Re: [WiX-users] WIX MSBuild Issue

WiX toolset just uses MSBuild. What does MSBuild say about the rebuilt ProjectReference? Why did the project think it need to be rebuilt? (maybe signing confused the projects so they think the .exe is out of date)? It is always possible something is wrong on the WiX.targets side but MSBuild shoul

Re: [WiX-users] Are there any special characters I should avoid in a FeatureGroup ID?

I would assume that all Id attributes are expected to follow the standard Id requirements. Dots are safe, slashes (either way) are not. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Michael Turner wrote: > The syntax rules for ComponentGroup and FeatureGroup IDs seem to be fairly > liberal: just about anyth

Re: [WiX-users] WIX MSBuild Issue

> Our team is using WIX to generate Fragments and an Installer package. > Today, we have two Configurations that we build during our TFS build. > First, we build a Release configuration so that we can digitally sign > the output for inclusion into the Installer file. Second, the > installer is

[WiX-users] Are there any special characters I should avoid in a FeatureGroup ID?

The syntax rules for ComponentGroup and FeatureGroup IDs seem to be fairly liberal: just about anything goes, including embedded spaces and backslashes (i.e., characters that are not allowed in traditional identifiers). Of course, $(...) and !(...) are still special and can be expanded (if valid)

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

Condition Level="0" is tricky. There's a warning about this buried in the MSDN documentation for the Condition Table : "Conditions should be carefully chosen so that a feature is not enabled on install and then disabled on uninstall. This will or

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 wixca.dll QtExec

Thanks for this, was what I needed. Had found older sample from version prior to moving this CA into the utils extension. As your sample indicates, the CustomAction to set the property before the actual execute call seemed to be neccessary, unlesss I just didn't get the syntax correct. also to not

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

I would assume it would be as easy as adding a MsiProperty element. This assumes you have a transform embedded in the MSI for each possible language. If it's external, remove the ":" and add a series of Payload elements to the MsiPackage for each supported language. I don't think there is an

Re: [WiX-users] General disccussion

WixUI_InstallDir != Burn. WixUI_InstallDir is a Wix UI sequence for MSI's. If you utilize burn, you don't need any UI on your MSI. If you use burn, then you should be able to provide MsiProperty elements to the TomCat install to do any feature selection and provide the installation directory.

[WiX-users] Upgrade deleting previous version files.

Hi, I am using the below settings for upgrading the website and using "After Install-Finalize" in InstallExecuteSequence. Here is the Issue 1) Created Version 5 MSI and Installed it. 2) Added and deleted some files to Harv

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

Thanks for pointing out what I was using to create it. I will link your tools into Visual Studio and try again. Thanks again. -cellurl 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

Re: [WiX-users] Debugging VS2012 plugin crashes?

Attach another instance of Visual Studio to Visual Studio then reproduce the issue. See where the callstack takes you. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > I created an MSI project where if I go into the Build tab in the project > settings and try to change anything, Visual Stud

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

No, nothing different from WiX v3.6. This morning I've gone ahead and submitted the Burn engine to Symantec, Trend Micro and Kaspersky in hopes that they will become familiar with Burn and figure out how to understand that it is not a virus. I'm thinking the best course of action would be to have

Re: [WiX-users] MajorUpgrade, detecting feature state in vbscript custom action

I did more tests, I found out that the problem occur only when I do a major upgrade using the parameter /qb on the msiexec command line. If the installer is launched without the /qb option, my vbscript can get features' state without any problem. I understand that /qb skips InstallUISequence ta

Re: [WiX-users] Installation target is ReadOnly?

Hi L., It sounds like standard Windows 7 permissions. If you install files under Program Files they will not be editable by default. For example, did you use Notepad to edit the INI file? If so, try right-clicking on Notepad under the Start menu and selecting "Run as administrator" so that you

Re: [WiX-users] Installation target is ReadOnly?

Ideally, configuration files shouldn't be installed. Install a default and copy it to a user-writeable directory or just generate a default config in a writable location on first run. If you're unable to fix the code for some reason, you can change the file's permissions at install time using util:

[WiX-users] Installation target is ReadOnly?

Hello, I just create my first installation package with wix :) In this package there is an application (.exe), a desktop shortcut and a .ini file for the configuration and some more that don't interest this thread. I have 2 strange behaviors once installed: 1) Right clicking the shortcut-> proper

[WiX-users] Debugging VS2012 plugin crashes?

I created an MSI project where if I go into the Build tab in the project settings and try to change anything, Visual Studio 2012 crashes. Is there any way of finding out what's going wrong? -- Bruce Cran -- Everyone ha

Re: [WiX-users] TFS2010 and Wix

Ok now it is working the way i like. In the Build definition from TFS2010 under Process, 3. Advanced I can define a Variabel via the MSBuild Arguments, in my case I set it to /p:IsSprintBuild=1. And like Peter mentioned, now i can set the Preprocessor Variable like this, SprintBuild=$(IsSprintBuil

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

Since we still have a lot of our customers that still use GPO for pushing out our software we still have to have a .msi solution. So again it looks like we have to stay with InstallShield for all our chained projects. Tim. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-tools

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

There's such a thing as a .zap file for installing exes with GPO but it is limited in what it can do. Mass deployment systems other than GPO handle exes much better. Windows Installer 4.5 added multi package transactions but I seem to recall Rob saying it wasn't entirely reliable in some situation

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

Classification: Public I have heard that GPO doesn't support EXE's? -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: February-27-13 8:59 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained

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

Chaining MSI's in an MSI is not supported so I am not sure how InstallShield does that. WiX bundles are chains of MIS's packaged as an EXE, this can easily be pushed out be admins as it supports unattended installs with command line parameters than can be pushed in to the chained MSI's in much the

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

Rob, I wasn't in any way implying that WiX was doing anything wrong - I agree that it is Trend that are causing this. All i meant was i didnt know if 3.7 would be doing something sublty different that wouldnt trigger the 'malware' alert. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://wind

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

I'm not sure whether submitting our product to Trend would have any effect, since it is /behaviour/ that is triggering the alert, not any 'patterns' in the setup code itself (if that makes sense)? I can try this though. Presumably it is the extracted burn setup.exe that needs to be sent, since th

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

Thanks Daniel, that did the trick. It created the link with the relative path and then I simply replaced the relative path with the environment variable in the .wixproj file and it did the trick. robmen, we have not yet looked into creating any .wixlibs as of yet, but that is something that we wil

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

No we are not talking about nested installs. I am actually talking about a Chain installer that chains in a bunch of .msi project into a single msi package. InstallShield has this it correctly creates a single .msi package for administrators to push out. We started looking at WiX and therefore a

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

> In theory, you should be able to pass UserLanguageID or > SystemLanguageID as a MsiProperty to apply a transform to a > MSI package. This was my idea. But the question was about a pointer to information how to do this. Can similar be read in any example project? Regards Helge -

Re: [WiX-users] Heat.exe XSLT parameters

You can't do it. I use a separate msbuild step to call Saxon to transform my XML. XSLT 2 is much nicer anyway. -Original Message- From: chennam [mailto:chatrapathi.chen...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 February 2013 19:17 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Heat.exe XSLT parame

[WiX-users] Dialog button not responding to mouse clicks

I'm a bit hesitant to post this, it seems so unlikely ... I have a custom dialog that I've added to a WiX project, first 3.5 and now 3.7, and it has a "Next" button. Sometimes, like 20% - 30% of the times I run this install, the Next button doesn't respond to mouse clicks! I can click and click

Re: [WiX-users] General disccussion

3) Iam using burn UI(WixUI_installDir) 1) i want to know the bootstrapper working can u tell me code. how it works -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: 27 February 2013 12:14 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: General

Re: [WiX-users] Msitrans error 110

Tom, Thank you very much, was slowly driving me mad...:) I have been doing it with ORCA, I just wanted to automate the process. -Original Message- From: tom [mailto:tomer.d...@intergraph.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:18 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-