Re: [WiX-users] NEXT button behavior

Perfect Mike! That's what I was looking for... It works GREAT! Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/NEXT-button-behavior-tp5163545p5166022.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Product dependencies

Does your framework installation use an UpgradeCode? If so, you can use the UpgradeTable to locate it. Just make sure you put OnlyDetect="yes" on those entries that set your detection properties. You can use the Upgrade element several times in your WiX code and the Upgrade value for each can be d

Re: [WiX-users] VB script CA fails only on my laptop

My experience is that: 1. WMI custom actions can be unreliable in the MSI context. I don't know why, but they are error prone. 2. AV products often disrupt VBScript code. 3. If a VBScript has a syntax/runtime error it's reported in the log in some detail, down to line number and column. 2896 i

Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

I haven't worked on linux in at least 4 years, enough time for the entire world to change under me. :( Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

Re: [WiX-users] Evaluate property

I believe it would be something like: Session.Property("TOMCATHOME") -Original Message- From: cge [mailto:ell...@avaya.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Evaluate property I have a registry entry that contains a directory

Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

Just be clear, I don't like the UAC design either. I like the goals of the design and what they are trying to accomplish but I think the way they decided to implement it in the GUI is a little cumbersome. I come from a *nix background where you have to explicitly elevate yourself to run adminis

Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

Yeah, I know. Somehow I managed to almost completely avoid Vista. And our previous installer was InstallShield 6.31. Now I'm up to my neck in MSI, WiX, and Windows 7. Some of this is just bruising from the learning curve. Glad there is someone out there who can see past the bruising... ---

[WiX-users] Evaluate property

I have a registry entry that contains a directory: Then I have a JScript custom action that has to parse an XML file inside this directory: var filepath = "[TOMCATHOME]/conf/serverConfig.xml"; xmlDoc.load(filepath); But the xmlDoc.load doesn't find the file, because t

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

Burn will support that scenario when it is done because it gives the developer complete control over the UI. However, it won't be done until the end of 3.6. -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 7:42 AM To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] How do you handle .dll's for system32 directory?

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Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

Although now-a-days on my Ubuntu box when I run the Update Manager, it invokes a GUI SUDO (linux implementation of UAC?) after the packages are downloaded right before they are applied, so it seems that the workflow-interruption method is being copied by that distro at least. -Original Mess

Re: [WiX-users] FW: Configure file.dtsConfig

I don't know what your directory structure looks like so I can't validate the correctness of xmlconf...@file. For less fragile code use the [#fileid] format to refer to the file you want to modify: The action you are taking is to delete a node. The ElementPath specified will g

Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

Ironically enough, the point of the UAC *is* to disrupt your process and *force* you to think about what you are doing. If you just play dumb and click OK or if you just disable UAC, then you have made a choice and taken deliberate action to lower the security level offered by UAC. This is a ch

Re: [WiX-users] NEXT button behavior

I do something very similar in some of our installs. What I do is on the Next button I run my CA that validates the data, in this case a database connection string. If it's valid it moves on to the next dialog. If the connection cannot be validated a SpawnDialog event is triggered to display th

[WiX-users] FW: Configure file.dtsConfig

I used XmlConfig Element, but the file was not change. File.dtsConfig: \\convs07\Historical Integration\DataFarm\WIT\Files\ Provider=SQLNCLI10.1;Data Source=CONVS04;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=WIT_Historical Wix Code: ...

Re: [WiX-users] NEXT button behavior

Hmmm. I could give that a try... My dialog has 4 edit controls on it that need to be filled in by the user, and then parsed by the DLL, Like you said, maybe another 'validate' button is the best way. I'll try a few things and report back. Thanks again... -- View this message in context: htt

Re: [WiX-users] NEXT button behavior

The only other thing I could think of is having 2 dialogs which are a clone of each other & simply looping round between them until the user enters some valid data. 1 Do the same on the copy but reference the original dialog in the 2nd NewDialog e

Re: [WiX-users] Configure file.dtsConfig

http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/util_xsd_xmlconfig.htm or http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/util_xsd_xmlfile.htm Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the **

Re: [WiX-users] NEXT button behavior

Thanks for the quick response, Pally. That is the problem - I was hoping to not have to add an extra button. I couldn't figure out how to check everything before the user clicks the next button... Hmmm. Any other ideas? Thanks again Greg -- View this message in context: http://windows-insta

Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

I don't necessarily agree with the UAC design. For me it disrupts my thought process and workflow. After I click/double-click some action I am thinking about the task to be completed. Then some dialog pops up wanting me to stop and decide if I was the initiator. Or worse, if I want to allow some

[WiX-users] Configure file.dtsConfig

Hi, I need to configure a lot of files.dtsConfig in the installation. How Do I do this? Thanks, Carolina Zuqueto Amaral carolina.ama...@conv.com.br tel +55 21 2494-5476 cel +55 21 9524-7186 -

Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

It's not a matter of putting up with #3, that's basic functionality of UAC & Windows Installer on UAC systems. It won't elevate until it's good & ready to do something which needs elevation. If it did always run msiexec permanently elevated there would be legions of people complaining about how ins

Re: [WiX-users] NEXT button behavior

You could disable the Next button until MYSTUFFISVALID = "1" using Control Conditions. 1 MYSTUFFISVALID = "1" But with that you will need another way to run the "ValidateMyStuff Custom Action so you may have to move it to a new button

Re: [WiX-users] How do you handle .dll's for system32 directory?

http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/heat.htm & http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php#6.1 Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the ** Integrated Environmental So

Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

OK. Duh. Forgot to add Impersonate="no" to the #1 custom action... Now it's good. Brain is a little scrambled trying to come up to speed on Code Composer and finish this stuff for Windows 7. Two wildly divergent tasks... Thanks for all your help!!! -Original Message- From: Kurt Jens

[WiX-users] How do you handle .dll's for system32 directory?

I'm wondering. There's a batch script that is part of what I'm working on, but it's not robuts enough to just call it. It pretty much does: regsvr32 /u /s copy /y regsvr32 /s How do you do something like that with WiX? Thanks in advance for the help.

[WiX-users] NEXT button behavior

I created a custom dialog and stuck the forward and backward links in my copy of WixUI_InstallDir.wxs: NOT Installed NOT Installed I made a new wxs file with a fragment in it that describes my dialog. All this seems to work. I would like to have it so that when the user

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

Nope. Until Burn is done you'll need to write your own to do that (I don't know if Burn will support that sort of scenario when it's finished, just speculating since it's still in development). Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 85

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

Thanks Pally for suggestion. I tried with dotNetInstaller, it is only helping me select/deselect and launch my actual MSIs in proper sequence. What i want is something like an UI which will ask user for which MSIs to run and then launch the resective MSIs in background and show only the progres

Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC

Thanks. I got confused and thought Impersonate="no" was the default. Good coding practice is to be explicit about key parameters, default value or not. That took care of #2 & #4. I guess we all will now have to put up with #3. #1 is the real failure and continues to fail. This looks like a ser

Re: [WiX-users] Which one to use? WIX3 or WIX3.5beta?

True, that can catch you off guard if you're not expecting it. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Blair wrote: > IIS7 is one of those *new* things in 3.5 that is still baking. > > -Original Message- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 7:14

[WiX-users] Product dependencies

Hi, My product involves two packages. One is a "Framework" package, which is required by my application. The other one is the application itself. Now I'd like to model this dependency into my package, especially because I've already rolled out an older version of the "Framework" and I want to ensu

Re: [WiX-users] error CNDL0242

To fix the ICE 61 error, add a VersionMax attribute to your UpgradeVersion that has a value equal to your Product/@Version attribute and also specify UpgradeVersion/@IncludeMaximum="no". -Original Message- From: Thomas Mathis [mailto:t...@bica.ch] Sent: 09 June 2010 17:43 To: wix-users@l

Re: [WiX-users] Which one to use? WIX3 or WIX3.5beta?

IIS7 is one of those *new* things in 3.5 that is still baking. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 7:14 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Which one to use? WIX3 or WIX3.5be