Hi,
Thanx a ton for your response.
If the LAUNCHEDFROMSETUPEXE=1 is set in the setup.exe how to trace the name
of the exe in the MSI.
Regards,
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All of the actions that change the state of the machine should be done
during the transaction (the progress bar part). There is nothing built in to
handle modifying machine state outside of the transaction because it
wouldn't be rolledback correctly.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:14 PM, sean farrow
wr
No. But maybe you could have the setup.exe pass a Property to the MSI when
it launches like "LAUNCHEDFROMSETUPEXE=1"
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:18 PM, tvks wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> >From WiX is it possible to get the name the name of the application from
> which the msi is launched ? If launched from s
Hi,
>From WiX is it possible to get the name the name of the application from
which the msi is launched ? If launched from some bootstrap program I want
to get the name of the setup.exe and when the msi is double clicked from
Windows I want to get the msiexec.exe.
Pls help as this is urgent.
Re
Hi:
Within an installation I'm currently writing, I have a checkbox that sets
a property on one of the dialogues. This property control whether registry
values are written. I probably though msi best practices is to add the
registry entries to a component, and base them on a property, i.e the
pro
Hi Chris,
Could you please share some more information about this implementation. This
seem the best so far.
The rdl files would be embedded within MSI package, how would those be
extracted by the c# CA?
Thanks for your help
Sachin!
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:36:11 -0800
> From:
I very much appreciate the idea and thoughtfulness of your reply! There's one
technical factor you may not be aware of that I think will not fit into your
approach (though I love the simplicity of it).
The requirement is to install 1 file into the same folder that the Visual
Studio file "simple
A couple years ago I wrote a C#/DTF CA and some custom tables in WiX to call
into the SSRS webservice to create the directories, datasources and reports
associating the reports to the datasource.
It was pretty primitive ( SSRS doesn't support transacted installs and since
the webservice could b
In article ,
"Blair" writes:
> If the non-transformed instance of the product is installed, the Upgrade
> table will never be evaluated because the FindRelatedProducts action skips
> itself for maintenance mode operations. To some degree I'm surprised that
> what you are doing for installat
I put them to a folder, and then exec RS.exe to call an rss script to do the
deployment.
This has a number of problems
1. We rely on RS.exe being on the path to find it. This should be the case,
but we have had issues particularly where two versions of SQL Server are on the
same machine.
2.
Aha!
Put them in a folder and tell the user to upload them.
Sad, but true.
-Original Message-
From: Sachin Dubey [mailto:sachin.du...@live.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 12:29 p.m.
To: Wix Users
Subject: [WiX-users] Deploying SSRS reports using Wix Installer.
Hi All,
What i
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa368012.aspx
Feature action state values (as numeric values) are obtained using the
&FeatureName syntax (so &addOnTool or &mainApp) which you would compare with
the actual numeric values of the INSTALLSTATE_* values.
-Original Message-
From: Jan Bilek [m
Hi All,
What is the best way to deploy SSRS reports using WiX 3.0 installer?
Thanks
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If the non-transformed instance of the product is installed, the Upgrade
table will never be evaluated because the FindRelatedProducts action skips
itself for maintenance mode operations. To some degree I'm surprised that
what you are doing for installation even works. That isn't the way it is
adve
Glad I could help. Could you suggest any way we could have written the
documentation that would have made this approach more clear?
-Original Message-
From: MikeR [mailto:michael.ru...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:35 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX
If you already know the directory you want by name (which your attempt
requires) and you know it is always an immediate subdirectory of the
templates folder (which your attempt also requires) can't you do something
like this?
...
...
...
Or even this:
...
...
...
...
The intent should b
The cause of a reboot is the fact that the mainApp gets installed again.
I just execute MsiConfigureFeature("PRODUCT-GUID", "addOnTool",
INSTALLSTATE_LOCAL); and installation of mainApp begins.
I've got a lots of CAs. How could they be conditioned on a Feature? I've
tried to search the docs and
I do use a custom dialog to present the Web Site, IP address and TCP
Port and then use a custom action to validate what the user provides. If
it is all correct then the install proceeds and I use the Port Number
just as you describe in your reply. I default the TCP Port to 80, but
they are welcome
I considering going that route but what if the user selects a website that is
set to run on port 81 for instance? Then http://[ComputerName]/[Vdir] won't
work. I need to get the port number and do something like
http://[ComputerName]:[PortNum]/[Vdir] but I don't know how to get it
(unless of cours
I wonder how to set working directory of the launching application (setup
launches app after the setup).
Currently I have the following custom action to launch the installed
application.
And it refers to the following file defined in the WIX:
My setup installs successfully and
Hi,
Thanks for your interest guys, I'll try to explain a bit better...
@Blair: "Do the transforms change UpgradeCode?"...no.
So my msi installs application 'Foo'. I want be able to have up to 5
instances (for example) of Foo on one machine (these should all be in
the context of the machine, no
I would take what the user types in and put that in a Property (might
already be if you check a verbose log file) and then use that Property
to populate the config file in an XMLConfig element. Should be a piece
of cake.
Is that Pontiac Motor Division Arrow?
-Original Message-
From: pmdar
To expand on that response, you might also need to prepend the vdir
property with an http://[ComputerName]/ before your vdir property that
you gather from the user.
-Original Message-
From: Chad Petersen
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:18 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installe
Hi all. Is there a way to get the full URL of an IIS virtual directory that
was created using WiX? The UI I have created lets my users select an IIS
website and enter in a virtual directory name. The vdir then gets created
using the IIsExtension.dll. The catch is that I need to stick the URL to
th
If you want your users to do the work you could use a simple
LaunchCondition in Product B which checks something that indicates
Product A is installed before it will allow installation of Product B.
However if you want automation with separate packages you're going to
have to bundle Product B with
Just to provide another option, in my most recent project, a client/server
product which has two services which are shared and installed by both the
client and server MSIs. I wanted to single-source the WiX for those
services so it could be maintained in once place.
I used a WiX fragment for e
Can you try to just refresh the page? Let it run again, that might be
some temporary problem with some of the blog sources...
-- Yan
-Original Message-
From: Ryan O'Neill [mailto:r...@ryanoneill.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 16:51
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML
Thanks for information on FIPS, I'm pretty sure I won't be needing to work
with that at all.
This product is a server/client configuration. The server is almost
entirely .NET, we do have one service that requries a few registry keys but
it's not for COM registration or anything just application
Personally, I'd recommend a bootstrapper using the msbuild
GenerateBootstrapper task. I've got to go to a meeting now, but if you have
any questions about that approach feel free to ask and I'll pick up later.
Ryan
-Original Message-
From: Cody Gibson [mailto:cgib...@artoftest.com]
Sent:
Here's my problem:
We offer 2 products to our customers. Product A works standalone. Product B
relies on product A. Both products are owned by us (meaning we have total
control of the source code and the installers). I am responsible for the
installers. Currently both ship as .MSI's which are b
It looks interesting, but there is an error ' Pipes encountered a problem
while running this pipe: malformed engine data (2)'. Did it choke on a bad
blog?
-Original Message-
From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net]
Sent: 26 January 2010 14:30
To: General discussion for Windows Inst
Hello WiX Community,
I thought this can be useful for some of you. For me, lots of the info
related to Windows Installer, WiX and installations in general come from
various blogs of known authorities. Hence, I've generated a simple Yahoo
pipe in order to have a simpler way to subscribe to this kin
Have you tried using the -cc and -reusecab switches with light.exe?
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Thanks for the response. That's what I was afraid was happening.
So is there a way to somehow reference the search that yields the
VS90_ITEMTEMPLATES_DIR? I tried a
But that just gives me
error LGHT0094: Unresolved reference to symbol
'RegLocator:VS90_ITEMTEMPLATES_DIR'
Trying the sa
Thank you Blair for such quick answer.
We are packaging manually beacuse we are reusing CAB files for more MSI
packages. Some of these packages do not reference all the files in each
of the shared CAB files and it would be hard to select which CAB to use.
Example layout:
ProgramOne.msi:
- Progra
One way is to turn off all compression in your authoring, and then update the
Media table after you create the cabinets, but you noticed that that results in
the files still being laid out (copied).
You could (somehow) pre-calculate the final cabinet file order and place the
cab files in their
Hi,
I have a bit weird question/feature request:
- Is there a way, how to skip cabinet creation? I would like Light to
create only the MSI package.
We are packaging all the files manually using CABARC from "Microsoft
Cabinet Software Development Kit" and it takes unnecessary time and disk
space
Your transforms change your UpgradeCode?
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:10 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode
Well, what I tried w
Was it a warning window, or a hard error? Did you use the "Advanced"
installation button?
As far as I know, if you select "Advanced" you can disable the VS 2005
integration and you don't have to have the project aggregator MSI installed
to get VS 2008 integration.
-Original Message-
From:
Looks like using the generated guids for component ids will work out for
you. The only two gotchas you need to look out for are:
If you change a keypath (either directory tree or targetfilename for a
keypath) and you have other resources in that same component (registry/COM
registration/other file
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