When I like to show overall progress for each msi. Some of them setups long
time.
It could be matter during tuning installing 3rd-party MSIs with incorrect
conditions of custom actions.
As I remember, on INSTALLUILEVEL_BASIC installation should be fully silent,
like INSTALLUILEVEL_NONE.
-Or
When the native bit of DTF fires up the CLR it runs it's own class in the
middle that has it's own try catch session.Log() block. If there was a
bad image format exception this should have been caught in the MSI log. I
suspect he didn't get this far.
The first release or so of DTF had a curr
I've done this recently and two things can bite you:
1) Windows Installer WriteEnvironmentStrings doesn't send the broadcast
message if there is a pending reboot already.
2) If you want to use it in a windows service ( such as IIS worker pool )
you'll have to take the reboot for it to take eff
Put in Each Cab you took out then comment out all the Cabss in the
media list, one at at a time. If the first one suceeds, add the
second until you get down to the nth one where 1 < n < 31. The one
you uncomment last will be the one that can't be built, assuming you
start at the top. Tha
After installing the MSI, we require the users run a PowerShell cmdlet for
configuring the machine. This cmdlet depends on binaries that are present in
the directory that we add to "PATH" in the MSI. Since the value of "PATH" does
not change (even in a new process), the users have issues running
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2013/10/31/wix-v3-8-rc-available/
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Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that
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As a random guess based on the 1154 error, is it possible that there's some
C# code that is MSIL and so runs with the native bitness of the system,
but there's a dependency that is (say) 32-bit and the native code can't
call it? You'd expect BadImageFormatException somewhere if the chain is all
Wasn't a compile error, was a runtime error...
Well it is working now, very strange was doing diffs between the custom action
cs file and the product.wxs file and can't see what could have broken it, like
I said it was working until a few days ago...
Strange
-Original Message-
From: Ch
On 10/31/2013 7:50 PM, Steven Ogilvie wrote:
> So weird...
>
> Was working before, stopped working... function name had 26 characters
> removed 7 characters now it works...
Something we discussed today was how the CA log name when calling
WcaInitialize() has a maximum of 32 characters - anything
Hmmm... I'm guessing there was something else at play. DTF can handle
entry points up to 72 characters in length before it'll throw a compile
error.
From: "Steven Ogilvie"
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:57 PM
To: "General discussion about the WiX
The short answer is yes. The longer answer depends on exactly where you
expect it take effect. What's the exact problem? It doesn't get picked by a
program? By a command prompt? It doesn't get used when you run something?
http://superuser.com/questions/351279/adding-a-directory-to-user-path-doesnt
So weird...
Was working before, stopped working... function name had 26 characters removed
7 characters now it works...
Go figure...
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com]
Sent: October-31-13 3:18 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolse
Thanks for the response. There is no AV software on that machine and it is
very unlikely that any single cab would be over 2gb, but impossible to say
without trying to manually create each of the 31 cabs. I have removed
references to a couple of the largest files in what could be the largest
cabs
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3560370/custom-action-in-c-sharp-used-via-wix-fails-with-error-1154
Chris has quite a few suggestions on what could cause that error.
-Original Message-
From: StevenOgilvie [mailto:sogil...@msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:05 PM
To: wix-users
A different pair of eyes should help...
I have a custom action that reads the registry and goes through the SQL
Server Instances to get the last instance name (if there are more than
one)... Was working like a charm, now for about a week it stopped working
and I am getting this error:
Action ended
Also that's not how CustomActionData works. Using it as:
session.CustomActionData["SERVICEUSER"] ="MyUser"
is wrong AFAIK in the context of those managed custom actions.
CustomActionData is not used that way. To send CustomActionData to a custom
action called Fred, you set the property Fred to th
Hi,
Our MSI uses the inbuilt Environment
WIX element to add a directory to PATH
variable. We are seeing an issue on Windows Blue/8.1 where this does not get
reflected until the user logs off and logs on. Is this a known issue? Are there
any alternatives to set the environment variable other tha
If your CA is immediate, I believe you want to do:
session["SERVICEUSER"] ="MyUser";
I believe the CustomActionData is only for deferred custom actions, and is only
one way communication.
-Original Message-
From: Swaroop Kare [mailto:swaroop.k...@ifdspercana.com]
Sent: Thursday, Octobe
I'm currently building a MSI with over 30k files in it (25 CABS) without issue,
though I've been using 3.7/3.8.
By chance do you have any AV software running on your build machine? What is
the overall size of the files being put into the CAB's (would any single CAB be
over 2GB)?
-Original
The Config.msi Folder is a Hidden System Folder that is created by
Windows. Only SYSTEM, and the Administrators Group should Be in the
Security Tab list, each having Full Access. If the Admin Remoting in
is not a member of the Administrators Group, you may have issues. By
Default a local
This is happening a lot now with a different installer. It always is a
different file, and the log shows that this is the only entry where the
attempt was made twice twice to verify access (immediately following the
first attempt), and it also is the only entry in the log that has the bit
about "U
The developers are a vendor to whom we pay an astonishing amount of money.
I'm just opening a defect and telling them it's stupid.
I'm sure someone at some level (even if I have to make it up to my Senior
Director talking to their CTO) will make them see the light.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:03
Agreed. Usually I do this. So many jobs, teams and developers over the
past 17 years that it's a never ending cycle
From: "Phil Wilson"
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:08 PM
To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset."
Subject: Re: [WiX-us
You won't be so thankful if it wants to repair all the time :)
Seriously, I would do your install, take the MSI off line, then do a repair
and see if it wants the source MSI file to do a repair.
Phil Wilson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Christoffel le Roux <
christoffe...@flowcentric.com> wr
Sometimes, if you explain to them that the entire Windows update method for
everything (their updates, Windows hotfixes, patches, service packs etc) is
based on file versions they might come around. If not, make the caveat that
everything they attempt will be more work and more unreliable.
Phil Wi
Might I ask why you need a Basic install UI level?
From: Blair Murri [os...@live.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:58 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn. How to set UILevel == 3 (INSTALLUILEVEL_BA
As I suspected last night, the two dev machines that I ran into issues on
are both running VS2012 with Update 3 (v11.0.60610.01). I had told
everyone else to use the environment variable before they had a chance to
build with WiX, so they may or may not have had the issue.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013
The CHM, the Wix tutorial, and searching this list, cover this subject.
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/ui_and_localization/make_installer_localizable.html
http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Multilanguage-install-td6161
Understood. I've dealt with these types over the years. I don't have much
patience for it and can usually things done the right way. But when it
becomes obvious that the mountain will not move, I break out my bag of
tricks to keep the train moving. I prefer not to though.
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Thanks a lot, Chris. I was 99.9% sure that was the case.
It's a Java program. They haven't said, but based on strings in the
executable, they're Ej-technologies' exe4j to make an EXE.
Based on the exe4j documentation, one step on the way through the wizard is
to set the version resource values, s
I should add there is some forward planning required as you have to add a
detect guid in the main bundle. Technically you can use the main bundle
upgrade code as the patch guid. But I found bug where in certain cases it
wouldn't work correctly (at least for addon bundles). That reminds me, I
The patch attribute goes in the patch bundle with a unique guid. Then add a
detect attribute to main bundle with detect.
I never did a patch bundle but I do use addon bundles and that's what you do.
Wes
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com]
Sent: Oct
Yup, thanks the version lying did the trick, I'm using a modified version of
paraffin.exe I added a 'alwaysoverwrite' and 'DefaultfileVersion' command line
attributes to get the DefualtVersion added to the wxs output.
Thanks for all the help guys.
Christoffel le Roux
-Original Message-
This thread is getting long so I've taken it to StackOverflow.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19708773/wix-patch-bundle-servicing
Thanks,
Chris
From: "Christopher Painter"
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 7:55 AM
To: "General discussion about
Sorry I just read it's not your drivers. Does it come with the inf drivers?
-Original Message-
From: Wesley Manning
Sent: October-31-13 10:22 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Burn installation with Aladdin eToken driver (msi)
opens
I want to change the Wix UI strings at run time based on language selection
in the Wix UI.
Could anyone please help me on this?
Thanks in Advance
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:14 PM, ak m wrote:
> I want to change the Wix UI strings at run time based on language
> selection in the Wix UI.
> Could
Is it your own customer action?
If it is, If your driver is inf based you can use
DifxAppExtension: xmlns:difx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/DifxAppExtension";
Then add the "Driver" element in same component as your inf file.
You would need 32bit and 64bit MSIs i
Will have to do a test...
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: October-31-13 12:42 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs
I honestly don't remember...
-Origin
Sorry for the unclear comment.
I assumed that 1.0 is not a burn bundle and 1.1 is using burn.
Sure if version 1.0 and 1.1 are burn bundles there is no problem and everything
is handled by burn
> Am 31.10.2013 um 04:41 schrieb Rob Mensching :
>
> That doesn't sound right. If Bundle v1.1 is an upg
I've also found the RelatedBundle element with the Patch action attribute
but it's not clear to me how to make the relationship. (I'm still getting
two entries in ARP.)
Also, am I correct in predicting that when implemented correctly that the
removal of a patch will not only uninstall the v
Rob,
Regarding #2, what makes a bundle a "patch bundle"? Is this something to
do with the UpgradeCode, Tag and/or ParentName attributes on the Bundle
element?
I don't usually ask for samples but if someone could kick me into the
right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. I'll b
Yes, that's going to be a problem. There are ways to mitigate it but is
there any chance they can fix this? What tool are they using to make the
EXE?
From: "Walter Dexter"
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:17 AM
To: "General discussion for Windows
I've just started getting this "Failed to open the database..." error in the
last couple of days. I'm still on WiX 3.7 and vs2010 (haven't even looked at
3.8 yet). I've changed *nothing* in my WiX projects or source.
Thomas Due-3 wrote
> Hello,
>
> I have tried the entire morning to register f
I am wondering if some one can assist me how to fix the issue.
Problem: I have set a session variable in a CA function written in C# and then
trying to copy that value back into a property that is declared in WIX.
Solution implemented:
I have CA with logic that will set the value as b
Hi,
I need to create a lauch condition that checks if the .NET Framework 4.5.1 is
installed as a part of its condition. The only way to do this (according to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh925568.aspx) is to check the value
(not just its existence) of the "Release" REG_DWORD registry
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