Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile Getting Scheduled During Uninstall

My apologies. I meant that createElement operations are undo during *uninstall* (unless Permanent="Yes"). I think the code determines whether to install or uninstall by: WcaIsUninstalling(pxfcUninstall->isInstalled, pxfcUninstall->isAction); And isInstalled and isAction get set by: ::MsiGetCom

Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile Getting Scheduled During Uninstall

I had not noticed the Permanent attribute in the documentation: Permanent YesNoType Specifies whether or not the modification should be removed on uninstall. This has no effect on uninstall if the action was deleteValue. I'm not specifying the Permanent attribute in my authoring. I'm assuming th

[WiX-users] XmlFile Getting Scheduled During Uninstall

I'm using WiX 3.0.5419.0. I have a couple of installers that fail during uninstall because the XmlFile modifications are getting applied at uninstall time (that was unexpected) and the file to modify is no longer on the system (I see appropriate FileRemove in the log file prior to the failing E

Re: [WiX-users] How does network installation work?

Guesses, I don't know but: 1. Might use the IsAdminPackage property. 2. The first install might explicitly record its path somewhere (such as the OriginalDatabase property) but I suspect it uses the MsiSourceList APIs and the ProductCode of that first package. Phil Wilson -Original Me

[WiX-users] How does network installation work?

Hi, I'm trying to create an MSI that would refer to a resource from the network location during installation. I see an MSDN article about how office does network installation for different SKUs based on a config.xml file. >From the article : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179214(off

[WiX-users] disable driver loading during installation

Hi, I'm using the difx driver element to install a couple filesystem drivers during the installation of a product. It looks like the framework attempts to load and unload the drivers during the installation. Does anyone know if it is possible to disable this behavior? Loading the drivers wou

Re: [WiX-users] What can cause WcaInitialize to fail?

I haven't looked at the history of WcaInitialize() but the latest public version fails if it can't find/parse the Version resource of the DLL. -Original Message- From: Tim Krehl [mailto:tim.kr...@shavlik.com] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 7:20 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer

[WiX-users] Populating certain msi properties to be used by GPO

When deploying a msi through Group policies, I noticed that the Active Directory GPO dialog used to publish a msi has fields named "Publisher", "Contact", "Phone" and "URL". While the URL can be entered right in that dialog, I found no way to populate the other three fields. Especially the "Pub

Re: [WiX-users] Hide the cancel button on progressDlg nightmare

Did you export the "HideCancelButton" function correctly (in a def file?) -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Hide-Cancel-button-on-ProgressDlg-with-WiXUI-InstallDir-tp5220745p5222725.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at

[WiX-users] WiX contract work

I have started a WiX project that I do not have time to finish. If you are able to do contract work to help me finish it, please contact me. Tell me what you need to know in order to give me a quote. Thanks, Bill -- Th

Re: [WiX-users] Introducing Custom Bitmaps using Visual studio

Thanks for that, one of the perils of the internet, out of date documentation and not checking leads to a garden path. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Introducing-Custom-Bitmaps-using-Visual-studio-tp5221597p5222374.html Sent from th

Re: [WiX-users] What can cause WcaInitialize to fail?

It does not have a version resource. I also noticed that even on a working system running with /l*vx or /lvoicewarmupx the install log never contains the logging of ::WcaLog(LOGMSG_STANDARD, "Working on MyCA"); I had assumed this would always be logged and not seeing this line I assumed the WcaIn

Re: [WiX-users] Introducing Custom Bitmaps using Visual studio

I'm not familiar with the documentation you listed but I've replaced with the default WiX bitmaps by setting these WiX variables under the Product element when using the WixUI_Common. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Introducing-Cu

[WiX-users] Introducing Custom Bitmaps using Visual studio

The instructions look pretty simple "To replace stock bitmaps, add the files from the table below to a subdirectory named Bitmaps under your WiX source file." So I have added a folder called Bitmaps, containing the bmp files, to my solution in Visual Studio. My folder structure is now

Re: [WiX-users] What can cause WcaInitialize to fail?

Does your CA DLL have a VERSION resource? -Original Message- From: Tim Krehl [mailto:tim.kr...@shavlik.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:00 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What can cause WcaInitialize to fail? Yes it is being calle

Re: [WiX-users] Hide the cancel button on progressDlg nightmare

Following are the run times the DLLs that dumpbin lists when i run against my HideCancel.dll. I believe all these are windows Dlls. KERNEL32.dll USER32.dll GDI32.dll WINSPOOL.DRV ADVAPI32.dll SHLWAPI.dll OLEAUT32.dll OLEACC.dll I have made sure the MFC is linked to static libraries in the VC++

Re: [WiX-users] Hide the cancel button on progressDlg nightmare

After building run "dumpbin /imports " and verify that every DLL listed is part of windows and not a VC runtime. If you find a non-Windows VC runtime DLL (it'll usually have an 8, 9, or 10 embedded in the filename) you need to go back to the properties of your VC project and make sure that you are