[WiX-users] I watched your youtube vid. I have 3 files, created installer ok, but installing it gave win-error.

2013-02-25 Thread james pruett
Hi, Thanks for writing Wix. I will donate to the tip jar or flattr. I tried my installer and didn't quite make it... Not sure how to diagnose it. Here is everything (.SED, _installer.exe) http://www.wikispeedia.org/speedo/ Thanks for looking! I appreciate it. -cellurl --

Re: [WiX-users] Product Upgrade.

2013-02-25 Thread Neil Sleightholm
In your first post the Product Id was a fixed guid I would recommend you use Id="*". Also, have you checked ARP to ensure you don't have a version installed? -Original Message- From: chennam [mailto:chatrapathi.chen...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 February 2013 20:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourcef

Re: [WiX-users] Product Upgrade.

2013-02-25 Thread chennam
Hi, I have commented out the and tags which are specified in my previous comment .And added the tag ,but still I am getting error message box saying "Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue.To Configure or remove the existing version

Re: [WiX-users] Product Upgrade.

2013-02-25 Thread Alain Forget
See MajorUpgrade? It greatly simplified my upgrading process. http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_majorupgrade.htm Alain -Original Message- From: chennam [mailto:chatrapathi.chen...@gmail.com] Sent: February 25, 2013 13:52 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-use

[WiX-users] Product Upgrade.

2013-02-25 Thread chennam
Hi below are the setting I have set for Version 1 and version 2 .But While I am installing MSI package for Upgrade ,message box pops up and asks to remove previous version of install from Add/remove program instead of removing by itself older version automatically and install newer version. Ple

Re: [WiX-users] Elminate %%filenametype%% during Heat.exe

2013-02-25 Thread chennam
Thanks Peter ,Was able to achieve what I needed through XSLT template. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Elminate-filenametype-during-Heat-exe-tp7583781p7583937.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

[WiX-users] "This collection is read-only" error in Visual Studio 2012

2013-02-25 Thread Bruce Cran
I've come across a few problems with the WiX 3.7 plugin with Visual Studio 2012. Today I tried to add a reference to a bootstrapper project by double-clicking on the project name was told "This collection is read-only"; trying it again but clicking the "Add" button worked. Has anyone else come

Re: [WiX-users] Pass value from msi to bundle

2013-02-25 Thread Hoover, Jacob
I would begin by asking why the bundle needs to know anything more than the path. If you plan on reading values of a config file in the bundle and passing this to other packages, you could accomplish the same thing with a public property and a custom action to read the value with a relat

Re: [WiX-users] WcaGetProperty returning Invalid handle

2013-02-25 Thread Natalie Carr
Peter, That was exactly it, stupidly I missed that (it's monday) :) Thanks -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 3:05 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WcaGetProperty re

Re: [WiX-users] Elminate %%filenametype%% during Heat.exe

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
I'm not sure that I follow the question, but all the options to heat can viewed with "heat /?". If you can't achieve what you want with heat then you'd have to wrap it in an MSBuild project or edit the wixproj. -Original Message- From: chennam [mailto:chatrapathi.chen...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] WcaGetProperty returning Invalid handle

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
The only thing I can think of right now is that WcaFinalize has been called prematurely ? -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: 25 February 2013 14:41 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WcaGetProperty returning Invalid hand

[WiX-users] WcaGetProperty returning Invalid handle

2013-02-25 Thread Natalie Carr
Hi, I am calling WcaGetProperty multiple times like so: hr = WcaGetProperty(L"ANALOG_INPUT",&szAnalogInput); ExitOnFailure(hr, "failed to get the number of channels"); strcpy(szChannelInfo, "ANALOG_INPUT"); ReadChannelInfo(hInstall, szChannelInfo, szAnalogInput);

Re: [WiX-users] Service call from Custom Action

2013-02-25 Thread Christopher Painter
Required Reading: http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/isnews/200108/index.htm From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 8:04 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Service call from Custom Action None of t

Re: [WiX-users] Service call from Custom Action

2013-02-25 Thread Keith.Douglas
None of this applies, but it is good to know. In general, what context does a CA run in anyway? I found a different from installing as an administrator user (to get the per-machine to work) vs. the case where the package (or command prompt) was explicitly elevated; only the latter allowed the p

Re: [WiX-users] Chanage Logo

2013-02-25 Thread Erik Fornander
Look at the bottom of the page. There you can for example see these lines: Just set the Value attribute to the path to the image you want to display instead of the default one. And below that you can read the descriptions: WixUIBannerBmp493 by 58 pixels, this bitmap will appear at the top

Re: [WiX-users] Chanage Logo

2013-02-25 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Are you talking about the top banner bitmap? If so you can use: -Original Message- From: Chaitanya [mailto:chaita...@pointcross.com] Sent: February-25-13 8:28 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chanage Logo I checked that URL.But

Re: [WiX-users] Chanage Logo

2013-02-25 Thread Chaitanya
I checked that URL.But unfortunately i didnt get any idea to change the logo. -Original Message- From: Rahul V [mailto:rahul8...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 February 2013 15:11 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chanage Logo You may have look at he

Re: [WiX-users] Using burn for installer localization

2013-02-25 Thread Helge Kruse
Are there any blogs or other publications that a beginner of burn should read before the WiX 3.6 edition of Nick Ramirez's book is delivered? Regards Helge 2013/2/23 Helge Kruse : > Hello, > > I use WiX before, but am completely unexperienced with burn. > > I have build localized .msi packages. I

Re: [WiX-users] Chanage Logo

2013-02-25 Thread Rahul V
You may have look at here. http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/user-interface/ui-wizardry Regards, Rahul On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Chaitanya wrote: > Hi, > > > > In the WIXUI_InstallDir,i want the change the logo. > > > > How to change,can u tell me the suggestions, > > > > Thanks & re

Re: [WiX-users] Chanage Logo

2013-02-25 Thread Helge Kruse
2013/2/25 Chaitanya : > > In the WIXUI_InstallDir,i want the change the logo. > > How to change,can u tell me the suggestions, I think it's worth to read "user interface"/"UI wizardry" in the tutorial: http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/ Regards Helge ---

Re: [WiX-users] Pass value from msi to bundle

2013-02-25 Thread Kristian Jaksch
Hmmm... I was thinking about this one more time and it turned out it might not solve my issue after all. What I needed was actually the full path of a file and not only the installation directory (actually the application's config file). So how can I get out the file name and path of the applicati