Re: [WiX-users] How to base MsiPackage InstallCondition on Substring of Variable

2014-07-01 Thread John Cooper
Well, aside from swapping left for right in the expression (a typical problem for me). It just works, Some examples: Product.wxs http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>

[WiX-users] Plugin and plugin-description file

2014-07-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
I have some plugin DLLs, and for each plugin, there's an XML file describing its IPC interface and an .ini file describing the plugin configuration and location (required for the app to load the plugin). Should I create three components? Or should they be in the same component since the .ini file

Re: [WiX-users] How to base MsiPackage InstallCondition on Substring of Variable

2014-07-01 Thread Robert Harrison
John, Your answer doesn't make sense to me. Can you check your syntax? I have tried several ways to make sense out of your response but everything I try does not build. Best, Robert -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 3:32 P

[WiX-users] Can't get Wix to build: XSLTLoader threw an exception

2014-07-01 Thread Peter Philips
Hello everyone, I am really hoping you can help me as I'm at my wits end trying to get this to work. I have a Visual Studio sample project provided by a vendor that builds an Internet Explorer BHO and installs it via Wix. The project is building fine, but WIX does not build the installer. Here

Re: [WiX-users] How to base MsiPackage InstallCondition on Substring of Variable

2014-07-01 Thread John Cooper
"FeatureA" ~>< FeatureList The '~' makes the substring case insensitive. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission, KS  66227 Office:  913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: R

[WiX-users] How to base MsiPackage InstallCondition on Substring of Variable

2014-07-01 Thread Robert Harrison
To Wix-Users, I have a Burn bundle of Chained MSIs and I want to install one based on whether or not a variable contains a specific word. I have variable I am setting from the command line, ie Bundle.exe SelectedFeatures=. How do I set the InstallCondition attribute on the MsiPackage element to

Re: [WiX-users] BA Installation failure with WiX 3.8 during major upgrade

2014-07-01 Thread Knapp Edgar
Hi John, Thank your fort hat crucial hint. Before we started to version the helper modules systematically with 1.0.x, the old version numbers on some but not all modules were set to 1.4.0. So those dlls were not installed with the upgrade, but since this happened simultaneously with the 2.0.x t

Re: [WiX-users] bootstrapperApplicationData' attribute is not declared.

2014-07-01 Thread Phill Hogland
I should add that I provided a full path to an msi rather than just a file name in SourceFile="a32.msi" -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/bootstrapperApplicationData-attribute-is-not-declared-tp7595444p7595606.html Sent from the wix-u

Re: [WiX-users] bootstrapperApplicationData' attribute is not declared.

2014-07-01 Thread Phill Hogland
I do not see any problem compiling this code against wix 3.8.1228 RTM toolset. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/bootstrapperApplicationData-attribute-is-not-declared-tp7595444p7595605.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive

Re: [WiX-users] Consuming radio button action in wxi

2014-07-01 Thread Phill Hogland
If RadioButton1 is define as a numeric Engine variable, then use 'RadioButton1=1'. If RadioButton1 is defined as a string Engine variable then test it against a string, i.e. 'RadioButton1="e;1"e;' Either used html entities to put quotes around the string or use CDATA. A Burn (Engine) var

Re: [WiX-users] unhandled exception in light

2014-07-01 Thread Simon Topley
Just another update for anyone in the future, the loc.blah variable I replaced was in an older file we no longer use, so this wasn't the issue after all. I now have a similar issue with candle 3.8 on windows 2012. This is obviously not wide spread so must be down to our wix code, or maybe some t