Re: [WiX-users] LCID and language/culture fallback

2009-10-11 Thread Lian Jiang
Blair, It is interesting to know the fallback mechanism. However, this does not address the problem that all supported cultures need to be known in authoring time. If the business requirement says "the installer should support Chinese traditional language", it is not enough information to autho

[WiX-users] Using resource strings but not localizing the MSI

2009-10-11 Thread Thomas Due
I have another problem with my installer, or rather, not so much a problem as an annoyance. I have collected all string in my WiX project in a .wxl file, like this: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization";>        {\WixUI_Font_Title}Select Language     Select the language of the

[WiX-users] Out Of Office Reply

2009-10-11 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 modify a file during install using a CA

2009-10-11 Thread Thomas Due
Yes, that is the approach I went with to get it to work, and it worked beautifully, so as it turns out, I was basically just wondering why I couldn't access the installer properties in a deferred action. Thanks for the answer, it helped a bit with my understanding of the beast called Windows In

[WiX-users] Shortcut Names

2009-10-11 Thread ezimmerman
Is there a way to set the displayed name of a shortcut via property, rather than static text? If so, how? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Shortcut-Names-tp3806142p3806142.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -

[WiX-users] CopyFile Question

2009-10-11 Thread ezimmerman
I want to copy files from the "[source]\Files\" directory to the root of the target directory. I added the following line into the main executable component. It works, but on uninstall, it errors out with "unable to locate network files". Any idea what I'm doing wrong or the best way to accomp

Re: [WiX-users] LCID and language/culture fallback

2009-10-11 Thread Blair
I've built several cultures using one wixproj. If you are using votive, the setting is in the wixproj properties window in the "Build" tab. Otherwise simply make a semi-colon delimited list of cultures (e.g. "zh-TW; en-US") as a property called "Cultures". produ...@language can be set using a !(lo

Re: [WiX-users] Thanks!

2009-10-11 Thread Dave Kolb
I installed the service with WIX using the element. What snippet are you looking for? - Dave -Original Message- From: Jahanzeb Khan [mailto:jk...@commondesk.com] Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 9:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Than

[WiX-users] LCID and language/culture fallback

2009-10-11 Thread Lian Jiang
Hi, My installer has a wixproj for each culture/locale. For example, I have LCID=1028 for Chinese-Taiwan, LCID=1033 for en-US. However, this requires one wixproj for each culture/locale instead of each language. For example, Chinese-Taiwan culture and Chinese-Hongkong culture cannot share one C

Re: [WiX-users] Thanks!

2009-10-11 Thread Jahanzeb Khan
were you able to get this to work completely through CA or did u install the service through WIX?can u share snipet of code if u were able to do this in WIX; thnx From: Dave Kolb [mailto:d...@dotnetcodeslingers.com] Sent: Sun 10/11/2009 7:15 PM To: wix-users@li

[WiX-users] Thanks!

2009-10-11 Thread Dave Kolb
Thanks to everyone who builds WIX and helps support it, this mailing list and the documentation and examples! Got my 64 and 32 bit installs running with CA's that dynamically set the account and password tags and create registry sources for my application and two services! Great stuff this

Re: [WiX-users] Problems with deactivating a component while package removal

2009-10-11 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Blair, am Samstag, 10. Oktober 2009 um 23:58 schrieben Sie: > What are the criteria used to determine which of the four components > operates on the file? The components are bound to a feature for each component which is designed to change exactly one config value. I have a feature and

Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best?

2009-10-11 Thread Dave Kolb
Good information thanks! -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 3:01 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best? 1. There are several issues that are

Re: [WiX-users] installing a file to more than one directory

2009-10-11 Thread Blair
You can also create a second component with a CopyFile element in it. -Original Message- From: AG Crum [mailto:crum.and...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:23 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] installing a file to more than

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade Detection (FindRelatedProducts) with EmbeddedUI

2009-10-11 Thread Blair
You certainly can. You just can't easily alter the UI due to the upgrade. EmbeddedUI was intended to provide a replacement for ExternalUI if the only reason for using a bootstrapper was to avoid using InternalUI. Since most bootstrappers make all of their determinations and then call the packages

Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best?

2009-10-11 Thread Dave Kolb
To report what I found on my questions: 1. I guess the !(var.Property_XXX_Password) syntax is a pre-processor variable and not a "property"! 2. --- this worked to hide the password was replaced with *'s! - Dave -Original Message- From: Dave Kolb [mailto:d...@dotnetcodeslingers.com]

Re: [WiX-users] Which way to install a Windows service is best?

2009-10-11 Thread Blair
1. There are several issues that are resolved by using DTF to run managed code custom actions, among which is a problem whereby if a custom action instance of msiexec loads the managed runtime and is reused for a different action, it can't load a different version of the runtime (if needed). By cal