Re: [WiX-users] Driver Install with Wix

I recommend using the Wix DifxAppExtension. In response to your post here did you learn anything by evaluating the setupapi log? >>The installation finishes with no errors. DpInstall has

Re: [WiX-users] Driver Install with Wix

Shouldn't this: Read as: Remove the Return="ignore" until you have it working right. You should also have a rollback. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 |

[WiX-users] Driver Install with Wix

When running "dpinst /C /PATH .", the driver is loaded and confirmed with issuing "fltmc". I built the MSI using WiX Editor with no errors. Running the MSI, the driver is not loaded, not placed into system32\drivers. The installation finishes with no errors. The WXS file is as below. Any help is

Re: [WiX-users] 1910 Error Removing Desktop Shortcuts

I'm not sure which trivial feature of an installer might be missing, but a common cause of the issue is a readonly desktop.ini file, and I suspect the most likely reason for that is that some tool/app or policy is doing folder customisation using desktop.ini and unnecessarily marking it readonly. -

Re: [WiX-users] Doing an Include file for HeatDirectory and HeatFile tasks?

Thank you Phill, That worked! For future readers, I created a .targets file, inside a Targets folder, that includes the will all the HeatFile and HeatDirectory tasks inside a project tag. http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"; ToolsVersion="4.0"> Harvest .

Re: [WiX-users] hyperlinks and MSI 5.0

I define an ICommand similar to what is found in src\Setup\WixBA\ InstallationViewModel.cs See ICommand LaunchNewsCommand or similar. The xaml can then have something like:

Re: [WiX-users] Doing an Include file for HeatDirectory and HeatFile tasks?

That's because Imports are evaluated at PreBuild. In VisualStudio, that only occurs on Solution load. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo.

Re: [WiX-users] Doing an Include file for HeatDirectory and HeatFile tasks?

The wixproj file is a MSBuild targets file. MSBuild .targets files do not need to have a .targets extension. You can put the HarvestDirectory/HeatFile targets in a .targets file (named as you wish) and then in the .wixproj file add a 'Import' statement with the path of the file. My code that is

[WiX-users] hyperlinks and MSI 5.0

Hi all, I would like to add hyperlink text to the Bootstrapper and to Condition messages within the MSI Within the MSI I have set up MSI 5.0: InstallerVersion="500" Then tried: NETFRAMEWORK45 >= "#379893" or in Bootstrapper (as a test): I get a hyperlink but clicking does nothi

[WiX-users] Doing an Include file for HeatDirectory and HeatFile tasks?

Hey, I'm working on installers for multiple non-.Net applications. With these applications I need to retrieve com visible dll files, then register them, along with subsequent corresponding dependent files. I am using both HeatDirectory and HeatFile tasks to retrieve these file, however working