Re: [WiX-users] Disable UI in patch by default

Hi, Any update pl -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Disable-UI-in-patch-by-default-tp4743962p4816326.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Intel® Parallel

Re: [WiX-users] Deleting files from all users

With MSI... nope. You can try to work around the issue using ActiveSetup but that'll be an undocumented and unsupported method. Your best bet is to file a bug with your developers, this is something that needs to be taken care of in the app rather than during setup (i.e. recreate cache every time

[WiX-users] light .h file extension shenanigans

Greetings, After running heat to harvest the output generated by RoboHelp, I ran into an odd error when compiling where the file exists in the file system at the specified location, but light.exe seems to think it doesn't.  All the other 800+ harvested files are working fine. Error reported:  err

Re: [WiX-users] don't delete/overwrite a file during major upgrade

Letting the user modify "installed" files will cause significant headaches. Best solution, until you understand why, just don't do it. Can you install a default configuration file and then copy that to the "user" configuration if it doesn't exist? That way Windows Installer doesn't 'know' about th

Re: [WiX-users] manual cleanup if msi uninstaller corrupted

If this happens again... here's the procedure I usually follow 1) Fix the broken condition.. avoid making any other changes if possible. 2) On a "broken" machine, "recache" the MSI with "msiexec /fv myproduct.msi" 3) Uninstall as normal (the broken msi has been replaced with the fixed one, and eve

Re: [WiX-users] Registering a COM DLL

I also meant to add, in my Product.wxs file I essentially have: ... ... Do any of the IDs in the sections need to match with the IDs in the section? I've essentially copied the entire output which was generated by heat and added it verbatim to my

[WiX-users] Adding more than one web site and pool in IIS7

I am trying to add and two WebSite and AppPools during installation and get the errors listed below. MSI (s) (68:A0) [23:32:30:219]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=WriteIIS7ConfigChanges,ActionType=11265,Source=BinaryData,Target=**,CustomActionData=**) MSI (s) (68:68) [

Re: [WiX-users] Registering a COM DLL

This isn't working for me. I'm harvesting the COM registration info with: heat file MyDLL.dll -template:fragment -ag -out fragment.wxs And I have appended my Product.wxs file with the generated output. My Product.wxs is now along the lines of: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>

[WiX-users] How to dynamically include external WXS files?

Hi All I've just started porting our old VS setup projects to WiX and so far it has been a good experience. However I've ran into one problem that I can't seem to solve. I'm hoping somebody is able to give me some hints on this one. We create custom installers for each of our clients. Each of the

[WiX-users] PIDTemplate w/ MaskedEdit

I have a PIDTemplate of <&-&-&-&-&> But 1 doesn't properly validate my key if it contains numbers. My Product Keys an be a mix of uppercase letters and numbers w/o any restrictions on a specific field. What template can I use that will only validate if the input is restrict

[WiX-users] ICE error

Hi, Im using VS 2010 RC, WiX 3.5.1512 with TFS Build CI. Im getting the follwing error when running a CI build... light.exe: Error executing ICE action 'ICE01'. The most common cause of this kind of ICE failure is an incorrectly registered scripting engine. See http://wix.sourceforge.net/faq

[WiX-users] Error 2812 when Navigating Through Custom Dialogs

Hi All, I'm facing an issue on clicking the "Next / Back" Button within the Custom Dialog in Wix3.0. It breaks the further MSI execution with the following error : "The Installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The err

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1923 when installing service

The answer seems to be to prefix the account name like this: Account=".\monikasvc" I'm guessing the ".\" means the current domain or workspace... I got this from looking at another service that was installed under a particular username (PostgreSQL). Seems to work on Windows XP and Windows 7 j

[WiX-users] Error 1923 when installing service

Hi all, I'm getting an error 1923 when trying to install a service. It works fine if a use the "NT AUTHORITY/NETWORK SERVICE" username, but I'm trying to use a specially created account. I know the account can run services because the database service already uses it. Here is the code for cre

[WiX-users] Troubleshooting erro 2812 with custom wix dialogs

Hi, I've created a custom dialog and published the same at appropriate sequence in Wix3.0. I can see this custom dialog invoking with the Controls included. The only problem I'm facing is on clicking the "Next / Back" Button within this custom dialog breaks the further MSI execution. Here is th