[WiX-users] Execution order issue

2013-09-17 Thread Kai Peters
Hi all, hopefully my last newbie issue for some time (all previous issues have been resolved thanks to the great help from this list - thanks again!): I deploy a CA "CA_CopyMasterIni" to copy a configuration file template from location A to location B if my customer's IT dept. has dropped one

Re: [WiX-users] help! how do I install .net 4.5 from my installer ?

2013-09-17 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2013/9/18 nkshirsagar : > Hello all! > > I need to check if .net 4.5 is installed on the system, and if not, install > it through my MSI. Probably a bad idea to do it in the MSI itself. Instead create a bootstrapper that installs .NET and then installs your MSI. http://wixtoolset.org/documentatio

[WiX-users] help! how do I install .net 4.5 from my installer ?

2013-09-17 Thread nkshirsagar
Hello all! I need to check if .net 4.5 is installed on the system, and if not, install it through my MSI. Can someone please give me some pointers on how to achieve this? I am a WIX newbie, so any detailed help will be very useful to me ... I am pasting my .wxs file below .. Thanks, Nikhil.

[WiX-users] Error 0x80070003: Failed to get size of pseudo bundle

2013-09-17 Thread Vadivel Natarajan
Hi All, We are struggling to install the setup created. We never face this type of issue so far. Before started to install the setup again, I have cleared the %temp% location, setup related entries in 'C:\ProgramData\Package Cache', and finally restarted the system. While installing the setup

[WiX-users] Detecting a different product install

2013-09-17 Thread Jack Sojourn
Hello...I need to detect if a totally different product is installed and if so uninstall it. I figure I can use a custom action to spawn the uninstall. not sure if that will be a problem but does anyone know first how to detect if a different product is installed? preferably by an install guid.

Re: [WiX-users] Changing configuration and/or platform in solution - Configuration Manger does nothing

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Risen
I'm not sure why, but I had to unload the installer projects and explicitly add the build configurations I needed. Cheers! .Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Risen [mailto:mri...@realtyim.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:18 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [W

Re: [WiX-users] Adding installed file location into registry - VS2010 developed Word plugin

2013-09-17 Thread 4th Dimension
Yeeah. The more I find out about Word adin deployment the more I get pissed. For example in order to install an addin for all users in Office 2007 you need to install a hotfix. A well known hotfix that dates to before Office SP1 but it's still not included in official patches, not even in SP3. But

[WiX-users] Changing configuration and/or platform in solution - Configuration Manger does nothing

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Risen
Ok, this one is particularly annoying. I have 3 configurations for my solution - Debug, UAT, and Release. Debug compiles fine and I suspect Release will too. However, UAT, which is Debug with different endpoints, etc., does not compile. The problem is that the WIX projects are all set to Debug/

Re: [WiX-users] Adding installed file location into registry - VS2010 developed Word plugin

2013-09-17 Thread Phil Wilson
I don't know of anything built-in. You'd need code - in managed code you use the UriBuilder class. Phil Wilson On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:47 PM, 4th Dimension wrote: > I need to add the location of a certain file into the registry as the part > of the instalation of a Word add in. Now I am aware

[WiX-users] Hourglass cursor?

2013-09-17 Thread Kai Peters
Hi, some of our MSIs spend quite some time on the required space calculating tab and the question has come up whether and how it might be possible to give users some indication that the install is progressing, say in the form of an hourglass cursor. As always, thanks for any pointers, Kai

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Adding installed file location into registry - VS2010 developed Word plugin

2013-09-17 Thread 4th Dimension
Ahh. But that creates an EXE. Oh well I'll have to deploy them with one group policy together than. Thanks for your time anyway. 2013/9/17 Rob Mensching > You can't include an MSP inside an MSI. You'll need a bootstrapper/chainer > to install them both. Burn does that in WiX toolset. See Bundle

[WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Adding installed file location into registry - VS2010 developed Word plugin

2013-09-17 Thread Rob Mensching
You can't include an MSP inside an MSI. You'll need a bootstrapper/chainer to install them both. Burn does that in WiX toolset. See Bundle element. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:10 AM, 4th Dimension wrote: > Yeeah. The more I find out about Word adin deployment the more I get > pissed. For example