[WiX-users] Uninstall fails after upgrade with Error 25532. Failed to find node:

Hi, I have an application which creates and modifies some keys in web.config file. During upgrade, I will take a backup of this web.config file and replace it once upgrade is completed. This backup and replacing of web.config is handled by custom actions. But during uninstall after the upgrade, I

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements

After a bit of work this weekend, I was able to hack in a custom heat extension that allows me to inject dependent COM modules. After doing so, my issue still existed so I spent some time looking at the error message and stumbled across my solution. The COM DLL in question I was attempting to harv

[WiX-users] PathEdit Help

Greetings, Please help me determine what I'm lacking or doing incorrectly in the code below. It seems very simple, yet, it generates the following error: "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package, The may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 222

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 61, Issue 53

Thanks Peter, and will surely take care in future. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:18 PM, wrote: > Send WiX-users mailing list submissions to >wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-

Re: [WiX-users] Is the standard INSTALLDIR or TARGETDIR?

TARGETDIR is a pre-defined MSI property that your directories *must* be rooted in. INSTALLDIR is a name commonly given to the actual install location. You'd have to document whatever property you use for this. A popular directory Id layout is: TARGETDIR ProgramFilesFolder

Re: [WiX-users] Installing WiX library to different location, recalling location on modify/uninstall

Sorry, this will be rushed. I'm about to disappear. 1. "Because 32-bit components cannot be installed to a 64-bit Program Files folder" There's no reason you can't put 32-bit files in a 64-bit location (in a 64-bit installer). The separation is a convention. Or am I misunderstanding ? 2. Search "

[WiX-users] Is the standard INSTALLDIR or TARGETDIR?

We have an installer that will almost always be installed via the command line and deployed to computers using a domain policy. I've noticed that there tends to be two options... INSTALLDIR and TARGETDIR for specifying where the installed app ends up going. Is there a standard option that most adm

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bootstrapper issues

Hey. Thank you for your answers, Rob and Vadym. Vadym's suggestion of setting the installers to ALLUSERS=1 fixes the problem. My question is thus: Why doesn't the ProductCode detection work without setting ALLUSERS=1? As for your question, Rob, I'm not installing an MSI from outside the bootst

Re: [WiX-users] Installing WiX library to different location, recalling location on modify/uninstall

Thanks, Peter, for the prompt reply. I had previously gotten as far as you have described. I realized in re-reading my original post that I wasn't as clear about the problem as I should have been. Specifically, in my situation the WiX library contributes 32-bit components, which may or may not b

[WiX-users] Check the checkbox programmatically

Hi, How to check the checkbox programmatically. I search lot on Google but couldn't find it. Thanks, Rahul -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record

[WiX-users] Using the same .exe file for different services in one MSI?

Hello everyone, our product contains multiple services and all use the same .exe file and differ only via their name and command line, where a DLL name is passed that contains the real service code. So the exe file is more or less a reusable framework much like svchost.exe and distinct service fun

Re: [WiX-users] Install package using multiple solutions

Please send all replies to the mailing list so that everyone can benefit from the answers and other people can offer help. You can create a single Wix project that will include the code from both solutions. Add a new Wix MSI project to the "main" solution (whichever that is). Add the files cr

Re: [WiX-users] Install package using multiple solutions

Create Wixlib projects by setting the project output type under project properties to WixLib. Then you can include the wixlibs in other solutions by adding references to them in Solution Explorer. -Original Message- From: Divyesh Ajmera [mailto:ajmera.divy...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 June 2011

[WiX-users] Install package using multiple solutions

Hi, I am new to WIX and have been reading about creating installation package (.msi). Till what i have read, its about creating package using a single solution only, but i wasnt to use WIX in order to use multiple solutions. our product has multiple projects, which are divided into two different,

Re: [WiX-users] Installing WiX library to different location, recalling location on modify/uninstall

A simple wixlib looks something like this. There are some components under a directory ref and they are gathered into a component group. ...more components ..