Same here, if it is something I can download from Microsoft (.NET, SQL etc.) I
leave it external; if it is ours it is internal. This means the bundle is 300Mb
and the external stuff is another 240Mb; typically an update will only require
the main setup. The reason for using dark to extract the M
Thank you, I was starting to think it was just me; now all I need is a
solution. I have logs if anyone can analysis them but would prefer not to share
them publicly.
Neil
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From: Steve Hole [mailto:rsteveh...@gmail.com]
Sent: 13 December 2012 01:05
To: General discussi
Hi,
Iam new to Wix.
Let me know how to add XML & XSLT files to my Dash board.
How to redirect one to another Files.
Thanks,
Chaitanya.
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I am setting some environment variables for IIS specifically here. If I
were to set the environment variable system wide then my profiler would
profile all CLR based applications on the system which is not desired.
The problem that I assume exists with createAndRemoveOnUninstall is that if
the en
Random data point: the WiX toolset leaves the redists external and only our
stuff internal (for the final builds where we use an attached container).
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
> I know it is common - I have had to do it, I just hope some asks before
> trying to rep
May be common but in many cases it isn't supported.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Steven Ogilvie wrote:
> I have worked as a packager for the Federal Government which uses SCCM, we
> at times have extracted .MSI's from Microsoft's packages and wrapped
> them... it is common to do so...
>
> So
Why do you use the Environment element? Modifying registry keys directly is
rarely the right way to do things... and when you do, often a restart is
required to get them to really work out.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Micah Caldwell wrote:
> I have a RegistryValue that is added to a pre-ex
Try this...
-Original Message-
From: Micah Caldwell [mailto:mi...@zoltu.net]
Sent: 13 December 2012 05:26
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] RegistryValue not removed on uninstall.
I have a RegistryValue that is added to a pre-existing key. The
RegistryVa
Actually ...
Once again I can confirm exactly the same behavior with my bundle and
one of the included MSI packages. I just didn't realize what I was
seeing until I saw your description. I also have a systray app that
fails to "restart" and I occasionally get a spontaneous reboot when
installing
I have a RegistryValue that is added to a pre-existing key. The
RegistryValue is in a Component in a ComponentGroup in a Feature like so:
COR_ENABLE_PROFILING=1
COR_PROFILER={FF68FEB9-E58A-4B75-A2B8-90CE7D915A26}
When I
Do you use outlook? You could have outlook auto move to another folder. Then
you won't get notifications.
-Original Message-
From: robert.pri...@bentley.com [mailto:robert.pri...@bentley.com]
Sent: December 12, 2012 7:28 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
Sorry. Just trying to reduce the amount of email alerts I get throughout the
day. I am sure I will be back shortly. A lot more Burn stuff to learn :)
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From: Alexey Ivanov [mailto:alexey.iva...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:25 PM
To: General discussio
Why? :(
2012/12/13
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Thanks. In the end, I found this reference which provided me the explanation I
required:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2005/08/30/458295.aspx
regards
sanjay
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
> Sent: 12 December 2012 05:16
> To: General
Where GPO is an issue, I create special installers tailored to the GPO
transforms (in particular, I concentrate on make installers that are easy to
both make transforms of and apply transforms too). GPO is still a very
significant deployment vehicle--especially for user-facing products. It
do
Still really struggling to understand this and the more I look the more I think
something odd is happening burn.
This is the problem:
When I run an install created with burn that upgrades an existing install I see
that burn runs the new MSI install and then the old MSI uninstall. This only
hap
I know it is common - I have had to do it, I just hope some asks before trying
to repackage my 540Mb of install! We have actually chosen two models of
distribution, one that includes everything (.NET, Windows Installer, SQL etc.)
and the other just the MSI for packagers; not an option for everyo
Hello,
I'm trying to put together a set of installers for multiple products that share
a large collection of non-versioned files.
The shared resources are packaged into a merge module, which is included in the
installer for each of the other products. The shared resources should only be
instal
I have worked as a packager for the Federal Government which uses SCCM, we at
times have extracted .MSI's from Microsoft's packages and wrapped them... it is
common to do so...
Some installers come in an executable compressed file where you extract the
files to a location and you can use those
WiX is free they can always download it.
(I really hope no one does that to my bundle, how would they know the logic
associated with installing the MSIs.)
-Original Message-
From: Steven Ogilvie [mailto:steven.ogil...@titus.com]
Sent: 12 December 2012 20:51
To: General discussion for Wi
Clients who use GPO as a measure of releasing to mass desktops :) it can only
use .MSI's
Personally I would rather use SCCM :)
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com]
Sent: December-12-12 3:45 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML tools
Out of interest why would end users ever need this? I just thought it was handy
for validating the contents.
Neil
On 12 Dec 2012, at 20:05, "Steven Ogilvie" wrote:
> Thanks...
>
> But at runtime this is moot since users won't have a copy of dark...
>
> Hopefully the feature request will be
Thanks...
But at runtime this is moot since users won't have a copy of dark...
Hopefully the feature request will be acted on, since there is a command line
parameter to do so but it doesn't do anything :(
I ended up NOT compressing the pre reqs and my installs into the bundle exe so
I have th
I might be wrong but I think this has been asked a few times but not answered
(in fact I think there is even a feature request).
Well after writing the code to do this I discovered it already existed in
"dark":
"%wix%bin\dark" setup.exe -x .\out
This will extract all the embedded files and
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