We have something similar where they can choose a location for first install
but upgrades have to go
to the same place. I just disable the UI elements that allow the user to
choose where to put
things. I suspect you can also just not specify feat...@configurabledirectory.
Rob
Armin Linder w
Hi all,
is it possible to disable the target directory selection GUI elements,
depending on a condition?
The whole story: a product is delivred in modules (each is one msi)
which a user can purchase and install in any order. It is essential that
he always selects the same target directory. The
Hi Blair,
How do i do this checking in the referred .msm.?
Thanks,
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Blair wrote:
> It appears to be a failure in an action coming from your
> HealthCheckMergeModule.msm. You will need to check with the author of that
> MSM in order to diagnose that failure.
>
Hi Blair,
Thanks for your information.
Is there any example of writing a ValidatorExtension?
Thanks,
Kevin GU | SDE | CSAT China | 8621-61518167
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From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:33 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows
Thanks so much Blair. You are absolutely a fountain of knowledge and it is
so wonderful you generously share it. Dave
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From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:59 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [
This extract is from my msi log file.
MSI (s) (6C:D8) [16:49:36:281]: Executing op:
CustomActionSchedule(Action=ExecXmlFile,ActionType=3073,Source=BinaryData,Target=ExecXmlFile,CustomActionData=1€0€\RollCall.exe.config€3€0€/configuration/applicationSettings/RollCall.Properties.Settings/setti..
In WiX v3 in candle there are four built-in that start with "$("
(specifically: env, sys, var, & fun). Any preprocessor extension on the
commandline to candle can add others as well.
env, sys, & var are all documented. fun exists for what the preprocessor
calls "functions" but there are no built-i
ceLogon custom action got exception
'System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at _CustomActions.CustomActions.GetServiceLogon(Session session)'
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...$(var.myvar)...
candle ... -dmyvar=123 ...
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From: Thorsten Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:43 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Compile a project with used, but not speci
Thanks, Dave
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x86 and x64 and would like to
simulate passing in the project variables. It runs candle via cmd.exe so I
think I would be subject to a command line length limitation.
Thanks, Dave
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I tried looking at the wix.targets but do not understand msbuild adequately.
Are the many var.Projectname.xxx and var.Solutionxxx variables passed in on
the command line with -d or are they written to a .wxi file or does candle
take special input for variable somehow besides the -d option? Seems
un
I understand these variable types from the wix doc:
$(env._NtPostBld)
Gets the environment variable %_NtPostBld%
$(sys.CURRENTDIR)
Gets the system variable for the current directory
$(var.A)
Gets the variable A that was defined in this xml
But what are these that I have seen i
*Sigh* I was afraid you'd say something like that.
Ok, I'll just have to figure it out then, and find a way to test for the
existence of the node. My XPath level of expertise is a step shy of
beginner ;)
Thanks the input.
/Thomas
-Original Message-
From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Blair wrote:
> BTW, unless your condition is in the "MainExecutable" component you may want
> to try not putting any children in your PatchFamily element. If PatchFamily
> is empty it checks everything for inclusion. Otherwise it filters to only
> include what is in that list.
>
Having originall
Blair wrote:
> First, what was your commandline to pyro? You have to match the @Id of your
> PatchBaseline element to the wixmst you supply from torch in your pyro
> commandline (e.g. "-t Sample sample.wixmst"). Also your commandline to torch
> should include "-p".
>
> Also, between your baseline a
The following code get the following exception. Can I not fetch this
property from my immediate custom action? Unfortunatley the session object
has an indexer that cannot be enumerated so I'm at a loss as to what can be
"indexed" from the sessin object! - Thanks, Dave
public static Acti
Hello,
I have an installer with typical, custom and complete installation.
Some of my features are not installed at typical installation by
setting a higher feature level, as recommended in the wix tutorial. I
would now like to create a version of the installer with some of the
custom features ena
Ok, I got a successful compile using...
ElementPath="/configuration/applicationSettings/RollCall.Properties.Settings
/setting[...@key='project'[\]]/value/"
I just figured it out when I got this last reply.
...
default
ICE validations run the Windows Installer transaction engine (which is a
singleton), but it doesn't seem to check for the public mutex first. The
error messages returned as a result often don't make sense, however.
The best fix is to add a validation extension that acquires the installation
mutex
When CostFinalize makes the directory paths, it walks the directory
hierarchy. For each directory identifier that does not already have a
property with a value, it creates a property by appending the appropriate
part of the DefaultDir column value to the path of the parent directory from
the table
Hi,
I've got this kind of error when building concurrently using 4 threads.
Error executing ICE action 'ICE38'. The most common cause of this kind of ICE
failure is an incorrectly registered scripting engine. See
http://wix.sourceforge.net/faq.html#Error217 for details and how to solve this
What do you want your XPath to look like when it reaches the XPath
processor? This attribute goes into a "formatted" field (to allow for
property references) so you have to work backwards from what XML/XPath wants
to give it something that will make it "through the system".
If you want
"/configura
First, what was your commandline to pyro? You have to match the @Id of your
PatchBaseline element to the wixmst you supply from torch in your pyro
commandline (e.g. "-t Sample sample.wixmst"). Also your commandline to torch
should include "-p".
Also, between your baseline and your upgraded you sho
Hmm.. interesting... I would have thought that was going to try to make a
subdirectory in the CommonAppDataFolder, or just not be allowed because the
implied tree structure of the XML elements conflicts.
Thanks,
Scott
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Blair wrote:
> While it may "feel" backwar
While it may "feel" backwards in some way, you could try this:
The rational is that TARGETDIR could end up anywhere (and may not be the
same place on two different invocations of the installer) but
CommonAppDataFolder and other "well known" locati
You must supply costing information for your CAs.
-Original Message-
From: Scharp, Craig [mailto:craig.sch...@zytax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:48 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Reset Progress Bar
Hi all,
Wondering if an
Does version 2.0 also have features A & B (with the same names and in the
same places in your feature tree)?
If so, then in your UpgradeVersion element remove the RemoveFeatures
attribute but keep the MigrateFeatures attribute.
If version 2.0 does not have features A & B then you must accept that
It appears to be a failure in an action coming from your
HealthCheckMergeModule.msm. You will need to check with the author of that MSM
in order to diagnose that failure.
-Original Message-
From: Asterisk [mailto:ankit.9...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:02 AM
To: wix-u
The actions supplied with the toolset are of a necessity made as generic as
possible to be applicable to as many users as possible. Each action needs to
be testable to ensure that future code modifications won't break existing
uses, and testing resources are not unlimited. Those things constrain th
To quote myself: "(which of course leaves the old product installed)".
A & B are from the older installation.
-Original Message-
From: MYFLEX [mailto:shrinuen...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:46 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can we stop Ma
No good, I tried
"/configuration/applicationSettings/RollCall.Properties.Settings/setti...@ke
y='project']/@value"
...and below, due to the visual studio stating that the square brace HAD to
be escaped (it said this in the documentation as well)...
"/configuration/applicationSettings/RollCall.Pr
Blair wrote
>
> If you have a lot of customers you will probably be better off
> distributing
> an MSP file which can be run right from your web site instead of requiring
> a
> special command-line like a minor upgrade MSI will.
Cheers, this seems the best solution as it has been distributed a b
Hi all,
Wondering if anyone knows how to reset, or change progressbar settings.
As my install is running, the progress bar finishes before my CA's are
done. So, it looks like the install is at 100% done, but several CA's
have yet to run. Has anyone run into this, or know how to restart the
pr
What are the exact criteria for getting automatically generated GUIDs to
work?
I suspect this is related to my use of WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS (since there
doesn't seem to be another way to get to that "standard" directory).
I'm getting this error:
error LGHT0231: The component 'indexComp' has a
Thank you so much for your help! Although I have not fully tested it, I think
everything is working. I learned quite a lot in the process. In the hopes that
this effort might be useful to others as they search the archives, I am posting
my working wxs files below. (Working wixlib examples and do
Thank you for the answer, but I was thinking of how to do it through
WiX. There are quite a few variables I need to write to the xml file, so
it would even more cumbersome to send them to a CA and writing the nodes
and attributes through this.
/Thomas
-Original Message-
From: Adnan Mian
In my product we have multiple features like A,B,C,D
If in version 1.0 A, B are installed.
in version 2.0 which is major upgrade, if I select C,D It is removing all
the previous features and installing New features. But I want the old
features to be as it is.
for that in upgrade table I have give
Hi,
user is giving input values and filling the form during installation. All
values coming through Editbox, I want to make a clear button. If user push
this button then all input values must be clear or reset.
How to accomplish this functionality?
This is my Control:
The values i am getting in
Guten Tag Blair,
am Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2009 um 15:51 schrieben Sie:
> Please file a bug.
Done:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=642714&aid=2878666&group_id=105970
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Thorsten Schöning
--
Thorsten Schöning
AM-SoFT IT-Systeme - Hameln | Potsdam | Leipzi
Hi WiX Developers,
a recent entry on Robs Blog started exactly with the same Subject.
(http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/7/14/Lets-talk-about-Burn)
So what is the state of this new WiX Tool? I closely follow development but it
seems there was no progress during the last weeks.
Is there an
Thanks Sebastian. This one is good too
http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/pages/from-msi-to-wix.aspx
I have some reading to do!
- Dave
-Original Message-
From: Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) [mailto:wix+us...@instyler.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:04 AM
To: General discuss
Hi Thomas,
for adding some nodes and attributes in already existing xml file you can
write a custom action using XmlDoucument,XmlElement,
XmlAttribute.
If xml file not exist then it can be created using XmlWriter, for this
purpose you can use FileStream.
Best Regards
Adnan
2009/10/14 Thomas Due
Blair-2 wrote:
>
> Not sure, but InstallUtil* is Self-Reg (aka evil). Visual Studio's setup
> projects do several things that make deployment "easier" that invariably
> cause headaches later on when you have to service/maintain those setups
> (including broken upgrades, orphaned resources, fail
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