Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction : Enumerating SQLServer Instances acrossthe network using SQLDMO

2009-10-01 Thread Thomas Due
This would be perfect for http://wixrepo.codeplex.com/ Also: Looks good, looking forward to playing around with it, although the company I work for, will have to support 2008 as well in the near future. /Thomas -Original Message- From: Dominique Louis [mailto:dominique.lo...@amxeurope.c

Re: [WiX-users] is wix project always in the same sln of application

2009-10-01 Thread Blair
I've used the "batch build" dialog when building locally. Since team build is driven from msbuild scripts, you can build different configurations of the same project from your msbuild project file at the level of your solution. The "Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build" book by Hashimi & Barthol

[WiX-users] Out Of Office Reply

2009-10-01 Thread gary
Thank you for your message. I am currently out of the office on Holiday with no access to e-mail. I will be returning to work on 12 October. If you need assistance before then, you may reach Atlas on 0845 867 2845 or i...@atlascs.co.uk. Regards Gary Howlett --

Re: [WiX-users] How to change background color behind the checkbox - last install page

2009-10-01 Thread Sascha Beaumont
This comes up regularly on the list, it's a limitation of Windows Installer not supporting transparency on a checkbox label. Best solution is to use a different size background bitmap. Alternative solutions generally involve a customUI and sacrificing (to an extent) usability for people with scree

Re: [WiX-users] Subtract a value from a property

2009-10-01 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Writing the value to an INI file... yes (see http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_inifile.htm). Doing any arithmetic/string manipulation on the value? No, not without a custom action. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:41 AM, David Battey wrote: > I need to write the value contained in the Ph

Re: [WiX-users] Executing a quoted file path

2009-10-01 Thread Sebastiaan Deckers
Alright, just did some more digging in wix.chm and I found something that works: QtExec This code seems to do the trick: Hope this helps someone else out there. One known limitation: This CustomAction runs the uninstaller without waiting for it to complete. So if your *.msi creates fi

[WiX-users] Executing a quoted file path

2009-10-01 Thread Sebastiaan Deckers
Hi all, I'm making my WiX-based setup detect and uninstall a previous NSIS-based uninstaller. The path to this uninstaller is in a registry key which I can load into a property as follows: This registry value is a quoted string. For example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\Uninstall.exe"

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and certificates

2009-10-01 Thread Mike Carlson (DEV DIV)
What version of WiX are you using? -Original Message- From: phillip_sid...@dellteam.com [mailto:phillip_sid...@dellteam.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:50 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX and certificates Duh, Permanent did work - thanks for tha

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and certificates

2009-10-01 Thread Phillip_Sidari
Duh, Permanent did work - thanks for that. Here is the error I get for when attempting to install the .pfx: MSI (s) (8C:08) [17:46:35:065]: Created Custom Action Server with PID 4612 (0x1204). MSI (s) (8C:94) [17:46:35:147]: Running as a service. MSI (s) (8C:94) [17:46:35:150]: Hello, I'm your 32

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and certificates

2009-10-01 Thread Mike Carlson (DEV DIV)
1) What version of WiX are you using? 2) What error message do you see in a verbose logfile in the event of failure? 3) Have you tried making the associated Component Permanent? Thanks, Mike Carlson -Original Message- From: phillip_sid...@dellteam.com [mailto:phillip_sid...@dellteam.com]

[WiX-users] Uninstalling a web site installled with header in webaddress

2009-10-01 Thread kalepalli uday
We have a wix script to create a website on IIS7 and we use the IISextensions dll for the wix. We use the iis:webaddress tag with header attribute set through a parameter to msi. On installation the site is created as expected with specified port and header. But when trying to uninstall,

Re: [WiX-users] Patch Creation Properties Problem

2009-10-01 Thread jw
User error. The referenced msi had lower-case letters in the product code. I should have caught that. My apologies. --- On Thu, 10/1/09, jw wrote: From: jw Subject: [WiX-users] Patch Creation Properties Problem To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Date: Thursday, Octob

[WiX-users] WiX and certificates

2009-10-01 Thread Phillip_Sidari
I am installing certificates with the following WiX snippet: So I am having 2 problems: 1) When I uncomment the .pfx certificate it succeeds the fi

[WiX-users] How to change background color behind the checkbox - last install page

2009-10-01 Thread danimian
Hi, at last page of install, is there any way to change the background color behind the checkbox or background color behind the text "Launch application now"? How to fix it? or How to make it transparent? Best Regards Adnan -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-change-ba

Re: [WiX-users] How to set the checkbox as checked by default for launching application at last page of install

2009-10-01 Thread danimian
Thanks a lot. It is working. Best Regards Blair-2 wrote: > > Add to your > code. > > -Original Message- > From: danimian [mailto:miand...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:26 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] How to set the checkbox as che

Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3.0 and BDE Merge Module

2009-10-01 Thread Dan Neveu
Just a re-inquiry from last-week's post... Here is the directory table from the BDE module. thanks, -dan DirectoryDirectory_ParentDefaultDir s72S72l255 DirectoryDirectory AdminToolsFolderTARGETDIR.:Admint~1|AdminTools AppDataFolderTARGETDIR.:APPLIC

Re: [WiX-users] How to set the checkbox as checked by default for launching application at last page of install

2009-10-01 Thread Blair
Add to your code. -Original Message- From: danimian [mailto:miand...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:26 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to set the checkbox as checked by default for launching application at last page of install Hi, The App

[WiX-users] Patch Creation Properties Problem

2009-10-01 Thread jw
Hi, I'm trying to build a patch using the PCP approach. My patch.wxs file is virtually identical to the one provided in the WiX Help example, except for product MSI. When trying to process the PCP file, PatchWiz fails with the error, "ERROR: UpgradedImages.Upgraded = 'SampleUpgrade': ProductCo

Re: [WiX-users] is there a way to ignore one error code instead of all?

2009-10-01 Thread Lian Jiang
Blair, Great information! Many thanks! Lian -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:34 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is there a way to ignore one error code instead of all?

[WiX-users] How to set the checkbox as checked by default for launching application at last page of install

2009-10-01 Thread danimian
Hi, The Application is launching after installation if user click on checkbox (it is not checked by default), it is working fine. My question is, is there any way set the checkbox as checked first then user can deselect it? I mean How to display at the last page of install checkbox as checked by d

[WiX-users] Subtract a value from a property

2009-10-01 Thread David Battey
I need to write the value contained in the PhysicalMemory variable, minus a constant value, out to an ini file. Can I do this subtraction in Wix/Windows Installer, short of writing a C++/C# custom action? Thanks, David David E. Battey Senior Software Engineer Phoenix Contact Inc. (734) 205-511

Re: [WiX-users] is wix project always in the same sln of application

2009-10-01 Thread Jason Ding
Thanks Blair for the reply. The reason for us to have a separated sln for the wix project is because our application is Win32 platform only, but when release our application, we need also to release some other dependent dlls in Win32 and x64 platforms, and there is another sln to generate them. Wh

[WiX-users] CustomAction : Enumerating SQLServer Instances across the network using SQLDMO

2009-10-01 Thread Dominique Louis
Hi all, I couldn't find all this code in one place so I thought this list might be a good place to archive it. Set sqlApp = CreateObject("SQLDMO.Application") If ( Err.Number <> 0 ) Then wscript.echo "SQLDMO.Application Not found. Error : " & Err.Number

[WiX-users] Out Of Office Reply

2009-10-01 Thread gary
Thank you for your message. I am currently out of the office on Holiday with no access to e-mail. I will be returning to work on 12 October. If you need assistance before then, you may reach Atlas on 0845 867 2845 or i...@atlascs.co.uk. Regards Gary Howlett --

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble using Fragments in merge module files

2009-10-01 Thread Younie, Bradford
> My guess is you need a > somewhere in your mymodule.wxs file to pull in the fragment > in your Templates.wxs file. That did the trick! I created a ComponentGroup in the Fragment, and then added a ComponentGroupRef in the Module. Thanks for all your help! Brad -- Learn more about Ch

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble using Fragments in merge module files

2009-10-01 Thread Younie, Bradford
> My guess is you need a > somewhere in your mymodule.wxs file to pull in the fragment > in your Templates.wxs file. Okay. I'll try that. > What do you mean by " If I do the same thing to include them > in my main installer, it works fine."? You change > for and it works? Or what specifica

Re: [WiX-users] Multi language patching

2009-10-01 Thread Gareth
Well, my issues for patching just such a package like this have now been resolved. It seems that when you exposrt a transform made in Orca it inherits the package's Summary Info. You might expect them to say "nothing changed" and store nothing, but it seems that this data is always applied when

Re: [WiX-users] ngen priority 0 gets queued at priority 3

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Hartley
Our latest discoveries: The command 'ngen update /queue', which is issued at the end of the ngen phase of the installer, causes all my .dll files which have previously been ngened to be described by 'ngen display' as: C:\Program Files\Resolver One\bin\Controls.dll (StatusPending) (Pri 3) This

Re: [WiX-users] Patch doesn't uninstall

2009-10-01 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Adding rows to the ServiceControl table renders the patch non-removable. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372102(VS.85).aspx "When a patch adds new content to any of the tables in the following list, Windows Installer marks the patch as being not uninstallable. An uninstallable patch

[WiX-users] ngen priority 0 gets queued at priority 3

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Hartley
Hi people, I'm asking for my .dll files to be ngened during install, at priority 0, which I understand should take place synchronously, while the install progress bar increments. But I must be doing something wrong because instead, they get queued for ngen at priority 3. To my candle and light

Re: [WiX-users] Patch doesn't uninstall

2009-10-01 Thread Andy2k8
I neither get the uninstall button nor it asks for the uninstall confirmation upon double clicking the patch in the windows add/remove programs. Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) wrote: > > What happens when you try to uninstall the patch? > > Best regards, > Sebastian Brand > > Deploymen

Re: [WiX-users] facing trouble when run the application after installation - EventType : clr20r3

2009-10-01 Thread danimian
Hi Sebastian, Right, it's not Installer problem. I searched a lot, many entries pointing this error with .Net Framework (But it is already installed). Now i think Application developer must do something. Thanks a lot for your replies. Best Regards Adnan Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) wrote