Re: [WiX-users] global property set in server is not passed to the client

2012-01-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 26-Jan-12 14:37, T. Kuro Kurosaka wrote: > I thought properties named with all uppercase letters are in > global effect, and passed between the server and the client, back and > forth. It's one-way only, client to server. There's no way to set a property in the server and have it available for

Re: [WiX-users] Bundled Installer Not installing under ALLUSERS

2012-01-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 26-Jan-12 15:02, DuBois, Joseph wrote: > Have a the to load the individual packages > under all users, but it isn't installing the Bundle itself under ALLUSERS. If your packages are all per-user the bundle will be per-user as well. Is there a reason you're not putting ALLUSERS in the packages

Re: [WiX-users] WIX - Issue with filenames that have two $$ in them.

2012-01-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 25-Jan-12 21:52, Josh Suereth wrote: > Actually, I caught the pre-processor docs. Replacing every $ with $$ > works. I just had to get my regex replacement correct. Sorry for the bum > email. I think it's still a bug. $ introduces a preprocessor variable reference but $$ should be necessary

Re: [WiX-users] Struggling to get bal:Condition to work (wix burn)

2012-01-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 26-Jan-12 11:18, Boyd Ludlow wrote: > I know that a bug currently exists when using burn that it errors rather > than asking for elevated rights. What bug is that? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Try before yo

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Bootstrapping Issues

2012-01-26 Thread jhennessey
A bootstrapper needs to be an executable. MSIs cannot launch other MSIs. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Wix-Bootstrapping-Issues-tp7225413p7228980.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] global property set in server is not passed to the client

2012-01-26 Thread T. Kuro Kurosaka
On 1/26/12 12:13 PM, John Cooper wrote: > Read up on the Secure attribute to the Property element in the Wix schema. > Only secure properties are visible in both the UI and Execute sequences. > I'm not sure if the security is the problem because I am not seeing the errors like "Ignoring disallow

Re: [WiX-users] Patch building with Torch, all .NET assemblies "changed"

2012-01-26 Thread john.burak
For future readers, this sentence from my last email looks to be wrong: "We fully-sign our assemblies after they are built, so we might have to make sure MSBuild is looking at pre-signed copies or it might rebuild them." I tried fully signing the outputted DLL and did another Build, and MSBuild di

Re: [WiX-users] Patch building with Torch, all .NET assemblies "changed"

2012-01-26 Thread john.burak
That's a good thought, so I checked and verified that leaving the file's version number the same between builds still produces different binary files. Unless we hear a better suggestion we're going to try this: Each time we build an assembly we will leave all the intermediate files in place (.pdb

Re: [WiX-users] Patch building with Torch, all .NET assemblies "changed"

2012-01-26 Thread John Cooper
When I was at SCX (Microsoft), we went so far as to investigate tools to compare only the "code" parts of an assembly--but in the end, that proved too cumbersome and unreliable, and so we just lived with the diff's between build. At ESA-JHA, a significant number of assemblies are checked into so

Re: [WiX-users] Patch building with Torch, all .NET assemblies "changed"

2012-01-26 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
My initial guess is that your assembly's versions are changing between builds. I'm very interested in a proposed approach to this as we have a build that results in changed versions on every build. I haven't personally investigated an approach to handle this yet. I haven't had the time yet to do

Re: [WiX-users] global property set in server is not passed to the client

2012-01-26 Thread John Cooper
Read up on the Secure attribute to the Property element in the Wix schema. Only secure properties are visible in both the UI and Execute sequences. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r) Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office: 913-341-3434 x791011

[WiX-users] WiX Burn: Failed to begin registration session

2012-01-26 Thread Sunny Li
Hi there, I've been seeing this error "Failed to cache bundle/Failed to begin registration session" quite a bit recently. I've updated to the newest build v3.6.2520, is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? Below are two separate log files: *Windows 7* [1F6C:1E74][2012-01-26T14:49: 53]

[WiX-users] Bundled Installer Not installing under ALLUSERS

2012-01-26 Thread DuBois, Joseph
Hello all, Have a to load the individual packages under all users, but it isn't installing the Bundle itself under ALLUSERS. I can't seem to find a setting which allows me to set this. So another user comes along and only sees the individual packages, and uninstalls them leaving the rogue Bun

[WiX-users] global property set in server is not passed to the client

2012-01-26 Thread T. Kuro Kurosaka
In my main .wxs file that is based on the WixUI_InstallDir dialog set, I set WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALTEXT so that the final dialog after successful installation has an extra information. This is done like this: ... This works fine. The text stored in this property is shown. I wanted

[WiX-users] Bundled MSI branding

2012-01-26 Thread Josh Suereth
Hey everyone, I'm trying to build a bundled installer from several MSIs. I'm using the branding instructions here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wixstdba_branding.htm. The resulting logo is appearing very boxish and completely black (i.e. looks like it's not reading my png). Do I nee

[WiX-users] COMPlusApplication failed on registering

2012-01-26 Thread guoxin104
Hey, I am using Wix COMPlus extension to register my complus application, here is the code: and Here is the MSI log: ComPlu

[WiX-users] Patch building with Torch, all .NET assemblies "changed"

2012-01-26 Thread john.burak
We recently implemented patch building using Torch/Pyro. We are keeping the old MSI and totally rebuilding a new one for Torch to diff with. The problem is that Torch sees all of our .NET assemblies as changed even though the source code only changed in a few. We did some digging and it turns ou

Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-26 Thread john.burak
As a follow up to my last email here, it turns out signing was /not/ the issue after all. If we compile a .NET assembly twice in a row (same source code each time) the second DLL is binary-different than the first. Maybe it's putting a time stamp in there. So I'm guessing Torch is doing a binary

Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-26 Thread john.burak
Hi Miaohsi, We are currently having a very similar problem where I work. Torch.exe seems to be detecting all of our .NET assemblies as changed, even though only a few of them are actually different in source code. Hence, all of the .NET assemblies are going into the patch, making it is huge and

Re: [WiX-users] MSI setup for different flavours of Product

2012-01-26 Thread Sanjay Poria
Thanks for the advice Dave. We definitely need different flavours of the product for different customers. I think we will take your advice and produce different MSIs (one the core product and one for the parts that vary) and chain them together using an appropriate bootstrapper. Regards sanjay

Re: [WiX-users] Struggling to get bal:Condition to work (wix burn)

2012-01-26 Thread Boyd Ludlow
In that case I'd actually want the test to pass if the user was privileged. But if I use: Privileged The install errors regardless of whether I'm an admin with this in the log [0B98:0C48][2012-01-26T17:21:00]: Condition 'Privileged' evaluates to false. It seems like Privileged may never

Re: [WiX-users] Struggling to get bal:Condition to work (wix burn)

2012-01-26 Thread John Cooper
Is the Privileged property even defined for non-privileged installers? Generally, you're testing for set if the user is privileged and cleared when the user is not. So, maybe you're looking for NOT Privileged. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, I

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Bootstrapping Issues

2012-01-26 Thread Andrew Collier
If I build a use msbuild to create the bootstrapper I just end up with an executable again. Isn't there someway to build the bootstrapper as an MSI and the other MSIs are run as subprocesses under the main MSI? - Original Message - From: Bob Arnson Sent: 01/25/12 08:37 PM To: wix-users@l

Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-26 Thread Wang, Miaohsi
Hello Peter, Thank you for responding to my email. I applied the patch install again on a much faster machine and it still took a long time to finish. The step that took the most time was "Validating install." It took 13 minutes out of the total 17 minutes, as recorded in the install log shown

[WiX-users] Struggling to get bal:Condition to work (wix burn)

2012-01-26 Thread Boyd Ludlow
I know that a bug currently exists when using burn that it errors rather than asking for elevated rights. I thought that then I could add a condition to prevent setup running is the user is not an admin or if they have not selected "Run as admin". My attempt follows but I never seem to be able to g

[WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?!

2012-01-26 Thread tomer.c
I'm creating a patch, I'm not sure that the patch includes all of my files even though I'm passing the -p flag to the torch.exe. Can someone please explain to me the logic that torch uses to determine what files are included in the patch. Thanks. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Two Wierd Installer Problems - DTF and QuietExec

2012-01-26 Thread Christopher Painter
Blair, While I never knew you were doing it at the time, thank you soo much for your efforts on this sneakly little critter of a bug. DTF has a special place in my heart ( I'm sure you saw all my blog posts over the years evangelizing the need for managed code custom actions ) and your eff

Re: [WiX-users] Antwort: Re: ERROR1603

2012-01-26 Thread Rob Mensching
Too much work. :) On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:05 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I've just posted the following comment to Rob's blog. > > -- > Hi all, > > the first thing I do with an MSI log is to open with the Microsoft tool > "Windows Installer Verbose Log Analyzer" (WiLogUtl.exe). > > One Problem i

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Protocols

2012-01-26 Thread Rob Mensching
"burn" supports a Burn bundle inside a Burn bundle. "netfx" supports netfx 4+. SQL Server doesn't expose a protocol today, IIRC. Maybe they can move to Burn? :) On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Romeo S. wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just curious what can "burn" and "netfx" protocols supports? I need to >

[WiX-users] Antwort: Re: ERROR1603

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas . Deboben
Hi, I've just posted the following comment to Rob's blog. -- Hi all, the first thing I do with an MSI log is to open with the Microsoft tool "Windows Installer Verbose Log Analyzer" (WiLogUtl.exe). One Problem is that WiLogUtl.exe support only MSI logs up to MSI version 3.0.0.0. So if I