Re: [WiX-users] A issue when uninstalling--unable to remove shortcut

2009-07-19 Thread Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software)
Hi Tuanqing, Can you post some Wix code you are using? Is it possible that the shortcut gets modified somehow (maybe it links to DOS command which automatically modifies .lnk to .pif files) Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Setup - Creating WiX-based MSI installations, elegantly. http://ww

[WiX-users] A issue when uninstalling--unable to remove shortcut

2009-07-19 Thread Tuanqing Zhang (MDT InfoTech)
Hi all, I'm using wix 2.0 to create an installer for my application. When installing, everything is ok. But when uninstalling, something strange happens. On 32bit Vista, All shortcuts seems to be removed based on the log file, but there are still an shortcut link left in the start menu. There a

[WiX-users] Suppress warnings from VC9 msm's

2009-07-19 Thread kathik.shenoy
Has anyone successfully merged the VC9 msm's with their installer without getting a ton of warnings from WiX? I'm just curious as I'm getting a ton of warnings, most of which don't worry me too much (issues with the length of IDs), and some that do a bit (sequence clashes - duplicate sequence numb

[WiX-users] Blocked by a bug... (3.5x)

2009-07-19 Thread John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies)
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2803058&group_id=105970&atid=642714 Anyone have a target as to when this will get fixed; or if someone would point me to where the problem likely is I am more than happy to have a go at it. This not only affects Libraries, but also Merge Modules.

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

2009-07-19 Thread Yan Sklyarenko
If you used heat.exe to generate your help.wxs, then it most likely contains a ComponentGroup, which includes all the generated components. The components should be included into a feature. The easiest way to do this is to reference this ComponentGroup from your main.wxs. I would do this: ...

Re: [WiX-users] WixVariables and GUIDs

2009-07-19 Thread Russell Hind
Thanks for the link Brian, that helps explain things. Russell On 18 Jul 2009, at 13:21, Bob Arnson wrote: > rh_maill...@mac.com wrote: >> Thanks Brian, this does work (I thought I'd tried this and it >> didn't before!) Odd that if I define the GUID as a pre-processor >> variable it doesn't