Re: [WiX-users] Delete Registry Value

2010-12-12 Thread sagar shinde
any workaround? On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Blair wrote: > Built-in Windows Installer can append or prepend values to MULTI_SZ during > install, and (I suppose) remove those specific values on uninstall. I don't > think it natively supports removing arbitrary values, though. > > -Orig

[WiX-users] Check if user exists in UI

2010-12-12 Thread sangeeta1
Hi, I would like to check if a user exists in AD domain when username, domain, password are entered in input dialog fields. Can (and how) I use to check if a user exists or will I have to write managed custom action to search for directoryEntry in AD? Can some one provide pointers on how to ch

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Browse Dialog

2010-12-12 Thread sangeeta1
Did you find an example for the custom file open dialog? I am looking for one too. I read in one of the posts to create a custom C++ CA for fileopen. I dont really know much about writing custom actions in native code and would like an example to start with. thanks. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:08 PM

Re: [WiX-users] Register Outlook Add-in with Wix

2010-12-12 Thread Sharad Patel
If you are using VSTO then these two Office add-in articles on MSDN will help you. 1. Registry Entries for Application-Level Add-Ins http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386106.aspx 2. Deploy add-ins that use VSTO3: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc563937.aspx The second article

Re: [WiX-users] Register Outlook Add-in with Wix

2010-12-12 Thread Rob Mensching
IIRC, you don't need a custom action at all. You just need to get the right registry keys set. There is (or was) documentation somewhere in MSDN that details all the configuration requried. On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Sean Farrow wrote: > Hi: > You may not need a custom action, is the addin

Re: [WiX-users] issues when using a custom action

2010-12-12 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi Rob: That now makes sense, having read the .cs code for the netfx extension. Sean. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 12 December 2010 19:23 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] issues when using a c

Re: [WiX-users] Register Outlook Add-in with Wix

2010-12-12 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi: You may not need a custom action, is the addin written in native (unmanaged) code, if so you should be able to use heat to extract a fragment with registration information. Hth Sean. -Original Message- From: Janez Oman [mailto:janez.o...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 December 2010 18:36 To:

Re: [WiX-users] issues when using a custom action

2010-12-12 Thread Rob Mensching
The linker (light.exe) starts at your Product and starts pulling in code referenced from there. So you need to somehow have a reference to the Fragment below. The WiX Extensions typcially do this by adding a CustomActionRef automatcially for you. Since you don't have an Extension to automatically

[WiX-users] Register Outlook Add-in with Wix

2010-12-12 Thread Janez Oman
Hi, I'm looking for example of custom action written in VB or C#, which can register and unregister MS Outlook Add-in. I've found only Foke Post's post on the web, but I can't translate his example. Thanks in advance Janez --

Re: [WiX-users] Setting installation location from command line

2010-12-12 Thread ronen temp
Thank for the reply, works like a charm. btw, The reason there is no GUI is because this msi and many others are embedded in a larger installer that has GUI, it will never really be lunched by a user, it was just simpler to explain... On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Christopher Painter < chr...@d

Re: [WiX-users] Setting installation location from command line

2010-12-12 Thread Christopher Painter
You'd have to change ProductFolder to PRODUCTFOLDER and then pass msiexec /i foo.msi PRODUCTFOLDER= BTW, I disagree strongly with installers that have no UI by design.  It's trivial for you to put a reference to WiXUI in your installer and then add  /QN at the command line if you really want

[WiX-users] issues when using a custom action

2010-12-12 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi: I've written a custom action. It appears from checking the binary table with orca that the ca dll is not been added to the database. The following is the fragment in a .wixlib file: I've based this on the .wixlib that comes with the net

[WiX-users] Setting installation location from command line

2010-12-12 Thread ronen temp
Hi, My installer is not supposed to have any gui, instead, I would like to install to program files by default or to a location selected by the user when he is lunching my installer from the command line using msiexec. I tried defining my directories like this: ... and overriding by