[WiX-users] A WiX installer that installs to “ Program Files” directory on both x86 and x64

2010-05-16 Thread James Newton-King
I have a .NET application that runs on both x86 and x64. I'd like to have a 32 bit WiX installer (so it that will work on both platforms) but I'd like it to install to /Program Files/ rather than /Program Files (x86)/ on 64 bit operating systems. How would you go about doing this? My idea was to

Re: [WiX-users] FW: Reset IIS

2010-05-16 Thread John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies)
It would be better to restart your application pool, rather than IIS. -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:21 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] FW: Reset IIS Found th

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and TFS Build

2010-05-16 Thread John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies)
Which version of TFS are you using? For 2008, I do the same thing, I actually changed the web service config file to set the directories, I was able to get it pretty close to our developer configuration so that I could get WiX working with the same settings for both environments. -Original

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch converts value data

2010-05-16 Thread Kristoffer Danielsson
What happens if you specify %PROGRAMFILES%? It always maps to C:\Program Files. > Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 19:07:32 +0200 > From: eriksson.jim...@gmail.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch converts value data > > Can you explain the StringTools solut

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch converts value data

2010-05-16 Thread Jimmie Eriksson
Can you explain the StringTools solution? 2010/5/14 Matt Johnson > Not sure why. I had the same problem. I used the StringTools custom > action from the msiext project to take the " (x86) back out. If there's an > easier way, I'd be glad to know. > > BTW - I checked that specific key, and it

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch converts value data

2010-05-16 Thread Jimmie Eriksson
No, but I do a registry search to find out where microsoft have their HelpLibManager.exe installed. Then my thought was that the variable HELPINSTALLDIR after the registry search should map to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Help Viewer\v1.0\" where it seems to be located both on win