Thanks. We had an additional feature, that seemed to have confused the
installer. Seems to be some side effect. With the same feature set it
works.
Christoph
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From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2011 4:56 p.m.
To: 'General discussion for Windows In
Hi I have a fragment where I define the directory structure as follows (I
re-use the components defined later in other .wxs):
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“For some reason which seem to grasp, I keep getting the Error
A general solution to avoiding 'ugly DOS windows' is to use CAQuietExec from
WixUtilExtension.
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Yes. Your MSI is cached in a subdirectory of Windows. A user won't be
accidentally deleting this.
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I implemented this as two separate Components (different GUIDs) having
Environment element. Both Environment elements use value from same property
PATHADD.
However PATHADD is set using CustomAction Property having condition to set
value to the property only when both features are
Hi All: I have made a WIX msi package, and linked a custom action dll
(custom.dll) into msi, then I copy msi file to test PC, install it. it works
fine, all custom action is performed correctly, Then I use msiexec.exe /u
x--(Uninstall GUID), it can remove all installed files, I think
yes, two components with different guids and different directories as
outlined in the suggested article and follow on articles - I read them all
I will look closer from some aberration in the log file.
guid="" is just to make it more readable... there is a real guid in the
actual code
how do I c
Not quite. It has to be a static class with a static method that takes the
Session class as an argument. The blog post I mentioned explains how it all
works but there is an update. Since then WiX added a C# Custom Action project
type to Visual Studio under WiX. Use that to generate your
There's not really a lot of info, but there are few things to look for.
There won't be an error in the MSI log if Windows thinks it's doing the right
thing, so don't just look for "error". There might be entries about "diallowing
installation of component ." that are relevant.
If you're in
Is it possible to get the output file path from a binder extension (I didn't
see anything obvious)?
The reason I ask is because I want to generate an XML with some information
from a custom unreal table and then save it to the directory containing the
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Just testing clean install for now
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From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:27 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC
I might have missed but does this happen
I might have missed but does this happen during a clean install, upgrade
or both?
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From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:05 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to
Hi,
Thanks for your response. The DTF option looks pretty interesting, based on
your blog post. If my understanding is correct, can i simply replace the
RunInstaller attribute that I currently have in my assemblies with the
CustomAction attribute, and then use DTF to convert it into CA's the MSI c
I remember reading about that. double checked, the entry in
MsiAssemblyName has a version
we are at a loss as to how to track down the problem.
there are no errors.
any ideas?
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From: Jacques Eloff [mailto:repst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:33 PM
To: Gen
DTF is a direct replacment of InstallUtil. Also I'm not sure where in the post
it was stated what exactly the InstallUtil classes were doing. ( e.g. Registry
) Although my experience tells me that whatever it is they are doing, it's
generally not good.
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Two things:
1) You should never have custom actions for things that Windows Installer can
do natively. If you have install actions for creating and starting services,
that is wrong. Use the ServiceInstall/ServiceControl tables instead. Same
goes for registering Dll's, creatin shortcuts,
There is no runtime or build time solution to replace installutil.exe.
The only options are to extract the registry entries that are created and
include them in the project or running installutil.exe at runtime. The best
option is to extract the registry either by having InstallUtil create a
r
Hi,
Is there a good alternative for installutil.exe in general available in Wix? We
have a number of places in our installers where we have to invoke
installutil.exe via a custom action for running the installer components in the
assembly. One of the main problems in invoking InstallUtil.exe vi
Thank you very much Pally and Christopher.
I am indeed intending to test texts & layout as part of the localization
task. The information about Orca and InstEd was really helpful, I didn't
know about that. However, it seem to not resolve the how to preview the
ErrorDlg, since the message to be sho
I ran across this thread from 2008 searching for a solution to a similar
issue occuring in my installer. The thread between Mike and Bob doesn't
reveal a solution, but I was able to find one for my installer that might
help others who have a similar problem.
On my installer, the issue was that the
Ahh, I found that when moving from WiX 2.0 to 3.0/3.5, the assembly file
version wasn't written to the MsiAssemblyName table and it caused problems
for us during upgrades. The solution in that case was just to add the -fv
switch to Light, but that only solves upgrade issues.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 a
I literally was just about to pose this same question to this DL today. :) My
take is there needs to be a SecureStringVariables in the Engine.
John
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From: Vadym Verba [mailto:vve...@sdl.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 20
As an aside, I also recommend Hyper-V. It's also free and the latest R2 SP1
adds the capabilities for dynamic memory allocation. The advantage in Hyper-V
to me is that it has much broader hardware support ( pretty much everything on
the Windows HCL list ) where VMWare is more picky.
For thos
How do you mean test exactly? If you only want to check the text & layout of
dialogs you can preview them using Orca or InstEd!
The recommended approach for installation testing is to use virtual machines ->
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/09/24/test-your-setups-virtually/
In addition to the produ
yes, we set the Assembly=".net" otherwise we would not get the log entry
listing our assembly. the assembly is properly listed in the MsiAssembly
table with attribute=0
we are converting a vs2008/wix3.0 project to vs2010/wix3.5. in the wix3.0
project we only install it to the GAC. in the new wi
If by "I have created a bootstrapper using WiX" you mean you're using Burn,
then check the bug tracker & report your issues if they're not already reported
as Burn is still in active development.
Palbinder Sandher
Software Deployment Engineer
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Use a bootstrapper.
I've not said it this month as yet so I guess it was inevitable at this point.
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Did you set the Assembly attribute in the File element to ".net"?
Also, as I recall, you need to create a separate directory for the GAC'd
assembly. So you would have two elements for the assembly with
different parent directories. One to actually install it to disk, the other
one to install it
we publish one assembly to the GAC. we find the MsiPublishAssemblies action
in the log file. there is no error.
but the assembly does not appear in the GAC.
Action 7:17:10: MsiPublishAssemblies. Publishing assembly information
MSI (s) (F8:2C) [07:17:10:015]: Executing op:
AssemblyPublish(F
Hello.
I want to gather user password using BA and pass it to msi package, so I
create Bundle variable and use it in MsiPackage:
MainWindow.Model.Engine.StringVariables["my_password"] = "new_blablabla";
The problem is when this variable is initialized or changed in BA,
Two very good points. Thanks for the tip!
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Blair wrote:
> And the set of before the CoPr are not random values either, and you
> will need to ensure that they don't conflict with the GUID specifications
> either.
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> Blair
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Hi,
I have created a bootstrapper using WiX and like the functionality very much.
However, there are some issues where I need help.
Lets say that we have the following situation:
We create a bootstrapper Installation.exe for installation1.msi and
installation2.msi.
1) There comes a cras
If your intention is to make your application more easily accessible from a
command prompt then this won't help you, I'm afraid. App Paths affects the
path search order for ShellExecute[Ex] and a command prompt won't use that to
launch your exe unless you use the start command (e.g. start myapp.exe
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the reference. I did not know this Windows feature.
However I am having hard time finding out how it actually works.
I create a subkey called myapp.exe under
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths. Then I
put full path to myapp.exe in the Default
App Paths would be a neat way to solve this, if they meet all your
requirements. The "registration" lives in components that you can add to the
features.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872121%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#reg_app
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From: Martin Kulov [mailto:mar...@kulov.
Hi,
thanks Chris.
But now I get the Message:
\MSI-Global.wixobj : error LGHT0089 : Multiple entry sections
'{9DA8205F-7990-41E5-9F8C-3AD5BFFC10D9}' and '{9DA8205F-7990-
41E5-9F8C-3AD5BFFC10D9}' found. Only one entry section may be present
in a single target.
and i don´t know what to do. I build
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