Re: [WiX-users] Remove InstallShield Bootstrapper MSI

2015-06-04 Thread Hoover, Jacob
And if they aren't helpful, if you know the ID behind the version you are trying to remove, you could query the ARP data for the uninstall string property "UninstallString" and try to invoke that. On my machine, I have both MSI and EXE variants. If the one you are trying to replace is a MSI, t

Re: [WiX-users] Remove InstallShield Bootstrapper MSI

2015-06-04 Thread Phil Wilson
Why not ask in an InstallShiekd forum how the InstallShield upgrade mechanism works in the context of an upgrade? --- Phil Wilson On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Johri, Mohit IN BLR STS wrote: > Hi All, > > Did anyone got into the same kind of issue, please help. > > Thanks & Regard

Re: [WiX-users] automatic selection perUser/perMachine installation

2015-06-04 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Yes. Sorry I read this as you were trying to get a burn bundle to morph between per-user and per-machine. It should be possible, but UAC brings in interesting challenges. A user could be an admin, but not ran elevated. I'd start by looking at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370852(

Re: [WiX-users] automatic selection perUser/perMachine installation

2015-06-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
I'll try to use a condition with %Priviliged property to setup the installation type by default (I see it in the page 122 of the Wix 3.6 book) Thanks for all your answers, it helps me to understand what's possible or not and if I missed something (I'm new in WiX) On Jun/04/2015, Carles Pina i Es

Re: [WiX-users] automatic selection perUser/perMachine installation

2015-06-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Is BA a Bootstrapper Application (a .exe) in this context? I wanted to avoid a Bootstrapper application and just deliver the .msi, with the sensible defaults (perMachine if the user is an administrator or perUser otherwise). On Jun/04/2015, Hoover, Jacob wrote: > Fairly certain that WixStdBA doe

Re: [WiX-users] automatic selection perUser/perMachine installation

2015-06-04 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Fairly certain that WixStdBA doesn't support this today. As for if you could write a custom BA, and modify the plan to accomplish this, I'm not certain. -Original Message- From: Carles Pina i Estany [mailto:car...@pina.cat] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 6:36 AM To: wix-users@lists.sour

[WiX-users] Installation fails when resuming after reboot

2015-06-04 Thread Daniel Boström
Usually I am happy when the problem I have faced for a while appears to be solved but when I don't know why, a bad feeling remains. The problem is this: I use WiX 3.9 (3.9.1006.0) and I have a custom WPF bootstrapper application which requires .Net 4 (Full version) so naturally when I try to ru

[WiX-users] automatic selection perUser/perMachine installation

2015-06-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, I'm not sure if this is possible, I'd like something like: (I'm using WixUI_Advanced but I could change by something else if needed) If an Administrator installs the MSI: I'd like that gets installed, by default, perMachine (and the Administrator could change it). If a non-administrator ins

Re: [WiX-users] per-user per-app WiX installation

2015-06-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Jun/04/2015, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Hi Kondoru, > > On Jun/03/2015, KONDURU Pavan wrote: > > I use wix 3.6 and this works for me. You should see the "shield" icon > > on the install button. Click on the install button brings up the UAC > > prompt. > > you see the UAC prompt whe

Re: [WiX-users] per-user per-app WiX installation

2015-06-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi Kondoru, On Jun/03/2015, KONDURU Pavan wrote: > I use wix 3.6 and this works for me. You should see the "shield" icon > on the install button. Click on the install button brings up the UAC > prompt. you see the UAC prompt when the user uses the .msi file, not the setup.exe bootstrapper, right

[WiX-users] How to prevent an 'Advertised' feature state after the rollback during a major upgrade

2015-06-04 Thread AK
Hi! Mainly, I want to leave the web site from the first version during a major upgrade. To do that I try to use Component Condition like this: Did not help. Then I did try to use Custom Action and setted the component RequestState to Local if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(session["UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE