Re: [WiX-users] "Formatted strings" not being formatted

2013-03-07 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Use a CA to set the value of the property at runtime right before scheduling the deferred CA. You might even be able to assign the property the value of itself so it evaluates it at runtime. Deferred CA's are special as they only have access to the limited data you explicitly send to them (and

[WiX-users] "Formatted strings" not being formatted

2013-03-07 Thread Alain Forget
Hi all, This page ( http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/com-expression-syntax-miscellanea/formatted-strings ) suggests that [#fileId] can be used in a string to get the path where that file is installed. However, when I try using them like this... ... ... ...

Re: [WiX-users] one MSI Installer for all Environments as single a package

2013-03-07 Thread Hoover, Jacob
I would use a single XSLT which adds component conditions to a single MSI. -Original Message- From: chennam [mailto:chatrapathi.chen...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 1:18 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

[WiX-users] acces hklm from a current user installer

2013-03-07 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi, I need to access the hklm key from a per-user install from a registry search element My property looks like: The log looks a follows: Action 20:40:11: AppSearch. Searching for installed applications Action start 20:40:11: AppSearch. AppSearch: Property: JAWS14PATH, Sig

[WiX-users] Running EXEs at install and uninstall

2013-03-07 Thread Alain Forget
Hi all, I have some EXEs I want to run, some only when installing (let's call them InstEXEs), and others when uninstalling (let's call them UninstEXEs) either as part of a major upgrade or a standard uninstall, to undo what the InstEXEs do. Searching the internet has suggested that running EXEs

Re: [WiX-users] one MSI Installer for all Environments as single a package

2013-03-07 Thread chennam
Hi Jacob, I think using XSLT we can skip unwanted elements while running HEAT.EXE command in that case we will need to build project for each of the Environment by giving XSLT Template as parameter to Heat.exe. If I am wrong please correct me. In that case we will need to create four MSI one for e

Re: [WiX-users] ice30 in a per-user installer

2013-03-07 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi john, Thanks that's now sorted! San. -Original Message- From: John Ludlow [mailto:john.ludlow...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 March 2013 17:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ice30 in a per-user installer I don't believe so (because the Direct

Re: [WiX-users] ice30 in a per-user installer

2013-03-07 Thread John Ludlow
I don't believe so (because the Directory.DefaultDir column that this maps to isn't of the Formatted type, IIRC), and if you could I don't think it would help you because you would still need to provide some static default values in the property table to resolve the issue, and you'd still need to m

Re: [WiX-users] ice30 in a per-user installer

2013-03-07 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi John, Can I specify the property in the nae attribute. Regards Sean. -Original Message- From: John Ludlow [mailto:john.ludlow...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 March 2013 16:42 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ice30 in a per-user installer The i

Re: [WiX-users] ice30 in a per-user installer

2013-03-07 Thread John Ludlow
The issue is that the two directories below actually resolve to TARGETDIR in the directory table, because if you don't specify a Name attribute, then it's essentially the same path as the parent directory.

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress MSI error dialogs using Wix

2013-03-07 Thread Raghu
Hello Christopher, Unfortunately we have a requirement of using Wix 2.0 ...   Raghu Microsoft Corp, Redmond. From: Christopher Painter To: Raghu ; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. ; "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Thursday, Marc

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple custom actions, urgent help needed!

2013-03-07 Thread Raghu
How is the BMXSCRIPT  property being set? did you consider using the FileSearch element and setting the property? Something on the lines of          Hope that helps. Raghu Microsoft Corp, Redmond. From: Bastiaan de Waard To: "wix-users@lists.sourcefor

[WiX-users] ice30 in a per-user installer

2013-03-07 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi all, I'm currently putting together a per-user installer that installs somewhere in the users appdata folder. I have the following 2 properties defined and referenced:

[WiX-users] Multiple custom actions, urgent help needed!

2013-03-07 Thread Bastiaan de Waard
  Dear subscribers!     I have a problem with multiple conditions in a custom action. I have a custom action that runs a application file which is placed by the installer (if the component is installed):             

Re: [WiX-users] one MSI Installer for all Environments as single a package

2013-03-07 Thread Hoover, Jacob
First hit in most any search engine for remember me property pattern - http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/5/2/the-wix-toolsets-remember-property-pattern The MSI will contain all the contents for all of the installs. If that's a general question of how do you filter out files from a wxs, the

Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress MSI error dialogs using Wix

2013-03-07 Thread Christopher Painter
I don't know of a way. Have you considered upgrading to WiX 3.6 and implementing a custom bootstrapper application using Burn? I can only imagine plenty of examples must exist in Redmond to get you started. From: "Raghu" Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 20

[WiX-users] How to localize WiX bootstrapper

2013-03-07 Thread Tomas Köhn
Hi We have created a bootstrapper in WiX for our .msi; and need to localize it. I have failed to find out how to do it, any help is appreciated. I tried to do it in the same way as in WPF: *Before rootVisual resources is loaded, set CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentUICulture and Thread.CurrentT

[WiX-users] How can I make a setup using WIX 3.7 to delete some registry keys on uninstall

2013-03-07 Thread Cosmin Petrenciuc
Hello, I have created a setup program using WIX 3.7. I need the setup to create a registry key under HKLM on install and delete it upon uninstall. I have used the following code: The registry key "HKLM\ Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductNa