[WiX-users] Installing outside ProgramFilesFolder

2012-10-23 Thread Gavin Bray
Hi I have a requirement to use C:\MyApp as the default installation directory rather than being user Program Files (x86). I also give the user the opportunity to specify a different directory. I'm using: At install time, the correct default directory of C:\MyApp is displayed (assum

[WiX-users] Burn and general app dependency question

2012-10-23 Thread victorwhiskey
Hello, I have a app A which can be installed as a standalone which I have an MSI installer for. Then I have a second app B which needs app A. For app B I have a separate MSI installer which contains a shared wixlib file that is is in app A and app B. First off, is the mentioned way correct or the

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Specifying PackageGroup Id on button click

2012-10-23 Thread Hans ter Horst
Thanks, I will look into that, at the moment I'm playing around with InstallConditions and setting variables from my DA component. It sort of works but this might run into trouble later. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Adrian Gantoi wrote: > Take a look at WixBA (available in the WiX source file

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Specifying PackageGroup Id on button click

2012-10-23 Thread Adrian Gantoi
Take a look at WixBA (available in the WiX source files, it's the WiX installer UI). You will find the PlanPackageBegin handler in InstallationViewModel.cs (at least for WiX version 3.6 this is true). You can set in here the state of each package from your bundle (i.e. you can always plan Launch

Re: [WiX-users] Burn and Files in Use / Restart Manager

2012-10-23 Thread Georg von Kries
Hello Neil, thanks again for your help. If I have some time I will implement this feature. Maybe someone else will find it useful too. Regards, Georg -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2012 12:33 An: General discu

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstaller for harvested file

2012-10-23 Thread Johann A. Hough
Super! Thanks Peter... that helps with the initial fiddly bits like namespaces and some typical XPath queries. -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2012 9:07 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstaller for harvested file

2012-10-23 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Here's an extract we use to tidy up a heated help files. It's no use in itself but you can see a way to handle namespaces, select Wix elements, etc. http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:wix="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"; exclude-r

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstaller for harvested file

2012-10-23 Thread Johann A. Hough
Thanks all I've started looking at using an XSLT transformation - it's been years since I had to write XSL so it'll be slow going initially. Is there perhaps a set of WiX XSL examples available somewhere? -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a mixed 32 and 64 bit Application

2012-10-23 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Give each MSI its own product and upgrade code so that one doesn't upgrade the other. -Original Message- From: Martin Johnson [mailto:mjohn...@mpjconsultancy.com] Sent: 23 October 2012 11:00 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Installing a mixed 32 and 64 bit Applica

Re: [WiX-users] Environment variables for local installs

2012-10-23 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Look into the Environment element in the Wix help. -Original Message- From: Timothy Madden [mailto:terminato...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 October 2012 10:51 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Environment variables for local installs Hello I have a script where I want to

Re: [WiX-users] Burn and Files in Use / Restart Manager

2012-10-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I see the problem, what you would probably need is a close application function within the bootstrapper - not something that is available today (may be add it as a feature request). Not pretty but you could block the install if Outlook is running (not entirely sure how to detect that) and get

[WiX-users] Installing a mixed 32 and 64 bit Application

2012-10-23 Thread Martin Johnson
My application has recently become a mixed 32 and 64 bit application. Seeing as this cannot be done in a single msi, I have migrated to WiX3.6 and assembled a bootstrapper. The 32 bit install succeeds and I have implemented the 64 bit as a major upgrade, my problem is that when executed the 64

[WiX-users] Installing a mixed 32 and 64 bit Application

2012-10-23 Thread Martin Johnson
My application has recently become a mixed 32 and 64 bit application. Seeing as this cannot be done in a single msi, I have migrated to WiX3.6 and assembled a bootstrapper. The 32 bit install succeeds and I have implemented the 64 bit as a major upgrade, my problem is that when executed the 6

[WiX-users] Environment variables for local installs

2012-10-23 Thread Timothy Madden
Hello I have a script where I want to install a new file name extension (.exim) and add it to PATHEXT, so cmd.exe can launch files with that extension by their name only, as commands. I would also like to offer both "all users" and "current user" installation for my program. To my big surpris

Re: [WiX-users] Burn and Files in Use / Restart Manager

2012-10-23 Thread Georg von Kries
Hi Neil, thanks for your suggestion. In my case there is an Outlook add-in installed together with our application. We cannot just close Outlook without asking the user and I don't see a possibility to show just a single internal MSI dialog for prompting the user to close Outlook. Am I missing som

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstaller for harvested file

2012-10-23 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
-Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe Sent: 22 October 2012 16:15 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] ServiceInstaller for harvested file You shouldn't user ServiceInstaller to install a service unless Wix provides no way to do everyth

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-23 Thread Christian Hausknecht
Hi Igor, I allready guessed that... unfortunately not much developers create such things for Open Source or Free Software projects :-( But thanks for telling us about your BA design and the decisions you took! That also helps :-) Best regards, Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-23 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi Christian, Unfortunately I cannot release the source code, it's the property of the company I work for. Best regards, Igor On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Christian Hausknecht < chauskne...@beracom.de> wrote: > Hello Igor, > > is there any chance that you could provide us the source code? >