Check a verbose extra-info log (both the v and the x in your logging
parameters) and you will see exactly when those properties are set. You can
then find a place to set your property.
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From: John Bergman [mailto:john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com]
Sent: Thursday, Jul
Rob, Blair thank you very much for your explanation!
I haven't known that the immediate custom action can schedule the same
deferred custom
action multiple times. I will try it now. If I'll have some problems
with it I will ask for help.
Regards,
Maks
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From: Blair [mailto
You shouldn't prompt from the execute sequence. There are ways of "running"
MSI files where there is no user session to respond to the prompt and you
would hang your install.
The best way to show a message box from a custom action (and the only
supported way if you must do so from the execute sequ
Interesting. What is the Windoes Installer version it required?
I'm using Win7, the installer version of the product is 4.0 (), the Windows Installer version
on my machine is 5.0.7600.16385.
I've no idea why my code failed :(
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Correct.
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From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:27 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Automatically include arbitrary files
Dear Blair,
Thank you very much for your comprehensive explanation. Together
IIRC, the immediate custom action can schedule the same deferred custom
action multiple times. We've slowly moved away from that patter to calling
the deferred custom action once passing it a list of data because that runs
much, much faster.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM, wrote:
> As I unders
Is your added authoring in a fragment that has other things that ARE in the
MSI (use ORCA to see what got into the MSI)?
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From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:12 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] InstallE
You are in control of that. If there are sequencing requirements between
different drivers, etc. you can represent that in your schema and in your
table(s), and make your immediate action (or several immediate actions, if
that helps with setting sequencing, each can act on only the part of the
data
Yes, exactly.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Lukas Haase wrote:
> Dear Blair,
>
> Thank you very much for your comprehensive explanation. Together with
> the comments from "Does the MSI-filename matter" I think I won't care
> about minor and small updates and just ship always a major upgrade.
Hmm, my first guess is that the new MSI isn't actually being used for the
install. Is it possible the MSI is already cached and you're re-running
using the cached MSI? The verbose log file will show you at the top.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Lukas Haase wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As proposed in on
I shipped a couple CTPs of Live Mesh using that code. It worked for me then.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Elfe Xu wrote:
>
> Thanks. After adding the version resource, add a Id="RemoveFile"
> /> element, the RemoveFoldersEx action executed successfully.
>
> Action 14:10:30: RemoveFoldersEx
As I understand in this approach there will be one immediate ca (that
will marshal the data to the deferred) and only one deferred custom
action that will configure all drivers.
If there will be a custom actions for each action to driver, I will have
to describe them all in my wixlib.
The problem
Thanks. After adding the version resource, add a element, the RemoveFoldersEx action executed successfully.
Action 14:10:30: RemoveFoldersEx.
Action start 14:10:30: RemoveFoldersEx.
MSI (s) (A8:24) [14:10:30:747]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
C:\Windows\Installer\MSI8168.tmp, Entrypoint:
Hi,
We give MSI patches using wix.
Customers some time manually edit the xml files and some other config
files.
When the customer apply our msi patch,
The patch is not replacing the manually edited files in the customer
environment.
Is there any way as to replace all the files irrespecti
Couple things:
1. You can have multiple .wxs files to create a single or set of MSI files.
I recommend breaking your product down into useful chunks and putting them
in Fragments then grouping the Fragments in logical files. Managing a
product in a single .wxs file can be very challenging.
2. I
How about: SELECT `Value` FROM `Property` WHERE "Property"="ProductCode"
I don't think you want ::MsiGetProductInfoFromScript().
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jacques Eloff wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to extract the Product code from an MSI using C# (this is for a
> custom msbuild task I'm wr
Make sure the custom action has a version resource. Feel free to open issues
against the wix-contrib project so things get fixed there.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Elfe Xu wrote:
>
> The folder hierarchy is just a example. My application has nothing to do
> with
> user accounts.
>
> Thanks
Hmm, I think you should open a bug with all the information. This sounds
new.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jeffrey Cutting wrote:
> I've just upgraded from VS2008 and WiX 3.0 to VS2010 and WiX 3.5
> (3.5.1916.0, to be exact). I can build a couple of my most simple WiX
> projects inside Visua
The folder hierarchy is just a example. My application has nothing to do with
user accounts.
Thanks for the suggestion of using wix-contrib. At first I read the code and
thought it was easy for me to translate it to a C# version CA.
Anyway, I add version.lib to the projects, and get wix-contrib
Thanks--I got it to work! For others interested, I posted more details here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3304624/cancel-an-msi-without-showing-the-installation-interrupted-dialog
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I've just upgraded from VS2008 and WiX 3.0 to VS2010 and WiX 3.5 (3.5.1916.0,
to be exact). I can build a couple of my most simple WiX projects inside
Visual Studio without error. However, when I attempt to build a few of my
other projects (which still build without error in WiX 3.0) inside Vi
Hi
I'm trying to extract the Product code from an MSI using C# (this is for a
custom msbuild task I'm writing).
I'm using the following definition for P/Invoke
[DllImport("msi.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
static extern Int32 MsiGetProductInfoFromScript(string scriptFile,
StringBuilder pro
-- Copied from below, it would be appreciated if someone could shed some
insight into this.
What I was unable to get working is the code that combines the Domain\User in a
custom action, I suppose this has to do with the ordering if the CA,
Can someone comme
If this is a blocking issue that is preventing everyone from using an MSI
feature, then this sounds like a BUG in the MSI design that should be reported
to Microsoft with high priority and fixed in the next version of Windows
Installer.
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From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukas
Dear Blair,
Am 22.07.2010 01:04, schrieb Blair:
> 1. You can build MSIs with WiX that don't require running the setup as
> administrator. Nothing that can be done outside of Windows Installer without
> elevation requires elevation in Windows Installer to also do.
In fact this is exactly what I do
Thank you everybody for the discussion!
The result is clear to me: I won't use minor- and small updates.
One question concerning "Best practice" left for the deployment.
In fact my application consists of:
- "Viewer" (EXE, DLL, CHM)
- "Database" (dat-file (80MB), bunch of PDFs)
- License1.RTF, L
Dear Blair,
Thank you very much for your comprehensive explanation. Together with
the comments from "Does the MSI-filename matter" I think I won't care
about minor and small updates and just ship always a major upgrade.
Morever if this is "best practice". The saving isn't it worth!
Just one la
Hi,
As proposed in one mail I wrote a DLL for detecting old installations.
But WiX seems to completely ignore InstallExecuteSequence!
I played around, tried different things but it is just ignored!
For testing I just added this to my file:
Notepad.exe
Even if I install with msiexec /i
Well, the string of expanded properties and switches is what gets passed.
Ultimately, the fix was to pass INSTALLDIR instead having first set it
Secure="yes". Now everything just works.
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Volt at Microsoft
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From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@
The WixExtension can supply a compiler extension to implement your schema
for your pattern (allows you to easily describe what is being installed) and
should populate your custom table that your custom actions use to control
their work. It should also create a reference to the fragment in your wixl
One strategy would be to split your package into two (one with the
frequently changing stuff and another with the rarely changing stuff) and
use a bootstrapper to tie them together, but given the relative size
differences between your frequently changing (database and pdf files) and
your rarely cha
I would use a WixExtension. Why didn't that seem to work?
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:43 AM, wrote:
> I work on WiX-based installer for large product, we need to install 16
> drivers (of 3 different types, so there is 3 installation patterns).
> Difx library is not flexible enough, so we have our
Dear Blair,
Thank you so much! It's really great! Did not think that it will be that
simple. I am quiet astonished that all the flags you told me are neither
in the help file nor at [1]. But calling heat without parameters tells
all "hidden" parameters...
Am 22.07.2010 00:48, schrieb Blair:
>
When cancelling the installation process the dialog launched is the one
in the InstallUISequence with sequence -2 (UserExit in the standard WiX
UI).
I don't think you can have multiple entries in the Sequence tables with
the same sequence number so providing another appropriately Conditioned
dialo
I work on WiX-based installer for large product, we need to install 16
drivers (of 3 different types, so there is 3 installation patterns).
Difx library is not flexible enough, so we have our own tool to install
drivers. For each driver necessary to run this tool about 3 times (for
example: remove
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