Re: [WiX-users] Web installer - Bootstrapper

Hi, I have uploaded the msi file in our server. I tried to compile the project with the code of The compilation has failed with "The System cannot find the file install\sample.msi" even i uploaded the msi file in the below location. http://x/y/vx.x.x.x/install\sample.msi Is

[WiX-users] instaling a bundle to install an older msi

Can I make a bundle that always uninstalls the previous msi before installing the new one? I have a bundle that installed an msi. The bundle Version= 2013.07.01.0, the msi Version = 3.0.1 the program build 3699. There was a problem with build 3699 so I must release build 3698, in a way that is

[WiX-users] Feature Selection

I am have a simple problem connecting feature selection to a push button

[WiX-users] How to quietly execute CA with admin privileges asyncronously?

The only way I have found thus far to quietly run a CustomAction with admin privileges given to the installer is using this (taken from http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/qtexec.htm): . . . However, I want to run such a CA asynchronously, but setting Return="asyncNoWait" retu

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

Nothing different. Still displays exactly the same. In the log file it says that it passed that command line but everything still displays the same. I tried it with my other languages too and they all failed. However, I tested with one of the pre-canned LCID's and it worked! This led me to

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

Ok, then what happens if you execute your bundle with "/lang 4105" passed on the command line? -Original Message- From: mvd1 [mailto:ma...@costar.ca] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 4:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicat

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

Yes they do. Those 3 localization files in those 3 subfolders contain the correct mbapreq.wxl files. The mbapreq.wxl file in the root folder contains the 1033 values. But my region is set to French (Canada) on the target install system. From: Hoover, Jacob [via Windows Installer XML (WiX) to

Re: [WiX-users] General question about patching multi-instance MSI installs

Thank you for the information. I have reviewed this and a few other post and worked through all of them. The problem it seems is in the custom application I built to generate patches. When I modified it to use the parts of the WIX SDK, I broke something and all patches now break. I am goin

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

With the working compile, in the %TEMP%\{GUID}\.ba1 folder do you see sub folders for the LCID's you supplied? (Is there a folder for 4105, 1033, 3084 and do they contain your localization files?) -Original Message- From: mvd1 [mailto:ma...@costar.ca] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:52 P

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

Now it just errors with "The system cannot find the file Preqba.wxl'." If I rename Preqba1.wxl in my project directory to just Preqba.wxl it does not get the compiler error, however, it then does not grab the correct localization file. It is still showing the English localization values. From

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

Try -Original Message- From: mvd1 [mailto:ma...@costar.ca] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:34 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated . . .

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.7 - Publish install event

Thanks for the quick reply! At first I couldn't figure out how to publish an enddialog event for VerifyReadyDlg from my custom prompt, but then I decided to close VerifyReadyDlg when the prompt pops up. Now that the custom prompt is the last one open, it sets off the installation. Thanks for you

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

I don't know the Windows process & service model as well as I probably should, but my hypothesis regarding my problem is that the package installer cannot stop MyClient service, because MyClient service spawned the bundle installer, which in turn spawned the package installer which is trying to

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

. . . When I change it to this, I get the following compilation error "The system cannot find the file 'mbapreq.wxl'." I get this error whether or not I include the line in red above. When it first didn't work, I looked into the Mba.wxs file

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

You mean the translation .wxl files? They are company specific, they contain a lot of the original .NET prereq localization variables but I have defined other localization variables and customized some of the existing ones in a company-specific way. The regular localization files have adequat

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

Hmm, In your bundle change the destination file name to mbapreq.wxl. The loc probing code is looking for a file with the same name in the loc specific sub folder. On a side note, if you were willing to contribute these files, then the next release would probably have them by default. -

Re: [WiX-users] Update: Best Practice? name of dependency changes in update

Thanks for your comments. Yes I had thought about leaving the old DLL when patching and deal with it on the next MajorUpgrade. I think in most cases we should be able to take that approach, if we use a patch. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Localization Identifiers Duplicated

The good news is that the correct .wxl files ARE present in the "GUID"\.ba1\ folder. I am providing 3 .wxl files for 1033, 3084 and 4105 LCID's. there are quite a few LCID folders, but these 3 have the expected .wxl files. The bad news is that though I have the Windows XP system's regional se

Re: [WiX-users] Quick Question

First guess is you have = and/or ; inside of your INI file contents. If you are using DTF/Managed CA, I could see this potentially causing issues. You might want to try manually parsing the Session [CustomActionData.PropertyName] and see if you have better luck. -Original Message- Fro

Re: [WiX-users] Quick Question

Well, the value I am trying to pass is the contents of an INI file, so I doubt it's running out of memory. There must be something else going on... -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:26 AM To: General discussion for Windows Ins

Re: [WiX-users] Condition on service permissions

Ok, an immediate custom action would do the trick. Is there anything out-of-the-box that I missed? I'd really like to avoid custom actions if I can... Kind regards, Henning Krause > -Original Message- > From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] > Sent: Dienstag, 2. Juli 2013 17:28 > To:

Re: [WiX-users] Condition on service permissions

http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/07/01/semi-custom-actions/ > From: m...@henningkrause.eu > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:32:26 + > Subject: [WiX-users] Condition on service permissions > > Hi all, > > I have a setup which installs three services: > > Service

Re: [WiX-users] Quick Question

It's limited by memory, but when I exceeded it, I always got a failure (usually when trying to retrieve the value in my deferred CA). > From: nmil...@livetechnology.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:43:48 + > Subject: [WiX-users] Quick Question > > Hi All,

Re: [WiX-users] General question about patching multi-instance MSI installs

You might want to have a read over at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14814014/msi-multi-instance-installation-with-patches. Multi-Instance installs are tricky enough to get right, adding the patching on top of it can become real confusing rather quickly. Other than that, there isn't much w

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID

Yeah, shouldn't have said burn. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: July-02-13 11:45 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID Burn doesn't do things that the BA can do easily to

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions that need to call unmanaged DLL

I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like you could just pass the additional DLL's name to MakeSfxCA.exe to include additional files with your CA. -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 2:13 AM To: General discussion for Windows Insta

Re: [WiX-users] Download packages only if custom action returns some value

WixBA is written in managed code. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:53 AM, DavidH wrote: > I'm aware the CA won't stop anyone who really wants to circumvent it, but > hopefully it'll at least reduce the number of people who download packages > they shouldn't. > > Thanks for the pointers about WixBA - I'

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID

You're doing great! It would be a reasonable thing to bug... but it's fixed in a more recent build so no need to do that now. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Adam Roper wrote: > So that's two responses saying that this is a known thing. Do I add that > as a bug? Sorry, I'm new to this list,

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID

Burn doesn't do things that the BA can do easily to avoid bloating the engine (and the BA interface) with lots of stuff to maintain. In WiX v3.8 the wixstdba looks up the display name for the related bundle and displays that. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Wesley Manning wrote: > Happens to me

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID

So that's two responses saying that this is a known thing. Do I add that as a bug? Sorry, I'm new to this list, not sure of the correct etiquette at this point -Original Message- From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca] Sent: 02 July 2013 14:40 To: General discussion for Win

[WiX-users] Condition on service permissions

Hi all, I have a setup which installs three services: ServiceA, ServiceB and ManagementService. ServiceA and ServiceB are in different features but have a dependency on ManagementService, which lives in its own feature. SerivceA and ServiceB should be able to start/stop the ManagementService.

[WiX-users] Quick Question

Hi All, I am passing some properties to a custom action, and one of the values being passed is quite large, and never seems to make it to the CA. I am wondering what is the maximum size of a string that can be passed via CustomActionData? Thanks, Nick Nicholas Miller (Network Administrator) Li

Re: [WiX-users] install and uninstall loading dialogs use different fonts causes garbage characters.

I'm sorry I was probably out of place. The issue is that the setup is expecting a particular code page which is not available at the time it was run. This is what happens when a dialog translated for Japanese (or a Near Eastern language) is run on a PC that does not have Near Eastern language sup

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID

Happens to me as well. Burn is not smart enough to get the name. Wes -Original Message- From: Adam Roper [mailto:adam.ro...@guidance.eu.com] Sent: July-02-13 9:46 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID Hi, I have a Burn bundle that incorpo

Re: [WiX-users] install and uninstall loading dialogs use different fonts causes garbage characters.

This list is for WiX related question and not InstallShield. Why don't you post your question in the Flexera InstallShield community (and if I see it I will answer the issue over there). -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/install-and-

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID

+1: I have also noticed this or something similar. -Original Message- From: Adam Roper [mailto:adam.ro...@guidance.eu.com] Sent: July 2, 2013 08:46 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID Hi, I have a Burn bundle that incorporates 9 other MSI pa

[WiX-users] Burn: Related Package ID

Hi, I have a Burn bundle that incorporates 9 other MSI packages and everything works remarkably well, other than one thing. During installation the names of the included packages is displayed on the installation screen as they are installed in turn. However I have noticed that when I install

[WiX-users] General question about patching multi-instance MSI installs

I am currently working on implementing a multiple instance MSI base installation using WIX and am trying to validate that patching will work correctly before I go any further. I have been able to create a patch that updates all instances exactly as I would suspect, but when I try to install a

Re: [WiX-users] per-user/per-machine in MSM, MSI and bundle

Hi Phill Unfortunately the per-user version of CommonFilesFolder requires Windows Installer 5.0 (Win 7) and, even more unfortunately, we still have to support XP. What you have does indeed build without warnings but, unless you explicitly run msiexec elevated, the per-user installer fails with

Re: [WiX-users] install and uninstall loading dialogs use different fonts causes garbage characters.

You can see the correct shown font is set by bootstrapper (here is installshield), and the msi built-in text has another font. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/install-and-uninstall-loading-dialogs-use-different-fonts-causes-garbage-

[WiX-users] install and uninstall loading dialogs use different fonts causes garbage characters.

I meet a tricky issue about installer fonts. I first installed the msi on Windows7, and found the font on install dialog is different with on uninstall. This causes the issue that, when installing it on

Re: [WiX-users] Download packages only if custom action returns some value

I'm aware the CA won't stop anyone who really wants to circumvent it, but hopefully it'll at least reduce the number of people who download packages they shouldn't. Thanks for the pointers about WixBA - I'd looked but hadn't found one written in C# before. I'll look into modifying it for our purpo

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3.7 - Publish install event

My understanding is that the installation will proceed when the last open dialog ends with a Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return". > From: stephane...@hotmail.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 23:02:22 -0600 > Subject: [WiX-users] WiX v3.7 - Publish install ev

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions that need to call unmanaged DLL

In managed CAs using DTF you can include unmanaged DLLs in much the same way you can include dependent assemblies and they will be extracted alongside your CA's main assembly. Blair > From: jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > CC: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Patch Installation Privileges

Start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/aa372388.aspx > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:58:09 +0530 > From: ravishankar.krishnasw...@idsnext.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Patch Installation Privileges > > Hi , > > I have installed our main Insta