Re: [WiX-users] How to harvest a directory and create msi

Hi I have tried using the heat command to generate this wxs file named as test.wxs. I also have another file named as Product.wxs as given below. This is what I am wanted to do (I am assuming this is the right approach). Test.wxs I will make it as a Component Group and refer in the Product.wx

[WiX-users] Give IIS_WPG or IIS_IUser write permission to a folder during installation‏

Hi all, I am new to Wix and I am wondering if it is possible to detect the version of IIS installed and give IIS_WPG or IIS_IUser write permission to a folder based on IIS version during installation. I simply tried , but when user doesn't exist, installation will fail. Thanks a lot, Cheng

Re: [WiX-users] How to harvest a directory and create msi

Hi Peter, Thank you very much for your reply. Best Regards Francis > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:31:47 +0100 > From: pshirtcli...@sdl.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to harvest a directory and create msi > > Heat is specifically intended for this and is t

Re: [WiX-users] Debug Assertion Failed

Looks MFC related. Haven't touched MFC since 1996 for a university research project. Never looked back. You'll have to understand what that variable is from and why it isn't initialized. Nothing related to WiX or Windows Installer, so I'm not much more help. Sorry. On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:40 AM

Re: [WiX-users] Checking whether Windows roles and features is installed

We've thought about creating "Search" elements to do WMI. Nobody has implemented it yet. Perhaps, you'd like to implement them and contribute back? Take a look at the code under src\ext\... for examples how to create extensions to the WiX toolset including custom actions. The BalExtension also sh

Re: [WiX-users] ShellExec launching a Binary.

You'll have to extract the data from the Binary table. ShellExec won't understand anything but files in the file system. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Joe Coplen wrote: > I have a button that was previously using the WixShellExec custom action > to launch a URL in the browser. Now I'd like to

Re: [WiX-users] [Burn] Start IIS Manager after installation

I haven't played with this much but a workaround would be to carry a 64-bit executable in your BootstrapperApplication payloads and launch that on 64-bit Windows to launch IIS Manager. Essentially a 64-bit proxy. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Henning Krause wrote: > I have created a managed bo

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - multiple PackageGroupRef in Chain - download issues

There was a bug reported that packages are incorrectly being cleaned from the cache during repair. It is possible this is the same or similar bug. A full log file would be necessary to understand better. You will get the error code on the XxxComplete() callbacks. There is also a bug open to send m