Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.6.1518.0 to 3.6.1915.0 issue

2011-07-20 Thread John Bergman
I'll go back and "binary search" the builds to determine when it breaks, hopefully I'll get it narrowed down... might take a couple days. Rob, that seems similar; however there is a bug with MSBuild itself dealing with project references and dependencies that has nothing to do with WiX. In th

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

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Mensching
This is very much likely the issue. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:33 PM, jjbean wrote: > You have digitally signed binaries and cab files? > Perhaps the caching mechanism is trying to perform SCVP/OCSP? > Each signed file results a network timeout, which has a long default. > SCVP/OCSP is retried be

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a custom table

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Hmm, we escape IDT chars to allow tabs to flow through. The issue is probably just to allow CustomTable/Column to set the "escape chars" bit. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 20-Jul-11 17:59, Robert Perona wrote: > > When there are tabs in the custom table data a compilati

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.6.1518.0 to 3.6.1915.0 issue

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Mensching
There is a bug that MSBuild does not build .sln files with wix.targets correctly. Sound similar: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3324464&group_id=105970&atid=642714? On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 20-Jul-11 16:20, John Bergman wrote: > > After updating fr

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a custom table

2011-07-20 Thread Bob Arnson
On 20-Jul-11 17:59, Robert Perona wrote: > When there are tabs in the custom table data a compilation error occurs, as > if the compiler thinks the tab is attempting to create another column. > I have tried an actual tab, xml escaped tab ( ), and msi escaping a tab > ([{tab}], where {tab} is an act

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.6.1518.0 to 3.6.1915.0 issue

2011-07-20 Thread Bob Arnson
On 20-Jul-11 16:20, John Bergman wrote: > After updating from WiX 3.6.1518.0 to WiX 3.6.1915.0, I have started > encountering some sort of dependency issue from MSBuild. It's tough to narrow down four months of changes. Before beta, we recommend teams pick up WiX builds monthly to narrow down th

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a custom table

2011-07-20 Thread Christopher Painter
Try representing it as   --- 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 From: Robert Perona To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:59 PM Subject: [WiX-us

[WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a custom table

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Perona
When there are tabs in the custom table data a compilation error occurs, as if the compiler thinks the tab is attempting to create another column. I have tried an actual tab, xml escaped tab ( ), and msi escaping a tab ([{tab}], where {tab} is an actual tab) Example: Testing 1,2,3 In between 'Tes

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

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
Okay, I'm sure this is going to sound like a dumb question, but... In these old Wix 2.0 projects I'm upgrading, we generate a bunch of msms that get pulled into the several product msis. In the module projects there was something like the following: ... Then the references wou

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

2011-07-20 Thread jjbean
You have digitally signed binaries and cab files? Perhaps the caching mechanism is trying to perform SCVP/OCSP? Each signed file results a network timeout, which has a long default. SCVP/OCSP is retried before failure is accepted as the result? -- View this message in context: http://windows-inst

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

2011-07-20 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > 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 (bec

[WiX-users] Wix 3.6.1518.0 to 3.6.1915.0 issue

2011-07-20 Thread John Bergman
After updating from WiX 3.6.1518.0 to WiX 3.6.1915.0, I have started encountering some sort of dependency issue from MSBuild. This is different that the other dependency issues I have had in that it is happening on our TFS Build Server (TFS 2010 Activity based builds). When I open Visual Stu

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

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
Okay, I compared the output of the msbuild log and the devenv log. When it comes to this one project, the only difference in the candle command arguments was -d"DevEnvDir=*Undefined if not building from within Visual Studio*" And the light arguments were the same. But for some result the outp

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

2011-07-20 Thread Dan Puza
To follow up, I just tried the same installer with an internet connection present on XP, and the caching payloads took 12 seconds rather than 8 minutes. -Original Message- From: Dan Puza [mailto:dp...@ultra-scan.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:28 AM To: General discussion for Windo

[WiX-users] Launch an application and exit right away

2011-07-20 Thread Sidky Macatangay
I have an MSI that does nothing but launch an application and exit. The main reason why I had to use an MSI is because the application I'm launching has a pre-requisite and MSI provided me a way of bootstrapping the pre-requisite. Anyhow, my design involves a custom dialog with a Finish button that

Re: [WiX-users] Change text based on selection

2011-07-20 Thread y2kdis
I ended up creating several text controls and toggling their hide/show property based on the condition. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Change-text-based-on-selection-tp6601666p6603284.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive

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

2011-07-20 Thread Tobias S
VS2010 includes the same MSBuild concept than building within MSBuild directly. Try to build it within VS2010 and then copy the commands from build output and maybe remove the product.generated.* stuff and try it that way. What's the output when building it in visual studio Command Prompt ? Mean t

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

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks for the link, Bob; I'll give it a read. By the by, are there known quirks when running a Wix solution via msbuild? My build works just fine when I'm in VS 2010, but when I use msbuild to launch it there's one module that doesn't build and doesn't give any errors. In the build log, I see

Re: [WiX-users] Change text based on selection

2011-07-20 Thread Pally Sandher
You could try to fake it by having 2 text controls on top of each other & use the RadioButtonGroup Property as a Condition to Show/Hide the appropriate one. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment Engineer T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate

Re: [WiX-users] Change text based on selection

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Mensching
I don't think the MSI UI supports that. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Sidky Macatangay wrote: > I have a text control and a radiobuttongroup control on a dialog. How can I > update the text on the text control based on the user selection in the > radiobuttongroup? I tried adding publish prop

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

2011-07-20 Thread Dan Puza
3.6.1908.0 -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 7:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Caching payload, sudden terrible performance? What version of Burn? On Tue, Jul 19, 20

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2011-07-20 Thread Kenneth . Resler
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[WiX-users] Change text based on selection

2011-07-20 Thread Sidky Macatangay
I have a text control and a radiobuttongroup control on a dialog. How can I update the text on the text control based on the user selection in the radiobuttongroup? I tried adding publish property under the radiobuttongroup and wired that property to the text control but the latter doesn't get upda