[WiX-users] Binary Custom Action

I have a binary custom action exe. I am having a strange issue with running this EXE during a very specific install sequence. I have 3 MSI versions (say version 1,2, and 3). 1. I use GPO deployment for version 1. (works fine) 2. After it is successful, I do a manual install (double click on MSI

Re: [WiX-users] Wix source code

Thank you Blair. I used some other direct link for the msi. -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 5:41 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix source code A source archive is in the sam

Re: [WiX-users] missing WIX 3.0 binary distribution file 'difxapp_ia64.wixlib'

Smith, Stan wrote: > I'm trying to find someone who can supply information about the WIX 3.0 > binary distribution file 'difxapp_ia64.wixlib' as it is not present in the > WIX 3.0 binary distribution and documented to be included? > It should be. Please open a bug on SourceForge; it's also

[WiX-users] FW: Question regarding BootstrappeFiler Include= CrystalReports

I am posting this question again in hopes of getting any sort of help. not sure if anyone got my first email... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks j From: Jahanzeb Khan Sent: Thu 10/8/2009 5:57 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subjec

Re: [WiX-users] CA types

msidbCustomActionTypeOncePerProcess and msidbCustomActionTypeInScript together is nonsensical. msidbCustomActionTypeInScript is called "deferred" which can only be scheduled between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize and only in the InstallExecuteSequence table. Or am I missing something? What

[WiX-users] Out Of Office Reply

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Re: [WiX-users] Problem while creating objects by calling custom action

Is all the XML data based on installer properties? If so then use an XmlConfig element to do the updates. It would be easier than maintaining your own CA. -f -Original Message- From: danimian [mailto:miand...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:23 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourcef

Re: [WiX-users] change the default wixui dialog color

You can set any background graphic you want in WiX's UI elements without customizing everything. The issue is that checkboxes in Windows Installer can't be made to be transparent, and as far as I know (and Windows Installer's UI is a weak point for me) Windows Installer always uses the system's (us

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent install from failing if XmlFile elementdoesn't exist - Email found in subject

AFAIK an XPath expression that doesn't find anything doesn't do anything without errors (however I didn't look at the source code to see if the CA flags an SFALSE as an error or not), so it is worth testing removing the element, then adding the element with its attribute, whenever you install (the

Re: [WiX-users] Wix source code

A source archive is in the same directory where the installation package is found. http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5419.0/ it's called wix3-sources.zip you can also use CVS. -Original Message- From: Sunkesula, Srivardhan [mailto:srivardhan.sunkes...@netapp.com] Sent: Thursday,

[WiX-users] missing WIX 3.0 binary distribution file 'difxapp_ia64.wixlib'

Hello, I'm trying to find someone who can supply information about the WIX 3.0 binary distribution file 'difxapp_ia64.wixlib' as it is not present in the WIX 3.0 binary distribution and documented to be included? The WIX 3.0 developers @ SourceForge claim the MSFT DIFx group supplies arch sp

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Custom Actions

Thanks very much Farooq, just what I was looking for. I'll give it a go and get back to you if I have any further questions. Brett -Original Message- From: Farooq Mahmud (Hotmail) [mailto:farooq...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2009 3:24 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows

[WiX-users] Question regarding BootstrappeFiler Include= Crystal Reports

Hi all, I am trying to use the BootstrapperFile Include to install Crystall Reports runtime; I tried using the element (snippet of code is attached below) to suppress the UI that pops up when the bootstrap is executing for crystal report runtime; but for some weird reason the has no affect on th

[WiX-users] Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements, Error?!

Hi all I have 6 MSIs chained together via Setupbld. On some machines, notably XP, I get a pop-up box with "Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements" and no matter how long we leave it, it never finishes the check. If I shut down the installer and try ag

Re: [WiX-users] change the default wixui dialog color

Can the default WiX UIs change to use that trick so we don't have to customize everything just to get a decent background in the installer? Scott On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Blair wrote: > This is very often discussed (search the archives, this is the second time > this week). > > This is a

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Installer that does not leave a trace in Add/Remove Programs

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[WiX-users] Wix source code

I want to upgrade my wix toolkit to wix 3.0 I found a link to download wix 3.0. But I am not able to find the source code for it after installing it. Can anyone guide to get the wix source code for 3.0 Thanks & Regards, Srivardhan. -

[WiX-users] WiX Installer that does not leave a trace in Add/Remove Programs

Perhaps I have not dug deeply enough into the patch aspects of WiX and MSI to figure this out yet, but... What is the correct method to create an MSI using WiX that patches an existing product, but does not leave an entry in the Add/Remove Programs list for users to attempt to uninstall that patch?

Re: [WiX-users] CA types

Thanks. I should have thought of that. This is really an awesome user board! Thanks, Tom -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:59 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: R

Re: [WiX-users] CA types

When I get stumped with how WiX maps to Wi, I use dark on a simple package to see what it authors. --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Thomas Svare wrote: > From: Thomas Svare > Subject: [WiX-users] CA types > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > > Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009,

[WiX-users] CA types

Hello, I'm trying to get a CA type of 3585 set for one of my custom actions with Wix 3.0.5419 and I'm not having much luck. It's msidbCustomActionTypeDll msidbCustomActionTypeOncePerProcess msidbCustomActionTypeInScript msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate Any ideas? Thanks, T

[WiX-users] Setting feature options

Hi, when you add features to appear in your feature tree, they typically have options for 'install locally', 'install to run from source' or 'do not install'. In my experience, the option for 'install to run from source' appropriately doesn't offer itself so long as the feature contains a compres

Re: [WiX-users] RollBack support

Rollback in Windows Installer is supported as part of an install transaction. The install transaction occurs between the actions InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize. The term "rollback" is used here in a sense consistent with database transactions

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent install from failing if XmlFile elementdoesn't exist - Email found in subject

Thanks for the reply. The existing product is dependent on that element either being present and valid, or absent altogether. I suppose another option would be to delete the element with the "old" attribute if it exists upon install, and then create the new one. The problem with both approaches

[WiX-users] RollBack support

Hi, Does windows installer created using Wix 2.0.5xxx , support rolling back to previous version of a upgraded product? The sequence I'm referring here is Install ver1.0 > use it for 2 yrs > upgrade to ver 2.0 > not happy with 2.0, after a month, rollback to ver 1.0. > be happy now

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 37

The whole stack (code, merge module, standalone application, and larger application) are developed entirely in-house. The larger application is NOT using WiX. Right now it is using InstallAware, but we are looking to slowly (module by module) migrate the entire thing to WiX. This is a first ste

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent install from failing if XmlFile element doesn't exist

You would need to do two things: 1. persist somewhere whether the element existed before you changed/added the attribute to it, and 2. retrieve that knowledge to condition the element removal. Could you blank out the attribute value instead? What other alternatives do you have? What happens if you

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall deleting config file

Thanks, Blair, that makes a lot of sense. Regards, Pan -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: 08 October 2009 12:54 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall deleting config file If the component is marked perma

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcuts for peruser/permachine

You should be able to supply your own icon using the @Icon attribute. The Shortcut element causes entries into the Shortcut table, which Windows Installer uses in the CreateShortcuts and RemoveShortcuts actions. In CreateShortcuts, Windows Installer uses the shell interfaces for shortcut generatio

Re: [WiX-users] Create shortcut for file in merge module

Are you building the merge module? If you are, are you sharing the merge module with others? If not, is the larger application being built with WiX as well? Merge modules are very useful but they have several issues. If you don't really need them, wixlibs can be a much easier alternative. Next se

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall deleting config file

If the component is marked permanent, it will never uninstall (thus, it will never run the On='uninstall' changes). You need a component that is unique to your application if you want to remove something from the file. Thus, the XmlConfig entries need to be in a different component than the file i

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to create app shortcut on desktop

Ensure you have a as a child element of your element. -Original Message- From: Sudripta Nandy [mailto:sudrip...@sarangsoft.co.in] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:56 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to create app shortcut on desktop In my setup, I

Re: [WiX-users] Problem while creating objects by calling custom action

We want to collect information then store all these information in .xml file. Information like this: obj_PDBInformation.DisplayName = session["DISPLAYROP"]; obj_PDBInformation.Server = session["SERVERPROP"]; obj_PDBInformation.Server = session["PORTPROP"]; obj_PDBInformation.Server = session["USER

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall deleting config file

Thanks. It doesn't delete now, but still can't remove a node on uninstall... Here's my code for adding an element Blurg, with a node called SonOfBlurg: To remove Blurg on uninstall: It successfully adds the new elements, but uninstall doesn't remove them. I

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcuts for peruser/permachine

H... I've rejigged the installation and since it is perMachine I'm now doing the shortcut something like this: This works, but I do not get an icon. For my application, I could add my own, but I also install a PDF to the start menu, and I'd like that to pick u

Re: [WiX-users] Problem while creating objects by calling custom action

It's not overwriting the old object, it is creating a new object each time the custom action is invoked so you can't save state like this. A better approach would be to write the object's data into a custom table. When you need to create the collection, iterate through the rows in the table, create

Re: [WiX-users] Creating SQLServer Users/Logins....

Thanks for the update, I'll keep that in mind. Currently we want to support SQL 2000 onwards, hence why we were thinking of using the sp_* range of procs. I'll discuss things with the team to see if its worth supporting SQL2000, if not I'll update the installer to use the new CREATE* commands Domi

[WiX-users] Problem while creating objects by calling custom action

Hi, i am writing a custom action with following code, creating an object. It is Working well. Actually this custom action must create many objects too if user want to create many (by clicking save button many time and calling custom action everytime). The problem is, it is overwriting old object a