Re: [WiX-users] How does patching decide which files to include in msp?

2010-09-25 Thread Oleksandr Y. Nechyporenko
Blair, 1. I use the following syntax: "$(WIX)Bin\torch.exe" -p -xi "$(ProjectDir)Installers\Base\ProductSetup.wixpdb" "$(ProjectDir)Installers\Latest\ProductSetup.wixpdb" -out "$(ProjectDir)Obj\ProductSetup.wixmst" "$(WIX)Bin\candle.exe" "$(ProjectDir)ProductPatch.wxs" -out "$(ProjectDir)Obj\Pro

Re: [WiX-users] How does patching decide which files to include in msp?

2010-09-25 Thread Blair
Some quick questions: 1. When calling torch, is the "-p" argument used? Without that, pyro may not see the file or other data it needs to do its job. 2. Are the source paths in the two wixpdbs the same or different? Are the wixpdbs "bound/binary" (so that the older version of the file is not overw

Re: [WiX-users] not able to access unc locations in deffered custom actions

2010-09-25 Thread Blair
To UNC: Is possible during deferred, if you set the Impersonate attribute to "yes". -Blair -Original Message- From: Fabio Di Lorenzo [mailto:fa...@dilorenzo.ch] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] WebBrowser control in custom UI dialog

2010-09-25 Thread Blair
#2 (ExternalUI) is UI in your bootstrapper exe. It calls MSI APIs to register a callback method and it uses other MSI APIs to start the installation. It does not launch MSIEXEC.EXE but uses MSI.DLL directly. This allows you to have your own progress monitoring and your own "end" UI instead of depen

Re: [WiX-users] Checking for other products

2010-09-25 Thread fiordean dacian
I assume you logged MSI actions; what is the value of REQUIREDBINARIES property? Also, I'm note sure you correctly use the upgradecode (ID tag from the Upgrade element). That ID must be the UpgradeCode from the product you want to detect wheter installed or not; do you have that GUID? --- On

Re: [WiX-users] Major upgrade, MigrateFeatureStates & custom action

2010-09-25 Thread fiordean dacian
Hi Phil, thanks. Actually I wanted it that way, but I feel it's not the problem at the moment. Yet, as is my case, 2 features and the original installer installed Feature1, I would like the upgrade to go directly upgrading the installed feature with no UI displayed to select what feature to in