Re: [WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite ofoptionalwebapplication component

I checked the v2 final source and it is also in there, so it should work. I didn't find it in the help file of either release, however. -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:48 PM To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Install DLL into GAC

So far you are following the component rules, but there is a known issue regarding early removal in major upgrades and fusion/win32-sxs/gac installations: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238. You need to move the placement of the RemoveExistingProducts action to a late placement. See http:/

Re: [WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite ofoptionalwebapplication component

I'm still on WiX 2.0 and am not seeing this property there. Am I missing something or is this only in WiX 3.x? -Original Message- From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:08 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: R

[WiX-users] is there a way in WIX to find out whether Crystal reports Basic Runtime for VS2008 is installed

I need to find out once the installer finishes running (which installs the Crystal reports basic runtime) whether the Crystal reports Basic runtime for VS 2008 was installed or not in? how do I achieve that in WIX or custom action? Thnx khan ---

Re: [WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite of optionalwebapplication component

You should set SKIPCONFIGUREIIS property to 1 in order to skip IIS configuration steps. Thus, when your "IIS-related" feature is not selected by user, set the SKIPCONFIGUREIIS property to 1. This will ignore any IIS-related elements in your code. Hope this helps. -- Yan

Re: [WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite of optional webapplication component

I ran into the same issue with our installer. If you include an IIS element in the installer it always seems to want to configure it. They way I got around it was to write a VBS script that cracks open the MSI database after it is built and modifies the "ConfigureIIS" action to be Conditioned to o

Re: [WiX-users] Can you create a shortcut that is "Pinned to Taskbar" in an install?

They aren't using pinning, they are using the jump list capabilities. That's different. Besides, there was never a programmatic interface for adding to the quick launch items. It just happened that the backing store for those items was easy to reverse engineer. Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name

[WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite of optional web application component

Hi there. I'm trying to create an installer that is divided into 3 features: "Framework", "Client", "Server". The first one is mandatory (and invisible) the latter two can be combined or not according to the users choice. "Server" contains a web application among others, like this:

Re: [WiX-users] Reading contents of a text file

There is a crude native C++ custom action here ( http://wixml.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=263) called Property Loader. It allows you to read and replace text in a text file. However, it doesn't support rollback. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me

Re: [WiX-users] How to execute .Net Framework Condition at Last

Not sure of the terminology here, but if your checks are in the LaunchCondition table, they execute in an indeterminate order: Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369752(VS.85).aspx Specifically, "You cannot guarantee the order in which the launch conditions are evaluated by

Re: [WiX-users] Reading contents of a text file

You'll have to stick with a custom action for that. To read a text file, I'd just use VBScript to read the text file ( fso.OpenTextFile (...).ReadAll ) and store it in a property (if it's a short text). Otherwise it depends on your purpose. Best regards, Sebastian Brand Deployment consultan

Re: [WiX-users] Can you create a shortcut that is "Pinned to Taskbar" in an install?

That talks about how to prevent pinning as well as how to control grouping. It isn't talking about how to make an application pinned. Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Gareth wrote: > > This blog suggests it should be possible.  But I've also managed to

Re: [WiX-users] Can you create a shortcut that is "Pinned to Taskbar" in an install?

This sounds pretty harsh imho. :) I think it is indeed allowed to set *user* settings during a per-user installation and even All-Users or Default-User settings in a per-machine setting. If I remember correctly, Microsoft Office is using the Pinning feature in the 2010 version as well. Be

Re: [WiX-users] VS Schema - registering help files

Finally got it. There was probably a number of things, but it finally started working when I changed vs:helpf...@name to the name of the HxS file, minus the extension. Rob Rob Hamflett wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get some documents registered with Visual Studio but I'm not > having muc

Re: [WiX-users] Maskedit Whitespace

Darn it, and there is no other way to force users to enter numbers only other than to use a masked input? Pretty poor that is, although all of the things this installer needs to do should really be done by some sort of configuration tool :( Simon Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:57:46 +0200 From: "Seba

Re: [WiX-users] Can you create a shortcut that is "Pinned to Taskbar" in an install?

This blog suggests it should be possible. But I've also managed to interpret it as 'this is how to enable pinning', not 'create pinning'. http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2009/09/02/windows-7-taskbar-support-with-the-msishortcutproperty-table.aspx brantgurga wrote: > > That

Re: [WiX-users] Removing old version not installed via MSI

Thanks, that's very helpful. Joakim Hårsman Head of development, Profdoc Care +46-8 440 93 78 http://www.profdoc.se > -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) [mailto:wix+us...@instyler.com] > Skickat: den 29 september 2009 15:23 > Till: 'General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Removing old version not installed via MSI

Hello, I'd recommend to following: First, use a or to find the existing product and installation path. The found value is stored in a Property. Then, if that property is set (=old version exists), show a dialog to warn the user. On that dialog run a Custom Action that calls unwise (maybe silentl

[WiX-users] Removing old version not installed via MSI

I'm in the process of migrating an installer that used to be built with Wise to an MSI built with Wix. I'd like for the new installer to detect and automatically remove old versions of the product if present. Is there an easy way to do this? As far as I can tell RemoveExistingProducts and the U

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling a component when not used by any products

Thanks Brant Gurganus. Can you provide some examples ... I am using WIX 3.0... Thanks Ranganatha On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Brant Gurganus wrote: > In your installer, you should have it create the registry settings for > the snap-in instead of calling InstallUtil. Wix 2.0 has a schema >

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling a component when not used by any products

In your installer, you should have it create the registry settings for the snap-in instead of calling InstallUtil. Wix 2.0 has a schema extension to do this. Then, you put the MMC in its own component that is shared by both products. The Windows Installer will automatically do reference counting on

Re: [WiX-users] Maskedit Whitespace

Hello, Unfortunally it seems that only using a Custom Action can resolve Trimming and most string manipulation issues. Fastest way would be a small vbscript to change the property value. Oh, we have some nice weather here too. Greetings from southern Germany. :-) Best regards, Sebastian Brand

[WiX-users] Uninstalling a component when not used by any products

Hi All, We need to install a MMC (Microsoft Management Console) snap-in on target machine.. We have several products... So a if MMC is installed by some other product on a machine we should not try to install it again... I have wrote the below custom action to install the MMC

[WiX-users] Maskedit Whitespace

Good morning all, What a wonderful day it is here, a perfect day for some more installer coding. Today's issue (along with yesterdays 2 issue that are still driving me crazy) is whitespace, I have a maskededit control that takes a numeric input as I need to force the user to input numbers only. Th

Re: [WiX-users] Folder not install in define path

Hi Sebastian, Thanks for your tip. I tried to change the Ids and GUIDs for that weird folder. And the problem is resolved! It can be copied to the defined the path. It is really weird. But the problem is fixed by this way. Cheers! Chunyan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sebastian Bra

Re: [WiX-users] Folder not install in define path

Hi, Have you tried to changing the IDs and Guids of the SQL folder and files? Are there some other folder/files/components with the same Ids? (Should give compiler warnings). Otherwise I'm pretty much in the dark about this. Maybe the verbose log of the msi file can help. Best regards, Sebastian

Re: [WiX-users] Folder not install in define path

Hi Sebastian, Thank you for your reply. The snippet is: Some other folders... .Some other folders... ... ... And in the other wxs, there is: 999 The