[WiX-users] The imported project .... Wix.CA.targets" was not found

2011-02-25 Thread Robert Hermann
I'm doing a TFS 2008 build with wix 3.0 and I'm getting the error: SQLServerCustomAction.vbproj(101,11): error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.0\Wix.CA.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exis

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Lord
Kevin, If you are doing Major upgrades, your product ID must for change whilst your Upgrade ID must remain the same. Chris On 02/25/2011 01:48 PM, Kevin Burton wrote: > The product id and package id are: > > > > > Since the package id is all '?' I assume that you mean I need to change th

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Burton
The product id and package id are: Since the package id is all '?' I assume that you mean I need to change the product id? Kevin Burton Senior Software Engineer BUYSEASONS 262-901-2000 Office 262-901-2312 Fax kev...@buyseasons.com -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:p

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Wilson, Phil
Your new MSI has a new ProductCode? From that message it looks like it hasn't. Another possibility is that the PackageCode hasn't changed. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 9:28 AM To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Burton
Right now it is not automatically uninstalling the product. I am met with the dialog instructing me to go to Add/Remove Panel. Currently I am using an earlier version of WiX so I guess I am reading the right stuff in the tutorial. I am looking to try to migrate my WiX code to WiX 3.5 so I woul

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Lord
Kevin, Lesson 4 is/was based on Wix V3. Rob's reply refers to an addition to Wix3.5 though I would expect lesson 4 code probably still applies in V3.5. Depending on which version of WiX you use will determine what options you have for writing upgrades. Now, the key is where you place the Re

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall an installed product.

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Burton
What is the syntactic sugar? I thought I was following http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php#4.2 So the question is why doesn't this work (what am I missing)? And, is there a better way? For reference here is the WiX code that I am using: . . . . .

[WiX-users] Problems applying patches

2011-02-25 Thread John Daintree
Hello all, I'm working with Liam who previously asked some patch related questions. ( http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Patching-Using -Purely-Wix-td6031594.html ) We've made progress, with the comments to Liam's post, and by looking at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/p

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with RemoveExistingProducts action

2011-02-25 Thread James Johnston
I would actually consider that desirable behavior in my product, since version 2.1 was designed and tested with bbb.dll version 1.0 - not version 1.5. What's happening is the removal of product 2.0 causes the reference count on component bbb.dll to go to zero, and so MSI deletes the file. Then th

[WiX-users] Run UI sequence during patch removal?

2011-02-25 Thread Tom Crozier
Hi - Is it possible to run a UI sequence during the removal of a patch? I've tried the following but it does not display. MSIPATCHREMOVE (From the log file UILEVEL =5 CLIENTUILEVEL = 0) If not, is it possible to run an immediate CA before the files have been

[WiX-users] ExecSecureObjects fails with "access denied" error

2011-02-25 Thread Yan Sklyarenko
Hello WiX Community, I have a requirement for my MSI package to set certain permissions on %SYSTEMROOT%\Globalization folder. Well, that's quite trivial itself, but ExecSecureObjects throws "access denied" error trying to do this. After some troubleshooting and investigations it turns out that SYS

Re: [WiX-users] Running a third party installer

2011-02-25 Thread Tobias S
Just as additional information if you want to run several MSIs: For sure a bootstrapper or chainer application to do so would be the recommended solution. Tobias 2011/2/25 Tobias S : > Without deeper knowign the issue: Are you trying to run an MSI from > another one ? If yes: Not recommended! The

Re: [WiX-users] Running a third party installer

2011-02-25 Thread Tobias S
Without deeper knowign the issue: Are you trying to run an MSI from another one ? If yes: Not recommended! The only workaround is to abuse the InstallUI sequence for such an approach. This fails e.g. if user runs installer without UI! A short fragment to illustrate such an approach:

[WiX-users] Bootstrapper for localized installer

2011-02-25 Thread Smitha Jacob
We have a bootstrapper exe which will install the .net framework and depending on the localized setting of the machine,it will pick up the required localized mst. Our exe is working only till the point where it tries to launch the localized mst but fails throwing an error dialog "The file "resd

[WiX-users] WIX Coding Guidelines/Standards

2011-02-25 Thread Smitha Jacob
I would like to know if there are any coding guidelines/standards to be followed while using WIX implementation. Also any good books on the same?    Thanks, Smitha -- Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analy

[WiX-users] Running a third party installer

2011-02-25 Thread Samudra Vishvajith
Hi, In our WIX installer, a third party installer (postgresql server installer) is run as a custom action the third party installer starts and the following error message pops up. "Another program is being installed. Please wait until that installation is complete, and then try installing this s