IIRC, they ship 4.5 as part of XP SP3 and Vista SP1, along with the
equivalent service packs for the corresponding server OSs.
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From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:31 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subjec
Quoting myself: " MSI 4.5 - ..., and a redistributable ... for supported
pre-Vista platforms."
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From: Thomas Due [mailto:thomas@scanvaegt.dk]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:09 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] H
Uh, according to this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/da-dk/library/dd408041%28en-us,VS.85%29.aspx
Is MSI 4.5 also available on Windows XP SP2 as "a redistributable":
"Windows Installer 4.5 is available as a redistributable for Windows
Server 2008, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows
I thought the service used the drivers, but existed before the drivers were
installed (which would suggest that they would be started again upon
uninstallation of the drivers).
Change Start to "install", leave Stop as "both".
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From: shane_cor...@selinc.com [mailto:shane_
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Richard wrote:
> In article <162de7480911020831o4b123747xc933d27b4fbf8...@mail.gmail.com>,
> "Wesley W. Terpstra" writes:
>> [...] For such a big
>> savings in download-time I think that's a reasonable trade-off.
>
> Have you been receiving complaints about do
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. On install I'd like to stop the service, do
the installation and then start the service. On uninstall I'd like to
stop the service, and uninstall without starting the service back up at
the end of uninstallation.
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Works the same way. That is why you say "both" instead of "install".
The stop happens before any files are erased or registry keys/values are
removed, or any other related activities.
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From: shane_cor...@selinc.com [mailto:shane_cor...@selinc.com]
Sent: Monday, November
That seems to work fine for installation, but can I force the service to
stop on uninstall?
Thanks again!
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In article
,
Tom Crozier writes:
> My application is installed at an enterprise level where there are
> separate S QL servers, SSRS servers and IIS servers and even if you have
> admin privileges on one box you may (and probably won't) on another
> box. I understand that this is not a typi
In article <162de7480911020831o4b123747xc933d27b4fbf8...@mail.gmail.com>,
"Wesley W. Terpstra" writes:
> [...] For such a big
> savings in download-time I think that's a reasonable trade-off.
Have you been receiving complaints about download times?
Doing the simplest thing that could poss
If you select "both" for Stop and for Start, it will stop the service before
changing any of your files/registry/etc. during both installation and
removal and start it again after making those changes. Isn't that what you
are describing you want to do?
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From: shane_cor...
I tried using the ServiceControl table but it looks like it's used to
specify that you would like to start/stop when the the installer
begins an install/uninstall. That's not what I'm trying to do. I want to
sequentially stop a service, run my installer to completion, then start
the service
I don't understand how ResolveSource (which looks for your installation MSI)
applies to your situation. (ResolveSource in effect is a no-op in initial
installations, since the source was supplied to begin with, and is used to
ensure access to the non-stripped MSI during maintenance installations su
Are you building 32-bit, or some flavor of 64-bit?
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From: Mike Carlson (DEV DIV) [mailto:mica...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 1:52 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Link error for dutil.lib
Did you tr
Did you try a clean build? i.e. Delete your build output directory and build
again.
Thanks,
Mike Carlson
-Original Message-
From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:20 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset
If you don't specify, WiX currently defaults to 1.0 ("100").
Very brief matrix:
MSI 1.x - basic MSI support, 32-bit only.
MSI 2.x - added 64-bit support.
MSI 3.0 - improved patching.
MSI 3.1 - improved external ui.
MSI 4.0 - Vista/2008 only. Incorporates
UAC-integration/restart-manager-integratio
More-or-less yes, you have it right.
There are several servicing issues related to Merge Modules, and some of
those issues are carried into the way that WiX incorporates Merge Modules
(making them even harder to deal with than they already would have been,
especially as relates to patching/patch g
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Pally Sandher wrote:
> Could be worth feature requesting for something like Burn but taking
> modern internet connections into consideration I don't see many people
> being that bothered about it if they have to put that amount of effort
> in to make it work.
Many
All resources (files, registry entries, etc.) can generally be divided into
three spaces: those that live in administrator per-machine areas (C:\Program
Files, etc.), those that live in the user profile, and those very few that
live in shared document regions.
If your installation requires access
Thanks for the edification.
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From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:12 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SendTo shortcut for default and alluser profileson
multiple OS's - Email found i
You should be able to use the ServiceControl table (which you can author
using the ServiceControl element in WiX).
-Original Message-
From: shane_cor...@selinc.com [mailto:shane_cor...@selinc.com]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 9:48 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-us
I will name boxes X & Y, and consider users A & B.
User A logs into box X, then logs out and logs into box Y, where they make
several changes in their profile.
User B logs into box X, then installs an application that changes user A's
profile.
Later when user A logs into box X, the profiles are
If I understand correctly, there are two ways to modularize my setup:
Fragments and Merge Modules. So the question is: Which one to use?
For me it looks like Merge Modules being a more heavy weight solution, but
the benefit is that those are a product-independent standard (i. e.
InstallShield o
Blair,
thank you for pointing me to the tracker. I added the five ideas.
Regards
Markus
> -Original Message-
> From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
> Sent: Montag, 26. Oktober 2009 22:56
> To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Qu
I am a beginner to MSI and WiX and have a question on the InstallerVersion
attribute:
How to know what version of WindowsInstaller my .msi will need to run
correctly?
Is there some kind of table that I did not discover so far, containing all
WiX / MSI features plus the needed version number
Thanks, I found that and fixed a few other VBScript problems and now I
have it working. (Only to discover other problems, however.)
Scott
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote:
> The WScript.Echo won't work - that's supplied by the WSH object, not by MSI.
> Do you see that message?
Blair,
in a different context you wrote:
> It is best to make your installations pure-perMachine or pure-
> perUser
> and never mix them
There is one thing I do not understand in that context: I always had the
impression that it is up to the *administrator* to decide whether to install
a softwar
I'd like to add that SelfReg was a 1980s and early 1990s concept. By the end
of the 1990s it was recognized as being a prime contributor to the "DLL
Hell" problem that as killing redistributables (anyone remember how messed
up the VB runtime could get?).
Anyway, the Windows Installer documentation
I know DTF has some support for external UI, but once you have your own forms,
and you've called (Msi)SetExternalUI(Record), why not just call
MsiInstallProduct with the command line properties you want to set?
Phil Wilson
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensch
One more note - IIRC MSI's advertised shortcuts aren't drop targets and don't
show up in the SendTo context menu even when they're in the SendTo folder.
You'll need a non advertised shortcut.
Phil Wilson
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From: Evan Beeton [mailto:ebee...@informasoftware.com]
Sent:
What you are looking for is the , and
elements.
Neil
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From: IFM Lists [mailto:jkli...@ifm-services.com]
Sent: 02 November 2009 16:05
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heat and .exe COM objects
*sigh* Sorry for this...
Blair,
thank you very much for your detailed explanation. Now I understand what the
problem is. :-)
I just filed a proposal
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2890852&group_id=105970&ati
d=642717 to add your explanation to the WiX documentation.
Thanks
Markus
> -Original Messa
I know it sounds a pain but it is really worthwhile adopting. What
regserver does is not standard it is developer dependant and you can do
anything in that code.
You say it would need rework when the interface changes, that is correct
but that shouldn't happen that often and should be well defined
The way you worded your question it appeared that you were asking if you
could simply compress a .cab using 7-zip's LZMA compression algorithm &
I may be too used to people on this list expecting the minimum amount of
effort to solve anything remotely difficult (and subsequently blaming a
lack of W
The WScript.Echo won't work - that's supplied by the WSH object, not by MSI. Do
you see that message?
MsiProvideComponent is normal - any of the entrypoints that have a Darwin
descriptor (COM,file associations, shortcuts) use that to locate the target
file (causing repair if needed).
Apart f
Hi All,
I'm trying to write some conditional feature code, based on whether a
certain file is available on the installation media. I've been setting a
property like this:
And then using it like this:
NOT Installed AND Feature1=""
<..>
I'm new to WiX and have an installer that installs a set of PCI drivers.
An existing service uses these drivers and I need to stop it before
upgrading drivers, then restart it after the drivers have been installed
such that the service uses the new drivers. The service has a seperate
installe
What's special about the C: drive? Maybe you need the ROOTDRIVE or
WindowsVolume property.
Phil Wilson
-Original Message-
From: Anu Dev [mailto:queryl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 6:49 AM
To: WIX
Subject: [WiX-users] How to change the installation to point to C:\
Hi
Bob Arnson wrote:
> 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 o
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:52:10 -0800, Rob Mensching wrote:
Rob,
> What version of the C++ compiler are you using?
Besides, *which* compiler? There are quite a few of them...
Bye,
Gábor
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DEÃK JAHN, Gábor -- Budapest, Hungary
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Pally Sandher wrote:
> Try using "mszip" instead of "high" for compression on your media tag &
> see if that changes the size of the cab file.
It does. It becomes 99MB, i.e. bigger.
> If you want your
> files be installed without any extra work you're going to hav
*sigh* Sorry for this... being a WiX dummy, I'm having difficulty
finding this in the docs. Could I ask for a pointer to what's probably
right in front of my face?
(For me, the COM exe is static; the interface won't be changing.
Nevertheless the idea of a minimal XML is appealing.)
On 2009
What version of the C++ compiler are you using?
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) <
chunyan.ji...@ge.com> wrote:
> Hi wix-users,
>
> I tried to compile the sampleListbox from Wix Tutorial 10.1. I
> downloaded the source code and tried to build the dll. However, I got
Hi wix-users,
I tried to compile the sampleListbox from Wix Tutorial 10.1. I
downloaded the source code and tried to build the dll. However, I got
the error:
1>dutil.lib(precomp.obj) : fatal error LNK1103: debugging information
corrupt; recompile module
I updated my wix install to the latest v
I'm having trouble getting a VBScript custom action to work. It's
purpose it so backup some files that the major upgrade may otherwise
delete.
My WiX source looks like this:
My script (project_backup.vbs) looks like:
' VBScript source code
Function back
Hi
How to change the installation to point to C drive, rather than to programfiles
or any other directory
Is there any easy way to do it.
Regards
Anweshi
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Try using "mszip" instead of "high" for compression on your media tag &
see if that changes the size of the cab file.
Essentially though you're comparing apples and steaks (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats). If you want your
files be installed without any extra work you're g
Blair, could you elaborate on how writing shortcuts into unloaded profiles
breaks things?
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:58 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SendTo sh
My application is installed at an enterprise level where there are separate SQL
servers, SSRS servers and IIS servers and even if you have admin privileges on
one box you may (and probably won't) on another box. I understand that this is
not a typical installer.
I ended up just showing a hidden
Thanks, that is what I ended up doing. Not exactly what I wanted to do but it
will work
-Tom
-Original Message-
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:11 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Dis
Ok after further investigation it seems someone on our team had renamed
a *.ico file to *.bmp and when I referred to that bmp it worked and when
I tried actual bmp files it did not work. So if anyone else stumbles
across this, the ListItem Icon must, in fact, be an actual *.ico file,
and it looks l
Hi all,
I'm using populating a ListView so I can display a prerequisite screen
at the very beginning of the installation.
I'm using the following code to embed the relevant bitmaps...
The referencing WiXTickIcon/WiXCrossIcon when populating the ListView.
My question are...
1. What is th
Hi Rob,
Thanks a lot! I set Secure="yes" to that property. And the condition for CA
works. So my problem is resolved.
Regards,
Chunyan
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Oktober 2009 17:00
An: General discussion for Win
Read the descriptions of the following ICEs: ICE18, ICE38, ICE43, ICE57*,
ICE64, & ICE91. (I'm sure I'm missing one or more additional pertinent ones
somewhere)
*ICE57 doesn't check the value of ALLUSERS because that property can be
overridden during an installation, so if it thinks the referenced
All advertised entries (CLSID, ProgId, Shortcuts) are implemented via a
mechanism that places an encoded version of the ProductCode, ComponentCode,
and FeatureId into the entry-point. A "health check" is made of the
indicated feature, and after it runs (possibly repairing, if needed) the
keypath of
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