[WiX-users] Obtain the current user in a custom action

Hi All, I may have missed this, so apologies if I have! Is there a function in the WiX library (ideally in c++) that allows me to obtain the current user name. I could write one, but don't want to duplicate effort if one already exists. Any help appreciated. Kind regards Sean. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Changing install path of single feature in "change" mode

Thanks, both of you. On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Rob Mensching wrote: > IIRC, Windows Installer doesn't let you change the install location of > files as part of a Maintenance Mode. I thought I read that as some fine > print in MSI SDK but always hard to find the data later... of course, m

Re: [WiX-users] Happy 10th Birthday WiX [P]

Classification: Public Happy BDay WIX! :) -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: April-05-14 5:39 AM To: wix-users (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [WiX-users] Happy 10th Birthday WiX 10 years ago today Rob blogged that WiX was available on S

[WiX-users] Happy 10th Birthday WiX

10 years ago today Rob blogged that WiX was available on SourceForge: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2004/4/5/windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset-has-released-as-open-source-on-sourceforge.net Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com --

Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

Actually in the case of the GAC the GAC (or Windows) itself does the reference counting so matching guids for components is not necessary. If two different installs put an assembly in the GAC it will not be removed until the last install is remove, in addition it can't be manually deleted as the

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 2013

Look in your %TEMP% for log files. See if there are any messages about the Votive package being turned off for some reason. -Original Message- From: Corby Nichols [mailto:co...@datajuggler.com] Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2014 12:34 AM To: 'General discussion about the WiX toolset.' Subjec

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 2013

I did a an uninstall and then reinstall, and still I do not have templates, nor does it list anything about Wix or Windows Installer in Help About; Is there a place I can download the templates and install them manually? I want to learn Wix because of my hatred for InstallShield at the moment, bu