Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

Mainly 2 but to achieve that 1 would be nice. I don't have a problem with current WiX UIs everyone understands them and they are simple; every attempt I have seen to replace that simple interface doesn't impress me (the VS 2011 doesn't look any better in my view). Neil On 26 Oct 2011, at 04:11

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 beta installation failed

Hi Rob, Here is the full log: [16D8:0074][2011-10-26T09:59:46]: Burn v3.6.2221.0, path: C:\Users\Maksim\Downloads\wix3.6.beta\Wix36.beta.exe, cmdline: '-burn.unelevated BurnPipe.{A0EC76E0-FE25-45F4-A496-EDC503C3C0BD} {58F0DDD9-4D3E-430C-BF59-9BD0664492CA} 5828' [16D8:0074][2011-10-26T09:59:46]

Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

On 25-Oct-11 17:12, Neil Sleightholm wrote: > That isn't really what I meant, I was hoping to use the existing WiX > authoring as the burn UI As in: 1. You want Burn to understand MSI UI? 2. You want Burn to mimic the WixUI dialog sets? (Neither will happen in v3.6. Just curious.) -- sig://bo

Re: [WiX-users] Heat -generate

On 25-Oct-11 13:51, David L. Beckwith wrote: > Basically, I have a legacy install program that I would like chained. > Specifically, it is Microsoft's Point of Service for dotNet. There is > no "ClickOnce" install, instead it is delivered as a self extracting > zip. It has a setup bootstapper wi

Re: [WiX-users] "Add/Remove Programs" doesn't refresh sometimes

On 25-Oct-11 12:03, john.burak wrote: > Okay. I wonder what the difference is between doing an uninstall via > the usual method and doing an uninstall via "Change > Remove". ARP is in charge: You click Uninstall and if it gets a success code, it refreshes. Otherwise, it does nothing. It doesn't

Re: [WiX-users] How to display the list of features to be installed

Hi Peter, Thank you for responding to my question. I have a few more specific questions for you. 1. For first time install, if I want to determine if a feature is selected for installation in a custom action, what is the best way to do the work? Should I use the ADDLOCAL value or MsiGetFeature

Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

On 25/10/2011 22:12, Neil Sleightholm wrote: > I guess I was hoping for something for free, the current BA UI doesn't look > very nice if the WIX install is anything to go by I as I don't really write > UI's I was look for a "free lunch"! Actually, the UI in the WiX installer is especially ugly

Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

I use a customize version of the setup.exe from 3.5 RTM. Much less functionality than Burn, but it works and I get caching which is mainly what I was after. -- John M. Cooper -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:13 PM T

Re: [WiX-users] Action state not set during modify?

Well, the only approach that I have found to work consistently across all maintenance and install modes is to set properties concerning the states and features I'm interested in executed when the "Next" button of CustomizeDlg is pressed. I can rely on the values of these properties. I then con

Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

That isn't really what I meant, I was hoping to use the existing WiX authoring as the burn UI not just show the UI in my MSI but I think indirectly you have answered my question. I guess I was hoping for something for free, the current BA UI doesn't look very nice if the WIX install is anything

Re: [WiX-users] Action state not set during modify?

Well it appears you are right. I just put in a Publish element to show a popup if &Feature1=-1, and it came up...so I don't understand why, but yes you are correct. Perhaps during maintenance it isn't set until CostFinalize of the Execute sequence? It works during the installation process, thoug

Re: [WiX-users] Action state not set during modify?

Action state is supposed to be set during CostFinalize, which happens before my dialogs in the UI sequence (CostFinalize is 800, my dialogs start at 1296). Also, looking at the section of log I pasted in, I can see the MsiSelectionTreeSelectedAction property get set from 3 to 2 - that is setting t

Re: [WiX-users] Action state not set during modify?

They get set too late. At the earliest, CostFinalize, and some states are really good until InstallValidate. Your dialogs are occurring before that, more than likely. -- John Merryweather Cooper Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (Premier Tech) Build & Install Engineer - jXchange Office: 913-341-3

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 beta and virus checker

> From: r...@robmensching.com > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:26:40 -0700 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 beta and virus checker > > Wow, that's a pretty aggressive virus checker. How do you install software > that requires a reboot with that thing turned on? I

[WiX-users] Action state not set during modify?

I'm got an installer working off a modified version of the Mondo UI (wix 3.5) that has three different features, and each feature has a custom dialog screen that gathers information on how to configure those features. When the installer is run in maintenance mode as a change/modify, I want the use

Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

On 25/10/2011 18:47, Neil Sleightholm wrote: > Is it possible to use the standard WiX authored MSI dialogs as the UI for > Burn? I asked about this yesterday: the BA that comes with Burn has a toggle to show the MSI UI, but it will still show its own interface too. You'd need to write your own

[WiX-users] Starting WiX, when will 3.6 out of beta

Hi, Sorry if this is an FAQ, please send me a pointer. I want to introduce WiX in our company. As I read about WiX 3.6 and burn it looks like much more powerful as WiX 3.5. More interesting: I don't want to introduce a tools where the user interface will change after a short period of time when

Re: [WiX-users] Heat -generate

Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > On 24-Oct-11 10:10, David L. Beckwith wrote: >> I was hoping output from heat payloadgroups and containers would help me >> understand how to create such an animal. Where do you suggest I look for >> clues on how to take a legacy install and "containerize" it? > Maybe you

[WiX-users] Burn UI

Is it possible to use the standard WiX authored MSI dialogs as the UI for Burn? Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com -- The demand for IT networking professionals continu

Re: [WiX-users] "Add/Remove Programs" doesn't refresh sometimes

I can't think of anything I know about the MSI database schema that would change ARP/P&F refresh. 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 > -Origina

Re: [WiX-users] "Add/Remove Programs" doesn't refresh sometimes

Edwin G. Castro wrote: > > ARP/P&F can and does list things that are not MSI products. Could some of > those non-MSI products use an external API to perform the wholesale > refresh? > That was the only guess I had. On closer inspection, I bet Notepad++ isn't using Windows Installer. I guess t

Re: [WiX-users] "Add/Remove Programs" doesn't refresh sometimes

ARP/P&F can and does list things that are not MSI products. Could some of those non-MSI products use an external API to perform the wholesale refresh? Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Digital Channels Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the env

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch fails, returns C: or Empty

Hi again, I believe I solved it (haven't done enough testing yet though!)! It seems that the property had to be set as "Secure=yes" since otherwise UAC will not allow it. Will get back to you if I find that it is not solved. But I just tried an installation that earlier did not work and now it di

Re: [WiX-users] "Add/Remove Programs" doesn't refresh sometimes

Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > Nope. ARP/P&F doesn't do a wholesale refresh of the program list for MSI > packages. When you click Uninstall and it succeeds, it just deletes that > one entry. > Okay. I wonder what the difference is between doing an uninstall via the usual method and doing an uninst

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch fails, returns C: or Empty

Hi, thanks for fast reply! In the MSI log I can see that it actually finds the correct SETUPFOLDER path from registry, but then there are some rows saying: Ignoring disallowed property SETUPFOLDER But I can see that it finds the correct path because further down in the log I have something like

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 beta installation failed

Hmm, I thought we fixed the bandwidth problem by removing most of this content. Albert, can you refresh your browser to see if you're just hitting a cached page or not. Maksim, can you look in your %TEMP% folder and paste in the failing log file? I'd like to understand why the project aggregator i

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 beta and virus checker

Wow, that's a pretty aggressive virus checker. How do you install software that requires a reboot with that thing turned on? Can you open a bug with this information in it? I'm not exactly sure what we'll do about it but we should at least track the issue. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Peter Hul

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch fails, returns C: or Empty

What does the verbose log file show? On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Leo Koivuniemi < universalserial...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am having some problems with an installation using Wix v3 > During install of application I run > > > Key="SOFTWARE\$(var.Company)\$(var.Product)\Common

[WiX-users] RegistrySearch fails, returns C: or Empty

Hello all, I am having some problems with an installation using Wix v3 During install of application I run SETUPFOLDER is later used for setting the target of a shortcut in the start menu. This works when I install or reinstall by running my bootstrapper setup.exe which then starts the MSI pa

Re: [WiX-users] BA: Shutdown() or Quit()?

Yeah, one of the two is wrong. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > The documentation for Burn says that a BA should call Shutdown() when > it's finished. However, there doesn't seem to be such a method, while > Quit() does exist. Has this been renamed at some point and the > do

Re: [WiX-users] Leave an entire feature behind at uninstall

That was my initial plan - make an exe sort of thing that gets run separately. The "use no GUID" option that Rob mentions is perfect for me - I think I will pursue that option and see how it goes. This forum is great - thank you so much for these great suggestions. Uma- -Original Message-

Re: [WiX-users] Leave an entire feature behind at uninstall

What about a separate "mini-install" that has the components you want to leave behind like the both SQL Server and the ATI Catalyst packages do? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:30 PM To: General discussion for Window

[WiX-users] BA: Shutdown() or Quit()?

The documentation for Burn says that a BA should call Shutdown() when it's finished. However, there doesn't seem to be such a method, while Quit() does exist. Has this been renamed at some point and the documentation is lagging behind? -- Bruce Cran ---

[WiX-users] WiX 3.6 beta and virus checker

Dear All, I am not able to install the new 3.6 beta exe file (Wix36.exe) because my virus checker (Trend Micro OfficeScan) terminates the installer when it tries to write to the RunOnce registry key. I was able to download and run WiX 3.6 from the wix36-binaries.zip archive, however my minimal

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 beta installation failed

Hi, this is most likely because there is an issue at wix.sourceforce.org; When you go to that site you'll see a message like 'This project has been temporarily blocked for exceeding its bandwidth threshold' So maybe someone has the power to fix this??? I can't download the last weekly build also.

Re: [WiX-users] How to display the list of features to be installed

The first 4 properties under "Feature Installation Options Properties" would be the place to start. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905%28VS.85%29.aspx#feature_inst allation_options_properties -Original Message- From: Wang, Miaohsi [mailto:miaohsi.w...@invensys.com] Sent: 24