[WiX-users] Setting permissions on a element

2010-07-07 Thread Alec Siu
Is there a way to set permissions on a element. I know there's a element, but the folder will be created already as part of the installation. It doesn't seem like there's an obvious way to do this... (Basically my scenario is that I need to set some permissions on my web root to allow write a

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3 setupbld.exe question

2007-05-23 Thread Alec Siu
be missing the code for dutil which is present in the publicly available version. Was wondering why it wouldn't build initially J. From: Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:32 PM To: Alec Siu; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jon LeCroy; Margaret Rottsolk Subject: RE: WiX v3 setu

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3 setupbld.exe question

2007-05-17 Thread Alec Siu
AM To: Alec Siu; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jon LeCroy; Margaret Rottsolk Subject: RE: WiX v3 setupbld.exe question Yeah, in the current setup.exe in the WiX toolset, if you don't specify to cache the MSI then the original path is going to be random. The future chainer will have bette

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3 setupbld.exe question

2007-05-16 Thread Alec Siu
roduct and tries to re-read the original extracted (temporary) MSI, which has been of course by now deleted. Does this explanation sound feasible to you? Would there be ways to get around this and/or confirm this theory? Alec From: Rob Mensching Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:03 AM To: Jon LeCroy; Al

[WiX-users] WiX v3 setupbld.exe question

2007-05-03 Thread Alec Siu
Hi All, We're using setupbld.exe to chain two MSIs together (the first one say A.msi spec'ed with -mu, the second B.msi with -mus). This works fine, except we're testing the scenario where the user might try and run the setup.exe more than once. B.msi has some code to detect and prevent re-ins

[WiX-users] Testing for membership of a domain

2007-04-18 Thread Alec Siu
Hi All, Is there a way to check if you're a member of a domain from within WiX? I thought of using a Condition which references the USERDOMAIN environment variable like this: But this doesn't seem to work... any ideas? Cheers, Alec --

[WiX-users] Authoring of Required Dialogs

2006-10-05 Thread Alec Siu
Hi All, I've authored my WiX with a set of dialogs comprising my setup wizard, and then I found this page on msdn: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368283.aspx Does this mean that I have to author the Reserved Dialog and Required Dialog boxes into my wix? I only found this

[WiX-users] Hyperlink in installer UI

2006-09-25 Thread Alec Siu
I know from searching the archive that this question has been asked in the past, but has there been any progress or has someone written a publicly available custom action to allow display of a hyperlink in an installer dialog? If not, is the recommended way to implement this via a dialog box wri