[WiX-users] MSBuild Wix Compile Task Throwing Exception

2010-10-27 Thread Kevin Jones
This one has me stumped, I'm getting the following exception on a TfsBuild 2008 server from the compile wix MSBuild task: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///c:\BTemp\Rx Production Applications\RxAuditCreatorServer_Dev2\Sources\wix\candle.exe' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-user] Run Oracle script

2010-10-27 Thread dB .
I had looked at the Wix SQL CA source some time ago. Supporting Oracle via ODBC would be a major refactoring job. If anyone wants to do something productive, develop a whole new set of extensions ala Wix Sql extensions for an Oracle database based on OCI, or extend an infrastructure that's ODBC

Re: [WiX-users] To beta or not to beta

2010-10-27 Thread Barneck, Jared
Hey all, So if I have a new project to do in WIX, and I can use either Visual Studio 2008 or 2010. I know 3.5 says beta. But would you think there are more bugs fixed in 3.5 or 3.0? Which do you really think is more stable? Is anyone already shipping production code with 3.5? Thanks, Jared

[WiX-users] To beta or not to beta

2010-10-27 Thread Barneck, Jared
Hey all, So if I have a new project to do in WIX, and I can use either Visual Studio 2008 or 2010. I know 3.5 says beta. But would you think there are more bugs fixed in 3.5 or 3.0? Which do you really think is more stable? Is anyone already shipping production code with 3.5? Thanks, Jared

[WiX-users] Google's auto update mechanism for Windows now open sourced

2010-10-27 Thread John Robbins
Hello, It's not exactly WiX related but Google has released Omaha, their autoupdate and install system for Windows. As the topic has come up on this list several times, I thought it'd be worth sharing. http://omaha.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/OmahaOverview.html John Wintellect http://www.wintellec

[WiX-users] All Users Start Menu shortcut without touching HKCU for Windows 7 Logo testing

2010-10-27 Thread Will Sullivan
Seen tons of info about adding such shortcuts, but they all use a HKCU registry key as the key path. I need to create All Users shortcuts (both for "All Programs/Company/Product" and the Startup folder) WITHOUT touching HKCU so I can pass Win 7 Logo testing. If I attempt to do the following:

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-user] Run Oracle script

2010-10-27 Thread Christopher Painter
It won't be me; I've been to busy contributing to the community on other fronts.    Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Rob Mensching To: Gene

[WiX-users] Custom Action

2010-10-27 Thread sagar shinde
Hi to all, i am using following cutom action but its failing,its returning value-3 it shoud return 0,in case of sucess. i definde binary file for this,its working correctly with 32bit msi of product but its failing with 64bit product msi Solution configuration is Debug and Solution platform is x6

Re: [WiX-users] Simple Upgrade/Reinstall Question

2010-10-27 Thread Kim Gybels
On 14/10/2010 19:30, John Bergman wrote: I could not get this to work, and still have the same issue where I get the popup "Another version of this product is already installed". I tried several incantations, but just cannot seem to get this to work, here is a snippet from my installer file, do

Re: [WiX-users] How to change/define the size of the main UI form

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Mensching
IMHO, MSI UI is dead. There is very little that we can do outside of the Windows Installer to make packages look better than they did 1997. Burn, with its External UI handler, is where I'll be focusing my efforts. We can be far more successful there. You are, of course, welcome to try do well wit

Re: [WiX-users] UI missing after VerifyReadyDlg

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Mensching
This won't be terribly helpful but I never trust VScript custom actions. My opinion: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robmen/archive/2004/05/20/136530.aspx On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:34 PM, McKinnon, Chris wrote: > Another update... I've discovered by process of elimination that my > custom action calls

Re: [WiX-users] Regsitering a Managed Module for an IIS 7 Web Site

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Mensching
1. Not sure the IIS CA support managed modules. Today, the IIS CA cover most of IIS6 functionality and maybe one or two additional things in IIS7. More code is needed. 2. No, XmlConfig has the means to add, repair, remove values from XML files. 3. Don't think the IIS CA supports that today. Inter

Re: [WiX-users] Light Error LGHT0001 on custom table with binary column

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Mensching
Light doesn't support custom tables with binary columns. You can use a foreign key reference to the Binary table instead. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Eric Schultz wrote: > I'm getting an error from light when I build a wix project that has a > custom > table with a binary column. The error

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall in a different fragment?

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Mensching
The concept of "partial" Components (like partial classes in C#) has come up in the past. The first problem is the Component composition is a very sacrosanct thing in the Windows Installer. Modifying the composition willy-nilly by adding or removing other files from the link line seemed very danger

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-user] Run Oracle script

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Mensching
Or someone could contribute the changes to the WiX SQL CA to support those other databases. I for one, have never seen an Oracle box. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Christopher Painter < chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > InstallShield has MSSQL, Oracle and MySQL support. That's as o