[WiX-users] COM+ Installer - Failed to load assembly error

Hello, I'm attempting to build a Wix based installer for a COM+ module I've written. The install is being immediately rolled back and I can see the following in the MSI logs: MSI (s) (B8:F8) [10:05:59:447]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSIEBC7.tmp, Entrypoint: ComPlusI

[WiX-users] Custom actions in C# and disabling buttons

I have a dialogue that executes a custom action to validate user specified input however it returns ActionResult.Failure in the event the user supplied data is not accurate. That's rather abrupt and unneeded, however I can not seem to work around a condition to disable the next action. How does on

Re: [WiX-users] how to extract string from registry entry [P]

As it says here: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/customactions/shellexec.html it's more common to use a shell execute on a URL to launch the default program, if that works in your scenario. --- Phil Wilson On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Steven Ogilvie wrote: > Classi

Re: [WiX-users] MSI packages download and Firewall/Proxy settings

Are you providing a valid HWND when calling Detect/Elevate/Apply? The files the engine downloads are via WinInet, so they should use that config and should prompt for authentication if required. If you are doing your own downloading inside of your BA, then I'd suggest you look at dlutil.cpp in

Re: [WiX-users] how to extract string from registry entry [P]

Classification: Public Why not use: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Apps Paths Chrome.exe and get the default value which is the path and exe name Use Firefox.exe to get its path -Original Message- From: Namrata Kumari [mailto:namrata.kum...@aspiresys.com] Sent: Mar

[WiX-users] how to extract string from registry entry

I want to launch my application on default browser but getting extra content in registry entry , how to extract exact values out from registry: Getting registry entry : Firefox: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -osint -url "%1" Chrome: "C:\Program Files (x86)\G

[WiX-users] MSI packages download and Firewall/Proxy settings

Hi Everyone, I am using Wix 3.9 and created a Custom bootstrapper application which downloads and installs the MSI packages. It is working fine. Some of the network download address restricted by Firewall or Proxy server. So MSI pacakges download getting failed. In this type of cases I would li