Re: [WiX-users] Prevent Downgrade without any message prompt

2012-05-02 Thread shengyixing
Thanks, Rob. "WixExitEarlyWithSuccess" meets the requirements. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Prevent-Downgrade-without-any-message-prompt-tp7505576p7522108.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -

Re: [WiX-users] Registry permissions are not inherited

2012-05-02 Thread Francisco Gabriel Malbrán
I'm having kind of the inverse problem. Setting an "Everyone" permission to a key and all of its values, propagates that permission upwards on the registry tree! The following Will set both keys: MyKey and MyRegistryFolder to have Everyone user with

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle fails on WIN2K machine ".exe is not a valid Win32 application"

2012-05-02 Thread rdinglebham
The problem surfaced when I started bundling my MSI packages in order to take advantage of bootstrapping the perquisites like .NET Framework 2.0 SP2, C++ run time libraries. We've been careful to build all of our client adapters in .NET 2.0/VS2008 since WIN2K is still widely used in the retail worl

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle fails on WIN2K machine ".exe is not a valid Win32 application"

2012-05-02 Thread Alexander Lamaison
I remain confused how this problem has arisen in the first place. WiX was (obviously) being compiled with versions of VS that support Win2K, Win XP. So what's changed? Windows XP hasn't changed under our feet. So that leaves WiX. What features of the newer versions of Windows and/or VS are so

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle fails on WIN2K machine ".exe is not a valid Win32 application"

2012-05-02 Thread James Johnston
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=11&qp customb=0&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=149&qpnp=11 ^-- Source of my data in this message... That is something that has been bugging me too while reading this discussion. So my random thoughts on this topic of OS compatibility...

Re: [WiX-users] WiX support for (gulp!) WinNT4

2012-05-02 Thread Quinton Tormanen
On 01-May-12 20:03, Bob Arnson wrote: > See wix.chm on WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH for how to skip validation. That sounds perfect Bob. Unfortunately, now when I build from the same source/toolset, the resulting MSI won't start at all. It gives error 1620 on WinNT4+SP6 (but works on newer OSes). This

[WiX-users] Adding paramater to msi that will set value in config file

2012-05-02 Thread Charles Broadfoot
Hi Wix Users, I'm trying to do what I would think would be pretty trivial and that is update a config file value based on a parameter passed into the msi. But when I try to do this, I keep getting the error : error CNDL0200 : The Component element contains an unhandled extension element 'util

Re: [WiX-users] Installing multiple versions of the same product under the same upgrade code

2012-05-02 Thread John Cooper
You want an installer designed to use instance transforms. It can be tricky and a lot of authoring has to be done manually to make it all work, but I do have one installer that currently supports up to 16 instance transforms. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henr

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle failing to build after upgrading to latest release (3.6.2823)

2012-05-02 Thread Pally Sandher
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Re: [WiX-users] Customising a bootstrapper theme

2012-05-02 Thread Bertrand D
Indeed you were right. There was a mismatch between the wix sources and the wix build I had. Now everything works accordingly. Thanks again for your help. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Customising-a-bootstrapper-theme-tp7501905p7519

Re: [WiX-users] Pass data into localization wxl file

2012-05-02 Thread Kristjan Laane
Thanks again Bob. I looked at the docs for the Product element and it is not clear to me from this URL whether the Name property, for instance, is formatted or not: Product Element http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_product.htm If you know what marks a field as formatted please let m

[WiX-users] Installing multiple versions of the same product under the same upgrade code

2012-05-02 Thread Sven Riede
Hi, I want to have multiple versions of the same product to live on the target machine at the same time. Each of them has its own installer. To have a common key for all versions I would like to share the upgrade code. From what I have learned so far, the upgrade code is good for a major upgrad