[WiX-users] Want to have "devenv /setup" run when my installer runs

2012-09-07 Thread Mike Barnett
I have a WiX installer that installs several things, but among them a VS Package. That package has a pane that gets added to the project properties page for C# and VB projects. For previous versions of Visual Studio, the pane would appear after installation. However for VS2012, it appears that "

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading to Burn [list of steps to take]

2012-09-07 Thread Hoover, Jacob
The out of the box bootstrappers provided by Wix currently doesn't have a feature tree to drive the MSI's. You could show your MSI UI, but that would deter from the single unified installation experience. If you have a single MSI that has no prerequisites then using burn would only allow you f

[WiX-users] Upgrading to Burn [list of steps to take]

2012-09-07 Thread vchauras
Hello all, We already have a big size msi for our product and it supports installation of various features. Now, with Wix3.6 onwards, we want to use Burn in our build stage. My main concern before moving to Burn is that : - how would I know if my current MSI needs Burn supported functionality or

Re: [WiX-users] ia64 libraries are missing in WiX 3.6 SDK

2012-09-07 Thread Rob Mensching
Fixed. The WiX v3.6 release has a one-time-only wix36-ia64.zip containing the missing IA-64 binaries. I tracked down how the IA-64 build was disabled and it was due to the VS2012 install. The new Windows SDK no longer provides IA-64 build support and that caused the build to switch off IA-64. Thi

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: WixStdBA and MajorUpgrade

2012-09-07 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Just to finish on this, after removing the any version detect condition all is well. Now that Burn is in an official release, I had to go back and gut out a bunch of ugliness and killed all my custom action code. In the end, I didn't need that ANYVERSION in the upgrade table and everything is wo

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Bootstrapper Bundle creating uninstall shortcut in program files

2012-09-07 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
If you look on a machine where the bundle is installed, you will find an entry for the bundle in the Uninstall registry key. It can be distinguished by the presence of several values called "Bundle..". There is an "uninstallString" value under that key that you could use for the shortcut. -Ori

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Bootstrapper Bundle creating uninstall shortcut in program files

2012-09-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/09/2012 14:20, jaczjill wrote: > Yes, we need for internal purpose and you are right that I would pass > bundle's product code to MSI for creating shortcut. Now the PROBLEM is > bundle's product code is not available,I think I gets generated on run time > so stuck at this point. Need some way

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Bootstrapper Bundle creating uninstall shortcut in program files

2012-09-07 Thread jaczjill
Hello Jacob, Yes, we need for internal purpose and you are right that I would pass bundle's product code to MSI for creating shortcut. Now the PROBLEM is bundle's product code is not available,I think I gets generated on run time so stuck at this point. Need some way to get Product code of bundle.

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Bootstrapper Bundle creating uninstall shortcut in program files

2012-09-07 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Is this only for internal use/ development? If not I do believe that the recommendation is to not have an uninstall shortcut in the start menu. http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/4/27/How-to-create-an-uninstall-shortcut-and-pass-all-the and http://blogs.technet.com/b/alexshev/archive/2008/

Re: [WiX-users] Votiv - Add file as link

2012-09-07 Thread Christoffel le Roux
Thanks Rob Kind regards, Christoffel le Roux -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 6:38 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votiv - Add file as link Not likely since no

[WiX-users] WiX Bootstrapper Bundle creating uninstall shortcut in program files

2012-09-07 Thread jaczjill
How to create a uninstall shortcut in startmenu-> program files to uninstall application installed with WiX bootstrapper. I am not getting the produt code of bootstrapper, which I would have used for un-installation. Just looking for same un-install shortcut which is there in Add/Remove program f

[WiX-users] ListView list features, user (multi)selects features to be installed

2012-09-07 Thread Ingo Fischer
Hello, can I use the ListView to list the features of my application. User should then be able to select the features he wants to install. That means, ListView must be multiselectable. Could that be done with a CheckBox for each feature ? Background: The TreeView is to small to be used on Tout