Re: [WiX-users] GUID vs. * for components (Was: RE: WiX-users Digest, Vol 64, Issue 49)

2011-09-26 Thread Thomas Due
And I would think your opinion carries at least SOME weight on the issue *grin* A follow up question though, I have a hard time understanding the difference of the two. All the documentation is a bit on thin side, or I do simply not understand the issue. So, to refrase, what are the advantage

Re: [WiX-users] Heat duplicating components

2011-09-26 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
You want to change the component group id as well (-cg). I would use command lines like the following: heat.exe dir manualEN -out manualEN.wxs -cg manualEN -dr manualEN -ag -srd -sfrag -var var.ProjectDir heat.exe dir manualFR -out manualFR.wxs -cg manualFR -dr manualFR -ag -srd -sfrag -var var

Re: [WiX-users] Heat duplicating components

2011-09-26 Thread Caio Monteiro
This is the command line: heat.exe dir manualEN -cg manualEN -gg -g1 -sfrag -srd -var "var.ProjectDir" -out manualEN.wxs I change the dir and the output for the other folder. -Original Message- From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] Sent: Monday, September

Re: [WiX-users] Heat duplicating components

2011-09-26 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
What are your heat command lines? Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Digital Channels Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -Original Message- > From: Caio Monteiro [mailto:cmonte...@modulo.com.

Re: [WiX-users] Heat duplicating components

2011-09-26 Thread Caio Monteiro
Ok, I figured it out, but still need help. :( What is happening is that although the files are different, the names are the same. So now I only need to discover any way to mass change the xml nodes. Does anyone have a good solution for that? Thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: Ca

[WiX-users] Heat duplicating components

2011-09-26 Thread Caio Monteiro
Hi all, I´m struggling with Heat once more. I´m harvesting two different folders with a lot of files in it. I´ve ran heat twice, but it keeps generating me the same component ids. So I can´t really compile anything. Do you know how I can force it to generate new ids? Regards, Caio -

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks Bill, adding the guide to the dependency id seems to have done the trick! Mark -Original Message- From: bpackard [mailto:bill.pack...@kepware.com] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:45 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't qui

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-26 Thread John Bergman
That's right. We use the workflow based logic to perform additional functionality, such as bundling files into zip files, backing up databases and running automation. (not to mentioning deploying and running the automated builds in the lab environment). Sorry if I was unclear. -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 26-Sep-11 12:00, John Bergman wrote: > The other is new in 2010, and uses windows workflow 4 to define how the build > works. But not for typical compilation. For Team Build, Workflow is for higher-level build automation, not running csc.exe or light.exe; that's left to MSBuild in .sln or .*p

Re: [WiX-users] Msi show a warning message when I try to uninstalla service.

2011-09-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 26-Sep-11 08:41, Yuri Sevastyanov wrote: > There is no point to see the log because I know which file is locked. The log will show details around why it's showing the files-in-use dialog. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] How does order of controls in dialog XML affect dialog behavior?

2011-09-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 25-Sep-11 09:01, Gary Gocek wrote: > Yes, in my opinion, it's a bug. I had a dialog with no selectable controls > (only Text controls) except for the Back-Next-Cancel button strip. The Next > button was the only one marked as default, but the Back button (incorrectly) > came up as default. If I

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-26 Thread John Bergman
I would agree, it is quite a shift. If you are going to use their Lab Management, I don't know that you really have an option to use the MSBuild style markup with that, this is what drove us towards the Workflow-based builds. The big difference to me was the additional control statements. It

Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow?

2011-09-26 Thread John Bergman
Here is a highlevel overview: http://www.woodwardweb.com/talks/tsugve/TeamBuild2010.pdf Basically, TFSBuild2010 has two modes of operation, once that uses the MSBuild style build definitions. This is most used when updating from 2008 to 2010, particularly if you have previously customized the

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Modrall
D'oh... The html encoding of your example threw me... I get it now. Guid goes *in* the RequiredId... Thanks mark -Original Message- From: bpackard [mailto:bill.pack...@kepware.com] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:45 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks Bill... I just checked the man page for the Dependency element (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_dependency.htm) and I don't see a GUID attribute on the node. Is it just missing from the documentation? Mark -Original Message- From: bpackard [mailto:bill.pack...@k

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-26 Thread bpackard
Mark, When I have dependencies, I have had to include the GUID of the merge module in the dependency declaration, in order to match the signature. Try adding the GUID to the dependency declaration:

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 64, Issue 49

2011-09-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Either is actually an option (because the file paths will be changing, presumably). I would use the "*" GUID, but I try to use "*" GUID for everything. On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Thomas Due wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently "struggling" with two installer packages. One is done, and > the

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 64, Issue 49

2011-09-26 Thread Thomas Due
Hello, I am currently "struggling" with two installer packages. One is done, and the other is coming along nicely. However, the applications they each install shares a set of assemblies which I am thinking of putting in a common wix library. Each installer will install the assemblies into sepa

Re: [WiX-users] Msi show a warning message when I try to uninstalla service.

2011-09-26 Thread Yuri Sevastyanov
David Watson wrote: > Are you still using your CA to uninstall the service as well? > No, the CA has been commented. I used the ServiceControl element only. > Try making a log to see what order everything is happening in and what files > are locking it. > There is no point to see the log

Re: [WiX-users] Dynamic directory creation

2011-09-26 Thread David Watson
I am a bit puzzled as to why you would need to do this. Can you not just install it once into one folder and run multiple instances of it if necessary? -Original Message- From: svarog [mailto:fean...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 September 2011 10:48 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] Dynamic directory creation

2011-09-26 Thread Pally Sandher
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Re: [WiX-users] Msi show a warning message when I try to uninstalla service.

2011-09-26 Thread David Watson
Are you still using your CA to uninstall the service as well? If so is it scheduled to remove the service before the ServiceControl has stopped it? Try making a log to see what order everything is happening in and what files are locking it. Dave -Original Message- From: Dirk Räder [mail

Re: [WiX-users] Msi show a warning message when I try to uninstall a service.

2011-09-26 Thread Dirk Räder
2011/9/26 Yuri Sevastyanov : > Thank You, Dirk! >> Yuri, >> >> I'd recommend using MSI-internal functions to uninstall and uninstall >> services instead of Custom Actions. See >> http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_serviceinstall.htm for >> installation and >> http://wix.sourceforge.net/

Re: [WiX-users] Deny permissions using Permission

2011-09-26 Thread David Watson
Hi, Firstly and most importantly it's against security guidelines and bad practice to change the permissions on a folder under program files - I assume that's where you are installing. Most administrators will not be too happy to see you altering these permissions. Users and programs should not be

Re: [WiX-users] Dynamic directory creation

2011-09-26 Thread svarog
Can anybody please help on this? I'm stuck with this issue for weeks now. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Dynamic-directory-creation-tp5265130p6831315.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -

Re: [WiX-users] Msi show a warning message when I try to uninstall a service.

2011-09-26 Thread Yuri Sevastyanov
Thank You, Dirk! > Yuri, > > I'd recommend using MSI-internal functions to uninstall and uninstall > services instead of Custom Actions. See > http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_serviceinstall.htm for > installation and > http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_servicecontrol.htm

Re: [WiX-users] Msi show a warning message when I try to uninstall a service.

2011-09-26 Thread Dirk Räder
Hi Yuri, I'd recommend using MSI-internal functions to uninstall and uninstall services instead of Custom Actions. See http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_serviceinstall.htm for installation and http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_servicecontrol.htm for removal. To avoid the

[WiX-users] Msi show a warning message when I try to uninstall a service.

2011-09-26 Thread Yuri Sevastyanov
Hi All, I come upon the warning message during uninstalls a product or major updates in the uninstall phase (when a product service is running): "The setup must update files or service that cannot be updated while the system is running. If you choose continue, a reboot will be required to compl