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I'm looking for an experienced InstallShield / MSI / WiX / BuildForge / TFS / C# software engineer to join my team in Southwest Austin, TX. The engineer will be part of a Build and Install team that currently consists of 8 members with 3 more on the way to meet our ever growing needs. Please c

Re: [WiX-users] EmbeddedUI Install Execute Sequence

You're not doing anything wrong -- EmbeddedUI was unfortunately not designed in a way that allows that kind of flexibility. You'll need to use an external UI handler for the things you want to do. -Original Message- From: AG Crum [mailto:crum.and...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 200

[WiX-users] P2 Question: How to debug and read log file

Hi, I'd like to ask this question for a while. It's not that urgent(so I make it as P2 question - Priority 2) but I still would like to know: 1.. How to debug in WiX? I mean, is there a way to do code debugging in WiX by setting break points or step into the code etc. - just like what we do when

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to run another program before launching the main application

Uhh, gacutil.exe isn't redistributable. I think you are violation a license agreement if you ship it in your product. Why not just use the File/@Assembly element? little.forest wrote: > Thanks Sascha. > > Yes, I'm looking at it and having this piece of code which doesn't work: > > > > >

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to run another program before launching the main application

Thanks Sascha. Yes, I'm looking at it and having this piece of code which doesn't work:         ...       NOT Installed     Installed ... Basically, a few problems: 1. During installation, nothing happened. 2. During uninstall, I'd like to run "gacutil.exe /u CLR.dll". However,

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

Hi Rob, How you doing? Thanks for your reply. Some more questions regarding your answers: 1. "Your Component will take ownership of the key (i.e. you will uninstall it when your Component is removed)." But in our case, I'm afraid we couldn't take ownership for that key. The reason is, we're not

Re: [WiX-users] Incrementing the value of a Wix Property

You can use WcaGetProperty and WcaSetProperty to get and set a property within a custom action -Original Message- From: WixFan [mailto:pcper...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:56 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Incrementing the value of a Wix P

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

yes, but you have to think about the implications of that. Your Component will take ownership of the key (i.e. you will uninstall it when your Component is removed). So, either you have to make the Component Permanent or make it unmanaged (no Guid attribute). However, last I heard, changing the

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to change an existing Windows service's startup type

Hi, I'd like to second this question. Here I'd just make it short: Is it possible to change an existing registry entry's value? Thanks, /Brian __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gi

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrap an MSI to pass in parameters

Well MsiLogFileLocation isn't a settable value according to the MSDN, only a gettable property. (and is also on the newer windows installers, I am using this on XP). MSIEnableLog seems like the only function that will work. Is this the only way? saschabeaumont wrote: > > See msi.chm, check out t

Re: [WiX-users] MsiOpenPackage vs. MsiOpenDatabase

::MsiOpenDatabase() is used manipulate the MSI data file on disk (you pass a path to it) using SQL. ::MsiOpenPackage() is used to open an MSI file to do "installation like" operations on it. I only know of it being used for validation. I use ::MsiOpenDatabase() all the time and ::MsiOpenPackag

Re: [WiX-users] Publish order

Ah this seems like it may be happening, but looking at the implementation of the WixUIExtention WelcomeEulaDialog, it seems it would have the same problem as it tries to use multiple SpawnDialogs also. Any way I have just added a full new dialog before the install so my problem is solved for now.

[WiX-users] MsiOpenPackage vs. MsiOpenDatabase

I am trying to investigate on differences between the handles returned by MsiOpenPackage and MsiOpenDatabase functions. Is the handle returned by MsiOpenPackage the only valid MSI handle that can be passed into the MSI functions that expects a handle to an installation, like MsiProcessMessage? I'd

Re: [WiX-users] Publish order

Cranshaw, George wrote: > That's exactly what I want, the dialog is just a continue or cancel > popup > If the user clicks continue the install goes forward, if they select > cancel the wizard exits. > Its not a wizard page. > You're probably running into a limitation that's documented in the M

Re: [WiX-users] checkbox issues

Sascha Beaumont wrote: > So I've scoured the documentation and tried every which way... but I > can't for the life of me figure out how to de-select a checkbox based > on a registry value. > If you're using control events, use {} to indicate an empty string, which deletes the property and shou

Re: [WiX-users] Welcome dialog in the WixUI_Advanced

Andres Juarez wrote: > All I am saying is that teh PrepareDlg dialog goes on too fast, at least in > my case, it caused a "what was that?" moment more than anything. But i do > understand that for other people might seem different. > I understand. There's an open feature request to make it op

Re: [WiX-users] Question about "Customizing Built-in WixUI Dialog Sets" topic

Andres Juarez wrote: > I am guessing this is because the fragment is still present in the > PrepareDlg.wxs that is included in the WixUI_Advanced.wxs > Yes. If you want to replace a dialog, you need to give it a new Id. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox on finish page on uninstallation.

Hukumchand Shah wrote: > But I don't know which file it shows on finish. I guess may be 'ExitDialog'. > This is documented in WiX.chm. See "WixUI Dialog Library Reference." -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Re

Re: [WiX-users] Small size limit on .wixout files storing Media (2GB?)

martin lavelle wrote: > I infer from this message, that wixout's store media internally in one .cab, > without regard to the cabing arrangements in the target installation. Is this > true? > Yes. A .wixout duplicates the data in a package, not the structure. > Incidentally, this .wixout can

[WiX-users] EmbeddedUI Install Execute Sequence

I've noticed that if you are using an EmbeddedUI, actions like FindRelatedProducts and LaunchConditions don't work. The reason is that those actions are sequenced AFTER the embeddedui initializes. My experience is that you have to do all of your custom UI work within the scope of Initialize() and

Re: [WiX-users] Can't find property for current user's home directory

bmahf wrote: > > > Yeah, the 3rd party software is TortoiseHg. I have a program I need it to > use in certain circumstances. I'd think these guys would know not to do > this, and since they are so big and so widely used, it would be easier for > me just to fix this on my end. I'll have to pu

Re: [WiX-users] Adding progressbar text on Add/Remove panel

I think the reason why you UI isn'T displayed as you expect is because in Add/Remove, msiexec is called using /k which uses basic interface. In Basic, the InstallUISequence is not used at all. I once saw a post about how InstallShield was doing it but it felt really like a bad workaround... Bas

Re: [WiX-users] checkbox issues

There is surely a better way to do it but if you need a way to do it fast, you could build a customAction do either lookup the registry itself or else set a value in the registry for both cases (installed and not installed) so that your custom action could drop the row if the not installed value

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper

Hi, 1) The bootstrapper creates a setup.exe that will either download the packages you specify and install them or read them from the folder where the setup.exe is located. You specify which behaviour the setup.exe will exhibit by options in your msbuild file. See the ComponentsLocation property

[WiX-users] Bootstrapper

Hi, I created bootstrapper for .net framework 3.5. After building the project the folder "DotNetFX35" is copying at my output directory. Now 1) Do we have to distribute this folder with my .msi and setup.exe 2) When I am running my setup.exe on machine the .net framework is not instal

[WiX-users] Wix : Register DLL on installation

Hello, I am new to WIX and MSI packages. Requirement : 1. Put in "DLL" and "event manifest" under %ProgramFiles%. 2. Register the "DLL" [ By making call to "regsvr32 dllname" ] 3. Install the "event manifest" [ By making call to "wevtutil im manifest" ] I need to satisfy the

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 2010

Thanks Rob that sounds great. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Fri 29/05/2009 10:14 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subje

[WiX-users] Checkbox on finish page on uninstallation.

Hi, I want to add one checkbox on the finish page when I uninstall the application by using msi. But I don't know which file it shows on finish. I guess may be 'ExitDialog'. Not sure. Can anyone please tell me how do I do that? one more thing to tell I am already showing one checkbox on installati

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 2010

I don't think WiX v3 works at all in VS2010. The Visual Studio teams changed *a lot* (again) and there is a lot of code going into Votive in v3.5 to support it all. MSBuild 4.0 support is apparently particularly broken/different. Also, I think I've convinced everyone to not completely drop supp

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 2010

Do you know whether it works at all in the betas of VS 2010? The problem I have is that we still need VS2005 support and would like one version for 2005/2008 and 2010 and I believe you are dropping VS2005 support in WiX 3.5. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com

[WiX-users] Visual Studio 2010

Could anyone tell me whether WiX3 supports Visual Studio 2010 - I assume that as it was going to be included with VS2010 it supports it to some level but is it officially supported? Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 2010

No, WiX v3 does not support VS2010. It will ship before VS2010 is released. VS2010 support is coming in WiX v3.5. Neil Sleightholm wrote: > Could anyone tell me whether WiX3 supports Visual Studio 2010 - I assume that > as it was going to be included with VS2010 it supports it to some level but