Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 - current state of Burn

2010-03-05 Thread Alec Taylor
If you mean to embed 3 installers, be aware of the MSI limitations. (can't run more than one at once) So you'd have to link them all into run on Finish or Run on Close dialogs. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Jacques Eloff wrote: > Hi > > What is the current state of Burn (I'm running 3.5.1419.

Re: [WiX-users] How do I: Generate a Complete Installer usingCommand-Line Tools

2010-03-05 Thread Alec Taylor
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, cannot access that website: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /w/d/d...@interware.hu/wix/st882/var/access.php on line 113 I was wondering if you had any/knew of any complete Installers created with ONLY the command-line tools? - With full step-by-step

[WiX-users] SSRS deployment using Custom Actions - Error

2010-03-05 Thread Sachin Dubey
Hi All, I am stuck at this situation with no way out, please help if anyone has any clue. I have a WIX 3.0 installer that deploys SSRS reports using a differed C# custom actions. The impersonation it set to "yes". This all works fine on Win 2008 With UAC disabled, however on machine wi

[WiX-users] Greater than equal to comparison

2010-03-05 Thread Uma Harano
Hi, In the registry, I get a Version registry key that is 3.0.40624.0 I store this in a property and I need to let the setup proceed if this is the minimum version. If this key is 4.0 for instance, setup should proceed. Can I use the "Greater than equal to " operator for this? Or would I have to

[WiX-users] Tip: Version number updater

2010-03-05 Thread admiristrator
I was searching around for a solution to easily update my MSI version numbers with each build, but I couldn't find one. So I wrote this and now I don't have to remember. Thought I'd share... A C# 3.5 console app: using System; using System.IO; static class VersionUpdater { /// ///

Re: [WiX-users] iis extension (fail while processing the website -2147024883 )

2010-03-05 Thread MikeR
This customer may not have a Default Web Site on their system. Also, it also never hurts to get a Windows Installer log to confirm the port number is correct, etc. In our MSIs that use the WiX IIS extension to deploy IIS objects to the Default Web Site we use a custom action that goes and checks

Re: [WiX-users] Enforcing installation dependencies

2010-03-05 Thread MikeR
Just so my comment reads a bit more clearly I'm going to label the products. In your situation you have Product B that depends on Product A being installed. If you are also the author of Product A you can add AppSearch item to search for a specific component from Product B, use an Upgrade table

[WiX-users] Enforcing installation dependencies

2010-03-05 Thread admiristrator
I know we can configure a Launch Condition to check for the existence of another installed product before installing, but is there a way to enforce or at least warn the user if they later attempt to uninstall the prerequisite (especially if we author the prerequisite)? I guess there could be a lau

Re: [WiX-users] wixproj question

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Clark
That's what I thought to, but adding that line to the project file prevents the file from being loaded into VS. VS throws "Value does not fall within expected range" -Michael 2243 -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1

Re: [WiX-users] Do not remove registry values on uninstall (Lisa Gracias)

2010-03-05 Thread Dane Anderson (Acro Service Corp)
Actually, I found that using create does NOT do it. In fact I tried several of the settings, including "none". What I found was that any registry node or registry node immediately above a value that I touched, during install, was removed, and that included registry nodes that my install had not cre

Re: [WiX-users] wixproj question

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
wixproj files are msbuild files, not wix files, so you would use the msbuild syntax to read the value of an environment value, which is just $(envvar) -Original Message- From: Michael Clark [mailto:mcl...@fullarmor.com] Sent: 05 March 2010 15:52 To: General discussion for Windows Instal

[WiX-users] wixproj question

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Clark
Quick question. when using is it possible to do . I have tried several permutations and can't seem to get it correct. Release Engineer mcl...@fullarmor.com FULLARMOR Corporation 399 Boylston Street 11th Floor Boston, MA 02116 Phone:

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional service install (with ServiceControl)

2010-03-05 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/5/2010 4:40 AM, Nicole Zheng wrote: > My codes below works fine (pls ignore the line in italic at this moment). > However, there's new requirement to config the service during installation. > I can't use under each (just like the code > in italic below) because ServiceConfig table requires u

Re: [WiX-users] IIS WebServiceExtension removed on repair

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
If you generate a log for the repair and check the value of AspDllPath, is it being set to the right value ? -Original Message- From: pmdarrow [mailto:pdar...@metaworks.com] Sent: 04 March 2010 19:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] IIS WebServiceExtension rem

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional service install (with ServiceControl)

2010-03-05 Thread cwss
You should add an Id attribute to give the two configurations unique Id's. If you don't specify an Id it uses the name. Ex: VersionNT = 500 VersionNT > 500 Nicole Zheng wrote: > > I searched the forum and got following related topics but my problem i

Re: [WiX-users] Do not remove registry values on uninstall

2010-03-05 Thread Sebastian Brand
Set @Permanent='yes' in the to have the registry value kept during uninstallation. Best regards, Sebastian Brand http://blog.sebastianbrand.com -Original Message- From: Lisa Gracias [mailto:lisathelugubri...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 05:44 To: General discussion for Win

[WiX-users] Conditional service install (with ServiceControl)

2010-03-05 Thread Nicole Zheng
I searched the forum and got following related topics but my problem is a bit different, so I decided to post it here and look forward to your comments. Thanks. http://n2.nabble.com/Installing-a-Service-with-Varying-Dependencies-td693097.html#a693097 http://n2.nabble.com/Conditional-service-insta

[WiX-users] iis extension (fail while processing the website -2147024883 )

2010-03-05 Thread Thu Rein Win Htet
Hi, I have a wix installer and it was working fine on all the xp and windows server 2003 which are hosted on our development environment. But I am getting the error *"failed while processing the website -2147024883"* on user environment. The process is pretty straight forward, create a virtual d