Re: [WiX-users] Assigning property value

2013-04-09 Thread Ravishankar
Hi Steve, The value of the property "DATABASE_WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION" is changing as per the radio button selection But my requirement is that based on the "DATABASE_WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION" Property value i need to change the value of another property (eg.. If "DATABASE_WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION" = 1

Re: [WiX-users] Runtime configurable Burn chain

2013-04-09 Thread Rob Mensching
It is a very challenging feature particularly around security. There is no plan that I'm aware of to implement the feature currently. It will require a lot of dedication to implement properly and it hasn't been worth the effort given that the straight forward solution is to build an updated bundle

Re: [WiX-users] Runtime configurable Burn chain

2013-04-09 Thread Hoover, Jacob
I'm struggling to see how you could do this without rebuilding the bundle. Are you not relying on burn to download missing packages? Are you only using physical media to deploy your install? You could always write a stub exe that is bundled that could contain your custom logic, but install/upgr

Re: [WiX-users] Runtime configurable Burn chain

2013-04-09 Thread Marco Tognacci
Thanks for your answer, is there already any plan for adding this feature in WiX, perhaps in the 4.0 ?In the tipical working case of my installer project, it will be very usefull to have this feature, to have the flexibility to add some little component packages that could be added for a special

Re: [WiX-users] Runtime configurable Burn chain

2013-04-09 Thread Rob Mensching
That's a feature called modifiable chain that is not implemented yet. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Marco Tognacci wrote: > I need to have the possbility to run some executable during installation > made with Burn, I know these executable only after building the Burn setup, > so the setup wil

Re: [WiX-users] Burn 3.7.1224.0 Builtin Variable not working

2013-04-09 Thread Rob Mensching
No, you can write your BA's in native code if you prefer. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Marco Tognacci wrote: > So there is no way for making this in the Bundle.wxs, without using c# > code, right?The only way is to add c# code and evaluate FormatString()? > > > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:59:0

[WiX-users] Runtime configurable Burn chain

2013-04-09 Thread Marco Tognacci
I need to have the possbility to run some executable during installation made with Burn, I know these executable only after building the Burn setup, so the setup will have to scan a folder in the same path of the setup and collect all the executable and the run them at the end of the installatio

Re: [WiX-users] Burn 3.7.1224.0 Builtin Variable not working

2013-04-09 Thread Marco Tognacci
So there is no way for making this in the Bundle.wxs, without using c# code, right?The only way is to add c# code and evaluate FormatString()? > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:59:00 -0600 > From: ptrajku...@gmail.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn 3.7.1224.0 Built

Re: [WiX-users] can related bundle be used to install uninstall old products

2013-04-09 Thread Phil Wilson
Does "old installshield..." mean that that they didn't generate MSI installs? If you used an InstallShield that generated MSI setups then just use major upgrade. Phil W -Original Message- From: ptr [mailto:ptrajku...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 10:43 AM To: General discus

[WiX-users] can related bundle be used to install uninstall old products

2013-04-09 Thread ptr
hey all We upgraded all our installers to use WIX boostrapper instead of InstallShield generated boostrappers. Can the wix relatedbundle feature be used to detect and uninstall our old installsheild products ? If not, Can somebody recommend how to achieve the same? Thanks in advance Raj ---

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-09 Thread Hoover, Jacob
MsiPackage/@Compressed = No -Original Message- From: Spud [mailto:andysmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 10:09 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package Hi Raj, thanks for your response. I can

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-09 Thread Spud
Hi Raj, thanks for your response. I can put all the third party components in their own MSI (in fact I have now done just that) but since the MSI is currently within the Bootstrapper.exe its self it will always get downloaded with each update. *How* do I set this "thirdpartycomponents.msi" up to

Re: [WiX-users] Problems with Multi-Language installation

2013-04-09 Thread Rob Mensching
Sounds reasonable. Other people have been successful doing such things on this mailing list in the past. Good luck! On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Christoph Goetz wrote: > Hi, > i want to create a multi-language installation. > I want to do this over and torch, WiSubStg.vbs and WiLangId.vbs, >

Re: [WiX-users] Accessing command line parameters

2013-04-09 Thread Rob Mensching
That bug was about adding support to the wixstdba to parse the command-line arguments passed via Command and convert them to variables automatically. That bug was really a feature request and Bob fixed it when he added support for the `Overridable` attribute to `Variable` element. There is no sche

Re: [WiX-users] Assigning property value

2013-04-09 Thread StevenOgilvie
Ravi, I believe the issue is that you haven’t assigned a default value for the radio buttons? Here is what I have and using for detecting which type of authentication I should use, Windows Authentication or SQL Server: That way the value of eith

[WiX-users] CustomAction and Impersonate

2013-04-09 Thread Theo Landman
Hello, I'm confused about how Impersonate works. I want to run a console migration executable using the WiX CAQuitExec. The migration executable copies files from a previous version of the product to a new version of the product. I want to run it as the installing user so I assumed that I should

[WiX-users] Accessing command line parameters

2013-04-09 Thread ptr
hey all In my managed bootstrapper I can get access to command line parameters via Command.GetCommandLineArgs(). ParseCommandLine@src\burn\engine\core.cpp seems to parse lot of burn standard command line parameters and pass the rest to my BA. Is this a supported scenario ? http://sourceforge.net/

[WiX-users] Assigning property value

2013-04-09 Thread Ravishankar
Hi Steven, I have a radio button group with 2 radio button(LIVE and DEMO) Based on the user selection of the type of installation my Property DATABASE_NAME value should change accordingly *I have created 2 properties* *I have placed the control**with the below code*

[WiX-users] Problems with Multi-Language installation

2013-04-09 Thread Christoph Goetz
Hi, i want to create a multi-language installation. I want to do this over and torch, WiSubStg.vbs and WiLangId.vbs, but it doesnt works, unfortunately. I just want to create .bat that creates a Multi-Language Installation. Christoph