Ahh, that's a different problem than I thought you were trying to solve. We
do this sort of thing in the WiX toolset using a tool that generates the
.wxi file. You can see ours at: wix\toolsrc\GenerateWixInclude
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:41 PM, CP YEH wrote:
> Thank you for your answer. I may no
My opinion: http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/05/20/136530.aspx
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Matt Walker wrote:
> Why are Custom Actions in VBScript a warning sign?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: MikeR [mailto:michael.ru...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:44 PM
If ADDLOCAL is set, REINSTALL typically won't be set (and you can unset it
if it does happen to be set), which would then prevent reinstalling the
components that are unique to the mainApp feature.
What is the cause of the reboot? Do you have custom actions that are not
conditioned on feature or c
Hi YEH,
In order to change the text of existing dialogs you need to override the
default texts.
First look into the source of the dialog you want to modify and get the
localization string you want to modify.
In your case you want to modify the text in ResumeDlg, you may want to look
here
http://
Had the exact same error message and problem which was solved by including
the -xo argument to the transform command (torch.exe).
A comment was submitted to Peter's article that mentioned this, I quote "It
seems you need to provide -xo also when doing a diff on msi files. That
makes the output f
In article <1264193852.10007.0.ca...@garman-linux>,
Kevin Garman writes:
> I have a multi-instance (transforms) installer and [...]
What exactly do you mean by this? What do the transforms do?
Its my experience that if you want to manipulate a base MSI with
transforms that you have to do
What is the FIPS switch? I haven't heard of it, so I'm assuming it's not
something I'll likely be changing in our builds. We do our builds through
Team Build, so whatever default settings are passed to the WiX tools from
WiX MSBuild tasks are what I'm using and won't likely be changing anytime
s
Thank you! I did not install project aggregator MSI since it is said
that visual studio 2008 does not need project aggregator MSI. I don't
want to use visual studio 2005, I want to install wix on visual studio
2008.
Best Regards
Lynda
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Tony Paloma wrote:
> Have you
Have you installed the project aggregator MSI? It needs to be installed first
on systems with VS 2005 before Votive can be installed.
http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5419.0/ProjectAggregator2.msi
-Original Message-
From: Lynda Li [mailto:lyndali...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, Janua
I would like to change the default words on one of the existing dialog
and so far the only way I have found is to add loc but it's not clear
to me if I can also customize the words other than company, product
names, and so on.
For instance, i want to change the words on Resume Dialog because when
t
Our in-house repackaging stuff contains scripts where antivirus is not a
problem. They're simple and easy to troubleshoot so that really isn't
an issue either.
Scripts were stripped from our real-world installs way back in the day.
I guess I forgot why.
Matt Walker
Installation Development
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That question would be very telling in an interview. :-)
I don't punish candidates for having written script custom actions; we've all
done that at some point. But they don't qualify for senior and principal
positions if they can't articulate the risks and shown the ability to
demonstrate imp
Correction, "Have you ever tried to step through a VB script CA in a debugger?"
Wendell
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Wendell Joost wrote:
> Have you ever tried to step through a VB CA in a debugger?
>
> Wendell
--
I've interviewed dozens of .net / build / install guys over the last year and I
find installs to be the hardest.
I try to do a relaxed / adaptive style of interviewing where I avoid making
the candidate feel like they are on the hot seat with 20 questions. I start
off easy and in a conversati
I have windows server 2008, visual studio 2005 and visual
studio 2008. I downloaded wix3.05419.0x64 and try to install it for my
visual srtudio 2008. However, when I click the installer, I got
message: Votive, the Wix project and editor package for visual studio,
canot installed for visual studio 2
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/05/20/136530.aspx
Issue #1 listed in here is a valid point but depending on your needs may not
apply. I guarantee you though you'll need to debug those CAs at some point
(issue #2 listed) and then you will realize the pain you have caused
yourself. If y
They tend to trigger AV software, for one thing, because their engines often
hook into script activity. My observation of many VBScripts I've seen is that
they're often a lot sloppier than "real" programming. For example, the majority
of VBScript custom actions I've seen all contain "On Error Re
Whenever I used vb custom actions they were small and easy to troubleshoot.
Matt Walker
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Have you ever tried to step through a VB CA in a debugger?
Wendell
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Matt Walker wrote:
> Why are Custom Actions in VBScript a warning sign?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: MikeR [mailto:michael.ru...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:44 PM
> To
Why are Custom Actions in VBScript a warning sign?
-Original Message-
From: MikeR [mailto:michael.ru...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:44 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Interviewing an installation developer
The excerise of writing a simple
One of the areas where this often shows is in actions where the "setup" way is
different from the commonly-known way. So these areas might be useful to
explore, such as (and assuming MSI):
How would you install a service? Start a service?
Register a COM server, both Win32 and .NET?
Install an a
The excerise of writing a simple install would probably be fine, though I'm
not sure it is necessary. I do agree that knowing the nuts and bolts of
Windows Installer is key and knowing what tables/actions do what is
critical. The one potential problem I could see with having them author a
small
Honestly if someone did come into the interview and say they saw
something like this on the Wix-Users mailing list, it would definitely
add a couple of points in my book. Certainly not a guaranteed hire for
obvious reasons though. :-)
--Nathan
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Schrieken, Rene
wr
Having read this request probably makes that I qualify for the position
;-)
Now only find out how bad the commute is from Gouda
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Stohlmann [mailto:nathan.stohlm...@gmail.com]
Sent: maandag 25 januari 2010 18:49
To: [Wix Users]
Subject: [WiX-users] Inte
This is probably a little bit off topic but I was thinking that this
list might have the right people for the discussion.
We are doing some interviews for an installation developer position at
my company pretty soon and we got pretty burned with the person who
was previously in the role since I th
Well, what I tried was a CA that ran before FindRelatedProducts. This
CA prompted for and set the TRANSFORMS variable in hopes that when the
FindRelatedProducts executed it would find the instance already
installed and go into maintenance mode. In my test however (maybe it
was flawed), it seemed
Hi everyone. I was trying out the ServiceConfigFailureActions element to be
tried out on Windows 7. However, I keep getting an error that says I either
don't have the right permissions or that there's something wrong with the
package. There's another thread with the same problem
(http://www.ma
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