thanks
to clarify it, i use major upgrade to enable two versions to be
installed at same time (for testing purposes).
as i understand so far, i need to generate (or autogenerate with WiX)
new guid for every component on major upgrade
if i will not do that, component guid will not be unique when two
not able to create folder under "My Documents"
can u describe your code a bit that some can understand your
problem
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Why?
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:19 PM, NayanaK wrote:
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Hi all,
I call HeatDirectory task from a MSBuild file. When the MSBuild file is
launched from a TFS 2010 Build Server on a x64 system, it fails with the
following error:
F:\Builds\1\MyApplication\CIBuild\Sources\Main\Build\..\Reference\wix\3.5\Heat.exe
dir
F:\Builds\1\MyApplication\CIBuild\So
In almost all cases, once you set the Guid you never change it. If you can,
follow the strict autogen GUID rules WiX enforces and let WiX manage the
GUID for you. Then you don't have to worry about it... because we already
did (for years and years ).
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Pally Sandher
Or do an "EnsureTable" in your original MSI to get the *correct* definition
from WiX (because we're always right! ) and the Merge Module will end
up using that.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe wrote:
> Edit the merge module in Orca/InstEd to have the correct value and save
> it
Removing on rollback is the easy case. The hard case is rollback of
uninstall where you removed a bunch of registry keys and have to put them
all back. Second hardest is repair where you write a bunch of entries and
have to write the old ones back on rollback.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Wil
Why?
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:19 PM, NayanaK wrote:
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And that was after we found 5+ other bugs with no end in sight. VS doesn't
make this easy because all the different project systems are unique and when
you do things wrong something blows up mysteriously.
We really want this feature but it's going to take more effort to get
working than we have ti
amazingly, this list still seems mostly accurate:
http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/11/20/WiX-editors
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Kenneth Tse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Wix and this community and would like to ask if there is any
> GUI IDE that help to develop the Wix installer (i.
PS: Burn's RegistrySearch returns the value expect.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
> As Rob said it is not supported in Windows Installer but it quite a
> simple custom action in DTF. I had a similar problem reading the SQL
> port my instance was using, here is an examp
This is more of a Windows Installer question than a WiX question, but I
am working on a CA for use with WiX, so please bear with me.
I have a binary entry point that I need to schedule more than once
during the execution sequence in order to process and set installer
properties in the correct o
Registry Search as implemented by Windows Installer does not distinguish
between an empty value and a non-existent value. You must search a key/name
that has a value to determine "existence".
You can use WiX's RegistrySearch (in WixUtilsExtension) for what you need,
but I believe you need to use 3
Rob, thanks for your answers!
And keep coding - you know we will! ;-)
-- Yan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> 1. Yep, there is actually a Sleep(500) in each progress message.
>
> 2. Yep, I've said so myself:
> http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/9/6/Burn-baby.-Burn
>
In the installation of our software, I have some features that don't
themselves contain files to be installed but the sub-features do. The tree
looks something like this:
Root Feature (No files, just a container)
Sub1 (No files, just a container)
First, I'd look to see if the DifX framework supplies all this stuff without
you needing to do it:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/install/difxtools.mspx
It sounds like you need to understand rollback custom actions. The basic idea
is that if you create a bunch of registry entries in an i
Hi,
I am new to Wix and this community and would like to ask if there is any GUI
IDE that help to develop the Wix installer (i.e. installshied).
I download and install Wix on my local machine, and I see Wix template shown up
on the Visual Studio 2010, but there are no visual IDE to add install
As Rob said it is not supported in Windows Installer but it quite a
simple custom action in DTF. I had a similar problem reading the SQL
port my instance was using, here is an example:
public static ActionResult ReadSqlTcpPort(Session session)
{
session.Log("Begin ReadS
Thanks Dave. Can you please elaborate? How can I author them to make my
installation atomic. I have 3 custom actions - each installs a driver - creates
some registry entries. I need to make sure that if the installation of any one
driver fails then the rest of the drivers should also not be inst
It was disabled because it was generating lots of bugs. You can enable it by
setting the Harvest property to true.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Hernán Martínez wrote:
> While porting one project from VS Setup to Wix (first time with it) I found
> that Votive doesn't harvest any reference at a
Sadly, the Windows Installer doesn't support that.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Brian Pang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> RegistrySearch for REG_DWORD handling using WiX Installer.
>
> After the RegistrySearch it returns REG_SZ with "#1".
> How do you resolve this issue so it will set the return type to a
Unfortunately, no. We turned the feature off because it was generating so
many bugs. We'll revisit the feature later (probalby WiX v4).
You can turnt he feature on by turning the Harvest property back on... but
don't be surprised if you run into problems.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Stelios
1. Yep, there is actually a Sleep(500) in each progress message.
2. Yep, I've said so myself:
http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/9/6/Burn-baby.-Burn
3. Yep, left them both so if there is a bug in Burn's uninstall you can
still easily remove the MSI.
1 and 3 are there to help testing. 2 is t
The windows installer is inherently transactional, your custom actions need to
be too.
Author them so that they install, uninstall and rollback correctly.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Bisht, Pradeep [mailto:pradeep_bi...@yahoo.com]
Sent: 22 November 2010 05:49
To: wix-users@lists.sou
Edit the merge module in Orca/InstEd to have the correct value and save
it. You'll have to do this each time you update the merge module with a
new version.
-Original Message-
From: Devarajan, Mahesh IN BLR SISL [mailto:d.mah...@siemens.com]
Sent: 22 November 2010 09:12
To: wix-users@list
I have my base MSI created using wix 2.0 toolset, now I am trying to create
Patches for the same using WiX 3.0
At the time of transform creation I get the following warning
"warning TRCH1115 : The value '0' in table '_Validation', column 'KeyColumn' is
invalid according to the column's validatio
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