I don't know if it would be any use, but Apache has a suite of AD/LDAP
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> On Nov 11, 2014, at 10:12 PM, pezmannen wrote:
>
> My setup includes several dialogs where you need to specify different Active
> Directory accounts. For
On 10/31/2014 11:55 AM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Could you file a bug to say that there should be an error message too?
Done: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4574/ .
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> InstallCondition="VersionNT = v6.1 AND NTProductType
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>
>
> ...
>
> Though I could see this as being a valid feature request to emit a warning.
>
> -Original Message-
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On 10/31/2014 12:11 AM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Just so I'm sure I follow exactly, can you provide snippet of example code
> that demonstrates the issue?
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I noticed that Burn (in 3.9 RC4) doesn't provide any warning or error if two
packages in a chain are in different directories with the same file name: it
appears to silently overwrite one of the copies.
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I have two different products/bundles that install different versions of
the same msi package. I had expected that the bundle would detect the
existing installation of the msi and log it as an upgrade, but instead
it's logging it as "absent" and the subsequent execution of the package
runs the
On 4/10/2014 3:13 AM, David Watson wrote:
> You can do a /layout to get the contents of the bundle, then you would need
> to do an admin install with the msi.
>
> Don't know if there is a /admin on the bundle, you could make one if not that
> calls each msi in turn with admin parameters.
Unfortu
We package our MSI using Burn, and have had a request to allow users to
dump the files in one of the MSIs to a directory instead of installing
them - i.e. doing an Administrative installation
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367541%28v=vs.85%29.aspx).
Does the functionality exist in B
I have a machine running Windows 8.1 where the Burn uninstaller is
failing since it appears that the call to CoInitialize() is failing:
Burn v3.9.203.0, Windows v6.3 (Build 9600: Service Pack 0), path:
C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{GUID}\product.exe, cmdline:
'/uninstall /quiet /norestart -burn.un
I'm using WiX 3.9.120.0 - in Burn, is util:ProductSearch supposed to log
errors when it doesn't find a matching product? I'm using:
The log contains:
[13E8:23D4][2014-01-30T12:01:15]e000: Error 0x80020005: Failed to copy
variant value.
[13E8:23D4][2014-01-30T12:01:15]e000: Error 0x80020005: F
On 1/28/2014 3:27 PM, Phill Hogland wrote:
> There are other similar reports on the internet which are not related to Wix,
> so the root problem is probably more along the lines that Christopher
> suggested. When you recompiled did you consider using
> MsiPackage/@SuppressSignatureVerification?
T
On 12/18/2013 1:21 PM, John Cooper wrote:
> If you're signing more than a dozen or so files in one pass, you've got
> bigger problems. :) Besides which, like many build-related tasks, signing
> is an activity best done in the same project generating the binary.
+1. Unless you're talking about
I guess the OP is talking about native binaries, not .NET assemblies
since he mentioned signtool - sn is the .NET signing tool.
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On 12/18/2013 1:23 PM, John Cooper wrote:
> You'll have to correctly handle the case where a binary cannot be signed
> because it has references to unsigned
so awesome you want to prevent your
competitors from getting the improvements :)
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2 characters - anything more than that
and it fails with an "Insufficient buffer" error. Could something
similar be happening?
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On 10/28/2013 1:35 PM, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> Is there any way to tell the installer to always install original files
> provided in .msi on repairing/reinstalling the product?
See
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759262%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?ppud=4#BKMK_Repair
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SignFile - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164304.aspx. But I
ended up writing my own implementation which retries 10 times with
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And for the MSI file, you might want to add:
/n text-that-should-appear-in-UAC-elevation-prompt-description
Otherwise, the description will contain a randomly-generate
On 10/11/2013 5:42 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
> None of the builds via wixtoolset.org are working. For example trying
> to download 3.8.1007 results in the broken link
> http://wixtoolset.org/downloads/v3.8.1007.0/wix38.exe.
>
After refreshing each page it now works.
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> The rest (of us) buy the book
> (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735626286?ie=UTF8&tag=sedodream-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0735626286)
Note that the link is for the first edition, not the s
http://wixtoolset.org/ reports:
Service Unavailable
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.
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> Check out VersionNT and NTProductType (Google them to get the proper values
> for the two OS's you want)
Or read my reply :)
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On 18/09/2013 14:08, Steven Ogilvie wrote:
> So it is not currently supported?
I don't think so. At least, the WixStdBA doesn't.
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> bootstrapper/installer
>
> If you like to post diff on the code plea site I'll add it to the extended
> BA.
>
> Neil
>
> On 30 Aug 2013, at 14:48, "Steven Ogilvie" wrote:
>
>> No sorry
>>
>> I am not usin
x.codeplex.com yourself?
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Can't Steven put the change in the public domain and someone who's already
signed the agreement can commit it?
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On 31 Aug 2013, at 04:10, Bob Arnson wrote:
> On 28-Aug-13 13:29, Steven Ogilvie wrote:
>> > FontId="2" HideWhenDisabled="yes"
>> DisablePrefix="ye
Aug 2013, at 14:48, "Steven Ogilvie" wrote:
>
>> No sorry
>>
>> I am not using 3.8 I am using 3.7 with the Extended BA from Neil
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk]
>> Sent: August-30-13 9:00 A
_CONTROL_FAILURE_HEADER, FALSE);
>}
>else
> {
>ThemeControlEnable(m_pTheme,
> WIXSTDBA_CONTROL_FAILURE_HEADER, TRUE);
>}
>
> That should be it :)
>
> Cheers,
>
org/releases/ ?
>
> If so, how will I be able to add text to the Setup Complete box? My apologies
> if I seem a tad dense, but this is very unfamiliar territory for me.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 20
Okay, I can submit it.
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On 28 Aug 2013, at 18:13, Steven Ogilvie wrote:
> You want me to make the change for 3.8 or your going to make the change?
>
> I can send you my code for the BA if you want :)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Bru
n, because I don't know what that means (and I
> have yet to figure out where and how to modify .wxl files).
>
> Alain
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 11:39 AM
> To: General discussi
Could you sent a pull request to integrate this change upstream please?
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On 28 Aug 2013, at 14:28, Steven Ogilvie wrote:
> Yes exactly
>
> BA is using the same property for Setup/Uninstall for the success/failure
> string
>
> I fixed th
x27; pages. In particular, people have complained to me about the
fact that when uninstall completes it reports "Setup Success".
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uction is there some other way Windows is likely to
have the updated certificates? Or, should I remove the signature on the
installer and MSI file to avoid this problem? Or is there a way to ask
Burn to skip the verification s
On 23/08/2013 21:58, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Might be related to: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/3643/
Thanks, that was the problem.
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> Don't WiX-built MSIs have no UI by default?
>
> See the second paragraph of
> http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/user-interface
>
> So just follow the steps of the Getting Started tutorial, and don't do
> anything in the UI section?
I think there's a
idea what I'm doing wrong?
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On 16 Jul 2013, at 13:27, "Gonzalez, John" wrote:
> I have the same, or similar, issue. It is not expected and showed up around
> the 9419 build release. Currently have no ETA of a fix.
>
the root
certificate has already been installed - Windows tries to automatically
download it. On a plain Server 2008 machine for example installation
fails if it has never been connected to the Internet because the
signature can't be
it's just missing the RunOnce entry to start it
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anufacturer="Us"
> Condition="Privileged AND (VersionNT = v6.1 OR VersionNT = v6.2)"
> DisableModify="yes"
Off-topic, but Windows Blue will be a free upgrade from Windows 8 and
PerMachine, version: a.b.c.d,
language: 0 operation: MajorUpgrade
Shouldn't it be logging 'operation: None'?
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http://nsis.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nsis/NSIS/trunk/ shows that work
is going on, and the Unicode version at http://www.scratchpaper.com/ had
a release last year.
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$R2 -1
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StrCpy $R4 $R1 "" $R2
StrCpy $R1 $R3$R4
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Goto -9
StrCpy $R0 $R1
Pop $R4
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On 11/04/2013 14:23, Sergey Yukhno wrote:
> Can't install Wix 3.8 on Windows XP.
> "Wix38.exe is not valid Win32 application."
That looks like a problem with the VS 2012 settings. I thought we'd
fixed them all - what build are you trying t
operty; the syswow64 folder
contains 32-bit binaries.
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Or, if you really want it to auto-select which certificate to use!
http://timestamp.globalsign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll /d
"%(SignMsi.FullPath)"" />
The timestamp URL might be comodo, verisign, globalsign etc. depending
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product release, represented as a string GUID, for example
"{12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012}"."
That seems to imply it shouldn't be changed from one build to the next
but only when the major, minor or revision fields are changed.
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On 19/03/2013 12:31, Bruce Cran wrote:
> Clone https://hg.codeplex.com/wix :
>
> hg clone https://hg.codeplex.com/wix -b wix38
Sorry ignore most of that - those instructions are for WiX 3.8 not 3.6.
To get 3.6 you just need to use "-b wix36" when cloning and follow the
.sln and build the projects individually.
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difxapp_x64, but building a 32-bit msi with difxapp_x64 referenced seems
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On 12/03/2013 20:49, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Is the task scheduler enabled and running? If not, try that and see if the
> problem goes away.
Unfortunately it is already running. I'll do some more debugging to see
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: 0x0, restart: None, ba requested restart: No" and then always
hangs, with all 3 threads stuck in GetMessageW. It works with 2008R2:
is there a known bug with Vista/2008R1?
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I created an MSI project where if I go into the Build tab in the project
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I've come across a few problems with the WiX 3.7 plugin with Visual
Studio 2012. Today I tried to add a reference to a bootstrapper project
by double-clicking on the project name was told "This collection is
read-only"; trying it again but clicking the "Add" button worked.
Has anyone else come
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On 13/02/2013 08:01, Ogrodowski, Sabine (ehem. Frauenhoffer) wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. I know, that it can be that simple to use the
> WixNetFxExtension. Unfortunately I need to also install on machines that have
> no internet access and so I can't use it. That's why I copied some part f
ting your UI in burn rather than using the
> MSI UI.
Neil,
From an earlier message:
"My issue isn't the installer UI but rather the bootstrapper UI (If that
makes sense)."
So this _is_ about the Burn UI.
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> That is really close to what I am looking for. The only improvement I can
> think of would be to reduce the size and have a short message. And maybe a
> background logo like the wix ui can have.
I agree - it's a bit bare without the eula.
ive a simple "Install" button.
>From
http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/wix-burn-tipstricks.html
all you need to do is use the
WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkLicense BA and set
WixStdbaLicenseUrl to
You can't display a feature tree, but it does support adding checkboxes to the
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On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:54, Karl Werner wrote:
> Can you have the wix standard bootstrapper prompt the user for
Isn't it just a case of overriding the strings in an additional wxl file? I've
done that when using dark backgrounds.
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On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:51, Rob Mensching wrote:
> It is possible. You can create your own UI. I guess I disagree that it
t they're less
> likely to be downgraded without your knowledge.
Yes, it brings back DLL hell - but isn't the answer not to use 'a' for
exactly this reason?
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Is adding or deleting project configurations in Visual Studio supposed
to work (in WiX 3.7)? With VS2010 when I try and add or remove a
configuration to the WiX project in the solution's Configuration Manager
it doesn't give any error message but no changes are applied.
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On 19/12/2012 21:09, Bruce Cran wrote:
> I know this isn't recommended, but is there some incompatibility
> between WDK 8.0 and XP/2003 that prevents drivers running correctly
> with Driver Verifier?
> We're finding that when Driver Verifier is enabled our driver gets so
up calling
ExFreePoolWithTag and the driver hangs in RtlpUnwindPrologue (it runs
fine without DV enabled). The system's still active, but the driver just
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in WixStdBA doesn't work (in 3.7 RC)? I find clicking it displays the
same error with an OK button before just retrying anyway. The error when
this occurs is "Could not access network locati
On 30/11/2012 21:39, Steven Ogilvie wrote:
> Thanks very much Bruce...
>
> Do you know if this will be done for 3.7?
Since we've had 3.7 RC I suspect not. I suspect it's quite low down the
priority list and so would need someone to contribute a pat
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On 13/11/2012 15:49, Rob Mensching wrote:
> What about using a Feature/Condition instead?
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When a reboot is pending, Burn fails with the message:
You must restart your computer to complete the rollback of the software.
I'm wondering why it mentions 'rollback' because in this case the reboot
is pending following a successful installation of a driver.
Is there currently any simple way to associate a checkbox with feature
installation for a specific MSI? From what I've read the only way would be to
do conditional installation with ADDLOCAL MsiProperty's set to the feature
name, e.g.
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On 04/10/2012 20:31, akonsu wrote:
> http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial takes me to a viagra site or something
> similar. has the server been hijacked?
Strange, I just tried it and it has the old contents - though I
definitely remember seeing it with the spammy content in the past.
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>
> do you have any idea on this ?
I can't find the post now, but the same question was asked a few months
ago and I seem to remember the answer being that you can't get a link to
the installer due
uiring you to use the .exe instead of the .msm?
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might be worth if/when updating the license for the sample code to make
it explicit that the templates generated in Visual Studio won't be under
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> DestinationProperty="MY_CUSTOM_DESTINATION_SPOOL643" />
>
>
If you're installing a driver you probably don't want to do this - leave
the files in ProgramFiles and let your driver instal
On 19/08/2012 08:45, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 17/08/2012 23:29, Bruce Cran wrote:
>> I noticed all the files in the WiX repository have been updated with
>> "Copyright (c) 2004, Outercurve Foundation" - except LICENSE.txt.
>> Was that deliberate, or should that have
On 17/08/2012 23:29, Bruce Cran wrote:
> I noticed all the files in the WiX repository have been updated with
> "Copyright (c) 2004, Outercurve Foundation" - except LICENSE.txt.
> Was that deliberate, or should that have been updated too?
>
There's also test\src\WixTes
I noticed all the files in the WiX repository have been updated with
"Copyright (c) 2004, Outercurve Foundation" - except LICENSE.txt.
Was that deliberate, or should that have been updated too?
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