[WiX-users] Does WIX / MSI support product downgrade ?

2010-08-01 Thread Joe Osman
I need to support product downgrade. I've noticed that when I run the install of an older product version than the one that is already installed I get the two versions installed side by side. The old install version didn't remove the new one and the two versions are installed side by side. I d

Re: [WiX-users] CreateDatabase custom action error

2010-08-01 Thread Michael Osmond
Hi The actual error from SQL server is -2147567259 - you need to find what this equates to. You can also look in the SQL Server Logs (via SQL Management Studio) it may give some more hints. I suspect you have a permissions issue - either the user running the install does not have sufficient p

Re: [WiX-users] strage votive automation issue on vs2010

2010-08-01 Thread Tomasz Grobelny
Build 1930? No change... -- Regards, Tomasz Grobelny Dnia sobota 31 lipiec 2010 o 23:53:30 Rob Mensching napisaƂ(a): > I think there was a bug open about this that might have been fixed in this > week's build. Or it might still be open. > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Tomasz Grobelny < >

[WiX-users] InstallFinalize error

2010-08-01 Thread Umesh Joglekar
I am getting following error in installation. PROPERTY CHANGE: Deleting UpdateStarted property. Its current value is '1'. Action ended 22:36:25: InstallFinalize. Return value 3 What does it indicate? Thanks Umesh --

Re: [WiX-users] Managed code CA succeeds but still fails with 1603

2010-08-01 Thread Bassam Tabbara
The problem does not seem to be specific to an OS or virtual machine. I've seen this on WinXP and Vista all running without VMs. Are there additional trace/log facilities that I could turn on to better debug this? | -Original Message- | From: Michael Bednarek [mailto:michael.bedna...@eu.c

Re: [WiX-users] Managed code CA succeeds but still fails with 1603

2010-08-01 Thread Michael Bednarek
Hi Bassam, You're right, it does sound related to the .NET custom action issue that I posted about earlier in the year. What OSes are the problematic machines running? Are they virtual machines? I have not yet found a solution to my problem unfortunately, although it only occurs rarely so it h

[WiX-users] CreateDatabase custom action error

2010-08-01 Thread Tomasz Telepko
Hi, I've got problem with creating database. On some computers it works fine, but on some other I get error: Action 21:44:29: CreateDatabase. Creating Databases CreateDatabase: Error 0x80004005: failed to check if database exists: 'WFSDB', error: unknown error Error 26201. Error -2147467259: f

Re: [WiX-users] Configurabble Install Directory

2010-08-01 Thread Umeshj
Sorry for the typos in ConfigurableDirectory. Umesh -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Configurabble-Install-Directory-tp5351039p5360604.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Configurabble Install Directory

2010-08-01 Thread Umeshj
Hi, Thanks for your response. Earlier I had tried .. I was setting "INSTALLDIR" property to the directory of my choice. Features w ... ..As both features were going to the same directory. I will try what you had suggested. Thanks. Umesh -- View th

[WiX-users] Managed code CA succeeds but still fails with 1603

2010-08-01 Thread Bassam Tabbara
I'm seeing the following weirdness in the setup log on some of our clients' machines: MSI (s) (74:88) [16:20:20:178]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSIC1F3.tmp, Entrypoint: SaveOldConfig Action start 16:20:20: CA_SaveOldConfig. SFXCA: Extracting custom action to tem