Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally Including CustomActionRefs

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Williams
Thank you for your reply. I do mean runtime. The CustomAction I'm including is from the WixVSExtension: VS2010InstallVSTemplates and the like. According to the documentation on this, it says that if you include the CustomActionRef, it will schedule everything for you (which I've observed is tr

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally Including CustomActionRefs

2011-11-21 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
Do you mean buildtime? Check the preprocessor conditional statements: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/preprocessor.htm If you really mean runtime, when the package is getting installed, then you don't want to think of it as conditionally including a CustomActionRef. In this case you want

[WiX-users] Conditionally Including CustomActionRefs

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Williams
I'm trying to conditionally include some CustomActionRef's based on a property at runtime. I'm on WiX 3.6 beta right now. I can't figure out how to do this. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks, Ian -- All the

Re: [WiX-users] Refresh shortcut icons during setup

2011-11-21 Thread Michael Janulaitis
I have been trying to get the shortcut icons for non-exe files to work as well but have been unsuccessful. Over the last 2 days no one on this form either knows how to get this to work or are unwilling to help me out. I actually have a licensed version InstallShield 2011 Professional but am t

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to verify input

2011-11-21 Thread AxiomaticImpact
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[WiX-users] Refresh shortcut icons during setup

2011-11-21 Thread Johannes Franke
Hi community, does anybody know if there is a way to update icons of shortcuts that were created in a WiX-based setup? As a background info, I'm creating two shortcuts to HTML, one to a local file, one to an internet URL. Both should reflect the default icon associated with HTML but instead the

Re: [WiX-users] questions about upgrading to a stable wix version

2011-11-21 Thread Blair
The only versions I have seen released are 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and the Beta of 3.6. 1) DifxApi I don't see Difx in 2.0 (I thought it was in there, it may be, I'm just not seeing it, but 2.0 is quite old and not supported any longer). The version in 3.0 and the later 3.x releases is different, there w

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action cannot find installed files

2011-11-21 Thread Wilson, Phil
Are you really specifying the entire path? It seems like you are not. There's no reason for Windows to change a fully specified path, but if you specify just a file name Windows will use the current directory and it obviously has no way of knowing that you mean the ProgramFiles folder. It may b

Re: [WiX-users] add reference to C++ project

2011-11-21 Thread Blair
Daniel, How many WXS files cause VS2010/MSBuild to croak? I haven't seen that. Blair -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance,

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with file association and harvesting files

2011-11-21 Thread Blair
Add a transform to heat's commandline that adds the Verb. -Original Message- From: Peter Bulyaki [mailto:peter.buly...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 8:27 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with file association and harves

[WiX-users] Problem with file association and harvesting files

2011-11-21 Thread Peter Bulyaki
Hi, I have a project in which all files are harvested recursively from a single source folder. I would also like to add a file association to this project as below: The problem with t

Re: [WiX-users] add reference to C++ project

2011-11-21 Thread Daniel Madill
Hello Huifei Rao, If you search for heat.exe in the WiX documentation (Start menu/All Programs/Windows Installer XML Toolset 3.5/WiX Documentation) it gives some examples of using heat for various purposes, such as harvesting a directory: Harvest a directory: heat dir ".\My Files" -gg

Re: [WiX-users] If Bundle/@Name is empty, the bundle installer will have no title in the UI

2011-11-21 Thread Peter Bulyaki
Hi, I am replying myself, I have found one possible solution. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Peter Bulyaki > Hi Guys, > > I removed the Bundle/@Name element from my wxs file, because I don't want > to see the bundle name in the Add/Remove Programs list. However, this > removed the title from t