Re: [WiX-users] conditional serviceinstall / msi property question

2013-01-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I think the problem is the quotes around the 1 and 0, I would just do SKIPSERVICEINSTALL=1 and SKIPSERVICEINSTALL=0. Neil -Original Message- From: Joe Damato [mailto:j...@boundary.com] Sent: 24 January 2013 01:09 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-us

[WiX-users] conditional serviceinstall / msi property question

2013-01-23 Thread Joe Damato
Hi - I started with a working MSI that installs some DLLs, an EXE, and did a ServiceInstall. Everything worked great. Now, I want to conditionally do a ServiceInstall depending on an MSI Property that gets set during a custom action. I have two components: SKIPSERVICEINSTALL = "1" and

[WiX-users] msp install fails under server 2008 but succeed under server 2003

2013-01-23 Thread Nicolas Lambert
Salutation WIX users, I've encounter a weird issue with one of our patches recently and I'm really lost. Tried to understand the problem for 3 days and still nothing so I'm sending my question your way with hopes someone might see something. It concerns the hotfix 7 of a build that has already

Re: [WiX-users] Problem installing merge modules on server 2008 R2

2013-01-23 Thread Rob
Great. That was my problem. Thanks for your help. Much appreciated Rob On 23 January 2013 11:48, Rob Hamflett wrote: > Starting with Vista the WinSxS runtime assemblies aren't committed until > InstallFinalize. This meant my service couldn't be started as part of > the StartServices action.

Re: [WiX-users] Related to Sequences

2013-01-23 Thread Karkare,Aparna
Tried type 34 CA. It was throwing error 1721 'A program required for installer could not be run' so using Binary table back. Regards, Aparna Karkare -Original Message- From: Gabriel Ivanes [mailto:g...@fastmail.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:17 AM To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] Quotes in IniFile lost on rollback

2013-01-23 Thread Albert van Peppen
Did you try Microsoft Connect (Category: Visual Studio and .NET Framework)? I saw several installer issues there (although mostly about Visual Studio Installer) Best regards, Albert van Peppen -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Verzonden: 23 Janu

Re: [WiX-users] Quotes in IniFile lost on rollback

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Mensching
I honestly don't know. I haven't tried contacting Windows Installer team from outside Microsoft yet. If you find out, I know I would appreciate a pointer. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Rob Hamflett wrote: > On 22/01/2013 15:55, Rob Mensching wrote: > > You'd have to contact the Windows Inst

Re: [WiX-users] Problem installing merge modules on server 2008 R2

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Hamflett
Starting with Vista the WinSxS runtime assemblies aren't committed until InstallFinalize. This meant my service couldn't be started as part of the StartServices action. I had to write a commit custom action to start the service for me. It's possible that this is the issue you're running into

Re: [WiX-users] Related to Sequences

2013-01-23 Thread Gabriel Ivanes
[TestReg]tab.reg => [INSTALLFOLDER]tab.reg INSTALLFOLDER shouldn't be empty to be created or you need to use CreateFolder's table (http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/com-expression-syntax-miscellanea/creating-directories) Any need to import reg.exe in binary table ? Why not using CA 34 ? (http:

[WiX-users] How to check the existence of D and E drives in WIX

2013-01-23 Thread RahulV
I want to install my application into E drive if not exists then D drive, if D also doesn't exist then I want to install in C drive. Which variable should I use to check this ? Can anyone help me? RootDrive -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.68

Re: [WiX-users] Quotes in IniFile lost on rollback

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Hamflett
On 22/01/2013 15:55, Rob Mensching wrote: > You'd have to contact the Windows Installer team. Any idea how to do that? There used to be newsgroups but these were meant to be replaced with forums. There were a posting telling us this would happen and that a future post would give us the details

[WiX-users] Related to Sequences

2013-01-23 Thread Karkare,Aparna
My installer makes changes in registry. Before that it should take back up of registry in a .reg file. It is doing all this but with few problems. If I store the reg back up file in program files folder then it is saved there through below code: But If I try to save it in the Install fold