[WiX-users] serial number validation

2010-10-29 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi: is serial number validation built in to wix via a dialogue, or would I have to create my own? Regards Sean. -- Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for th

[WiX-users] Repair fails when original MSI not available

2010-10-29 Thread vivekanandan balaguru
Hi, If we delete the MSI from disk after install, Repair option fails with the message "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable". How to enable local cache in Wix? This feature works on InstallShield created BasicMSI projects by default. thanks, Vivek ---

Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild Wix Compile Task Throwing Exception

2010-10-29 Thread Kevin Jones
Switching the TFS Build 2010 process to 32 bit indeed solved the issue. No more exceptions. Now the issue is that its MSBuild 4.0 and TFS Build 2010 is building the .wixproj before the .csproj it is referencing. That is not going to work right. However, that is going to have to be a new thread

Re: [WiX-users] How to add billboards

2010-10-29 Thread Chris Lord
Not done this myself but I note there's a section on it in Nicks WiX book (available from PacktPub.com) which I got last week and just starting to read :) On 10/29/2010 03:40 PM, Tom Crozier wrote: > I have searched the web and have tried playing around with adding billboards > to my installer

[WiX-users] How to add billboards

2010-10-29 Thread Tom Crozier
I have searched the web and have tried playing around with adding billboards to my installer but have not been successful. Does anyone have a tutorial or example on how to accomplish this? Thanks- Tom -- Nokia and AT&T p

[WiX-users] Weird Visual Studio 2010 behavior...

2010-10-29 Thread John D. Marinuzzi
Perhaps this isn't the right forum for this. I am using Visual Studio 2010 and WIX 3.6. If I have a wixproj loaded and I get errors, I used to be able to double click the error and go right to the line (like any normal IDE). It isn't happening with VS2010. Does anybody else have this behavior?

Re: [WiX-users] Deploying File in GAC

2010-10-29 Thread Anu Dev
Thank you so much removing that worked. From: Nick Ramirez To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 6:22:31 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Deploying File in GAC Do you need the AssemblyApplication attribute? I've not used that before when

[WiX-users] Deploying Sharepoint WSP file

2010-10-29 Thread Anu Dev
Hi I have a WSP which has to be deployed using the WIX installer. I am right now deploying this by running a batch file which deploys this WSP and activates the feature. And during uninstall will run another batch file which will deactive the WSP and uninstalls it. Would like to know if this is

Re: [WiX-users] General Information Question about New Releases and GUIDs...

2010-10-29 Thread John D. Marinuzzi
Hello Nick, Replies below... > You shouldn't ever need to change the UpgradeCode as long as it's all the same product. Windows Installer needs the UpgradeCode to stay the same so that it can detect older versions of itself during an upgrade, > should you ever set it up to do one. For example, t

Re: [WiX-users] General Information Question about New Releases and GUIDs...

2010-10-29 Thread Nick Ramirez
You shouldn't ever need to change the UpgradeCode as long as it's all the same product. Windows Installer needs the UpgradeCode to stay the same so that it can detect older versions of itself during an upgrade, should you ever set it up to do one. For example, the Upgrade element needs that same c

Re: [WiX-users] General Information Question about New Releases andGUIDs...

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
When you change a components key (directory) path, you should change the guid. Using * for the GUID generates a GUID based on the key path (file name and location or registry path). Sounds like just the thing you need. -Original Message- From: John D. Marinuzzi [mailto:nu...@hypack.com] S

Re: [WiX-users] Deploying File in GAC

2010-10-29 Thread Nick Ramirez
Do you need the AssemblyApplication attribute? I've not used that before when installing to the GAC. - Learn WiX with the book: https://www.packtpub.com/wix-a-developers-guide-to-windows-installer-xml/book WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML -- View this message in context:

[WiX-users] General Information Question about New Releases and GUIDs...

2010-10-29 Thread John D. Marinuzzi
Hello All, Our company puts out a release of our software once a year. By default, it gets installed in a directory that is unique every year. I just started using WIX last release and we have a new one coming up. Our customers will often keep the old version during a transition. My question

[WiX-users] Deploying File in GAC

2010-10-29 Thread Anu Dev
HI   How to deploy a file in GAC using WIX? This is what I am using but no luck L                       Regards Anweshi -- Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America

[WiX-users] Apparent bug in ControlEvent Table docs - or impementation

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Packard
Not specifically a WiX issue, but perhaps relevant. According to the MSDN for the ControlEvent table, both Event and Argument are of type Formatted. Column Type KeyNullable EventFormattedY N Argument FormattedY N However, testing seems to indicate tha

Re: [WiX-users] invoking another .msi

2010-10-29 Thread Gary Gocek
I am working on a project that makes use of setupbld from Wix 3.0 to build a bootstrapper (even though we use Wix 3.5 to build our MSIs). We don't chain MSIs or install pre-requisites. We use a bootstrapper for UAC compatibility. For this limited purpose, setupbld works OK. In order to help with i

Re: [WiX-users] invoking another .msi

2010-10-29 Thread Pally Sandher
The WiX bootstrapper "Burn" is in development for v3.6. Until then you can either use something like dotnetinstaller (http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/), SharpSetup (http://sharpsetup.eu/) or a commercial package. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500

Re: [WiX-users] invoking another .msi

2010-10-29 Thread Peacelyk
Thanks Sandher for your reply! I searched google and didn't get very well what the bootstrapper is. Is it a program that start different .msi(in my case)? Do you have a code snippet (c#) so that i could learn a little? How is it (bootstrapper) meant to be work? -- View this message in context: h

Re: [WiX-users] Keep/migrate feature state on major update

2010-10-29 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Nick Ramirez wrote: > > You shouldn't need to schedule the MigrateFeatureStates action manually. The > UpgradeVersion element has an attribute called MigrateFeatures that you can > set to "yes". Thanks a lot, that did the trick. My bad - I noticed that the f