do with message pump madness).
Brian Rogers wrote:
> To the best of my knowledg
1. I personally haven't sat down and thought about all of them.
Honestly, the strategies I use come from my days of working in C/C++.
WiX works very similarly. If you organize your code well in C/C++ and
follow similar organization efforts in WiX, it all works out.
Duplicating code across .lib
To the best of my knowledge you can't launch a custom UI from a Custom
Action. I believe you would need to take over full control of the UI in
order to achieve this.
Thanks,
Brian Rogers
"Intelligence removes complexity." - Me
http://icumove.spaces.live.com
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Conna
Do you have any links or places that I could go to read on these strategies?
I'm reluctant to put everything in one (or two) wixlib's since these are
dll's and exe's that contribute to the overall functionality of several
programs. Can't wix just 'ignore' when a wixlib has a reference to a file
t
Hey Jim,
Many people are doing this and it is possible. I believe you need to look at
how much automation you are looking to have. You can also use heat.exe to
harvest content. It all comes down to how you want to service your MSI once
it is created. If you only intend to have major upgrades only
Yeah, that's the whole point of the WiX toolset. There is MSBuild
support with the WiX v3 install and we have NAnt tasks if you use nant.
After that everything is just command-line tools so you can script them
into just about any build process out there.
MacDiarmid, James D wrote:
> Is it possi
Is it possible to have Wix in an automated build process. That may not
be the right question to ask but I wanted to throw something out there.
I'm looking for information on how to incorporate the Wix Toolset into
our build process. We have a CM person that does all of our builds
however she kno
Putting the same content in different .wixlibs is going to lead to no
end of troubles. I don't know the specifics but there are several ways
to restructure the example below to end up with content only in one
.wixlib. I highly recommend picking one of those strategies (for
example, you could pu
Ok, I'm sure this has been asked here before, but I wasn't able to find the
thread or a resolution...
How does anybody else deal with this situation:
I have several WiX projects that share common dependencies that I'm
compiling into wixlibs for larger projects. I want to ensure that a
compiled w
That is *exactly* what burn is intended to be used for.
Note: the managed UI work is going to take us longer to get right. The
initial drop of burn will come out with support for only native UI (plus
a "standard UX DLL") and we'll work on stabilizing the core before
creating the managed UI supp
Are the user name and password parameterized during install? If so, are
you recovering those parameters for uninstall?
Mark Sinnathamby wrote:
> Hi,
> The database credentials for creating my database are taken during
> installation via a dialog box. Using the login, password and server name
>
My code looks like this:
1
1
The problem is tab key is still working on these two buttons.
How do i skip the tab sequence for a push button?
Thanks!
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Yes, it probably should have. To work around the oversight, you can use
the EnsureTable element.
Reuss, Matthias wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the MergeModule I am developing with WiX 2, I need Substitution entries in
> order to use some properties from the base MSI; however I do not need
> Configurat
Look in your wix enlistment under src\ca\wcautil\wcawrap.cpp.
Hukumchand Shah wrote:
> Thanks Rob for reply.
> I serached but didn't get anything useful.
> Could you send me detail links if you have?
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rob Mensching wrote:
>
>
>> Most of the WiX CustomActions
Yes, it probably should have. To work around the oversight, you can use
the EnsureTable element.
Reuss, Matthias wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the MergeModule I am developing with WiX 2, I need Substitution entries in
> order to use some properties from the base MSI; however I do not need
> Configurat
Apologies everyone. A quick search this morning and I find Bob's blog
with all the information I need! Have no idea how I missed that. Must
have been tired.
-Original Message-
From: Chris Lord
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:44
To: wix-users
Subject: [WiX-users] Setting a Vista
I need to have the same files installed to a second location during an
install. Having read the article on
http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/6/1/quotSmart-cabbingquot-added-to-WiX-toolset
smart cabbing I'm happy that it can be done without impacting the size of
the MSI.
But what I want to
You might try here
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/05/17/new-wix-feature-firewall-extension/
-Original Message-
From: Chris Lord [mailto:chris.l...@atterotech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:44 AM
To: wix-users
Subject: [WiX-users] Setting a Vista Firewall rule
My application uses a
Does anyone use MSI Factory or WixAware to build their installs? I've
been evaluating WixAware and I like the interface, however it's still
very buggy. I'd like to see if there are any other "front ends"
available that support Wix 2.0 and/or Wix 3.0. I recently found MSI
Factory and have starte
FirewallException element
-Original Message-
From: Chris Lord [mailto:chris.l...@atterotech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:44 AM
To: wix-users
Subject: [WiX-users] Setting a Vista Firewall rule
My application uses a .NET object that requires the use of TFTP.
Unfortunately, on a Vis
My application uses a .NET object that requires the use of TFTP.
Unfortunately, on a Vista install, the software doesn't work correctly
because the Vista firewall blocks it. A simple exception for the
application fixes this. However, rather than get the user to do this
manually, I'd like my insta
Thank you for the WiX 3 solution.
With WiX 2, there is the element IgnoreModularization instead, which has been
declared deprecated in WiX 3.
In my WiX 2 project, it works.
Best regards
Matthias
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineerin
Pally Sandher wrote:
> atid=642714 but can anyone advise on a fix to the wix.targets file or
> should I go back to using v3.0.5224.0 until this is fixed in a future
> update? Could I simply use the v3.0.5224.0 wix.targets file with
> v3.0.5301.0 installed or would that break things in more serious
Reuss, Matthias wrote:
> What does this mean? I have not found an additional reference in my MSI.
>
It's a link-time WiX concept; it ensures the directory is linked in and
provides an error message if one isn't provided.
> This is true, and I have already thought of creating such a property.
Hello,
In the MergeModule I am developing with WiX 2, I need Substitution entries in
order to use some properties from the base MSI; however I do not need
Configuration entries because I do not need the module to be configured at
merge time.
The resulting MSM contains a ModuleSubstitution tabl
barry wrote:
>
>
> Hi There,
> After another long day trying to isolate this problem I think I am making
> some progress..
>
> I changed the Addin GUID to a new guid and regenerated the wix fragment
> and reinstalled on my development box. The Addin installs correctly and
> gets loaded in wor
I just updated to v3.0.5301.0 (was using v3.0.5224.0 last week, I update
when a new build is posted on the feed).
I tried building a .wixproj with Votive (We use Visual Studio 2005 at
present) which built perfectly fine yesterday during the automated build
I have my machine do every morning. Now it
Unfortunately, It's for general release.
What I need to do is to only allow people who have the right password to
uninstall
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Reed [mailto:ree...@duckcreektech.com]
Sent: 01 May 2009 19:11
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re:
Thanks Rob for reply.
I serached but didn't get anything useful.
Could you send me detail links if you have?
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Most of the WiX CustomActions do this. You might look at the
> WcaProgress() code.
>
> Hukumchand Shah wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I
I just want to add that there is one more option, very similar to storing
property value in registry - storing it in the .ini file and use IniFileSearch.
Murray, thanks for being so kind. I'm glad you found Major Upgrade post useful.
Alex
-Original Message-
From: Michael Osmond [mail
Hey Anthony,
The "shut up" commands you need for light "-sice: suppress an internal
consistency evaluator (ICE)" or "-sval suppress MSI/MSM validation".
light.exe -sice:ICE83 -sice:ICE39
or
light.exe -sval
Thanks,
Brian Rogers
"Intelligence removes complexity." - Me
http://icumove.spaces.
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