Hello list,
I am newbie to wix, I do not have any experience in writing a MSI installer
so far, but information and blog I found on the web about wix is really
exciting to work with and create an installer using wix.
I dig a bit into the documention of wix (included .chm file provided with
wix in
For the theme,
Inside of the
-Original Message-
From: Tobias S [mailto:tobias.s1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:31 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI
Will there be a way to customize the wixstdba thm.xml fi
Bob Arnson-6 wrote:
>
> On 26-Oct-11 12:48, David L. Beckwith wrote:
>
>> But I don't have the install working yet. It seems not all "loose files"
>> were harvested.
>
> Only those referenced in the .msi would be automatically included. Are
> they actually used?
>
Yes, two critical files ar
On 26-Oct-11 16:31, Tobias S wrote:
> Will there be a way to customize the wixstdba thm.xml file?
There already is. You can specify a replacement theme .xml file, which
lets you completely replace the stock UI -- though that doesn't let you
change behavior.
> For multi language Burn UI I didn't
On 26-Oct-11 16:48, Gary Gocek wrote:
> Well, duhh. I' m not sure what I was expecting, but of course, scheduling
> the CA causes it to run, which sets the property, and then the UnitTest
> sees the match and it passes. It's kind of a lot of work to hack up a test
> MSI, but there was (of course) n
On 26-Oct-11 12:48, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> Any suggested file extension to use? Is it a cab file?
It is, though that's an implementation detail.
> But I don't have the install working yet. It seems not all "loose files"
> were harvested.
Only those referenced in the .msi would be automatical
On 26-Oct-11 16:15, David L. Beckwith wrote:
> Once a detached container is created, how do you reference it? I added
> a ContainerRef in the in the bundle, but how do I get the payload into
> the chain from the container? Do I create the container with one
> project and suck it in as a Payload
On 26-Oct-11 16:29, Tobias S wrote:
> When having a look at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ it seems
> that there exists nothing else than the RSS feeds (No WiX.exe , msi
> ...)
We won't be putting them on SourceForge any more; SF has a bandwidth
quota we were exceeding with all the downloads
On 26-Oct-11 02:46, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
> 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
Hi -
We have a Dialog that shows up when a pre req has not been met - the only
button on this Dialog is an "Exit" button that then causes the installation
to stop when clicked.
The problem is in a quiet installation when it looks like this Action is
called but exits with a return code of 1. How do
...But it is not all messages. It happens probably once out of 50 or so.
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:56 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX and the next ve
Are you maybe signed up multiple times? I only get one.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:53 AM, John Bergman <
john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com> wrote:
> Anyone know why I frequently get 2 or 3 copies of some of the messages from
> the list (including this message.. I got 3 copies of this one).
>
This is still true:
http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/4/1/Visual-Studio-will-not-ship-the-WiX-toolset-contributes-only
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:43 AM, John Bergman <
john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com> wrote:
> Are there plans to include WiX in the next version of Visual Studio? Or
> w
Well, duhh. I' m not sure what I was expecting, but of course, scheduling
the CA causes it to run, which sets the property, and then the UnitTest
sees the match and it passes. It's kind of a lot of work to hack up a test
MSI, but there was (of course) no change the CA being tested. And, I think
Will there be a way to customize the wixstdba thm.xml file? As far as
I see they are just extracted to the temp folder and customizing (e.g.
dialog size, image size ...) should be ok with few effort . But I
didn't see a way to re-inject customized thm.xml files.
For multi language Burn UI I didn't
Hi,
When having a look at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ it seems
that there exists nothing else than the RSS feeds (No WiX.exe , msi
...)
Regards
Tobias
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Does the CA even run? You probably need to schedule it in
InstallExecuteSequence. New to Lux myself, but I don't think Lux starts/stops
the CA's by itself.
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John M. Cooper
-Original Message-
From: Gary Gocek [mailto:g...@gocek.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:48 PM
To: Gener
David L. Beckwith wrote:
>
> OK, I'm now able to create a detached container. How awesome!
>
> Any suggested file extension to use? Is it a cab file?
>
> But I don't have the install working yet. It seems not all "loose files"
> were harvested. Those in sub-directories were caught but those in
I'm having trouble with my first attempt at unit-testing custom actions
with Lux.
In a fragment in "properties.wxs",
In a fragment in "CustomActions.wxs",
I have Binary and CustomAction elements to configure "FooMethod" as
immediate.
In the C# code for custom action "FooMethod",
session["BAR_
Hm ok. For me it would be great having such a UpgradeCodeSearch
element to not need a custom Burn Bootstrapper...
BTW: Also returning a string with all detected UpgradeCodes would be great :-)
Best regards,
Tobias
2011/10/23 Rob Mensching :
> Burn does exactly what you ask. It comes in the
> IB
Because of the MS Windows Server 2008 behavior of clearing %TEMP% on reboot
(which Install and Continuing Development & Support do routinely during testing
and training), they insisted that the LOG files be relocated to a location
where the OS wouldn't erase them by default. I had to modify the
I've used IExpress in the past to wrap an MSI in an EXE - this lets you
specify a log file location. I've been meaning to take a look at Burn to
see if there is a better way to accomplish this - from what Rob says it
looks like the only thing to do would be have the bootstrapper app copy the
files
OK, I'm now able to create a detached container. How awesome!
Any suggested file extension to use? Is it a cab file?
But I don't have the install working yet. It seems not all "loose files"
were harvested. Those in sub-directories were caught but those in the same
directory as the msi were not. I
I'll take a look at that UI I hadn't appreciate that the WiX 3.6 UI wasn't the
default one.
Neil
On 26 Oct 2011, at 15:50, Rob Mensching wrote:
> The current wixstdba is trying to get the most of the features from the WiX
> Advanced UI (except per-machine/per-user switching thing which doesn't
Hi all.
I have a problem with update an Edit control.
I have the Edit control and a button.
I want to change value in the Edit control after a user press the button.
Looks like following:
1
But if the value in the Edit control was changed by the user, it won't change
after button press. I
On 26/10/2011 16:05, Albert van Peppen wrote:
> I would like to automate this but on codeplex there are several obstacles to
> take:
> - You need to download via the website and accept the agreement (not easy to
> automate, that's the idea of it I suppose)
> - There is no history.txt so I need to
FOLDERID_ProgramData might be a good choice.
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Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (Premier Tech)
Build & Install Engineer - jXchange
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-Original Message-
From: Lars Augensen [mailto:lars.augen...@confirmit.com]
S
Best regards,
I would like to automate this but on codeplex there are several obstacles to
take:
- You need to download via the website and accept the agreement (not easy to
automate, that's the idea of it I suppose)
- There is no history.txt so I need to get that one out of the source-zip file
The current wixstdba is trying to get the most of the features from the WiX
Advanced UI (except per-machine/per-user switching thing which doesn't
work). If you don't like that UI then you'll probably need to investigate
creating your own bootstrapper application.
Most of WiX v3.6 is going to be a
Interesting. If you guys are willing to mirror the releases, that may be
really useful in spreading the download burden.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 26/10/2011 09:17, Albert van Peppen wrote:
> > I've modified the title of this thread, since it has nothing more to do
Anyone know why I frequently get 2 or 3 copies of some of the messages from the
list (including this message.. I got 3 copies of this one).
-Original Message-
From: John Bergman [mailto:john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 9:43 AM
To: General discuss
Please file bugs for the things that are missing. The reboot message for
example was supposed to be there but maybe it got lost in the shuffle.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 25/10/2011 22:12, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
> > I guess I was hoping for something for free, the cu
Well, that bug is exactly why I need that functionality, so.. what is the
alternate path you are thinking of using?
-
Lars Augensen
Deployment Engineer
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: 26. oktober 2011 16:38
To: General discussion for Windows
The last weekly build is the Beta and is available on Codeplex. Feel free to
download it from there.
I'm investigating where to put our weekly builds since SF is blocking our
website if we include them where the ATOM feeds can see them.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Albert van Peppen wrote:
Are there plans to include WiX in the next version of Visual Studio? Or will
it remain separate?
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demand for specialized networking skills is growin
Okay, this is a known bug in Burn. In fact, Bob *just* found it over the
weekend while testing the Beta. It is trying to cache the ProjectAggregator
so it would be available for rollback (which is a bit much).
The issue is known, I'll look for a good workaround.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:07 PM, w
Burn logs to %TEMP%, that's not configurable. There is a bug open that we
need to use another path instead of %TEMP% because reboots on Windows server
clear the folder. However, there are no plans to make the full path of the
log file configurable.
The MsiLogFileLocation sets variables in Burn to
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to get our setup to log to a specific location that is not %temp% -
per default.
Given that the MsiLogFileLocation property is read-only and cannot be used for
giving another location, and telling the users to use msiexec instead of
setup.exe is not doable - do I have
Thanks for the info, John, though I'm still a little confused. How do you
set those properties? If Action state isn't set yet when I click "Next", I
can't use that to condition a "GoToFeature1Screen" property. ADDLOCAL
doesn't get set until the end of UI execution, so I can't use that. I
kicked
Well, the problem is, in my experience with the FeatureTree control, is that
you need an event triggered by it or after it to update the states. Otherwise,
the states seem to sometimes hold their pre-FeatureTree states until sometime
around InstallValidate. I've tried toggling INSTALLLEVEL and
On 26/10/2011 09:17, Albert van Peppen wrote:
> I've modified the title of this thread, since it has nothing more to do with
> installation problem :)
>
> My archive, for those who didn't knew yet, is at
> http://madbutcher.dyndns.org/snippets/WiX/
> I try to keep it up to date as much as possibl
I couldn't say. Almost all our installers have a single feature so it's not
something I have an in-depth knowledge of. Can you not trigger control events
from the UI ?
-Original Message-
From: Wang, Miaohsi [mailto:miaohsi.w...@invensys.com]
Sent: 25 October 2011 23:38
To: General discuss
I've modified the title of this thread, since it has nothing more to do with
installation problem :)
My archive, for those who didn't knew yet, is at
http://madbutcher.dyndns.org/snippets/WiX/
I try to keep it up to date as much as possible :)
Best regards,
Albert van Peppen
Senior System Eng
Hi Rob,
I saw that you have deleted all versions from sourceforce; only the RSS files
are there :(
Can you provide the last weekly build to me, so I can put them into my archive,
in this case people can at least found it on more than one place :)
Best regards,
Albert van Peppen
Senior System
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