Re: [WiX-users] General disccussion

1) this would be a question for the tomcat people, I can't remember if tomcat installs once and runs multiple servers but component rules tells me it may 2) if its in process isolation, and #1 is true, then I think this is a non- issue 3) are you using a ba/burn UI, or are you exposing the msi

[WiX-users] General disccussion

Hi, I have a problems in my installer 1) How to Use Bootstrapper.(Ex:- In my code iam installing all Prerequisites software. in that one software is Tomcat. Tomcat should install only File Server.) For that the installer should Ask Which Server is that. We can select the MSI that Should Wo

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

By "chained install package" do you mean the "nested installs" that were deprecated by the Windows Installer? On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Wesley Manning wrote: > No, it is just generates a exe. > > -Original Message- > From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] > Sent: February-26

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing fragment .wxs files from an environment variable

AFAIK, MSBuild automatically expands $(Var) to environment variables. Sound like you might be better served with .wixlibs. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Daniel Madill wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I'm not sure if this answers your question, but when I use "Add existing > item" to add a WXS file to my

Re: [WiX-users] newbie

That isn't WiX toolset code. Looks like IExpress stuff. I thought IExpress was dead because it contained security vulnerabilities in it. I haven't heard of anyone using IExpress for a few years now... On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, james pruett wrote: > Can anyone point me to how I debug this

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing fragment .wxs files from an environment variable

Hi Tim, I'm not sure if this answers your question, but when I use "Add existing item" to add a WXS file to my WiX setup project in VS2010 I click on the little down arrow on the Add button of the Add Existing Item file dialog and select "Add As Link". This adds the file by reference instead of

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing fragment .wxs files from an environment variable

I have tried %MyEnv% and that did not work, but supply ..\..\..\ will work. Now when I do that it does create a folder structure in the solution tree that shows all the ..\..\..until it hits the file. Not that great looking... Thanks, Tim. -- View this message in context: http://windows-insta

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing fragment .wxs files from an environment variable

Classification: Public Oops sorry misread your email :) Have you tried using %MyEnv%\MyFile.wxs or ..\..\MyFolder\MyFile.wxs Steve -Original Message- From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] Sent: February-26-13 5:33 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] R

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing fragment .wxs files from an environment variable

Thanks Steven, But that is not exactly what I was getting at. We have a WiX include file that is included. What I was referring to was to include a *.wxs file, that resides in a shared location (environment variable), that I need complied into the main WiX project. When we add a new .wxs file to

Re: [WiX-users] Could not load file or assembly 'GMap.NET.Core, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b85b9027b614afef' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

hmmm, Can you help me make an installer? On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Steven Ogilvie wrote: > Classification: Public > > > This is the Windows Installer XML installer user list, I think you want > the IExpress Self Extraction Directive File? We don't use iexpress.exe > > -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Could not load file or assembly 'GMap.NET.Core, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b85b9027b614afef' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

Classification: Public This is the Windows Installer XML installer user list, I think you want the IExpress Self Extraction Directive File? We don't use iexpress.exe -Original Message- From: james pruett [mailto:gpscru...@gmail.com] Sent: February-26-13 4:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sour

Re: [WiX-users] Could not load file or assembly 'GMap.NET.Core, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b85b9027b614afef' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

aren't you the "Windows Installer" folks? On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:15 PM, james pruett wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong? > Thanks for looking. > -cellurl > > > VisualStudio10 comes up with this error:-- > > Could not load file or asse

[WiX-users] Copy and Rename an existing file after installation (major upgrade)?

Hi , Can we achieve during installation process to copy a file from one location to another location which is in MSI package and rename it on destination installation folder ? if so how can be achieved it ? Does it causes any problem during uninstall. Thanks Chatra -- View this message in cont

Re: [WiX-users] Could not load file or assembly 'GMap.NET.Core, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b85b9027b614afef' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

I'm lost; what has this got to do with WiX? > From: james pruett [mailto:gpscru...@gmail.com] > > Hi, > Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong? > Thanks for looking. > -cellurl > > > VisualStudio10 comes up with this error:-- > > Could not load file or assembly 'GMap.NET.Core, Versi

[WiX-users] Could not load file or assembly 'GMap.NET.Core, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b85b9027b614afef' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

Hi, Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong? Thanks for looking. -cellurl VisualStudio10 comes up with this error:-- Could not load file or assembly 'GMap.NET.Core, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b85b9027b614afef' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the

[WiX-users] newbie

Can anyone point me to how I debug this puppy? It failed when I did the install. Is there a fail-log or such? If I am asking wrong, please let me know. Thanks for looking -celllurl [Version] Class=IEXPRESS SEDVersion=3 [Options] PackagePurpose=InstallApp ShowInstallProgramWindow=0 HideExtractAnim

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

No, it is just generates a exe. -Original Message- From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] Sent: February-26-13 3:43 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package. Still new to WiX as we have most of our installs in I

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing fragment .wxs files from an environment variable

Classification: Public Hey Tim, I have a variables.wxi where I keep all my common variables etc.. I "link" them to the main product.wxs file by using: steve -Original Message- From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] Sent: February-26-13 2:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.n

Re: [WiX-users] Msitrans error 110

Natalie i had the same problem Try this command msitran.exe -a TransformName YourMsi.msi Note that it will transform on the MSI so better copy it to different location first A nother option is to use ORCA to apply a transform -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-

[WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

Still new to WiX as we have most of our installs in InstallShield and in some cases we have InstallShield genearated Chained installers so that we can deploy a suite installer. My question is about the generation of the WiX chain output package. Can the WiX Chainer produce a single .msi package th

[WiX-users] Referencing fragment .wxs files from an environment variable

As we created more WiX installer and therefore more fragment .wxs files that can be shared by other WiX installers we are now getting into cases where we are storing shared fragment files in environment path locations. Now we would like to link in these shared fragment files, but do not know how t

[WiX-users] Heat.exe XSLT parameters

Hi, I have below command working very well. but not sure can we pass parameters to XSLT Template (FilterFiles.xslt) through command line when we pass xslt template as a parameter to heat command? "C:\\heat.exe" dir "C:\Workspaces\Chatra\Website\SCBUDirect.B2CWeb" -cg SCBUDirect -gg -t "C:\Workspa

Re: [WiX-users] Product Upgrade.

Hi neil, setting product Id to "*" worked well. Thank's Chatrapathi Chennam -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Product-Upgrade-tp7583938p7583961.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

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

src\ext\BalExtension\wixstdba for the native BA, and src\Setup\WixBA for the Wix MBA. WixStdBA does support localization, but it seems you went about this different by localizing your MSI instead of the "burn way" which would be to localize your BA and remove all of the UI from your MSI's. In

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

It is still early days for the BAs of the world. You can write all your UI in pure XML if you want to use the wixstdba. That's how it decides what to display on the screen, although it is limited in the controls it actually interacts with. The wixstdba shows one example in native code, and the Wix

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

Well, it's a bit strange when I just entered all my UI in the MSI installer declarative as XML and have now to write a native application with the UI. But if it is the way to go I will follow it. The documentaion (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/bootstrapper_application.htm) tells me that m

[WiX-users] Code to check the value while doing the intallation

Hi All, Please could you provide the sample code to do the validation to check that there is a value entered in the text box while doing the installations. Regards , Sijo Joseph -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.

Re: [WiX-users] error LGHT0136 There was an error importing table

Today, only specific fields accept new lines and tabs. It seems like this is not one of them. I believe there is a bug out there to consider allowing new lines and tabs everywhere. If so, you could vote up that bug, or open a new bug for this specific instance... or, if interested, work with us on

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

Burn does show any UI. Localization is purely a function of the BootstrapperApplication you choose to use. On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Helge Kruse wrote: > 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 >

[WiX-users] Msitrans error 110

Hi, I am trying to apply a transform to my msi without running it and I am using the MsiTran.exe. However I am getting the error 110 - cannot open database. Does anyone know how to solve this? Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

I've never had to deal with that specific vender, but all of the ones I have interacted with have had a means of submitting false positives. If you submit your bundle to them, it usually takes less than a week for them to fix their problem. On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:57 AM, "Rob Mensching" wrote:

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

What should we do differently? We need a working folder to put all kinds of stuff while we work on getting them in the right shape and/or verified before putting them in their final resting place. The working folder needs to be an unelevated location. The %TEMP% drive is used such that if anything

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

We had (and still have) issues with 3.6 & Trend Officescan. It objects to the way that the burn setup.exe is extracted into temp & then writes to the RunOnce registry key. OfficeScan sees this as malware behaviour & blocks it. Even though everything is signed. If you havent signed everything th

[WiX-users] Using Condition Level="0" results in files being left behind after upgrade then uninstall.

For the 1st release of an installer I used this to conditionally install a component: i.e. only install ProductFeatures.2 if INSTALL_TYPE = 2 INSTALL_TYPE is passed in from command line / burn MsiProperty. It worked fine & on uninstall everything gets removed. Great. But now when v2 went ou

Re: [WiX-users] TFS2010 and Wix

Hello Peter, Thx a lot for your help, i will try it with the tfsbuild.proj. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/TFS2010-and-Wix-tp7583944p7583947.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [WiX-users] TFS2010 and Wix

Use the Wix project properties to set the pre-processor variable to an msbuild property e.g. SprintBuild=$(IsSprintBuild). You can initialise the msbuild property via the build definition, an .rsp file, in tfsbuild.proj or however you like. -Original Message- From: Robin66 [mailto:aliesch.

Re: [WiX-users] MSFlexGrid

I use Nabble to search the archive. http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/wix-users-f6875 60.html You need to include COM registration information when you install COM DLLs. Look up "heat" in the wix help. That's a tool that gathers COM registration from the DLL which you ca

[WiX-users] TFS2010 and Wix

Hi all, We use TFS 2010 with VS2012 and use Wix for the Installers, now we have a Bootstrapper that consists of 5 msi’s. One of this msi is very big, so I only what it to be included in the Bootstrapper if we do a “Sprintbuild” usually once a month. At the Moment if have something like this in my

[WiX-users] MSFlexGrid

Hello! I am new to the Wix toolset. I am now trying to use Wix to make a setup of my VB 2012 application. In the program I use MSFlexgrid controls. (I have not manage to get rid of them without losing functionality.) I have included the files (AxInterop.MSFlexGridLib.dll and Interop.MSFl