Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore?

2009-10-13 Thread Brant Gurganus
Long file names can be turned off on NTFS so you have to worry about it there as well. See http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/01/27/362049.aspx Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Dave Kolb wrote: > Brant, Know anyway for wix to check that I

Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore?

2009-10-13 Thread Brant Gurganus
There are still filesystems that Windows can use that are short name only. Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Dave Kolb wrote: > Thanks Chad. In spite of calling it a shortcut, I know what a SFN is since > working on PCs from the very first vers

Re: [WiX-users] how to create a MSU file?

2009-09-30 Thread Brant Gurganus
ou can probably find more official documentation inside of Microsoft. This may be useful to you: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934307 Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Lian Jiang wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have any reference about how to crea

Re: [WiX-users] Can you create a shortcut that is "Pinned to Taskbar" in an install?

2009-09-29 Thread Brant Gurganus
They aren't using pinning, they are using the jump list capabilities. That's different. Besides, there was never a programmatic interface for adding to the quick launch items. It just happened that the backing store for those items was easy to reverse engineer. Brant Gur

Re: [WiX-users] Can you create a shortcut that is "Pinned to Taskbar" in an install?

2009-09-29 Thread Brant Gurganus
That talks about how to prevent pinning as well as how to control grouping. It isn't talking about how to make an application pinned. Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Gareth wrote: > > This blog suggests it should be possible.  But I'

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling a component when not used by any products

2009-09-29 Thread Brant Gurganus
on the component and will only install it when it doesn't exist and will remove it when no more products are installed that use it. Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Ranganatha H C wrote: > Hi All, > > We need to install a MMC (Micros

Re: [WiX-users] All Users App Data folder?

2009-09-28 Thread Brant Gurganus
You want CommandAppDataFolder. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372057(VS.85).aspx Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:22 PM, David Battey wrote: > Is there a special ID that I can use to refer to the All Users application > data

Re: [WiX-users] Can you create a shortcut that is "Pinned to Taskbar" in an install?

2009-09-28 Thread Brant Gurganus
That is a *user* area just like the quick launch bar was supposed to be. They've taken steps to make it harder to programmatically add anything to it because that is an area that the user controls, not you or your application. Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Mon, Sep 28, 20

Re: [WiX-users] Installing 64-bit shell extension with a 32-bit app

2009-09-22 Thread Brant Gurganus
installers, the 32-bit components should go in a merge module so component IDs remain consistent. Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Nate Hekman wrote: > I just tried your suggestion, Brant, at least what I'm supposing you mean. > > - I se

Re: [WiX-users] Installing 64-bit shell extension with a 32-bit app

2009-09-22 Thread Brant Gurganus
What is preventing you from installing it in the 64-bit program files where it is supposed to go? Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Nate Hekman wrote: > I have a 32-bit application that include a 32-bit shell extension dll > that handles thum

Re: [WiX-users] Need some leads ...

2009-09-21 Thread Brant Gurganus
an to suggest that in the case of no files present, the application is in trial mode (that way a repair won't be overwriting anything). Then, when activated, the software write somewhere that is not part of a component so that it doesn't get removed or overwritten by other components. Bran

Re: [WiX-users] C#, two custom actions from one DLL

2009-09-17 Thread Brant Gurganus
Do you need the CustomAction attribute on the other entry point? Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, skaa wrote: > > This is the piece of WXS file: > >     SourceFile="$(var.CustomAction.TargetDir)CustomAction.CA.dll"/> >

[WiX-users] trouble with preprocessor

2009-08-24 Thread Brant Gurganus
/openafsclientmmc/source/browse/trunk/OpenAFS%20Client%20Manager/Installer.wxs Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design

Re: [WiX-users] registering an MMC snap-in

2009-06-28 Thread Brant Gurganus
2003? I make that a custom action that happens after installing the assembly (MMC 3.0)? Looking at documentation, I saw ways to see if .Net 2.0 was installed. Are there ways to see if MMC 3.0 is installed on the operating systems that don't come with it? Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/

[WiX-users] registering an MMC snap-in

2009-06-28 Thread Brant Gurganus
had the VS2010 integration. I'm pretty new to Wix in the first place. Brant Gurganus http://gurganus.name/brant -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.s