[WiX-users] Free disk space

Hi All, I want to check free disk space of the machine at the time of installation. How can I do that? Thanks, Hukum -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a

Re: [WiX-users] Where is the game extension docs?

Hmm. If I install Wix35.msi, then this appears in the CHM file. It appears that I may have erroneously been looking in the wix-2.0 binaries ZIP file, which would explain why it didn't show up in the search. Anyone have an idea why the html pages on the online manual are all empty? -- "The Dire

[WiX-users] Where is the game extension docs?

explains the game explorer tasks and claims they will be available in WiX v3. I just downloaded the final WiX v3 binaries and searched the accompanying CHM file for "game" and came up empty. Did it get dropped? -- "The Dire

Re: [WiX-users] How to dynamically get current locale that my msi is built in?

Problem solved. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:45 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to dynamically get current locale that my msi is built in? Thanks for any s

Re: [WiX-users] Option checkbox in ExitDialog isn't transparent

Rob Mensching wrote: > What about screen readers? > And that clicking on a label doesn't change the checkbox. Even HTML supports that... There's an open feature request to make it possible to use a different (or no) bitmap to make the checkboxes look better, but nobody did the work. -- sig

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveFile and LongName

Bazarewsky, Michael C. wrote: > We see the same issue with the 3.0 release. To summarize, we get a warning > from Candle when building an MSI that requests a long-named file to be > removed via RemoveFile. > I'd suggest experimenting with the RemoveFile table in your .msi package. See if

Re: [WiX-users] XMLA help

Arthur Curvello wrote: > Xmla: valueOfConString > XmlConfig lets you write to an element's inner text: NameString Name of XML node to set/add to the specified element. Not setting this attribute causes the element's text value to be set. Otherwise this specified the attribute name that

Re: [WiX-users] problem with ComPlusApplication and public properties on Win64...

Brian, had a look now, and there are some differences that seem important... most importantly, the "Switching to server" line, and that showed me what the problem was. i had a registry search looking for a key that was a REG_MULTI_SZ that was setting a property to tell me if a particular SQL Serv

[WiX-users] WiX documentation links broken

Has anyone else noticed that the "Manual (WiX 3.0)" links on the right hand side of wix.sourceforge.net are broken? The 2.0 links are not much better, but show something. Under the 2.0 links, clicking on "Schema" takes me to an empty page. -

Re: [WiX-users] wixlib and media/diskid settings

Hey Nick, Have you looked into a custom heat.exe extension? You would only have to create a mutator that added the disk Id of your choice. It would also give you the ablitity to do some more advanced manipulation. http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove/archive/2009/07/02/WiX-Heat-Extension_3A00_-Setting-U

Re: [WiX-users] problem with ComPlusApplication and public properties on Win64...

Hey Tim, Have you done any type of diff'ing on the logs that would be generated from the three different types of installs you mentioned (32-bit, 64-bit passive, 64-bit full)? You should see when the server state transfers and what the values are. Remember to use the "/lvx* [logfilename]" switch.

Re: [WiX-users] Patching a product without elevation

I've tried a couple of other things here, but with no luck yet. Signing with the sha1 hash from the store had no effect (which I sort of expected). I checked the certificates again though, and I noticed something strange. The .cer file that I'm including in the msi has exactly the same proper

[WiX-users] Trouble Detecting User Cancellation

Hi all, I am trying to detect whether a user cancels within a custom action by doing the following UINT __stdcall CA() { int retVal = 0; PMSIHANDLE hRecord = MsiCreateRecord(1); ... SomeLongOperation(); // trigger cancellation while this function is running MsiRecordSetStrin

Re: [WiX-users] (no subject)

That's exactly what I was looking for. I must have missed that when looking through the MSI documentation. Thanks, -Andy -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:41 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

[WiX-users] XMLA help

Hey, I am having the same problem of Nicolas Bryant: Creating a SQL Analysis Services DB The issue is to edit the XMLA… Edit a xml is ok for me, but the xmla… Config xml: easy o edit the value But… Xmla: valueOfConString I don’t really know.. Help please, is it possible without c

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveFile and LongName

We see the same issue with the 3.0 release. To summarize, we get a warning from Candle when building an MSI that requests a long-named file to be removed via RemoveFile. I can't check the bug tracker right now as SourceForge is throwing up 500's when I try - would this be reasonable to file

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5.0626 missing VS2010 Project Types?

Were you by chance using Visual Studio 2010? Votive2010 was inadvertently removed for a few builds, but the issue has since been fixed, and votive2010 should be back in the MSI with the latest 3.5 build (3.5.0704.0). Thanks, Mike Carlson -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r.

Re: [WiX-users] How to localize wix package in this way?

Windows Installer doesn't support that. You need to have something outside control the language switching. Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) wrote: > Hi Wix-users, > > I would like to create the installation package by using of wix. Is it > possible to have different language installation in the sam

Re: [WiX-users] Option checkbox in ExitDialog isn't transparent

What about screen readers? The reason WiX doesn't do this is that we've been told that accessibility gets broken doing this sort of thing. Now none of us are accessibility experts so if someone that is says this work around does the correct thing with all the various accessibility devices then

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.0 released.

The ProjectAggregator is a thing that enables WiX to integrate with VS2005. If you don't use VS2005 you don't need the ProjectAggregator. You install WiX using one of the WiX???.msi files. MacDiarmid, James D wrote: > When I set up wix I installed it using the ProjectAggregator. Should I > use

Re: [WiX-users] wixlib and media/diskid settings

What about using an XSL transform to modify the heat output? Nick Ball wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm creating a wixlib, and then using it in my main setup program, but > I'd like the lib to go into a separate cab file. Because the contents of > the lib have been generated by heat, I've put the disk ID

[WiX-users] Possible bug with duplicate registry keys?

I just updated from a previous beta (3.0.5006.0) to the release version (3.0.5419.0). The new version breaks in a spot where the old version did not. Here is an example wxs that is now broken. The component info came from running Heat against a COM component. The old and new versions of heat are

Re: [WiX-users] Short Filenames

1. Pretty much right. There are only two good reasons I've heard for MSI still requiring short names, Novell file shares and that's just the way the Windows Installer works. I've found inertia has a huge play in Windows Installer decisions. The third reason I've heard is that the user can force

Re: [WiX-users] Short Filenames

Quinton Tormanen wrote: > 1. Why does MSI still require short names to be provided? It is my > understanding that all OSes since Windows 95 have supported them. It's a legacy thing that's just been carried on. In a discussion a while back someone managed to come up with a system that could feas

Re: [WiX-users] (no subject)

Did you look at MsiGetFeatureCost? Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Andy Glass [mailto:agl...@laserfiche.com] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:06 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] (no subject) I'm writing a bootstrapper that will include multiple MSI files.

[WiX-users] Web Service

Hello, I've got to install a web service running as NT AUTHORITY\LocalService. I'm able to do this but I also have to grant permissions for LocalService on a specific port. Is there a way to do this through WiX? I've searched the archives and did not come up with anything but I'm probably

[WiX-users] Short Filenames

I feel like this subject has surely been discussed into the ground on this forum, but I can't find anything with my searches. I found a few blogs (http://installing.blogspot.com/2006/02/auto-generation-of-short-file-an d.html, for one) that related to it, but didn't quite answer my question. Perhap

[WiX-users] (no subject)

I'm writing a bootstrapper that will include multiple MSI files. I want to get the size that a given MSI file's installation will take up given a set of selected components, but I have been unable to find a good way to do so. I've tried using FileCost and its related standard actions, but have

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.0 released.

When I set up wix I installed it using the ProjectAggregator. Should I use the same thing since I'm using Votive with the VS2008 Shell, or would it be safe to unzip the binaries into the previous install folder? Thanks, Jim -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset

Re: [WiX-users] Using Variables with YesNoType Attributes

Hi Bob, I found out it actual works but you just get a warning from Visual Studio. I assume its validating the datatype in schema to what's being used. So everything is fine now. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Using-Variables-with-YesNoType-Attributes-tp3182903p3

[WiX-users] wixlib and media/diskid settings

Hi, I'm creating a wixlib, and then using it in my main setup program, but I'd like the lib to go into a separate cab file. Because the contents of the lib have been generated by heat, I've put the disk ID on the directory, rather than each component. This code, understandably, does not work:

Re: [WiX-users] problem with ComPlusApplication and public properties on Win64...

tried that and it has the same problem - works fine with /passive, but doesn't work from the ui. On 7/4/09, Bob Arnson wrote: > Tim Johnson wrote: >> >> > > Check out the Secure attribute. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > -

Re: [WiX-users] Option checkbox in ExitDialog isn't transparent

Agreed it is not a WiX bug but why go to the complexity of a CustomUI when a trivial change to the core toolset makes it look 100% better. Surely WiX is about making Windows Installer easier. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com _

[WiX-users] How to localize wix package in this way?

Hi Wix-users, I would like to create the installation package by using of wix. Is it possible to have different language installation in the same package? For example, the first dialog have the radio button group, English, German, Italian. If user select one language, click next button, the next