Re: [WiX-users] Keep/migrate feature state on major update

2010-10-29 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Nick Ramirez wrote: > > You shouldn't need to schedule the MigrateFeatureStates action manually. The > UpgradeVersion element has an attribute called MigrateFeatures that you can > set to "yes". Thanks a lot, that did the trick. My bad - I noticed that the f

[WiX-users] Keep/migrate feature state on major update

2010-10-28 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi. I'm trying to support major updates for my application and it works fine so far. Except for feature states. I'm testing an update from version 1.9.0 to 1.9.1 ProductCode changes between MSIs (it's "*"/auto-generated for me) Component GUIDs are stable for me (fixed) 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 have the s

[WiX-users] Define default target drive/folder without "invalid short name" error

2010-10-21 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi. (Apologies if this is a double post. It seems I first sent this from an unregistered mail account and it never turned up in the archives, so I'm retrying from the right account again) I have the following scenario: I know that the customer is going to place some stuff of my app on a NAS attac

Re: [WiX-users] How to resolve WiX Warning: "Too Many Componentswithin Feature" ?

2010-04-12 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Awesome, thanks. Hope I didn't hijack the thread to much with that. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 4/12/2010 8:00 AM, Benjamin Podszun wrote: >> (Maybe related: Why is heat generating a component per file anyway? >> > > http://www.joyofsetup

Re: [WiX-users] How to resolve WiX Warning: "Too Many Componentswithin Feature" ?

2010-04-12 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Maybe I'm missing something, but I understood the question not only as a general "How can I resolve/avoid this warning", since that seems to be quite clear from the excellent error message and the link to the ICE documentation as well. I assume the OP would like to stay with his current harvesting

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade to Windows 7 ->

2010-02-12 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi. I "solved" it by downgrading to an old build of WiX. Seems like a regression to me. With a version from late 2009 it works without any change to the project. With the latest release(s) it fails with the given error message. Regards, Ben On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:24 AM, wrote: > Hey, I'm ge

[WiX-users] Upgrade to Windows 7 -> "GetLooseFileList" task failed unexpectedly

2010-02-10 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi. I upgraded my machine from Win XP to Windows 7 last weekend. My previously working WiX project fails now with this (rather obvious at first) error: Error 77 The "GetLooseFileList" task failed unexpectedly. System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path. at System.IO.Path.Check

Re: [WiX-users] Private Assemblies?

2009-11-17 Thread Benjamin Podszun
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM, JKLists wrote: > >> ... decompile the old one with dark.exe to see what's different. >> > > Thanks for the suggestion, Bob. This allowed me to pinpoint where in my > WiX code the problem lie. Would you mind to share that? Don't want to mock you (if it was your fa

Re: [WiX-users] Folder permission question

2009-10-25 Thread Benjamin Podszun
In other words, PermissionEx should work, imho. On Oct 25, 2009 7:17 AM, "Rob Mensching" wrote: CreateFolder does not delete folders. I do believe that Permission element will explictily set the ACLs on the directory though. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Balu Swaminathan wrote: > > Hello A

Re: [WiX-users] Removing WebVirtualDir / WebApplication on uninstallonly

2009-10-13 Thread Benjamin Podszun
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[WiX-users] Removing WebVirtualDir / WebApplication on uninstall only

2009-10-13 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi. I can successfully deploy an application that includes a web application among others (thanks to this list) like this: This works fine, but leaves the web application in place (and a uninstall/reinstall cycle fails, because the web application "SomeName" exists already..). I

Re: [WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite of optionalwebapplication component

2009-09-30 Thread Benjamin Podszun
If Not (objRecord Is Nothing) Then > > Dim strCell > strCell = objRecord.StringData(1) > > WScript.Echo("Existing cell: " & strCell) > WScript.Echo("New value: " & strNewValue) > > ' modify the cell > objRecord.StringData(1) =

[WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite of optional web application component

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi there. I'm trying to create an installer that is divided into 3 features: "Framework", "Client", "Server". The first one is mandatory (and invisible) the latter two can be combined or not according to the users choice. "Server" contains a web application among others, like this: