Re: [WiX-users] Problems with SmartCabbing under Wine 1.3.24, can smartcabbing be disabled?

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 16:47, Nathan Coulson wrote: > I was wondering if it was possible to disable SmartCabbing > > I use Wix 3.5 under linux, but it looks like wine may not have what > wix needs to support this feature. It can't be disabled (because of course it works on Windows). But I'm not sure that's

Re: [WiX-users] Best practice for combined 32/64bit installer

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 23:35, Adam Langley wrote: > Aside from a bootstrapper that runs the correct MSI, is there some accepted > practice for achieving this with a single MSI? No, nothing's changed. If you have to write to 64-bit portions of the file system, you need a 64-bit .msi package. -- sig://boB

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 12:25, Mark Modrall wrote: > For #2, we have some installation stuff we only want done once (the stuff > that the custom action does). So the first thing the custom action exe does > is try to check the registry setting to see if it's been done (that's what's > failing now). When

[WiX-users] Best practice for combined 32/64bit installer

2011-07-19 Thread Adam Langley
Hi guys, We have recently developed a 64-bit version of our Microsoft Office plugin (now that 2010 comes in both flavours), and would like to distribute a single installer that installs the correct feature, based upon whether the user's installation of Office is 32 or 64 bit. Aside from a boots

Re: [WiX-users] Caching payload, sudden terrible performance?

2011-07-19 Thread Rob Mensching
What version of Burn? On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:25 PM, JohnG wrote: > That sounds familiar. A couple of years back we had a .NET app that would > take a minute or two to start up without an internet connection. With a > connection it took just a few seconds. If I remember right it was .NET 3.0.

Re: [WiX-users] Caching payload, sudden terrible performance?

2011-07-19 Thread JohnG
That sounds familiar. A couple of years back we had a .NET app that would take a minute or two to start up without an internet connection. With a connection it took just a few seconds. If I remember right it was .NET 3.0. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Caching payload, sudden terrible performance?

2011-07-19 Thread Dan Puza
I'm not sure what to look for in Process Explorer. CPU is basically 0%. If I look at the Threads for Setup.exe (my bootstrapper), I see slow churning activity for cryptnet.dll!I_CryptNetIsConnected and CRYPT32.dll!I_CryptRegisterSmartCardStore. Green/red, loaded/unloaded, over and over again

[WiX-users] Problems with SmartCabbing under Wine 1.3.24, can smartcabbing be disabled?

2011-07-19 Thread Nathan Coulson
I was wondering if it was possible to disable SmartCabbing I use Wix 3.5 under linux, but it looks like wine may not have what wix needs to support this feature. This was covered in a bug report I found, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27133 where it sounds like the MsiFileHash table has

Re: [WiX-users] Caching payload, sudden terrible performance?

2011-07-19 Thread jjbean
Have you run process explorer to monitor what is going on while they are being cached? Perhaps something else is accessing the files (i.e. AV software?) -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Caching-payload-sudden-terrible-performance-tp65

[WiX-users] Caching payload, sudden terrible performance?

2011-07-19 Thread Dan Puza
Should there be any reason for the much slower times between these two log files for caching payloads? For example, Total time caching payloads: 8 minutes (slower) vs. 21 seconds (normal) Caching 2KB .REG file: 1 minute 18 seconds (10:24:32 -> 10:25:50) Caching 1MB EXE file: 1 minute (10:25:50 ->

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
Hi Bob... For #2, we have some installation stuff we only want done once (the stuff that the custom action does). So the first thing the custom action exe does is try to check the registry setting to see if it's been done (that's what's failing now). When the custom action code is done, it se

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Christopher Painter
Mark,    I would start with reading the following article.    http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/isnews/200108/index.htm   Regards, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 11:10, Mark Modrall wrote: > 1) Looking at the installer log, it's unpacking into a directory other than > the INSTALLDIR; throughout I've been a little confused going to 3.5 about the > relation of INSTALLDIR and TARGETDIR; did TARGETDIR supplant/replace > INSTALLDIR? As noted bef

Re: [WiX-users] Burn title and ARP

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 11:16, Dan Puza wrote: > I have our prerequisites set as Permanent (SQL Server, .NET Framework, > Windows Installer); and it would be confusing to suddenly have two ARP > entries for the upcoming version our application, one from the bootstrapper, > and one from the MSI. Set ARPSYS

Re: [WiX-users] Burn title and ARP

2011-07-19 Thread Dan Puza
What I really meant is, is there a way to specify a title to be displayed in the **standard RtfLicense bootstrapper application** (rather than having an empty space where a title should go) without creating an Add Remove Programs entry for the bootstrapper? (Bundle/@Name) I have our prerequisi

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks Bob, that got the content into the installer package - which got me to the point of trying to run it. I ran into a couple of new issues 1) Looking at the installer log, it's unpacking into a directory other than the INSTALLDIR; throughout I've been a little confused going to 3.5 about the

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 10:20, Mark Modrall wrote: >Comments="bar" InstallerVersion="300" Platform="$(var.PPlat)"/> Try Compressed="yes". -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Dat

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple results for WiX FindFile

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Arnson
On 19-Jul-11 09:15, Barry Wark wrote: > I then run the command-line invocation via a custom action using > [MATLABEXE] as the exe. This works well for finding a single Matlab > installations under C:\Program Files\MATLAB, but the MATLABEXEproperty > appears to get the path to only one installation

Re: [WiX-users] Install Files in C:\Program Files\ folder in 64bit-Win7

2011-07-19 Thread Rob Mensching
Use the command-line switch to candle. That will better prepare you for the future. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Pally Sandher wrote: > Alternatively > http://www.joyofsetup.com/2010/05/14/working-hard-or-hardly-working/ > > Palbinder Sandher > Software Deployment Engineer > T: +44 (0) 141 9

Re: [WiX-users] Burn title and ARP

2011-07-19 Thread Rob Mensching
Why do you want to do this? On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 18-Jul-11 19:12, Dan Puza wrote: > > Is there a way to set the title of the bootstrapper without creating an > Add Remove Programs entry for the bootstrapper? > > No, at least right now Bundle/@Name is what shows

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
Hi... I'm trying to upgrade my Wix 2.0 installer scripts to Wix 3.5, and at the moment I'm stuck on the fact that my product msi's are coming out essentially empty and I don't see why. The individual merge modules look like they're about the right size but none of the content is ending

[WiX-users] Multiple results for WiX FindFile

2011-07-19 Thread Barry Wark
I'm a relavite newbie with WiX, but haven't been able to figure out the answer to this question via Google or StackOverflow (for the record, the question is posted at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6710578/multiple-results-for-wix-findfile; I'll update with any answers received here): I'm tryi

Re: [WiX-users] Install Files in C:\Program Files\ folder in 64bit-Win7

2011-07-19 Thread Pally Sandher
Alternatively http://www.joyofsetup.com/2010/05/14/working-hard-or-hardly-working/ Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment Engineer T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the ** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registe

Re: [WiX-users] Install Files in C:\Program Files\ folder in 64bit-Win7

2011-07-19 Thread maksim.vazhenin
You need this: -Maksim -Original Message- From: Ravi Gupta [mailto:ravigupta...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:32 PM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Install Files in C:\Program Files\ folder in 64bit-Win7 I created a setup for

Re: [WiX-users] Install Files in C:\Program Files\ folder in 64bit-Win7

2011-07-19 Thread Pally Sandher
Set the Platform attribute on your Package Element to "x64" rather than "x86" and/or create an "x64" platform build configuration in your .wixproj to build an x64 MSI. You need separate x64 & x86 MSI's if you want to target x64 locations on x64 systems. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment En

[WiX-users] Install Files in C:\Program Files\ folder in 64bit-Win7

2011-07-19 Thread Ravi Gupta
I created a setup for 64 bit OS using wix, but when I try to install in C:\Program Files\ instead it is installing in C:\Program Files(x86)\ folder. how to rectify this. my code goes something like below:

Re: [WiX-users] Error building patch msp with pyro :The cabinet 'setup.cab' does not contain any files

2011-07-19 Thread Preethi S.
Hi, I faced the problem what you mentioned below. My project MSI is comprised of many merge modules. So I can't create patch in the method you suggested. So I tried a different method for creating the patch as shown below. patch.wxs: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>

Re: [WiX-users] Single Wix setup for Win7-32, 64 bit operating system

2011-07-19 Thread Tobias S
If you build the project within votive then add the different wixlibs for x86 and x64 in Project Properties -> Tool Settings -> Additional parameters -> Linker Adding them directly as reference in the Setup Project not possible as there are needed different ones for x86 and x64. 2011/7/19 Tobia

Re: [WiX-users] Single Wix setup for Win7-32, 64 bit operating system

2011-07-19 Thread Tobias S
Not possible as you need OS type dependent DIFx libraries in the resulting installer. You can simplify that by include different fragments for x86 and x64 DIFx drivers like e.g. the following sample feature: Driver_x64.wxs --- http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"; xmlns:difx="http://schem

Re: [WiX-users] Including a file but not installing it via a feature? -- ICE21: Component: 'MyTest.EXE' does not belong to any Feature.

2011-07-19 Thread John Gregson
Thanks! THats what i needed. -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: lunes, 18 de julio de 2011 20:03 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Including a file but not installing it via a feature? -- ICE21: Co