[WiX-users] .wixproj files keep being checked out by VS2010 and Visual SourceSafe

2010-06-30 Thread Antony Walmsley
I'm using WiX 3.5.1811.0 with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual SourceSafe. It seems that switching between "Debug" and "Release" builds from the toolbar or vice versa causes some, or occasionally all, of the .wixproj files in my solution to be checked out. No changes are made to any of the files and

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 Build error

2010-04-14 Thread Antony Walmsley
I was getting the same error following an upgrade from Visual Studio 2008 / Wix 3 to Visual Studio 2010 / Wix 3.5.1602.0. It seems that, when upgrading, the value of in the wixproj file is not changed from v3 to v3.5. The line "" is also not changed correctly. On 5 March 2010 02:57, Bob Arnson

Re: [WiX-users] CA from merge module not in InstallExecuteSequence table of msi

2009-06-12 Thread Antony Walmsley
9C57AD3B85 could not be placed in database sequence, no ordering possible. 2009/6/11 Rob Mensching : > Strange. Try running light.exe with the -notidy switch and look for the > merge.log in the left over TEMP directory. It may point out a failure > during merge module merging. > &

[WiX-users] CA from merge module not in InstallExecuteSequence table of msi

2009-06-11 Thread Antony Walmsley
I've got a custom action set up in my merge module as follows : $ComputerName=2 Looking in Orca at the msm file, I see that the CustomAction table and the ModuleInstallExecuteSequence table have the custom action in them as ex However, looking in the msi file that uses

Re: [WiX-users] Passing Property into MergeModule

2009-05-28 Thread Antony Walmsley
We do this for our merge modules : In the MSI xml, set up PropertyName with the value you want to pass : In the merge module xml You can then use MyName to access the value of PropertyName passed through from the installer. This is for text. Chang

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

2008-04-21 Thread Antony Walmsley
r-russian-spam-in-gmail.html > > > > Just need to identify a common chinese character..h :) > > > > > > > > On 21/04/2008, Antony Walmsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a language filter option? Maybe filter out the messages > >

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

2008-04-21 Thread Antony Walmsley
Is there a language filter option? Maybe filter out the messages containing the Russian words for "the" or "is" or something like that? Most of the spam seems to be in foreign languages at the moment. On 17/04/2008, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > We could do that but then we'd

Re: [WiX-users] no tallow in wix 3.0

2007-10-02 Thread Antony Walmsley
Use heat.exe instead On 02/10/2007, Sergei Shelukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. How come there's no tallow utility in Wix 3.0 binaries? > > - > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsof

Re: [WiX-users] registering VC++ dlls

2007-08-02 Thread Antony Walmsley
.co.hu/wix/lesson5.php ? > That is flagged as an executable, or is that just a dll in diguise? > > > > Antony Walmsley wrote: > > > > Are you running tallow on dlls or an exe? I get the same errors as you > > on an exe file but you said in the original post that you

Re: [WiX-users] registering VC++ dlls

2007-08-02 Thread Antony Walmsley
w.exe : fatal error TLLW0001: unexpected argument on command line: > Lanmon E > xtractor.exe > > Stack Trace: >at > Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Tallow.TallowMain.ParseCommandLi > ne(String[] args) >at > Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Ta

Re: [WiX-users] registering VC++ dlls

2007-08-02 Thread Antony Walmsley
What parameters are you passing to tallow? I use "tallow -s" on my VC6 dlls and I get a list of registry values. On 02/08/07, Alexei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > I've been asked to write an installer for an application that requires two > dlls to be registered. > I've tried running ta

Re: [WiX-users] Service not uninstalling

2007-01-19 Thread Antony Walmsley
quot;both"? Don't you want it to be @Remove="uninstall"? > > > On 1/19/07, Antony Walmsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm using the following code to configure a service : > > > >Id="LineMonitoring

[WiX-users] Service not uninstalling

2007-01-19 Thread Antony Walmsley
I'm using the following code to configure a service : The installation is fine but when I uninstall I can still see the entry in the list of services. The executable has been uninstalled. I'm using 2.0.4611.0. --

Re: [WiX-users] Browse button in WixUI_FeatureTree

2007-01-19 Thread Antony Walmsley
Sorted, Thanks Bob. On 19/01/07, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antony Walmsley wrote: > > Is the browse button meant to work using WixUI_FeatureTree? > > Yes but the feature must have the ConfigurableDirectory attribute set to > a public (all uppercase) direc

[WiX-users] Browse button in WixUI_FeatureTree

2007-01-18 Thread Antony Walmsley
Is the browse button meant to work using WixUI_FeatureTree? I've got the following : .. I've tried various combinations for Property/Value but the button is always disabled when selecting features. --

Re: [WiX-users] wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

2006-10-09 Thread Antony Walmsley
I assume this is a reply to my question called "COM+ components not in Component Services". I did a rebuild of Wix 4415 with shortened versions of the 4 names that were too long and now the COM+ apps appear as I would expect. The strange thing is that the old versions of the merge modules built w

Re: [WiX-users] Strong name validation failure

2006-10-09 Thread Antony Walmsley
> > If you just need to use the tools, download the binaries package. > > -- > Mike Dimmick > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antony > Walmsley > Sent: 09 October 2006 15:44 > To: wix-users@lists.sourc

[WiX-users] Strong name validation failure

2006-10-09 Thread Antony Walmsley
I set up a Virtual PC to build Wix 2.0.4415.0. It builds and runs with no problems. However, when I copy the executables to my development machine, I get the following error: C:\Program Files\Wix>candle Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembl y 'candle,

[WiX-users] COM+ components not in Component Services

2006-10-06 Thread Antony Walmsley
Sorry if this message appears twice, with Gmail refusing to deliver to Sourceforge and the recent mail problems, I've no idea if the previous message is queued or lost.. I've just been testing a merge module compiled with the latest v2 build (4415) and using pubca.wixlib. My test installer r

Re: [WiX-users] Upgraded merge modules

2006-10-05 Thread Antony Walmsley
Thanks Rob.This issue has come about because our product groups use InstallShield to incorporate the merge modules into their installers. It seems that InstallShield uses the module GUID and locale to decide whether 2 merge modules are the same. These values are the same in both the new and old mer

[WiX-users] Upgraded merge modules

2006-10-05 Thread Antony Walmsley
I've got a set of merge modules that have been used in installers sent to customers. Now I've got to recompile my wix files to pick up the newest versions of the executables (bug fixes, new features etc). Should the GUID in be changed to indicate the file contents have changed, or do I keep the

Re: [WiX-users] Debugging Wix Uninstallers

2006-07-05 Thread Antony Walmsley
It depends what you want to debug.I was able to find a problem in the COM+ custom actions code by getting the source for wix and building it myself. Use this version to generate the msi. You set an environment variable called MsiBreak to the name of the custom action you want to stop at. The uninst