Re: [WiX-users] How to find out the installlocation from WiX Bootstrapper after installation?

2014-12-03 Thread patrickpirzer
Thank You Nick, but that's not exactly, what i need, because me and my customers are using the EXE-file, which is generated by the build of the bootstrapper-project. Is there a chance to find the path of the final installfolder by - per example - Bootstrapper.Engine.StringVariables[...]? I have mad

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent upgrade and downgrade if system depends from particular installed product version

2014-12-03 Thread Valery Portnyagin
On 12/02/2014 10:15 PM, Phil Wilson wrote: > If you're saying that two MSI products are incompatible and you want > to make sure that a product cannot be installed if another one is > already installed then some choices are: > > You use Upgrade and UpgradeVersion elements with OnlyDetect="yes" that

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While running the MSI package after changing the name

2014-12-03 Thread Patrick Pirzer
An actual installation is detected by the product name and the GUID in the registry. Maybe You have a header like this in Your Product.wxs-file: But when You change the Id to "*", then bye ach Rebuild a new GUID will be generated. In case You have no other detect mechanisms in Your Product

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While running the MSI package after changing the name

2014-12-03 Thread Dileep S
I was able to run the EXE package twice by changing the name. I have requirement for MSI to work as similar to EXE. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Patrick Pirzer wrote: > The big question is: Why do You want to run Your MSI twice? > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Dileep S [mailto:

Re: [WiX-users] Failure to Repair, Uninstall, or Upgrade using WixStdBa and Wix 3.9

2014-12-03 Thread Sean Hall
Does the workaround from the bug work for you? (removing the default value) On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Rob Mensching wrote: > Sounds like: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4609/ > > _ > Short replies here. Complete answers over ther

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper and buttons...

2014-12-03 Thread Bob Arnson
On 02-Dec-14 16:44, Steve-Ogilvie wrote: > I have modified the theme for the boostrappers I am using > but I noticed on the Welcome screen hitting the enter key does not advance > to the next screen > > is this a bug in 3.8 or as designed? Themes don't currently expose a way to set default buttons.

Re: [WiX-users] Unhandled exception when launching MBA

2014-12-03 Thread Sean Hall
Can someone write up a bug on this? I've never seen this before. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Bingo! That did it :) Thank you for the heads up Phill!!! > > -Original Message- > From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] > Sent: December-02-14 2:15 PM

Re: [WiX-users] VS2013 Intellisense is not working for Wix ComPlusExtension

2014-12-03 Thread Sean Hall
It is fixed, though I believe Bob did 2013 and I did 2015. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Rob Mensching wrote: > Bug. I *think* this was fixed recently by Sean. > > _ > Short replies here. Complete answers over there: > http://www.fir

Re: [WiX-users] Embedded Transforms for L10n and how to display them.

2014-12-03 Thread gapearce
Thanks for the leads to the vb code - looks promising - and I do still have the mst files to apply to the base msi using Orca - I was trying to figure that out before - That helps a lot. I'm going to mess around with the VB code for a bit. -- View this message in context: http://windows-insta

Re: [WiX-users] Embedded Transforms for L10n and how to display them.

2014-12-03 Thread Phill Hogland
Some more info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16770848/how-to-read-msttransform-table-along-with-msi -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Embedded-Transforms-for-L10n-and-how-to-display-them-tp7598340p7598372.html Sent from the wix

Re: [WiX-users] Failure to Repair, Uninstall, or Upgrade using WixStdBa and Wix 3.9

2014-12-03 Thread Rob Mensching
Sounds like: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4609/ _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 201

Re: [WiX-users] Embedded Transforms for L10n and how to display them.

2014-12-03 Thread Phil Wilson
It looks like you have the .mst files because you are then embedding into the MSI file. So you can open the base MSI file with Orca and use the Transforms menu to apply them, the changes being highlighted. Do you maybe no longer have the mst files or something? --- Phil Wilson On Wed,

[WiX-users] Failure to Repair, Uninstall, or Upgrade using WixStdBa and Wix 3.9

2014-12-03 Thread John Cooper
I'm seeing a weird error on three products that all use the WixStdBa to install a single MSI. Install goes fine. However, attempts to Repair, Uninstall, or Upgrade result in: "0x80070057 - the parameter is incorrect." This has only cropped up in the past two days, and the bundle authoring has

Re: [WiX-users] Issue with deploying MSI through SCCM and GPO

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
This probably isn't going to be helpful because I'm not that well-versed with using Group Policy. But when I tried it once, the program ended up on a different screen that regular programs. I had to go to *Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Install a program from the network*. I base this

[WiX-users] error during installation of .net COM+ application

2014-12-03 Thread ssmsam
Hi I am trying to install a test COM+ using WiX com plus extension. Installation fails with following error in the log MSI (s) (BC:88) [21:50:36:164]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSI326D.tmp, Entrypoint: ComPlusInstallExecuteCommit Action 21:50:36: RegisterComPlusAsse

Re: [WiX-users] Install certificate in users store

2014-12-03 Thread Rob Mensching
There are way more downsides, for example rollback support is way more complex. Shelling to an executable is never* the right thing to do. * for very large sets of "never" _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.

Re: [WiX-users] Embedded Transforms for L10n and how to display them.

2014-12-03 Thread gapearce
Thanks for the replies fellas. Phill is right on - that's the way I do it, and because I inherited this project and am fearful of making big changes and screwing it up ;-) it is still done this way. Someday I'll upgrade to using Burn, too, and get off of the old Wix 3.5. Now back to the original

Re: [WiX-users] Embedded Transforms for L10n and how to display them.

2014-12-03 Thread Phill Hogland
I suspect that wxl files were used to batch build the msi resulting in n msi packages for n cultures defined. I used to do what I think he is doing, using torch(or similar) to create mst files of the difference between my base msi (english msi) and each of the other cultures, named ":lcid.mst".

Re: [WiX-users] Intellisense in Visual Studio 2013 for Wix 3.8

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
I would only suggest uninstalling WiX and reinstalling. For me, when I do Ctrl + SPACE, I get a list of WiX elements. I clicked just underneath the Package element in the Product.wxs file and did Ctrl + SPACE. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.n

Re: [WiX-users] Intellisense in Visual Studio 2013 for Wix 3.8

2014-12-03 Thread wixtester
I tried repairing the Wix install, but no luck. I have VS 2013 professional edition. Syntax highlighting is available. For Intellisense, nothing shows up in listing the attributes for a given xml element. The only available options listed are !--, ![CDATA[ , ? Are there any manual hacks to get

Re: [WiX-users] How to modify installation directory to append extra folder to install directory in Wxs file

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
You're overthinking it. You can set up your Directory elements for whatever directory structure you need and wherever the user changes INSTALLFOLDER to be, its child Directory elements will follow it there. For example, if the user changes the path of INSTALLFOLDER to C:\MyStuff, they'll get: C:/

Re: [WiX-users] Iis Schema Usage

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
To bind the certificate to the Web site, you can do something like: That should go into the same Component as your Certificate elements. That should be enough to do the binding. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Iis-Schema-Usag

Re: [WiX-users] Wix standard custom actions to perform AD operations

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
WiX has a Group element in the Util Extension that can find an existing Windows group, but can't create one of any kind. Its User element can create a user, but I'm not sure if it works with AD. It has a Domain attribute, but that may only be for referencing an existing AD account. -- View this

Re: [WiX-users] How to find out the installlocation from WiX Bootstrapper after installation?

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
You don't need to put an Id attribute on the Fragment, it won't be used. The Id attributes of Directory elements are themselves, properties. You can see the full path to your install directory be looking at the value of the property called INSTALLDIR. You can see it in the MSI log: msiexec /i myi

Re: [WiX-users] Embedded Transforms for L10n and how to display them.

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
How come you're using mst files for localization and not .wxl files that are built into WiX? http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/ui_and_localization/make_installer_localizable.html -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Create network folder

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
Do you mean, create a file share? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Create-network-folder-tp7598287p7598356.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] Installation under Local User account

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
If you want to install only for the current user, you should install to the LocalAppDataFolder instead of ProgramFilesFolder. ProgramFilesFolder requires elevated privileges since it's a machine-level folder. LocalAppDataFolder is for current-user-only installs (Package/@InstallScope = perUser)

Re: [WiX-users] Latest build wix 3.10 visual studio 2013 problem

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
Try posting this on the wix-devs forum. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Latest-build-wix-3-10-visual-studio-2013-problem-tp7598342p7598353.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Intellisense in Visual Studio 2013 for Wix 3.8

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
Nope. Installing the WiX Toolset should get you all set up with VS 2013. No other setup is required. I've tried it several times and it works for me. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Intellisense-in-Visual-Studio-2013-for-Wix-3-8-tp7

[WiX-users] Intellisense in Visual Studio 2013 for Wix 3.8

2014-12-03 Thread wixtester
Hi, Sorry, this is very basic question. How do I enable intellisense in visual studio 2013 with Wix 3.8? In Visual Studio 2010 (for wix 3.5), ProjectAggregator msi would add intellisense. Do I need to run any such tool for visual studio 2013? Do I need to copy any xml schemas to C:\Prog

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While running the MSI package after changing the name [P]

2014-12-03 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Classification: Public Why are you wanting to run the same MSI twice? -Original Message- From: Dileep S [mailto:dileep.sanamp...@gmail.com] Sent: December-03-14 9:20 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While running the MSI

Re: [WiX-users] Install certificate in users store

2014-12-03 Thread Tom Brezinski
Another options is invoking certutil.exe (on Vista and newer versions of windows) with a CAQuietExec. Here's an example that installs to the system store, just tweak the certutil.exe command to go to the user store if that is where you want it. The one downside to this is i

Re: [WiX-users] How to install SqlLocalDb.msi in Bootstrapper?

2014-12-03 Thread Patrick Pirzer
Sorry! This problem is already solved. The solution is a MsiProperty inside the MsiPackage with the name " IACCEPTSQLLOCALDBLICENSETERMS" and the value "YES". Bye! Patrick -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: patrickpirzer [mailto:patrick.pir...@prosoft.net] Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Dezember

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While running the MSI package after changing the name

2014-12-03 Thread Patrick Pirzer
The big question is: Why do You want to run Your MSI twice? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dileep S [mailto:dileep.sanamp...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014 15:20 An: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While runni

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While running the MSI package after changing the name

2014-12-03 Thread Dileep S
Thank you for the information. In that case, we can not run same MSI package (by changing the name) without un-installing the previous package. Please help me if there is any other way to solve this issue.. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Patrick Pirzer wrote: > It depends upon the name of th

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While running the MSI package after changing the name

2014-12-03 Thread Patrick Pirzer
It depends upon the name of the product, which Yous et in Your MsiPackage. It's not relevant, if Your MSI-file is named Sample.msi or 1.msi. When You start 1.msi, it detects the product name in the registry shows You the message, that actual installation already exists. Bye, Patrick -Ursprü

[WiX-users] [WIX]: Getting error 1316, While running the MSI package after changing the name

2014-12-03 Thread Dileep S
Dear All, I have created MSI package using WIX. MSI pacakge name: Sample.MSI I have installed this 'Sample.msi' package for the first time. After i have renamed the 'Sample.msi' as '1.msi'. While running the changed MSI, it shows an error: The specified account already exists. Please solve me h

[WiX-users] Latest build wix 3.10 visual studio 2013 problem

2014-12-03 Thread Marco Tognacci
I have updated to the latest 3.10 build and I have reported this problem to the Visual Studio 2013, when I open the property page of a c++ project I have no more the property grid where are the properties of the project. Uninstalling wix 3.10 all Return working normally. Inviata dal mio Windows